Patents Examined by Nicholas E Igbokwe
  • Patent number: 12378053
    Abstract: Systems for producing a strip of pouches are provided. A guide device is configured to receive a packaging material web, the packaging material web comprising a plurality of cover sections extending in a longitudinal direction of the packaging material web and having a transmission of less than 60% in the visible frequency range, a transparent material area with a transmission of greater than 80% in the visible frequency range extending in the longitudinal direction parallel to the cover sections and a plurality of data sections. A printing device is configured to apply data to the data sections and an application device is configured to apply an information unit to the cover sections. Methods for producing a strip of pouches are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Torben Schüttfort
  • Patent number: 12372911
    Abstract: An enclosing device includes an envelope conveyance path, an envelope loader, an envelope-position restrictor, and an envelope-position adjuster. The envelope conveyance path conveys an envelope to an enclosing position at which an enclosure is enclosed into the envelope. The envelope loader loads the envelope to be supplied to the envelope conveyance path. The envelope-position restrictor restricts a loaded position of the envelope in the envelope loader. The envelope-position adjuster adjusts a position of the envelope with respect to a conveyance direction of the envelope while maintaining a state in which the envelope-position restrictor restricts the loaded position of the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuuto Tohkaishi, Ryota Takayama, Kanako Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 12365072
    Abstract: A powered fastener driver including a housing, an inner frame positioned within the housing, and a workpiece contact assembly coupled to the housing and movable from an extended position to a retracted position in response to contact with a workpiece. The workpiece contact assembly includes a biasing element that biases the workpiece contact assembly into the extended position. The workpiece contact assembly is engageable with the inner frame in response to an applied force that moves the workpiece contact assembly beyond the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Coby A. Nettleton, Alex D. Servais, Connor D. Sreenan, Jason M. Julius
  • Patent number: 12358116
    Abstract: An electric tool is configured that oil pressure can be rapidly increased while suppressing the load on a motor. The electric tool includes a main body in which a cylinder part, a hydraulic pump for feeding hydraulic oil to the cylinder part and an electric motor are disposed, and a tool head operated by a pressing force of a piston in the cylinder part. The hydraulic pump has a swash plate cam, a first plunger, a second plunger, a check valve and a relief valve, and until the pressure reaches the first pressure, a first liquid feeding amount of the first plunger is increased than a second liquid feeding amount of the second plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL IZUMI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Kamijo, Katsutoshi Kochiyama
  • Patent number: 12358671
    Abstract: A vacuum sealer, comprising an upper casing with a first vacuum contact surface, and a lower casing with a second vacuum contact surface, one side of the upper casing and one side of the lower casing are hinged together, wherein a projecting handle is provided at another side of the upper casing, a mount pad and a rotation shaft in contact with the handle are provided on the upper casing, the rotation shaft is installed rotatably on the mount pad via at least one positioning pad, the rotation shaft is connected with at least one guiding wheel, at least one projecting guiding block and at least one sliding chute are provided at another side of the at least one guiding wheel, the at least one sliding chute is provided in the at least one guiding wheel, one side of at least one locking hook is hinged on the at least one positioning pad, at least one positioning slot is provided in an intermediate portion of the at least one locking hook, at least one guiding block is inserted in the positioning groove, a first g
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Zhongshan Xiaoshu Electrical Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Huasong Ren
  • Patent number: 12338018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces within a machine for producing bags filled with brewable material, having at least one transport wheel which includes, distributed over its circumference, a plurality of holders each holding the bag, wherein an insertion station in which one of said hose pieces is inserted into said holder in a radial direction to form a bag with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of said bag, a label feeding station in which a label is fed to said head, a connecting station, in which a thread is connected to the label and/or the bag, and a removing station, in which the bag is removed from the transport wheel, are provided distributed in the circumferential direction around the transport wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Lambertz, Hans Knops
