Patents Examined by Michael Tolin
  • Patent number: 12234611
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a wall-cloth with a laminated core coated through infiltration, a method for making the same and a method for an object, wherein, the wall-cloth comprises a prime coating layer, a laminated core complex covered on the prime coating layer; wherein the laminated core complex comprises a second coating layer which can be transparent or semi-transparent and a fiber sheet encapsulated in the second coating layer; and wherein, the fiber sheet possesses a network structure formed by fiber or fibers, and the second coating layer permeates into the meshes of the network structure. According to the present invention, the texture is controlled, because the fiber sheet can be produced according to a standard and large scale method to obtain identical texture. Meanwhile, the wall-cloth made by the present invention has excellence breathability and great gas transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Suzhou Hongni New-Material Technology Ltd., Co.
    Inventor: Zhiyong Ma
  • Patent number: 12227887
    Abstract: A method to generate a non-woven fabric includes prearranging at least one thread guide arranged to guide at least one textile thread, prearranging moving means for actuating the thread guide according to at least one degree of freedom, prearranging at least one rigid support and handling each thread guide by the moving means for arranging at least one first portion of each textile thread along at least one first trajectory ?_1 on each rigid support. Each thread guide is handled by the moving means for arranging at least one second portion of each textile thread along at least one second trajectory ?_2 on each rigid support. Each second trajectory ?_2 overlaps with each first trajectory ?_1 at least at one intersection point P_i, joining each second portion of each textile thread with each first portion of each textile thread at each intersection point P_i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: Lorenzo Coppini
  • Patent number: 12220901
    Abstract: A method may include pressing a mat including a blend of paper and plastic fragments by applying a pressure to the mat using a heated press such that the mat is compressed to a first thickness, where the pressure is greater than a critical pressure threshold such that at least a portion of a moisture content of the mat is in a super-heated liquid state. The method may include maintaining the pressure on the mat above the critical pressure threshold until at least a portion of the plastic fragments of the mat are melted. The method may include decreasing the pressure on the mat below the critical pressure threshold such that the mat expands to a second thickness greater than or equal to a target thickness, and such that the portion of the moisture content of the mat in the super-heated liquid state is converted to steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CONTINUUS MATERIALS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LLC
    Inventors: Jack G. Winterowd, Kasey Fisher, Matthew Spencer, Marko Suput
  • Patent number: 12214540
    Abstract: A method for continuously manufacturing a complex acoustic multi-element panel for an acoustic attenuation structure, the method including supplying a thermoplastic resin film at the entry of a stamping system including at least one pair of complementary cylinders, a heating of the thermoplastic resin film upstream of the entry of the stamping system, and a passage of the thermoplastic resin film between the at least one pair of complementary cylinders, the pair of complementary cylinders including a male cylinder with teeth radially protruding from the cylinder and a female cylinder with cavities on its radial surface, the cavities of the female cylinder being of shapes complementary to the shapes of the teeth of the male cylinder and a separation of the stamped film at the exit of the stamping system using a separator disposed at the exit of the stamping system between the stamped film and the female cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Hugues Laurent Alglave, Patrick Dunleavy
  • Patent number: 12202243
    Abstract: A multilayer strip intended to be wound on a form to manufacture a part in composite material, includes superposed fibrous layers, at least one of these layers being pre-impregnated, the superposed fibrous layers including a first layer including a first material on a first side of the width of the strip and a second material, differing from the first material, on a second side of the width of the strip opposite the first side, and a second layer superposed on the first layer and including the first material on the first side and the second material on the second side, with overlapping of a material of the second layer over a different material of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ARIANEGROUP SAS
    Inventor: Guillaume Pages-Xatart
  • Patent number: 12202176
    Abstract: A method for forming a composite component, the method comprising: providing a first mould tool and a second mould tool, the first and second mould tools being configured so as to be capable of defining at least part of a mould cavity between them, and the second mould tool having a moulding surface defined by at least two demountable mould bodies; attaching the first mould tool to a press at a first workstation; subsequently, at a second workstation spaced from the first workstation, loading at least part of the second mould tool with reinforcement material whilst the first mould tool remains attached to the press at the first workstation; moving the second mould tool to the press at the first workstation in such a position as to confront the first mould tool; causing the press to effect relative movement of the first and second tools to bring the first and second tools into mating arrangement so as to define a mould cavity therebetween; and setting in shape the reinforcement material located in the mould ca
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: McLaren Automotive Limited
    Inventor: Claudio Santoni
  • Patent number: 12193473
    Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 12186974
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for manufacturing and using heat-shrink elastomeric. An example method of manufacturing a heat-shrink elastomeric element comprises providing a thermoplastic elastomeric element having a first shape; modifying the thermoplastic elastomeric element to produce a thermoset elastomeric element having the first shape; heating the thermoset elastomeric element to a temperature of at least the glass transition temperature of the thermoset elastomeric element; adjusting the first shape of the thermoset elastomeric element to produce a second shape with at least one dimension greater than that of the first shape; and cooling the thermoset elastomeric element to a temperature below that of the glass transition temperature of the thermoset elastomeric element to produce the heat-shrink elastomeric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Michael L. Fripp, Kejia Yang, Radu Reit, Benjamin Lund, Walter Voit
  • Patent number: 12186954
    Abstract: An injection molding system includes an injection station, a molding device, and a plunger. The injection station includes a platform including an opening and an injector over the platform. The molding device is disposed between the platform and the injector and over the opening, wherein the molding device includes a mold cavity and a clamping unit for clamping the molding device. The plunger under the platform, wherein the plunger includes a base and a rod extendable through the opening toward the molding device and retractable toward the base. An injection molding method includes conveying a molding device to an injection station and disposing the molding device between an injector and a platform; disposing a plunger under the platform; moving the injector towards the molding device; applying a plunging force on the molding device by extending the rod through the opening; and injecting a molding material into a mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KING STEEL MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang-Hui Yeh, Ching-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 12191149
    Abstract: A substrate processing method of processing a combined substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other includes forming a peripheral modification layer along a boundary between a peripheral portion of the first substrate as a removing target and a central portion of the first substrate; forming a non-bonding region in which bonding strength between the first substrate and the second substrate in the peripheral portion is reduced; and removing the peripheral portion starting from the peripheral modification layer. A first crack is developed from the peripheral modification layer toward the second substrate. The peripheral modification layer is formed such that a lower end of the first crack is located above the non-bonding region and an inner end of the non-bonding region is located at a diametrically outer side than the first crack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hayato Tanoue, Yohei Yamashita
  • Patent number: 12186852
    Abstract: A stacker for a 3D printer apparatus contains a positioning conveyor and a support plate hinged to drop on a signal, whereupon a push plate will push a printed and powdered sheet downward and onto registration pins, to form a stacked register of such sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Swartz, Michael Sutin
  • Patent number: 12191438
    Abstract: A method for producing a power storage device includes: compressively deforming in which case long-side walls of the power storage device after initial charging and aging but before permanent sealing are pressed toward an electrode body to compress the electrode body and further plastically deform at least one of the case long-side walls so that the case long-side walls continue to press the electrode body even after the pressing is released; after this compressively deforming, hermetically permanently sealing the case of the power storage device in which the inside of the case is in communication with the outside; and releasing the pressing applied in the compressively deforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Tomonori Maeda
  • Patent number: 12179413
    Abstract: A preparation method of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-based membrane for preventing and removing ices covering wind turbine blades is provided and the method comprises: preparing a membrane into a PTFE rod material with polymerized monomers by using monomer polymerization methods such as blending, pre-compressing and pushing; making the membrane into a PTFE-based homogeneous membrane with micropores and nano and micron scale concave-convex geometrical ultra-structure morphologies under the condition that the membrane is cracked to generate a laminar exfoliated fabric-like structure in the hot calendaring process of the PTFE rod material by using a hot calendaring and fusion polymerization method; and applying the PTFE-based homogeneous membrane to blades of a large wind turbine in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA THREE GORGES CORPORATION, CHINA THREE GORGES RENEWABLES (GROUP) CO., LTD., NANJING HAOHUI HI TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xin Xiang, Jianping Liu, Jianhua Wu, Zhiyu Sun, Yawei Zhu, Wenwei Li, Fangliang Zhao, Hong Wu, Jingxin Zhao, Bo Pang, Jianping Wu
  • Patent number: 12179436
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an additively manufactured component may comprise operating an additive manufacturing machine to form a first structure including an elongate portion having a blind design surface, operating the additive manufacturing machine to form a removal tool proximate the blind design surface, wherein the blind design surface and the removal tool are at least partially enclosed by and in contact with a support material, and translating the removal tool along the blind design surface to separate a portion of the support material from the blind design surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A Binek, David W Morganson
