Patents Examined by Randall E. Chin
  • Patent number: 11547202
    Abstract: A mascara brush having a centre made of at least two wire sections twisted together along a longitudinal axis of the wire core, and having a bristle covering made of plastic bristles formed by filaments, each of which bristles is held in a clamping manner between the two wire sections, and which bristles are formed with a wedge-shaped bristle tip or without a wedge-shaped bristle tip on their free ends. At least one portion of the bristles has a bristle coating made of a first softer material, and a bristle core that is joined to the bristle coating and made of a second harder material, and at least these bristles have a transverse cut, in the form of a simple wedge, on one side or on two sides, at least partially on their radially outward free ends, and comprise a wedge-shaped bristle tip having at least one cut surface forming a wedge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GEKA GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kamm
  • Patent number: 11534262
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and medical device accessories. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tool or accessory for cleaning a medical device. For example, the tool or accessory may clean a fluid delivery lumen of an endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) knife. The tool or accessory may include a housing with a first portion of an elongate member secured within a first portion of the housing and a second portion of the elongate member extending into a chamber of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Allyn N. Jensrud, Todd M. Pfizenmaier, Kathleen M. Laliberte, Rachael Campion
  • Patent number: 11534045
    Abstract: Retrofit box systems to maximize operational capacity of inaccessible floors are described. The retrofit box system includes a gate complex that provides fluid communication between an inaccessible floor and a box, and a box to deliver a cleaner to the inaccessible floor and adapted for equalizing pressure when the inaccessible floor is under water while minimizing waste seepage from the retrofit box system. The retrofit box system further includes a power system and a control system to deliver the cleaner to the inaccessible floor and remove waste from the inaccessible floor and the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Bristola, LLC
    Inventor: Jared Burma
  • Patent number: 11523678
    Abstract: An oral care system that includes an oral care implement and a tracking attachment. The oral care implement may include a handle and a head. The tracking attachment is detachably coupled to the oral care implement. The tracking attachment may include a housing including a first housing portion having an inner surface that defines a first cavity and a second housing portion having an inner surface that defines a second cavity. The tracking attachment may also include a tracking unit configured to facilitate tracking at least one of a position, orientation, or movement of the oral care implement to which it is attached. A first portion of the handle may be positioned within the first cavity and a second portion of the handle may be positioned within the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Wu Yang, Takahide Okai
  • Patent number: 11518348
    Abstract: A rotary brush for a carwash comprised of a rotational hub, a plastic clip core, a plurality of longitudinal washing elements (“LWE”) and an equal plurality of plastic clips, for retaining the LWE to the plastic clip core. A plastic clip core is comprised of a plastic clip core, a plurality of longitudinal washing elements (“LWE”) and an equal plurality of plastic clips. The plastic clip core assembly is mated to a rotational hub, creating the rotary brush. The plastic clip core has a plurality of semi-cylindrical void cavities, each with an adjoining cylindrical void cavity. Each plastic clip has two parallel members, a first member and a second member. Each LWE has an upper edge, lower edge, free edge, and a cylindrical mount. A first member of a plastic clip fits into the cylindrical mount of the LWE and the semi-cylindrical void cavity. The second member of the plastic clip fits into the cylindrical void cavity, thus securing the LWE to the plastic clip core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Gallop Brush LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Yamin, Sr., Anthony Robert Spearing
  • Patent number: 11510474
    Abstract: Cosmetic applicators, blenders and aids, and more particularly to a resilient blender that includes an open-cell memory foam surface component that is easily cleanable or disposable in combination with a resilient core component. Further, the core component of the system includes a spring structure for greatly accelerating the rebound of the blender surface from a compressed state to a repose memory or de-compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: John H. Shadduck
  • Patent number: 11512805
    Abstract: A cleaning pig assembly is provided for use on a tubular drag conveyor. The assembly is quickly and easily mounted anywhere along the cable, chain, or rope via slots in the assembly components. The components include a puck, a plate, a drag disc, and a cleaning member or tool sandwiched between the puck and the plate. The drag disc provides interference fit on the cable, chain, or rope holding the assembly on the cable, chain, or rope and prevents sliding of the assembly along the cable, chain, or rope during use. The cleaning assembly is installed without the use of tools or clamps. Multiple interchangeable cleaning members are provided depending on cleaning needs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Intraco, Inc.
