Patents Examined by Phong H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11717906
    Abstract: A method for cutting side plates and end plates of a scrapped railway boxcar aims to improve low disassembling efficiency as it is difficult to disassemble the scrapped railway boxcar. The steps of cutting the side plates includes: A1: cutting a top of an upper side plate; A2: performing cutting downwards, dividing the upper side plate, and then cutting the left upper side plate; A3: cutting the right upper side plate; A4: cutting a lower side plate; A5: cutting off upper channel steel on columns; A6: cutting off lower channel steel on the columns; and A7: cutting the columns. The method avoids complicated working conditions of directly cutting angle iron, the channel steel, multilayer boards and closed regions, so that the cutting efficiency of the side plates and the end plates of the boxcars is improved. Moreover, automatic cutting can be realized according to a set cutting path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: China Railway General Resources Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baomin Chen, Mazhong Ya, Weirong Kong, Hui Liu, Liangcheng Shen, Lihua Wang, Rui Jin, Sisi Lu
  • Patent number: 11712132
    Abstract: A cutting board having removable grommet feet that protrude entirely through the upper and lower surface of a cutting board. The bottom of the grommet assembly includes a concave recess below the board. The top of the grommet assembly has a convex head above the board. Multiple boards may be stacked wherein the recess of an upper board fits over the head of the lower board providing a stable stacking configuration and ensuring separation between the boards allowing airflow between adjacent, stacked boards. The head of the grommet assembly is supple to push through an aperture or cut out in the board surface for installation and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Edgar Hugo
  • Patent number: 11715940
    Abstract: A circular cutting unit for partially cutting one or more layers of a cable or wire along a cutting plane. The circular cutting unit include a knife head including a drive disc and an adjustment disc that are each rotatable about a disc axis. A pair of knife holders that each include a knife blade are pivotally mounted to the drive disc. Relative rotation of the adjustment disc relative to the drive disc causes the knife holders to pivot causing movement of the knife blades toward or away from each other. The circular cutting unit includes a primary drive assembly and an adjustment drive assembly that are each separately operable. The primary drive assembly rotates the knife head at the cutting speed and the adjustment drive assembly rotates the adjustment disc relative to the drive disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Michael A. Kirst, Richard Schwartz, Dieter Vischer
  • Patent number: 11709844
    Abstract: A method and system operable for: receiving a search query including search terms; using a machine learning module, selecting features of the search terms and mapping an association between the search terms and a domain object, thereby generating a domain object classification; tagging the domain object with the domain object classification; and using the domain object tagged with the domain object classification to conduct a subsequent search. Conducting the subsequent search includes: receiving a subsequent search query including subsequent search terms; tokenizing the subsequent search terms; finding permutations of the tokenized subsequent search terms; matching the subsequent search terms to the domain object tagged with the domain object classification; and displaying subsequent search results via a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Aykut Yararbas, Jon Seneger, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Joakim Soderberg
  • Patent number: 11710330
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing content provenance are provided. A network system accesses a plurality of documents. The plurality of documents is then hashed to identify one or more content features within each of the documents. In one embodiment, the hash is a MinHash. The network system compares the content features of each of the plurality of documents to determine a similarity score between each of the plurality of documents. In one embodiment, the similarly score is a Jaccard score. The network system then clusters the plurality of documents into one or more clusters based on the similarity score of each of the plurality of documents. In one embodiment, the clustering is performed using DBSCAN. DBSCAN can be iteratively performed with decreasing epsilon values to derive clusters of related but relatively dissimilar documents. The clustering information associated with the clusters are stored for use during runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Roy Evans, Christopher Miles White, Jonathan Karl Larson, Darren Keith Edge
  • Patent number: 11707856
    Abstract: A knife that can be quickly assembled and disassembled comprises a blade and a handle that are removably connected to each other through a connection assembly, and further comprises a knife clip, a knife disc and a handle ring. The left end of the blade is provided with a knife rod. A step is provided at the connection between a main body of the blade and the knife rod. A knife clip is sleeved outside of the step. The handle ring and the knife disc are provided parallel on the left and right sides respectively, and are respectively sleeved outside of the knife rod. The handle comprises a handle sleeve and a built-in sleeve that is fixed at the right end of the inner hole of the handle sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Longquan Qi Sen Bamboo Crafts Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jianchun Ye, Shaorong Mao, Zhen Ye, Qingping Hu
  • Patent number: 11704348