  • Patent number: 12337510
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus (100) for removing and packaging elastomeric articles (80), the apparatus comprising a stripping means for removing said articles (80) from their former to a moveable receptacle (30), the moveable receptacle (30) having a bottom surface which opens up to unload the articles (80) into a layering conveyor (40), wherein the layering conveyor (40) is provided with side barriers (41) for aligning and stacking of the articles (80) to be collected by an end effector (50) thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: SKY-TAG ROBOTICS SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Yong Kheng Lee, Yan Siong Tan
  • Patent number: 12337442
    Abstract: An impact wrench includes a motor unit with a motor adapted to produce a rotary motion and an operating switch for operating the motor. A tool-holder shaft rotatable about a rotation axis. A transmission unit with a percussion mechanism, connects between the motor unit and the tool-holder shaft. A handlebar structure has two manual gripping handles. An electronic control system contains at least one electronic control board connected to one or more electric batteries and to the operating switch. A damping connection system mechanically connects a transmission housing of the transmission unit to a main housing of the motor unit and the main housing to the handlebar structure. The damping connection system includes: one or more first damper elements interposed between the transmission housing and the main housing, and one or more second damper elements interposed between the main housing and the handlebar structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: CEMBRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gualtiero Barezzani, Gianpaolo Luciani
  • Patent number: 12329432
    Abstract: An electrically driven orthopedic impactor may include an adapter for interfacing between the orthopedic impactor and a surgical implement. The adapter may have a first surface that transmits a forward impact energy and a second surface that transmits a reverse impact energy. The adapter can connect to the surgical implement and to the orthopedic impactor without the use of external tools. The adapter may connect to the orthopedic impactor via a pushing motion and may disconnect from the orthopedic impactor via a reciprocal sleeve. A sensor can communicate a spatial orientation of the adapter with respect to at least one reference point that is not located on the adapter or the orthopedic impactor. A communication device may transmit information to the orthopedic impactor related to frequency or impact energy settings based on a type of surgical implement attached to the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Inventor: Christopher Pedicini
  • Patent number: 12319554
    Abstract: A serviceable crown cap-removing device to remove a crown cap from a bottle is described. The device includes a first elongated component, a second elongated component, a notch, a first connector removably connecting the first elongated component to the second elongated component, and a second connector movably engaging the first elongated component with the second elongated component, where a user can operate the device by holding the second elongated component thus allowing the first elongated component to be contacted with the crown cap from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventor: Jade M Brown
  • Patent number: 12311631
    Abstract: An assembly for the automated folding of the corners of a box made of a relatively rigid laminar material, such as paper or cardboard, the box having a bottom wall, an upper wall, and two pairs of side walls, at least two walls having at least one tab to be folded to form a corner of the box, includes a first folding device to fold a first tab of at least one of the side walls along a first creasing edge, a second folding device to fold a second tab of at least one of the bottom or upper walls along a second creasing edge, and a mechanical connection kinematic mechanism between the first and the second folding device to fold the corner of the box in a coordinated manner. A method for the automated folding of a corner of a box using the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Inventor: Luca Nicolini
  • Patent number: 12312117
    Abstract: A packaging material sealing device, in particular cross seam packaging material sealing device for a vertical packaging machine, includes a first sealing jaw and at least a second sealing jaw, at least one movement unit for actuating the two sealing jaws along a sealing direction, and at least one control unit. In at least one operating state the control unit controls a rotation of the two sealing jaws relative to a transport direction of a packaging material. At least two guiding rails of the movement unit for moving the two sealing jaws along at least the sealing direction each have clearance with respect to their bearings in order to allow rotation of the two sealing jaws relative to the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Syntegon Packaging Solutions B.V.
