Patents Examined by Phuong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9734993
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is capable of reducing power consumption. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a processing chamber 2 that has a top surface 2a and forms a processing space S therein; a mounting table 3 provided in the processing space S; an upper electrode 20 provided above the mounting table 3 to face the mounting table 3; heaters 35 and 36 provided around the upper electrode 20 and below the top surface 2a of the processing chamber 2 and configured to heat the upper electrode 20; and a heat insulating unit 50, mounted on the top surface 2a of the processing chamber 2, having a plate-shaped member 51 and a heat insulating member 52 that is provided on one main surface 51a of the plate-shaped member 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Miura, Akira Yasumuro
  • Patent number: 9723945
    Abstract: In a device (1) for making a beverage on the basis of interaction between a beverage extract and an extracting fluid, which comprises an openable and closeable chamber (50) for receiving and accommodating a quantity of the beverage extract, and heating/cooling means (30) for setting the temperature of the extracting fluid, arranged upstream of the chamber (50), a beverage making process can be performed with extracting fluid that is exactly at a desired temperature. During heat-up or cool-down phases of the heating/cooling means (30), the extracting fluid is transported to another position than the chamber (50) where the beverage making process is supposed to take place. For the purpose of determining an appropriate path of the extracting fluid in every possible situation, valve means (60) are applied, which are switchable under the influence of a change of the flow rate of the extracting fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardo Arnoldus Mulder, Theodoor Stolk
  • Patent number: 9713853
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are wire feeders and wire feeder cable connections which include a power block portion, a cable connection portion and a liner guide assembly portion. The liner guide assembly portion and power block portion are structured and assembly so that a liner guide can be removed from a welding cable from inside the wire feeder, without removing the cable connector from the wire feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Kachline
  • Patent number: 9713399
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for portably brewing tea, coffee, or other beverages in a container that regulates the temperature and diffusion during and after brewing. For example, the present technology allows people to prepare and consume tea, coffee and other beverages while on the go. In some aspects, a portable brewing device includes a container having a specialized canister system in the interior of the container that encloses the beverage material and controls the diffusion of water in/out of the canister; an intelligent heating and cooling system to continuously regulate the temperature of water in the device; and a data processing unit in communication with the canister and heating and cooling systems to control operational features and store user-specialized settings for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: TEANGO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Boone, Raphael Lozano
  • Patent number: 9706876
    Abstract: A containing assembly for a food product for use as a culinary tool to assist in preventing thermal injury to a user while inserting and retrieving the food product from a toaster slot, the assembly including a support assembly defining a basket for receiving and retaining the food product, and having a support frame with a u-shaped bar with two side bars and a base bar and two articulating side walls coupled to the bottom of the support frame, the rotatable side wall rotates about an axis proximate the bottom of the support frame. A stop restricts the outward rotation of the rotatable side wall at a predefined open position. A handle is fixedly coupled to one of the two side bars of the support frame and configured for inserting and retrieving the support assembly from the toaster slot with a single user hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Toaster Buddies Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Larry Walker
  • Patent number: 9703763
    Abstract: A method for automatic document citations includes outputting, by one or more computing devices and for display, a first interface area in which an editable document is displayed and a second interface area outside of the first interface area. The method also includes, in response to a paste command, inserting copied content into the editable document and defining, in the second interface area, an interface element that includes source information regarding the copied content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Aaron Saul Zemach
  • Patent number: 9700173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cooking food on a grill having opposed upper and lower platens wherein a gap spacing between the platens is automatically adjusted in an initial stage and in subsequent stages of the cooking time for the food. The food is caused to be located between two opposed platens, the opposed platens each having opposed cooking surfaces and the opposed cooking surfaces defining a gap spacing that is adjustable. A controller and drive mechanism adjust the gap spacing between the platens so that during an initial stage of the cooking the gap spacing is equal to or less than the nominal initial uncooked thickness of the food, and during one or more subsequent stages of the cooking, after the initial stage, the gap spacing between the platens is varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Restaurant Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Calzada, Paul G. Simmons, Jerry Sus
  • Patent number: 9703759
    Abstract: Footnote detection is provided. When converting a fixed format document to a flow format document, footnotes, which may include a footnote description and a footnote reference mark, may be detected and linked with a corresponding footnote reference mark in a main document flow on a page. Additionally, a footnote numbering scheme may be determined and applied to detected footnotes. By providing footnote detection when converting a fixed format document to a flow format document, footnotes may be statically positioned at the end of a page containing the corresponding footnote reference mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Drazen Zaric, Milos Raskovic
  • Patent number: 9693651
    Abstract: Beverage collector (11) for collecting a centrifuged brewed liquid coming from a rotating brewing unit (2); said collector comprising: —a collecting track (13) forming an annular cavity and, —at least one outlet (14) extending radially in the collecting track (13) for allowing the brewed liquid received in the collecting track to evacuate out of the collecting track, wherein said collecting track comprises at least one ramp surface (15) lowering in the annular direction (O) towards the outlet (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Stefan Etter, Alexandre Perentes, Christian Jarisch, Manuela Rothacher Etter
  • Patent number: 9697636
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for enhancing presentation system animations by applying motion blur to animated objects within a presentation system. Clipping the blur effect to particular regions may increase efficiencies over calculations of motion blur across an entire screen. Further, in certain embodiments, the motion blur may be calculated and presented on a per-object basis. Accordingly, relational objects (e.g., objects seemingly inside other objects and/or overlapping or crossing objects) may each have their own blur effect without impacting the other objects' blur effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mark J. Flider
  • Patent number: 9681500
