Patents Examined by Omar Flores Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12145205
    Abstract: An electric circular saw includes a saw blade, a drive assembly, a housing, and a base plate. The drive assembly is used for driving the saw blade to rotate around a first axis. The electric circular saw further includes a dust-blowing structure. The dust-blowing structure includes a wind-blowing assembly disposed on the drive assembly, a dust-blowing portion disposed on the base plate and a wind guide portion disposed between the dust-blowing portion and the wind-blowing assembly. The dust-blowing portion includes a flow guide hole and a flow guide groove disposed on the base plate. The flow guide hole is a through hole extending through the base plate. The flow guide groove is a groove disposed on the lower side of the base plate. The flow guide hole communicates with the flow guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Lu, Rong Wang
  • Patent number: 12145187
    Abstract: A press working method capable of forming a perforated portion with higher accuracy with respect to a workpiece being a ductile material. The press working method may comprise applying a first load to a workpiece being a ductile material with a press member to apply a preload within an elastic region of the workpiece, and then applying a second load exceeding the first load to the workpiece with the press member to provide a perforated portion in the workpiece, wherein the elastic region is larger than 0 MPa and is equal to or less than a limit shear stress value at which the workpiece is elastically deformed, the workpiece is a pipe made of metal, and the first load and the second load are applied in a state where an inside of the pipe is hollow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: MATSUMOTO HEAVY INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Yokota, Shinya Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 12138718
    Abstract: The present invention provides a design method of cutting tool and its structure and the corresponding method of machining rotors. A control unit reads a workpiece parameter of a first workpiece using a sensor and produces an annulus parameter according to the workpiece parameter. The control unit further reads an angle parameter and a displacement parameter to intersect with the annulus parameter for giving a cutting edge parameter. Then the control unit produces a cutting-tool model parameter according to the cutting edge parameter and a spiral parameter. According to the cutting-tool model parameter, a cutting tool is manufactured. Afterwards, the cutting tool and the workpiece installed to a machine tool. By performing synchronous machining on a workpiece using the cutting tool, the workpiece can be cut into a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Yu-Ren Wu
  • Patent number: 12140422
    Abstract: A method and a set-up apparatus for a tool for punching or forming sheet-form materials having a punch holder into which a punch of the tool is insertable and a die holder into which a die of the tool or a die carrier holding the die is insertable. The punch holder and the die holder are movable towards one another by a guide. The punch holder is transferred along the guide into a measuring position in which the punch rests on a surface of a measurement object which rests on the die. A distance of the punch holder is measured from a zero point of the die holder and a distance of the measurement object from the zero point. An evaluation device outputs a punch length of the punch and a die height of the die or a die height of the die arranged in the die carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen SE + Co. KG
    Inventors: Marc Klinkhammer, Simon Ockenfuss
  • Patent number: 12137720
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans,—an electrical heating device (13) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel,—at least one temperature sensor (23) to measure temperature in the vessel, —a control system (180) operable to control the heating device, wherein the control system is configured to:—apply a roasting recipe dedicated to the roasting of partially pre-roasted beans comprising at least a temperature versus time profile by controlling the electrical heating device based on the measure of the temperature sensor,—detect a decrease of the consumption of electrical power of the heating device in function of time,—stop heating if no decrease of the consumption of electrical power happens after a set reference time ti.—continue or stop the electrical heating device depending on the type of identified beans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
    Inventors: Flavien Dubief, Stefano Ceccaroli
