Patents Examined by Mohammad M Ameen
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Patent number: 11571768Abstract: Systems and methods for machining openings of a component are provided. In one exemplary aspect, a laser system includes features for machining an opening into a component, such as a cooling hole for a CMC component of a gas turbine engine. The component can be oriented in a first position and lasered while oriented in the first position to form a portion of the opening. The component is then oriented to a second position and lasered while oriented in the second position to form another portion of the opening. The component is alternated between the first and second positions until the predetermined geometry of the opening is formed. The component is oriented in the first and second positions such that the laser beam can machine the component without clipping areas that are not desired to be machined.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alan Joseph Parvis, Timothy Francis Andrews, Mark Samuel Bailey
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Patent number: 11571584Abstract: A natural and sustainable material is derived from the nut of the tagua palm tree that may be fashioned into devices for humans and animals. A pulverized and reconstituted material is disclosed herein that is also treated with a low temperature atmospheric plasma treatment. In an embodiment, a biocompatible carrier gas is ionized to form a biocompatible atmospheric plasma stream. Material, such as nano-scale powdered hydroxyapatite, is introduced into the plasma stream, which is then applied to the natural nut material.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Frederick R. GuyInventor: Frederick R. Guy
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Patent number: 11573538Abstract: A layer configuration prediction method is provided and includes: a specimen production step of producing multiple specimens by depositing layers of a material in configurations different from each other; a specimen measurement step of performing, on each specimen, measurement to acquire a texture parameter corresponding to a texture; a learning step of causing a computer to perform machine learning of a relation between each of the specimens and the texture parameter; a setting parameter calculation step of calculating a setting parameter corresponding to the texture set to a computer graphics image; and a layer configuration acquisition step of providing the setting parameter as an input to the computer having been caused to perform the machine learning, and acquiring an output representing the layering pattern of layers of the material corresponding to the setting parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITYInventors: Norimichi Tsumura, Junki Yoshii, Keita Hirai, Wataru Arai
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Patent number: 11571862Abstract: Forming features in the surface of a bicycle component involves depositing a substance onto a substrate in a geometric pattern to form a transfer medium. Forming features may also involve positioning the transfer medium relative to an unformed bicycle component, and forming a negative of the geometric pattern in the bicycle component through the application of heat and/or pressure to the transfer medium and the unformed bicycle component. The transfer medium may be configured for use in the molding of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (“CFRP”) bicycle components and may include a substrate formed of a flexible material, and a geometric pattern formed of a hard material, the hard material different than the flexible material.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: SRAM, LLCInventors: Patrick Brady, Michael Hall, Ruan Trouw
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Patent number: 11564848Abstract: A method and system for creating a custom-fit orthopedic cast comprises obtaining at least one measurements taken from at least one image of a body part, selecting a template cast, modifying the template cast according to the measurements taken from the at least one image to generate a custom cast model and rendering a custom cast based on the custom cast model.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: EXOSSEUS LLCInventor: Alex Moon
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Patent number: 11559925Abstract: An inflatable membrane may include a pattern layer and a fluorescent layer, wherein the pattern layer comprises an inner surface and an outer surface, and a pattern on the inner surface of the pattern layer, wherein at least a portion of the pattern layer formed by transferring a transferrable material from a casting plate to the inner surface, and wherein the fluorescent layer comprises an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the fluorescent layer abutting the outer surface of the pattern layer and comprising a fluorescent material which, upon receiving of light, causes the fluorescent material to emit fluorescent light and causing the pattern to be detectable by a detector.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Lantos Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Fei, Michael L. Rishton, Jonathan Aguilar, Lydia Gregoret
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Patent number: 11559076Abstract: An extruder with a non-stop die change device includes an extrusion cavity, a die change device located at the outlet of the extrusion cavity, and a first die and a second die that are connected to the side wall of a housing of the die change device. A transfer channel is provided in a movable block of the die change device. When the movable block moves to a first position in the housing, the transfer channel communicates to the extrusion cavity with a first channel, and when the movable block moves to a second position in the housing, the transfer channel communicates to the extrusion cavity with a second channel. Therefore, die change and product type change can be achieved without stopping the extruder. If a die is blocked, the extruder does not need to stop for changing a new die.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: FAMSUN CO., LTDInventor: Robert Timothy Strathman
