Patents Examined by Omar Flores Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12157177
    Abstract: A cutting disc for a machine for harvesting stem-like plants includes a number of elements which together can be attached or are attached to a bracket forming a circular ring with an outer cutting edge. At least one of the elements is attachable to the bracket in a first position, in which a first edge of the element forms the outer cutting edge, and in a second position, in which a second edge of the element forms the outer cutting edge. No matter whether the element is in the first of second position, a circular cutting edge is made up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Akshay B. Patil, Sunil S. Aralekar, Jan-Dirk Schild, Vinod Joshi
  • Patent number: 12157247
    Abstract: Machine for punching a box-shaped element, or suchlike, including at least one punching head provided with at least one punch and translatable in a direction toward or away from a substantially vertical side of the box-shaped element and at least one counter-head that contrasts the punching head, the side of the box-shaped element is positioned during use between the punching head and the counter-head, the counter-head is configured to be inserted inside the box-shaped element and to rest against an internal surface of the side in order to maintain the box-shaped element in position on a work plane, and the punching head is translated toward the counter-head in the direction so as to perforate the side by means of the punch and make at least one through hole therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BARTOLI PACKAGING S.R.L.
    Inventor: Cinzia Bartoli
  • Patent number: 12157176
    Abstract: A power tool, such as a cast saw is disclosed. The cast saw is equipped with at least one thermocouple and and/or at least one infrared detector that measure the temperature of the cutting blade on the cast saw or the area in the cast immediately surrounding the cutting blade. The cast saw is also equipped with at least one LED that can alert a user of the cast saw when blade or the area in the cast immediately surrounding the blade is approaching or has reached a temperature that may burn a patient. Also disclosed is a shroud for the cutting blade of the cast saw. The shroud not only surrounds at least part of the blade but also houses the thermocouple or infrared detector and the LEDs(s). A method of operating the cast saw to cut a cast off of a patient is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Inventors: Bernard David Horn, John Todd Rutter Lawrence
  • Patent number: 12150453
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for cutting flatbread. One of the systems includes a lifting platform configured to move in a first direction to remove a flatbread stack from a conveyor along an axis, which conveyor transports the flatbread stack along a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the axis; a transport arm configured to a) move in a first direction along the longitudinal axis to remove the flatbread stack from the lifting platform, and b) move in a second direction along the longitudinal axis to place the flatbread stack on a cutting pedestal; and the cutting pedestal configured to receive the flatbread stack from the transport arm and to support the flatbread stack for a subsequent cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Lawrence Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Clay Lawrence
  • Patent number: 12150536
    Abstract: Trimming shears to cut an animal claw comprising a first body and a second body pivotally coupled about a pivot axis, in a pivot plane, a blade having a cutting edge, the blade movable in a blade plane along a blade path, in response to pivotal movement of the first body and/or the second body, wherein the blade plane is transverse to the pivot plane, a guide coupled to the first body, the guide movable in a guide plane along a guide path, wherein the guide plane is substantially parallel to the blade plane and the guide having a plurality of apertures extending through the guide, and wherein each aperture of the guide is positionable relative to the cutting edge of the blade such that, when the blade is moved from a retracted position to an extended position, the cutting edge cuts a claw when disposed in each aperture, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Four Paws Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Glen S. Axelrod, Ajay Gajria, Diana M. Echeverri
  • Patent number: 12151386
    Abstract: A utility knife includes a handle having a body and a receiving aperture. The utility knife further includes a collet at least partially receivable in the receiving aperture, and a sleeve that is engageable with and that surrounds the collet. The collet is configured to alternately receive one of a portion of a blade of a first type in a first slot and a portion of a blade of a second type in a second slot. The collet and the sleeve are co-rotatable relative the handle to move the collet to a secured position in which one of the blade of the first type and the blade of the second type are secured to the collet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Samuel Nelson, Richard M. Davidian, Rony Chan, Cam Craig, Patrick L. Wills, Jeremy Fedrigon, Trevor Fauss
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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