    Inventor: Millard Manley Williams
  • Patent number: 11490724
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric pet hair brush. The electric pet hair brush. comprises a shell, a roller, a control module and a power module. The shell has an accommodation space. The control module and the power module are electrically connected and are accommodated in the accommodation space. The roller is arranged at the front end of the shelf and is connected with the power module. The roller can be driven by the power module to rotate. The roller comprises a roller main body and multiple comb assemblies. The power module drives the roller main body to rotate, and the multiple comb assemblies can alternatively and circularly extend from the roller main body or retract into an accommodation space of the roller main body with the rotation of the roller main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Shengwen Huang
  • Patent number: 11490776
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaner capable of autonomously traveling while performing a mopping task, the cleaner including: a body which defines an exterior appearance of the cleaner; at least one mop module which has at least one mop provided in contact with a floor, and which supports the body against the floor; and a tilt information acquisition unit configured to acquire tilt information of the body in relation to the floor. At least one specific part may comprise the at least one mop, may be a whole or part of the at least one mop module, and may be defined such that the at least one specific part is provided detachable from other parts of the cleaner except for the at least one specific part and that the body tilts in relation to the floor due to gravity while the at least one specific part is separated from the other parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaewon Jang, Sungho Yoon
  • Patent number: 11490720
    Abstract: A hair care device for use in untangling hair includes a body portion and a plurality of substantially parallel flexible bristles made of soft plastics material and projecting from the body portion. The bristles are arranged such that over at least a part of the area of bristles, some of the bristles are of shorter length. The bristles and the shorter length bristles are interspersed over the at least part of the area of bristles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Tangle Teezer Limited
    Inventor: Shaun Pulfrey
  • Patent number: 11484114
    Abstract: To improve the brush-making field, a tuft-picking device (4) is provided, which includes the tuft picker (8) that is movable in relation to the material box (2) of the brush-making machine (1) and, on its front side (11), which in the operating position faces the bristle supply (3) held in the material box (2), includes at least one tuft-picking notch (12). The tuft-picking notch (12) has two opposing knife edges (14, 15), which delimit the notch opening (13) of the tuft-picking notch (12) and are oriented transverse to the direction of movement of the tuft picker (8). Another part of the tuft-picking device (4) is the counter piece (9), which is provided with the separating edge (17) facing the tuft picker (8). In order to allow bristle filaments (16) to be removed from the bristle supply (4) as gently as possible, at least one of the two knife edges (14, 15) and/or the separating edge (17) is rounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ZAHORANSKY AG
    Inventors: Harald Fritz, Robert Steinebrunner, Ingo Kumpf
  • Patent number: 11484253
    Abstract: An oral care implement including a handle and an oral care refill head. The handle has a gripping portion, an engagement component coupled to a distal end of the gripping portion, and a stem. The engagement component includes a plate portion and a first engagement feature. The stem extends through an opening in the engagement component and protrudes from the plate portion. The oral care refill head includes an oral care treatment portion and a sleeve portion. The sleeve portion has an inner surface that defines a sleeve cavity having a cavity axis and a second engagement feature. When the oral care refill head is detachably coupled to the handle, the first and second engagement features mate with one another to at least one of: (1) position the oral care refill head and the handle in an operational alignment; and (2) lock the oral care refill head to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: John Gatzemeyer, Daniel Roman
  • Patent number: 11470957
    Abstract: A cell of a brush making device for making at least a part of a toothbrush, having a pin unit having at least one pin, a pin holding sub-unit and a pin guiding sub-unit, the pin having a first section having a first end and a second section having a second end, the first section having a holding structure, and at least one spring section arranged between the first section and the second section, the pin holding sub-unit having a holding structure that is engaged with the holding structure of the pin for fixedly holding the pin, the pin holding sub-unit and the pin guiding sub-unit being arranged for being movable along a first direction towards and away from each other, and the pin guiding sub-unit having a channel for guiding at least a portion of the second section of the pin, the channel being inclined against the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Andreas Birk, Holger Port
  • Patent number: 11457722
    Abstract: Provided is a skin care device including at least one brush brought into contact with skin of a user, a motor configured to rotate or vibrate at least one of the at least one brush, a battery configured to supply power to the moto, a main body provided with the at least one brush disposed on one surface thereof and having an accommodation space configured to accommodate the motor and the battery therein, and a cradle having an accommodation space configured to accommodate the at least one brush and having a charging module configured to supply power to the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hwoasu Jeong, Byungwon Cho