    Inventor: Patrick Lagarde
  • Patent number: 12297002
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stretch-hood machine configured to determine one or more measured performance parameters of a roll of a particular type of film and to determine whether the measured performance parameters are consistent with one or more corresponding baseline performance parameters for that type of film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Tonny Konstmann, Kevin Cukierski
  • Patent number: 12291364
    Abstract: An isolator system for filling a container with a liquid, the isolator system comprises a filling module having a filling station for filling the container with the liquid, a stopper placing station for placing a stopper on the filled container, and a plurality of handling devices for handling the container within the filling module; a first transfer station for transferring the container to be filled into the filling module; a second transfer station for transferring the filled container out of the filling module; and a control device. The present application also discloses a transfer station for transferring a container and several methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GRONINGER & CO. GMBH
    Inventors: Armin Merz, Roland Engelhard, Josef Veile, Jens Weinmann
  • Patent number: 12290892
    Abstract: An impact tool includes a housing, an impact mechanism unit, a motor, and a dust collection fan. The housing is configured to mount a dust collection attachment. The impact mechanism unit is disposed inside the housing. The impact mechanism unit has a front end to which a tool bit is mounted and an impact element that reciprocates. The impact mechanism unit is configured to impact the tool bit by the impact element. The motor is disposed such that a rotation shaft of the motor intersects with an impact axis direction of the impact mechanism unit inside the housing. The dust collection fan is disposed on the rotation shaft. The dust collection fan is disposed below the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hiroki Takesashi
  • Patent number: 12285851
    Abstract: An impact mechanism for an impact tool that includes a housing, a piston slidably disposed in the housing and adapted to transfer impact force to a tool bit, and electromagnetic coils disposed between the piston and the housing. The electromagnetic coils are alternately activated to generate respective magnetic fields to cause the piston to move within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventor: Joshua M. Beer
  • Patent number: 12280904
    Abstract: Pick and place device for an apparatus for filling and closing articles in particular, containers, comprising a robotic arm, a free end of which carries a gripper formed by two claws arranged opposite each other and movable towards and away from each other so as to open and close the gripper. Each claw defines a first jaw configured to form with the first opposite first jaw a first gripper for gripping a closing element designed to be applied onto an article and a second jaw configured to form, with the opposite second jaw a second gripper for gripping the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: RONCHI MARIO S.P.A.
    Inventor: Cesare Ronchi
  • Patent number: 12275626
    Abstract: A system and method for a self-actuating, mechanically-biased container restraint. The system requires no computer-aided control or timing, nor is any external power source needed, other than the force exerted as a container is inserted into the restraint. The system relies upon an assembly including mechanically-biased pivoting levers, each of which has a horizontal element and a vertical element. All actuation occurs as the base of an inserted container comes into contact with the upper surface of the horizontal elements of multiple pivoted levers positioned at the base of a channel adapted to serve as a guide for the inserted tube. The levers are biased in this elevated position by mechanical means, such as a spring. As the inserted tube presses the horizontal members downward, the top portions of the vertical members are pivoted inward toward the container's exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: BD KIESTRA B.V.
    Inventors: Jurjen Sinnema, Franciscus Feijen
  • Patent number: 12275544
    Abstract: A blank and a package are disclosed as well as a manufacturing method thereof of a package for flat plates, including: producing a foldable flat blank made of a packaging material; folding the flat blank to form a box-shaped package with open closable flaps; introducing the flat plates into the box-shaped package and closing the closable flaps; in the production step of the flat blank the following steps being further provided: supplying a web of the wrapping material to a punching and sorting unit to obtain strips parallel to a travel direction; punching and separating elongated modular pieces from the strips; folding flat to an L-shape the elongated modular pieces, bringing them close in pairs in correspondence of respective ends; fastening the modular pieces folded to an L-shape in correspondence of the respective ends, forming the blank in the shape of a quadrangular frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SMART CONVERTING S.R.L.
    Inventor: Luigi Dumontel
  • Patent number: 12275124
    Abstract: A mechanical timer mechanism can include a driven gear mounted to a rotary damper and a drive gear operably coupled to the driven gear. In bump mode, movement of an auxiliary trigger to its actuating position can initially move the drive gear from a home position into its wind-up position. Thereafter, a contact trip can continue to move the drive gear to its wind-up position and an actuator of a principal trigger to its actuating position each time the contact trip is actuated, unless the timing mechanism has timed-out between actuations. In sequential mode, the drive gear can be moved into a timer lock-out position which holds the contact trip in a bypass position in which the contact trip will not engage the actuator of the auxiliary trigger unless the auxiliary trigger is moved to its actuating position before actuation of the contact trip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventor: Daryl S. Meredith