  • Patent number: 12134578
    Abstract: A method for generating a cutting plan of a complex glazing product including a glass sheet and a layer other than a glass sheet, the method including obtaining a map of the defects of the glass sheet; obtaining at least one other defect map, the defects of the other map not being defects of a glass sheet; each of the maps including, for each of its defects, a position of the defect, a size of the defect, and a criticality level of the defect; generating a cutting plan of the complex glazing product using the maps and a specification taking into account the criticality levels, the cutting plan including a cutting line and being such that none of the cutting lines passes through an exclusion zone of the defect of the glass sheet, wherein a cutting line passes through an exclusion zone of a defect of the other map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Maxime Van Landeghem
  • Patent number: 12129059
    Abstract: The invention relates to an output unit for a provision individually per track of sheet material for placing beneath products fed on two or multiple tracks, in particular beneath food portions, said output unit comprising a draw-in device that is configured to draw in individually per track a respective one material web of the sheet material per track and that in particular has at least one driven draw-in shaft and at least one draw-in pressure unit; a separation device that is configured to separate the sheet material from the material webs; and an ejection device that is configured to discharge sheet material on two or multiple tracks and that comprises a driven ejection roller and an ejection counter-unit that forms an ejection gap for the sheet material together with the ejection roller, wherein the ejection roller is jointly associated with at least two tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Weber Food Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Marvin Schäfer, Thorsten Schneider, Markus Gerhardt, Florian Reitz, Julian Nolte, Heiko Knöppel
  • Patent number: 12122058
    Abstract: A beauty instrument according to the present disclosure comprises a skin electrode disposed in a head, a grip electrode disposed in a grip, a voltage application circuit for applying a voltage between the skin electrode and the grip electrode to cause a current to flow between the skin electrode and the grip electrode through a human body, and a controller that controls the voltage application circuit. The controller comprises a touch detector that detects touch of a skin surface of the human body with the skin electrode. Before the touch detector detects the touch, the voltage application circuit is controlled to apply a first voltage having a relatively high frequency, and after the touch detector detects the touch, the voltage application circuit is controlled to apply a second voltage having a relatively low frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kanamori, Kenji Narita
  • Patent number: 12115692
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an improvement to razor blade coating by a physical vapor deposition method, by forming a hard coating layer as a thin coating layer in which chromium boride, which is a nanocrystalline structure having high hardness, is dispersed in an amorphous mixture of chromium and boron, thereby improving the strength and hardness of the thin coating layer and securing the bonding force by chromium in the amorphous mixture between the hard coating layer and a blade substrate on which an edge of the razor blade is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DORCO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Joo Park, Sung Hoon Oh, Seong Won Jeong
  • Patent number: 12115688
    Abstract: A trimmer head for pen-shaped eyebrow trimmer, including a cylindrical trimmer head body, the trimmer head body is provided with a blade, the trimmer head and handle can form an eyebrow trimmer with a pen-shaped structure. The blade is a curved arc-shaped structure, and blade edge at the upper end is arc-shaped; by placing the upper end of blade on upper end face of trimmer head body, the trimmer head can move perpendicular to the skin or inclined at a certain angle with the direction perpendicular to the skin when shaving, combined with the inclined setting of the blade relative to axis L of the trimmer head body to form an inclined cutting angle to ensure sharpness of cutting. To improve the flexibility and controllability of eyebrow trimming, the blade with arc-shaped structure can effectively control the shaving of concave and convex parts, as to accurately trim and shape eyebrows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LITTLE STONE CERAMIC BLADE (ZHONGSHAN) COMPANY LTD.