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Patent number: 11548208Abstract: According to one embodiment, a template includes a base body, and a first film. The base body has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface includes silicon oxide and spreads along a first plane. The second surface crosses the first plane. The first film includes aluminum oxide. A direction from the second surface toward the first film is aligned with a direction perpendicular to the second surface. A thickness of the first film along the direction perpendicular to the second surface is not less than 0.3 nm and not more than 10 ?m. The first surface includes an unevenness.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: KIOXIA CorporationInventors: Koji Asakawa, Shinobu Sugimura
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Patent number: 11541586Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing technology for manufacturing seepage irrigation pipe with alternating effluent sections and non-effluent sections, and in particular, to the field of underground seepage irrigation in agriculture and forestry. The processing technology combines the production unit for water-effluent pipes with the production unit for non-effluent pipes, and produces the seepage irrigation pipeline by adjusting the raw material ratios, controlling the spindle speed, spindle acceleration time, and spindle deceleration time of the two pipeline production units, to generate a seepage irrigation pipe with alternating effluent sections and non-effluent sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NINGXIA UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhaojun Sun, Jun He, Lei Han, Zhen Wang, Dongdong Han, Qiushi Ren, Bingzhong Jiao, Yuanjiao Guo, Menggang Li, Xingqiang Li
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Patent number: 11530541Abstract: An adjustable form for installing across an opening at an edge of a concrete slab includes a form member having a first form portion and a second form portion slidably connected to reach an adjustable effective length of the form member. The adjustable form further includes an extension mechanism connected between the first and second form portions and is operable to vary the effective length of the form member to fit across the opening. Tension exerted between the first and second form portions at the effective length is sufficient to keep the adjustable form in place.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Inventor: Reinhardt Switzer
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Patent number: 11525193Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing a carbon fiber. Pressure is applied to a filament to change a cross-sectional shape of the filament and create a plurality of distinct surfaces on the filament. The filament is converted into a graphitic carbon fiber having the plurality of distinct surfaces. A plurality of sizings is applied to the plurality of distinct surfaces of the graphitic carbon fiber in which the plurality of sizings includes at least two different sizings.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Keith Daniel Humfeld, Scott Hartshorn
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Patent number: 11504922Abstract: The present invention relates to multi-layered composite structures and to methods for the preparation thereof. The present multi-layered composite structures are light weight and capable of high load bearing making the present multi-layered composite structures especially suitable to be used as load bearing structures in, for example, automotive. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods comprising the steps of a) providing a mould for said multi-layered composite structure; b) layering said mould with two or more layers forming the outer surface of said multi-layered composite; c) filling said layered mould with a mixture comprised of non-expanded heat-expandable microspheres and closing said mould; and d) subjecting said closed mould to a temperature of 80° C. to 140° C. during 1 to 230 minutes thereby providing a relative pressure in said closed mould of 0.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Donkervoort Automobielen B.V.Inventors: Jacob Adrianus Donkervoort, Jordi Wiersma
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Patent number: 11499135Abstract: Techniques for printing living tissues and organs are provided. An example apparatus includes a printing platform, bioink printing module with at least one nozzle designed for bioink dosing, a gel-forming composition printing module containing a UV-module, and a nozzle for dosing gel-forming composition that starts polymerizing via UV radiation. A module is provided for relatively displacing the nozzles and/or the platform, in which the bioink printing module is separated from the gel-forming-composition printing module to prevent UV radiation from reaching the bioink printing module. The radiation is directed predominantly parallel to the printing platform to prevent UV radiation from reaching the biological tissues and/or organs being printed.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PRIVATE INSTITUTION LABORATORY FOR BIOTECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH “3D BIOPRINTING SOLUTIONS”Inventors: Vladimir Alexandrovich Mironov, Yusef Dzhordzhevich Khesuani, Alexandr Nikolaevich Mitryashkin, Irina Sergeevna Gladkaya, Alexandr Yurievich Ostrovsky, Sergei Vladimirovich Novoselov