    Abstract: A method for outputting a search result includes: executing a reception process that includes receiving a search query for target data; executing a candidate item identification process that includes referring to index information associating each of a plurality of items included in the target data with a position of a corresponding one of the items, and identifying a first storage area configured to store an item corresponding to a keyword included in the search query; and executing an addition process that includes when a description included in the corresponding one of the items includes a reference to a different item, referring to the index information, and adding information on a second storage area configured to store the different item to the reference to the different item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masahiro Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11705699
    Abstract: A sheath removal device includes: an electric wire gripping member which grips an electric wire having a wire and a sheath that covers the wire; cutting blades which form a cut in the sheath at a cutting position that is located on a tip side than a position where the electric wire is gripped by the electric wire gripping member; and a sheath gripping member which grips a sheath tip portion that is a portion, from the tip of the sheath to the cutting position, of the sheath. The sheath gripping member peels off the sheath tip portion from the wire by performing a rotation operation about an extension direction of the electric wire and a pulling-out operation on the sheath tip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kohsuke Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11701721
    Abstract: An adaptive cutting system is presented that facilitates cutting workpieces in new and different ways in a fun, easy, fast, accurate and safe manner. The system includes a benchtop having a grid of bench dog holes across its surface as well as a pair of table tracks embedded within its surface. An edge track extends around the benchtop and a pair of hinge members are connected to the edge tracks that also connect to a saw track that is movable between a raised and lowered position. The system also includes narrow rip stops, wide rip stops, bench dogs and a miter gauge all of which work in concert with the on-table features to facilitate on-table measurement and alignment of workpieces for performing cutting operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Kreg Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph W. Gibson, Doyle R. Ramsey, Shelby Lee Strempke, Nathan Scott Combs, Neil M. Holland, Elliot James Hoff, Timothy J. Forbes, Allen F. Raushel, Jacob Martin, Casey L. Kerkmann, Stacy A. Peterson, Christian D. Ewoldt, Michael P. Marusiak, Mark David McClellan, Frederick J. Good, Scott Clark, Edward Charles Hay
  • Patent number: 11705702
    Abstract: Positioning of a shield electric wire is performed by an insertion jig in front of a peeling jig, and a portion at a distal end of the shield electric wire where a metal foil is exposed is inserted into an electric wire insertion hole of a peeling jig through the center hole of an insertion jig. Air is blown from an opening on an other-end-surface side of the peeling jig toward the distal end of the shielded electric wire, and the metal foil is expanded while being separated from a wire core. A cut is formed from a side of a metal foil expanded by blowing air in a predetermined gap between a one-end-surface of the peeling jig and an end surface of the insertion jig, and the metal foil is cut from the cut as a starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Miyoshi Mabuchi
  • Patent number: 11684017
    Abstract: There is provided electric pruning shears capable of arbitrarily adjusting an opening/closing width of a blade so as to improve user's satisfaction. Electric pruning shears 1 that cut an object sandwiched between a movable blade 4 and a fixed blade 5 is provided with a control board 109 that executes: a setting changing operation of operating, when a maximum open position adjusting portion 80 receives a change input, a motor 6 to move the movable blade 4 at the maximum opening angle with an opening/closing width before change to the maximum opening angle with an opening/closing width after change; and a movable blade opening/closing operation of operating, when an operation portion 60 is operated, the motor 6 to open/close the movable blade 4 between the maximum opening angle and the maximum closing angle with the opening/closing width after change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ARS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetatsu Nii
  • Patent number: 11684218
    Abstract: A multifunctional cooking device is configured for chopping and stirring ground meat, about a radiused and/or convex surface, inside of a cooking pan. The multifunctional cooking device has a shaft with a handle located opposite a neck portion. A bowl is connected to the neck portion of the shaft. The bowl has a concave portion located opposite a back convex portion. The bowl has a plurality of bores traversing the bowl. Each bore has at least one side wall surface extending from the back portion of the bowl. At least one side wall surface having a tapered edge forming a blade. Each bore of the bowl is configured to receive chopped food when a user exerts a force on the multifunctional cooking device when the food is being chopped in a cooking pan, whereby, the food traverses the bore of the bowl to facilitate the chopping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventor: Jessica Stewart
  • Patent number: 11685074
    Abstract: Provided is a hand-held working machine, including a connection receiving portion configured to connect an anchoring rope, which is configured to couple a machine body and an operator to each other, to the machine body. The connection receiving portion includes: an other-function portion provided to the machine body as a portion having other function or use; and a protrusion configured to retain the anchoring rope at a predetermined position of the other-function portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Osawa, Takeshi Maeno, Atsushi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11679525