  • Patent number: 12179445
    Abstract: An end effector for handling a sheet of flexible material. The end effector includes a support frame and manipulator assemblies, each attached to the support frame by a support mount. The manipulator assemblies include a holding tool having a lifting surface. The manipulator assemblies include a linear actuator, and the holding tool is connected to the linear actuator by a multiaxial joint. A drive provides—the displacement of the holding tool by the linear actuator. The end effector includes resilient members each rigidly affixed to two adjacent holding tools and positioned in a space providing a mutual distance between opposing faces of the adjacent holding tools, where each holding tool is connected to—adjacent holding tools—by the resilient members. The resilient members are configured to non-permanently deform in the space when adjacent holding tools are displaced relative to each other along displacement axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventors: Henrik Gordon Petersen, Lars-Peter Ellekilde, Ole Wennerberg Nielsen, Gudmundur Geir Gunnarsson, Casper Hansen, Jakob Rømsgaard, André Alexander Westergaard, Asger Bloksma Krogstrup, Asim Ikram, Jesper Freltoft, Phillippe Lovejoy-Courrier, Johannes Cornelis De Kruijk
  • Patent number: 12179446
    Abstract: A device for shaping at least one fibrous preform for producing a bladed part of a turbomachine, this device including a mould formed by several parts that are interlocked with each other, this mould defining at least one internal cavity configured to receive the preform and to enclose the preform integrally, this cavity being intended to have two platform areas and a blade area extending between the two platform areas, wherein the mould includes at least a lower shell, an upper shell, a side shell, and end shells, and in that each of the side and end shells includes three elements, respectively lower, intermediate and upper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Maxime Marie Desire Blaise, Hubert Jean Marie Fabre, Jeff Pote
  • Patent number: 12180925
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an adaptable pre-cast resin-infused carbon-fiber beam, which method includes the steps of arranging a plurality of elongate carbon-fiber blocks side by side; arranging sheets to enclose the blocks and to extend over opposing faces of adjacent blocks; arranging the sheets to converge as an outwardly projecting elongate bead at a junction between adjacent blocks; and pulling on the elongate bead to inhibit resin flow between blocks during a resin infusion step. Also provided is a pre-cast adaptable carbon-fiber beam manufactured using that method; a method of manufacturing a wind turbine rotor blade; and a wind turbine rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
    Inventors: Allan Hurup, Mogens Nielsen, Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 12172420
    Abstract: A lamination device that laminates a plurality of types of workpieces includes supply mechanisms that supply the workpiece to each of supply positions, a movement mechanism including a stator of a linear motor having a predetermined traveling track and a mover of a linear motor that is movable between a plurality of the supply positions along a traveling track, and a controller that controls at least the mover. The mover includes a holding unit that holds the workpiece supplied to the supply positions, and a lamination stage for lamination the workpiece. The controller corrects a relative position of the workpiece with respect to the lamination stage and controls the mover to laminate the workpiece whose relative position is corrected on the lamination stage while the holding unit holds the workpiece supplied to the supply positions and moves to and stops at a next one of the supply positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Arata Suzuki, Kouhei Fukuda, Kodai Murata
  • Patent number: 12172389
    Abstract: A molding apparatus reduces waviness or deformation of fibers. The molding apparatus includes a fiber feeder (7) that feeds fibers (5) to a lamination area (32) long in a first direction, a resin composition feeder (11) that feeds a resin composition (9) to the lamination area (32), an impregnator (17) that impregnates the fibers (5) fed to the lamination area (32) with the resin composition (9), a curing accelerator (13) that accelerates curing of the resin composition (9) fed to the lamination area (32) while the fibers (5) fed in the lamination area (32) are being tensioned, and a transporter (15) that relatively moves the devices (7, 11, 17, and 13) in the first direction with respect to the lamination area (32). The resin composition (9) contains an epoxy resin (A), a cyanate resin (B), and an aromatic amine curing agent (C) that is liquid at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ADEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Fujita, Kazuhide Morino, Masato Inadome, Masayoshi Goke, Takeshi Sukemune, Yosuke Aragane, Tomo Kimura, Akinori Okubo
  • Patent number: 12157280
    Abstract: A method for forming a composite component, the method comprising: providing a mould (15) comprising a first part (8) of the mould and a second part (13) of the mould, the first part (8) and second part (13) when assembled define an exterior surface of the composite component; loading the first part (8) of the mould with reinforcing material (20); injecting matrix precursor into the first part (8) of the mould to impregnate reinforcing material (20) located in the first part (8) of the mould with matrix precursor; closing the second part (13) of the mould and the first part (8) of the mould around the reinforcing material (20) and matrix precursor to assemble the first part (8) and second part (13) to define an exterior surface of the composite component; and injecting matrix precursor into the closed mould to impregnate reinforcing material (20) located between the first and second parts (8, 13) of the mould with matrix precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: MCLAREN AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
    Inventor: Claudio Santoni