    Abstract: A microwave heating system configured to heat a plurality of articles is provided. The microwave heating system includes a microwave splitter, a pair of microwave launchers, and at least one inductive iris disposed between the splitter and the launch opening of one of the launchers. A microwave launcher suitable for use in such a heating system is also provided. The launcher includes an inductive iris disposed within the interior of the launcher, spaced between its inlet and outlet and obstructing at least a portion of the microwave pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Microwave Materials Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold Dail Kimrey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9669492
    Abstract: There is provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these tools and systems for cutting, sectioning and removing structures objects, and materials, and in particular, for doing so in difficult to access locations and environments, such as offshore, underwater, or in hazardous environments, such as nuclear and chemical facilities. Thus, there is also provided high power laser systems, high power laser tools, and methods of using these systems and tools for removing structures, objects, and materials located offshore, under bodies of water and under the seafloor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Foro Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene J. Linyaev, Scott A. Marshall, Daryl L. Grubb, Ronald A. De Witt, Paul D. Deutch, Brian O. Faircloth, Jason D. Fraze, Mark S. Zediker
  • Patent number: 9672521
    Abstract: A data system comprises a legacy system for storing work orders and process data; and a computer-based interface module for retrieving the work orders from the legacy system, reformatting the retrieved work orders to highlight words corresponding to process compliance and insert hyperlinks to process data referenced by the work orders, and presenting the reformatted work orders with the highlighted words and the hyperlinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Andrew P. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9668304
    Abstract: An apparatus, including a food processor having a housing having a first section and second section, which second section is elongate in shape and houses at least a portion of a rotating member; a food processing attachment connected or attached to an end portion of the second section; and a plate capable of serving as a cover or lid for a cooking pot capable of being heated by a heating source. The plate has an opening for receiving the second section which is capable of being slideably moveable in and through the opening in a bi-directional manner to raise or lower a position of the food processing attachment, or to move the food processing attachment up or down, inside the cooking pot by a movement of the second section vertically up or down through the opening during a cooking or food processing operation in the cooking pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Inventors: Raymond Anthony Joao, Mary Antonette Spano
  • Patent number: 9661056
    Abstract: A system is described for creating a customized modification free extension of a software application. The software application can be an application configured to be executed in a runtime framework on a web browser. When the web browser launches the custom application, the base application can be identified and retrieved. Once retrieved, the web browser can merge the custom application and the base application and execute the resulting merged application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Clement Selvaraj, Santosh Kumar Addanki, Prakash Ponshankaarchinnusamy, Andreas Kunz, Peter Muessig
  • Patent number: 9645701
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, a display control system, a display control method, and a display control program stored on a recording medium, each of which determines one or more display components to be displayed together with an application user interface, using display size information, priority order information, and display condition information that are previously stored for each one of the display components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Genki Watanabe, Rina Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9642486
    Abstract: A leaf juice extracting apparatus includes a processing assembly having that defines a processing chamber for receiving a plurality of leaves and water, a side wall thereof having an upper rim that defines an open top configured to allow access therein. The extracting apparatus includes a steam assembly in fluid communication with the processing chamber for selectively receiving an incoming water portion from the processing chamber into a steam chamber, the steam chamber including a heating element for changing the incoming water portion into steam. An extraction member is selectively situated in the processing chamber of the processing chamber for selectively applying pressure upon the plurality of leaves therein so as to cause juice to be extracted from the plurality of leaves. A collection assembly is in fluid communication with the processing chamber that is configured to selectively communicate the extracted juice from the processing chamber into a collection reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ifeoma Obiamaka Obiora, Nkemdirim Chinwendu Obiora
  • Patent number: 9635873
    Abstract: A product conveying and coating system includes at least first and second, sequentially arranged conveyor belts, with at least the second conveyor belt being a solid belt. Interposed in a gap between the first and second belts is a dispenser head of a coating manifold. The dispenser head spans a gap between upper surface portions of the first and second conveyor belts, with an elongated side wall outlet portion of the dispenser head being exposed, in a downstream direction of the conveyor unit, to the upper surface of the second conveyor belt. The system provides for dispensing of coating material directly onto the second, solid conveyor belt and enrobing at least bottom and partial side portions of food products upon the solid belt. Provisions are made for scraping from the solid belt, removing from the food products and recycling excess coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Heinzen
  • Patent number: 9629493
    Abstract: An apparatus for cold brewing coffee includes a filter insert, a filter frame receiving the filter insert therein and a barrel receiving the filter frame and the filter insert, wherein the filter insert has a stainless steel mesh cylindrical side wall and a stainless steel mesh flat bottom perpendicular to the side wall. The filter frame has a perforated cylindrical side wall and a perforated flat bottom, wherein the perforated cylindrical side wall is arranged coaxially with the stainless steel mesh cylindrical side wall of the filter insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Joyride Coffee Distributors, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Belanich, David Belanich, Noah Belanich, Anders Crabo
  • Patent number: 9630271
    Abstract: A welding gun includes a bending pipe (10), an insulating barrel (20) mounted on a mounting seat (11) of the bending pipe, a nozzle (30) mounted on the mounting seat (11) of the bending pipe, a connector (40) connected with the insulating barrel, and a cap (50) connected with the connector. The mounting seat has a groove (14) which has a periphery provided with a plurality of flow channels (15). The insulating barrel has an interior provided with an air chamber (23) connected to the flow channels. The air chamber includes a plane (85) and a guiding wall (86) to evenly stabilize a pressure of a welding gas. The insulating barrel has a mediate portion provided with a recessed end face (24) which is provided with a plurality of guiding holes (25) connected to the air chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Inventors: Yung-Sheng Lin, Shui-Chi Kuo