    Abstract: A chainsaw which has a low profile chain cover and a chain bar tightening clutch system. The chain bar tightening clutch system can have a bar tightening knob which drives a clutch which governs the amount of pressure applied to the chain bar by operating the bar tightening knob. The chainsaw can have a chain bar tensioning system which can have a tensioning drive member in an offset position from the tensioning post which positions the tensioning post to achieve a chain tension and compact chainsaw design. The chainsaw can also have an oil cap with a lock channel having a detent with produces a sound when moved from a disengaged to an engage position with an oil reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason C. McRoberts, Ashok Samuel Baskar, Mark D. Miller, Lin Wu, Jianyi Liu, Corey Barnett, Chao Wu
  • Patent number: 11672735
    Abstract: A pill can be positioned on a first housing of a pill splitter. A second housing of the splitter can be pushed downward onto the first housing. A second blade can be secured to the second housing, and the pushing of the second housing downward toward the closed position can split the pill by bringing the second blade toward a first blade with cutting edges of both blades cutting into the pill. Also, the second housing can be configured to slide in a linear direction to split the pill and form a closed pill container space. The pill splitter can include a platform that is configured to move to hide or expose one of the blades. The first housing may include a spring device integrally formed with a foundation and/or the platform, with the spring device biasing the platform relative to the foundation toward the hiding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Studio 010 Inc.
    Inventor: Tyson Triplett
  • Patent number: 11675766
    Abstract: A hierarchical representation of an input data set comprising similarity scores for respective entity pairs is generated iteratively. In a particular iteration, clusters are obtained from a subset of the iteration's input entity pairs which satisfy a similarity criterion, and then spanning trees are generated for at least some of the clusters. An indication of at least a representative pair of one or more of the clusters is added to the hierarchical representation in the iteration. The hierarchical representation is used to respond to clustering requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xianshun Chen, Kai Liu, Nikhil Anand Navali, Archiman Dutta
  • Patent number: 11677218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of cable processing, and discloses a method for processing a reaction force cone of a cable main insulating layer. The method includes: two ends of a cable are clamped through a clamping device, and the cable is enabled to pass through a cutting device; a cutting depth of the cutting device in a radial direction and a cutting position of the cutting device in an axial direction are adjusted; the cutting device is started, and the cable is cut by the cutting device to form the reaction force cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: STATE GRID HUZHOU POWER SUPPLY COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaojian Wang, Zhen Chen, Jing Xu, Keqin Ye, Weixun Qin, Wenhui Xu, Xinhang Chen, Zhen Wang, Meng Tang, Feng Zhou, Bin Tian, Yongsheng Xu, Yudong Rui
  • Patent number: 11669503
    Abstract: In some aspects, a model of a remote data source is defined. The model includes an entity representing a data segment from the remote data source. The entity has properties, which represent fields of a data structure in the remote data source and have data type descriptors indicating data types used by the fields. The model also includes an attribute specifying a function, which uses the properties as inputs. The entity is matched to exported data from the remote data source, and the exported data is used as input data to the attribute's function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Danielle Samara, Matthew Welsh, Naresh Chalimeda, James Reid, Seong Geum, Paulina Galvez, Juan Maureira, Yolanda Head
  • Patent number: 11668628
    Abstract: A retraction device includes a spindle movable along the axis thereof and an operating unit including a pull rod and a movable member. The movable member defines a step-shaped groove, the pull rod has a first end connected to the spindle, and a second end received in the groove; the groove includes a first step and a second step and an inclined face connecting the first step and the second step arranged along a first direction, and a height of the second step is greater than that of the first step along the axis direction of the spindle; the movable member is slidable along the first direction relative to the pull rod, to allow the spindle to switch between a retraction position in which the pull rod is received in the second step, and a release position in which the pull rod is received in the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Leica Microsystems Ltd., Shanghai
    Inventors: Zheguang Fan, Xiang Liang, Gang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11663198
    Abstract: A method and system of managing a new client record for a client record management system, including creating a new client record, comparing the new client record against at least an existing client record in a database, generating a table with a picklist, with the picklist presenting a suggested record, which is selected from an existing client record in the database, displaying the table and presenting the picklist for a confirmation by a user, and merging the new client record with the existing client record based on the confirmation by the user, where the picklist presents the suggested record based on a criterion, the criterion being a match in a field between the new client record and the suggested record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Trident Corporate Services (Singapore) PTE Limited as Trustee for The Oneplace Unit Trust
    Inventor: Timothy Julien Smith