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Patent number: 11498241Abstract: A block, block system and method of making a wall block. A block with multiple embodiments of a visually exposed surface having three dimensional shaped areas and three dimensional angular valleys or joints that can be used to construct a patio, wall, fence or the like; the multiple embodiments creating a more random and natural appearance. A mold box having a moveable liner and a stripper shoe that impart three dimensional shaped areas and three dimensional angular valleys or joints onto an exposed surface of a block. The moveable liner and stripper shoe also impart a parting line onto the exposed surface of the block.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Keystone Retaining Wall Systems LLCInventors: Robert A. MacDonald, Thomas S. Riccobene
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Patent number: 11492504Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to photocurable compositions and methods for continuously forming a three-dimensional body from these compositions. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to photocurable compositions comprising a mixture of polysiloxanes capable of being dually cured, i.e., first by UV radiation followed by thermal treatment, or being cured by UV radiation. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a photocurable composition, including: a first polysiloxane comprising at least two acrylate or methacrylate groups per molecule; a second polysiloxane containing at least one (e.g., at least two) Si—H group per molecule; a third polysiloxane containing at least one (e.g., at least two) reactive aliphatic ethylene group per molecule; a free radical photoinitiator in an amount of about 0.01 to about 10 weight % based on the total weight of (meth)acrylate-containing polysiloxane in the composition; and a hydrosilylation catalyst in an amount of about 0.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics CorporationInventors: Lian Wang, Qiaoxi Li, Jianfeng Zhang, Xipeng Liu, Taoran Hui
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Patent number: 11491721Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multicellular lay-up process. The process comprises the steps of: a) forming a core material, b) forming a capsule material, c) encapsulating the core with the capsule material, d) adding the capsule to a substrate, and e) exposing the capsule to at least one bioactivating agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Attenborough Dental Laboratories LimitedInventors: Edward John Attenborough, Robert Stevens
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Patent number: 11485055Abstract: A molding process of a co-cured short-fiber resin-based damping composite material and a molding part. Different from a traditional centrifugal processing process of a thin-walled tube of a resin-based composite material, the process uses raw materials including three kinds of materials with different densities and including two kinds of short-fiber epoxy resin with different densities and a damping material. During centrifugal molding, the three kinds of materials are made into fluids to be respectively injected at a uniform speed in three times according to the sizes of the densities. Layering is performed by using different centrifugal forces applied to the three kinds of materials. Co-curing is performed according to a resin curing process after the three kinds of materials are stably distributed, and a tubular thin-walled part of the embedded co-cured short-fiber resin-based damping composite material with a uniform wall thickness is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sen Liang, Gongxian Yang, Yunpeng Yan, Guanghe Wang
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Patent number: 11478996Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composite having improved tensile properties and a method of preparing the same. Particularly, the resin composite comprises a matrix resin and a reinforcement resin which are made of thermoplastic resin compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Deok Woo Yun, Hyun Min Kang
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Patent number: 11478964Abstract: A mold, system and method for manufacturing a part includes injection molding a substrate in a single injection mold and optionally trimming the panel substrate. The substrate can have a first configuration or a second, different configuration. Trimming of the substrate can occur when the substrate has the first configuration to define an aperture in the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Chad Wojniak, Kaoru Tokita, Takeshi Kuriyama, Kazuhisa Fujiwara, Atsushi Ban, Naoki Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11473216Abstract: Systems for manufacturing bulked continuous filament having tonal coloring from PET comprise, in various embodiments: (1) an extruder; (2) a static mixing assembly coupled to the extruder comprising: (a) a housing, and (b) one or more individual static mixing elements disposed within the housing; (3) a plurality of colorant ports along a length of the static mixing assembly such that each of the plurality of colorant ports is configured to provide colorant to a polymer stream at a different location along the length of the static mixing assembly; and (4) one or more spinning machines positioned downstream of the static mixing assembly and coupled to the static mixing assembly to receive the colored polymer stream. The spinning machine(s) may be configured to form the colored polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament having a tonal color effect.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Aladdin Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Thomas R. Clark