Patents Examined by Nicholas E Igbokwe
  • Patent number: 10375893
    Abstract: A bale wrapping mechanism has a roll holding station and a duckbill provided for clamping one end of the roll of wrapping material, said duckbill being pivotally mounted, via at least a first hinge, to the baling chamber sidewalls, for delivering said wrapping material to said baling chamber by insertion of said duckbill between adjacent rolls of said baling chamber, wherein the wrapping mechanism further has at least a first guiding roll for guiding the wrapping material between said roll holding station and said duckbill, wherein said first guiding roll axis substantially coincides with the first hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bram Rosseel, Eddy Lammerant, Kurt Zwaenepoel, Johan A. E. Vande Ryse
  • Patent number: 10328565
    Abstract: A portable power tool is disclosed. The tool has a tool holder, a motor, a switchable gear stage, and a slider. The gear stage has a gear element movable in a switching direction with a toothing, which in a first gear position is engaged with a corresponding toothing and in a second gear position is disengaged. The slider is displaceable between first and second switch positions where the first switch position is allocated to the first gear position and the second switch position is allocated to the second gear position. A coupling device has a carriage movable in the switching direction and a catch. The carriage is connected to the gear element and the catch is latched in the first and second gear positions. A spring element has springy first and second sections. The slider has a finger that is arranged along the switching axis between the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Moessnang, Markus Hartmann, Manfred Ludwig
  • Patent number: 10327768
    Abstract: A tool assembly for a surgical stapling instrument includes anvil and cartridge assemblies movable between open and closed positions. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body defining a tissue contact surface and rows of staples. The cartridge body defines a first firing channel associated with a first row of staples and a second firing channel associated with a second row of staples. A firing cam is positioned within the first firing channel and translates therethrough during a first axial translation to fire the first row of staples. The first firing cam is biased to move into the second firing channel upon retraction after the first axial translation such that the first firing cam translates through the second firing channel upon a second axial translation to fire the second row of staples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Magda Sadowski, Stanislaw Kostrzewski
  • Patent number: 10322498
    Abstract: An electric power tool in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a motor, a hitting mechanism, a hitting detector, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to set a control amount of the motor so that the motor rotates at a lower speed than a speed in the target rotation state during an initial driving period, and switch the control amount to a final control amount corresponding to the target rotation state when the initial driving period elapses. The initial driving period is a period from when generation of a hitting force is detected by the hitting detector until a predetermined first time period elapses, after the motor is started driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goshi Ishikawa, Ryunosuke Kumagai, Takuya Kusakawa, Yoshitaka Ichikawa, Tokuo Hirabayashi