    Inventor: Rangpan Wu
  • Patent number: 12109720
    Abstract: A head of a cutting device includes a base configured to be fixed to a machine tool, a cylindrical suction nozzle integral with the base, a connector integral with the base and configured to receive a suction pipe. The suction nozzle is perforated by at least one oblong hole, for example parallel to an axis of the suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pierre Crouzy, Pierre Nicoloso
  • Patent number: 12103199
    Abstract: A work tool (100) comprising: a cutting chain (110), a drive mechanism for driving the cutting chain (110), an annular member (120) arranged rotatably supported by one or more support rollers (130,140,150), wherein the annular member comprises a rim (230) adapted to support the cutting chain (110) during cutting, and a support wheel (160) arranged distanced from the annular member (120), wherein the cutting chain (110) is arranged supported on a rim segment (102) of the annular member (110) forming part of a cutting area of the tool (100) and supported on a rim segment (103) of the support wheel (160) in a direction away from the cutting area of the tool (100). An annular member and a method of producing an annular member are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventor: Andreas Jönsson
  • Patent number: 12102247
    Abstract: Methods of cutting a flooring web into rectangular flooring tiles such that at least one vertical cut along the length of the web defines a shorter edge of the rectangular tiles and horizontal cuts across the width of the web define the longer edges of the rectangular tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Interface, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Del Angel, William Nathan Jones
  • Patent number: 12102096
    Abstract: A work measurement device according to an aspect includes a posture holding surface for holding a posture of a work, a first work presser capable of pressing the work against the posture holding surface from an opposite side to the posture holding surface across the work, a contact disposed to be able to contact the work, a moving unit for moving, relative to the contact, the work pressed against the posture holding surface by the first work presser. The contact is configured to contact the work downstream of the first work presser in a relative movement direction of the work by the moving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kido, Keigo Shibama, Hiroyuki Sakurayama, Akira Koizumi, Hajime Akabane, Masaomi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12102257
    Abstract: A food product dispenser includes a drive unit and a dispensing unit removably coupled to the drive unit. The dispensing unit includes a product reservoir configured to store the food product, a dispensing nozzle, and a product transfer assembly including a pump assembly configured to be driven by the drive unit when the dispensing unit is coupled to the drive unit to convey the food product from the product reservoir to the dispensing nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Rich Products Corporation
    Inventors: Ralf Reiser, Shawn Campbell, Jeff Kim
  • Patent number: 12083644
    Abstract: Optical imaging apparatus and a machine vision camera system for an alarm protecting a person's hands when working at a motorized cutting or abrading machine, uses trains of sets of mirrors to define four spaced-apart viewpoints and transfer non-overlapping scenes on to an image sensor of a single camera. An optical axis from each viewpoint allows a cuboidal protected volume to be created. The cuboid may have vertical sides. Recognizable objects inside that volume cause the machine to stop, while objects near but outside the volume cause the apparatus to raise an alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KANDO INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: George Davey Maddever, Keith Blenkinsopp
  • Patent number: 12082736
    Abstract: An automatic dish serving system can be applied to various dishes to save space and achieve automation. An automatic dish serving system capable of cooking multiple types of dishes according to a customer's order includes a boiler for boiling noodles and a heating device adjacent to the boiler for heating a cooking container. A supplying device supplies to the cooking container an ingredient to be added to the noodles. A moving device is capable of moving the cooking utensil and can move the cooking container to at least a position at which an ingredient is supplied from the supplying device, a position at which a cooking container is heated by the heating device, and a position at which boiled noodles are received from the boiler. The heating device can heat and cook an ingredient that is supplied from the supplying device to the cooking container according to the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TECHMAGIC INC.
    Inventor: Yuji Shiraki
  • Patent number: 12083692
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a shaving device and more specifically, to a portable, conical shaped shaving apparatus with a central element, top and bottom caps, and when assembled, the apparatus is designed to look like a cosmetic container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Khubani, Eric Langberg, David Stowers
  • Patent number: 12076880
    Abstract: The invention relates to a slicing apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to a high-performance slicer, comprising a product feed that feeds products to be sliced on one or more tracks in a feed direction to a cutting region in which the products are cut into slices during a cutting operation of the slicing apparatus by means of a cutting blade, in particular a revolving and/or rotating cutting blade, that performs cutting movements; a portioning region in which portions are formed from the slices and each comprise one slice or a plurality of slices disposed at least partly above one another; and a control device that controls the cutting operation and that has operating information that relates to the cutting operation, wherein a treatment agent device for providing a liquid treatment agent is integrated into the slicing apparatus and is configured to provide the treatment agent during the cutting operation such that the treatment agent is applied to a respective cut surface of a product and/or t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Weber Food Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Reichard, Thorsten Arnold, Theo Horst, Andreas Runkel
  • Patent number: 12076775
    Abstract: A method for chamfering the installation position of a water control valve of a faucet body, mainly using a punching machine to drive a processing punch to punch a first end or second end, where the processing punch is provided with a fillet corresponding to the hole of the first end or second end, which squeezes the burrs through the driving of the punching machine, allowing the surface of installation position of the water control valve to be even and smooth, achieving smooth rotation of the water control valve, and preventing the water stop rubber to be scratched by the burrs or sharp corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Hsiang-Hung Wang