  • Patent number: 11454294
    Abstract: A vibration reduction assembly (200) including: (i) a shaft (240); (ii) a first component (210) positioned along the shaft and having a first face (212) comprising a plurality of magnets (230) positioned to alternate between a magnet having a first magnetic pole (232) at the first face and a magnet having the opposite magnetic pole (234) at the first face; and (iii) a second component (220) positioned along the shaft and having a first face (222) comprising a plurality of ferromagnetic extensions (260), wherein the first face of the first component is separated from the first face of the second component by a gap (280) having an adjustable first distance, and wherein a pair of the plurality of magnets interact via magnetic force with a respective one of the ferromagnetic extensions to reduce vibrations from a drivetrain to a housing portion of the personal care device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Franciscus Jozef Bosman
  • Patent number: 11452429
    Abstract: A hands-free, easy to use, manufacture and assemble upright dustpan with a hinged back door. The dustpan can pivot on the main body and the hinged back-door can be locked or unlocked via a latching mechanism and a trigger, all located on the dustpan's main body. When the latching mechanism is triggered, the hinged back door opens either under its own weight or under the weight of the debris and thus allows debris to leave the compartment and fall into the waste receptacle when the dust pan is held above the waste receptacle in pivoted orientation. The trigger can be actuated by the edge of the waste receptacle, or any rigged body. Whereas the hinged back door can be closed back by tapping on the floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Bilal Arshad Bajwa, Mohammad Safarish
  • Patent number: 11445652
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for combing and conditioning artificial turf, which comprises a handle (1), a pole (2), a head (3) which houses an electric motor (4), and a pair of brushes (5) driven by the electric motor (4), the brushes (5) being configured for combing and conditioning the artificial turf, and such that the brushes (5) have a helical shape. The device comprises a transmission that comprises a motor output shaft (9) that is associated with a transmission belt (10), which transmits the rotation to a toothed wheel (11), the wheel (11) transmits the rotation to a transmission shaft (12) which ends in a worm screw (13) that transmits the rotation to a transverse shaft (14) via a toothed wheel (15) attached to the transverse shaft (14) that houses the pair of brushes (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Comercial Carma, S.A.
    Inventor: Lisardo Carballal Camacho
  • Patent number: 11445882
    Abstract: A dust mop frame that includes an elongate body member having a first elongate face and an opposed second elongate face. The elongate body member includes a central body region and at least one projection. The at least one projection has a first region that is connected to the planar central body region, a central region extending angularly outward from the first region at an orientation parallel to the longitudinal axis and an outer terminal edge. The outer terminal edge of the projection is oriented upward relative to the second elongate face of the central body region when the dust mop frame is in the use position. The dust mop also includes at least one handle attachment member connected to the first elongate face; and at least one mop head bundle attachment mechanism connected to the second elongate face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Tuway American Group, Inc.
    Inventor: John Feeny
  • Patent number: 11432695
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile robot including a body, a rotating plate rotatably installed on the body and having a lower surface where a mop portion is attached, and an attachment guider installed on the lower surface of the rotating plate to guide an attachment position of the mop portion. The attachment guider includes a guide rim and a plurality of elastic pieces. The guide rim is disposed to surround a rotation axis of the rotating plate. The plurality of elastic pieces extend from the guide rim in a direction toward the rotation axis, have a free end protruding to a lower side or downward than the guide rim, and are spaced apart from each other along a circumference of the guide rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaewon Jang, Youngbin Kim, Yeongjae Lee
  • Patent number: 11433439
    Abstract: This application provides an intelligent robot for cleaning and mending a net cage and a method of using the intelligent robot, including: a control system, a main body, an attraction module, a motion module, a cleaning module and a mending module. The main body includes a streamlined pressure casing, and a drive mechanism and a water ballast tank which are located in the pressure casing. The attraction module includes electromagnets which are symmetrically provided at a bottom of the pressure casing. The motion module includes first and second motion mechanisms which are symmetrically provided at opposite sides of the pressure casing. A traveling path of the first motion mechanisms is perpendicular to a traveling path of the second motion mechanisms. The intelligent robot achieves cleaning and mending for both sides of the net cage, and is simple to operate, safe, high-efficient, economical and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: Zhejiang Ocean University, Qingdao University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Lin Chen, Pan Zhang, Junmei Liu, Huaming Wang, Guorong Wu