Patents Examined by Robert H. Muromoto
  • Patent number: 12376640
    Abstract: A head-worn air pump is provided which directs a stream of air to the goggles between the user and the transparent/translucent surface. The air pump can be attached to the rear portion of the goggle strap, or to an auxiliary or supplemental strap, so as to be behind the user and out of the line of sight of the user. One or more flexible tubes or hoses can be attached to a manifold or plenum receiving air under pressure from the pump, and lead from the rear of the head to one or both sides of the goggles. A rechargeable battery can power the air pump, and the pump can be switched on and off by a button on the pump housing, even by a user wearing gloves or hand coverings. The battery can be recharged by a conventional USB connection. The air can be supplied either at ambient temperature or refrigerated and/or heated, as desired in particular applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Inventor: Aaron J. Bennett
  • Patent number: 12371826
    Abstract: To provide towel cloth which has favorable pile uprightness, erectility of pile, and bulkiness, and has both a fluffy hand and a dry touch, and moreover which hardly drops fluff, and a manufacturing method of such towel cloth. Towel cloth constituted by locking a pile yarn to a ground yarn, wherein the pile yarn has two or more single yarns which are initially twisted in a same direction and which are subsequently twisted in an opposite direction to the initial twist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IZAWA TOWEL CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Shoji Izawa
  • Patent number: 12351950
    Abstract: This heddle includes a link and at least one rod made of polymeric material, one longitudinal extremity of which includes surfaces covering the transverse faces of the link. The rod and the link form at least one cavity, offset from the link parallel to a longitudinal axis and delimited by a first peripheral surface of the link, a second lateral surface, formed by the outer surface of the rod, and a third bottom surface, formed by the rod and extending one of the covering surfaces. An intersection line extends from the third bottom surface and delimits the first surface. The third bottom surface is arranged toward the outside of the rod relative to the second lateral surface. Each cavity is non-facing, according to a thickness axis in a direction away from the third bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: STAUBLILYON
    Inventors: Pierre-Alexis Griviau, Patrice Przytarski
  • Patent number: 12351951
    Abstract: A webbing for use in a fall protection device, such as a self-retracting lifeline having leading edge capabilities, is provided having a double cloth construction with the exterior of the webbing constructed of woven, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene yarns and having stuffer yarns positioned in the interior of the fabric, wherein the stuffer yarns are made of high-tenacity fibers, such as aramid fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: OTEX Specialty Narrow Fabrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark M. Morgis, Kevin W. Raup
  • Patent number: 12345506
    Abstract: A quick-unfasten protective vest (1) including a quick-release system (2), a front body portion (3) and a rear body portion (4). The protective vest is characterised in that the front body portion (3) and the rear body portion (4) are detachably connected to each other by a quick-release system (2) including snap buckles (5) connected by ties (6) to a central release mechanism (7). A single tie (6) is guided from each snap buckle (5) to the central release mechanism (7) so that all ties (6) coincide in the central release mechanism (7). The central release mechanism (7) is adapted to release the snap buckles (5) substantially simultaneously and to separate the front body portion (3) from the rear body portion (4) of the vest (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Inventors: Krzysztof Pȩdzisz, Tomasz Teodorczuk
  • Patent number: 12336575
    Abstract: A outer garment with releasable flap, including a garment body wherein an outer portion of the garment body extends from the centerline to a terminal side edge to form a gap in the outer portion; a flap positioned so as to overlay the gap, wherein at least a portion of the flap proximate a terminal bottom edge of the flap and proximate a terminal side edge of the flap is releasably attached or coupled to at least a portion of the outer portion of the garment body, via one or more releasable fasteners; and a faux pocket opening formed between at least a portion of the flap and at least a portion of the outer portion of the garment body, wherein the one or more releasable fasteners are between the faux pocket opening and the terminal bottom edge of the outer portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventor: Shui Lau
  • Patent number: 12338554
    Abstract: A weaving loom of the present disclosure includes a base and a heddle. The base has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a heddle base and first fins extending from the heddle base. The heddle is detachably coupled with the heddle base and has an axis and a central part. The heddle further includes a plurality of shedding sections formed on the central part and around the axis. The shedding sections are arranged along the axis for the central part to have a plurality of longitudinal rows having different topographies across different longitudinal portions of the central part. The heddle is configured to move between a plurality of positions with one of the longitudinal rows facing vertically upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventor: Lauren Puchowski
  • Patent number: 12338557
    Abstract: A woven mesh structure includes a plurality of first threads extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of second threads extending in a transverse direction. The first and the second threads are interwoven to form the woven mesh structure, which can be cut to size, so that each piece of the cut-to-size woven mesh structure has clipped edges formed around it. Each of the clipped edges is non-parallel with the first and the second threads, so that an inclined angle is formed on each of the first and the second threads at their intersections with the clipped edge. This arrangement may prevent the first and the second threads located adjacent to the clipped edge from loosening and separating from the woven mesh structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS (CHINA) CO. , LTD.
    Inventors: Xiwen Xiong, Jiafu Dai
  • Patent number: 12325937
    Abstract: A round sling for raising loads, consisting of a load-carrying inner nonwoven fabric, which inner nonwoven fabric is formed from a continuous roll of a plurality of supporting threads running substantially parallel to one another and a protective sleeve in the form of a textile protective tube surrounding the inner nonwoven fabric with a radial degree of freedom, the protective tube being a textile fabric woven from warp and weft threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Span Set Gesellschaft Für Transportsysteme Und Technische Bänder Mit Beschränkter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft
    Inventor: Volker Hombach
  • Patent number: 12327072
    Abstract: A helmet selection/customization process, which includes obtaining a 3D scan of a user's head; identifying a retail helmet variant that would fit the user's head; providing the user with an option to select the identified retail helmet variant or design a custom liner for a base helmet; and in case the user selects to design a custom helmet, causing generation of a 3D model of a custom liner based on the 3D scan and a 3D model of the base helmet. The method includes determining, based on the 3D scan, parameters associated with the user's head; and accessing a database storing parameters associated with a plurality of retail helmet variants, wherein the identifying is carried out based on processing of the parameters associated with the user's head and the parameters stored in the database, so as to identify one of the variants in the plurality of retail helmet variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: BAUER HOCKEY LLC
    Inventors: Charles-Antoine Desrochers, Jacques Durocher, Thierry Krick, Thomas Lemelin, Jean-Francois Laperriere, Guillaume Beaulieu, Adam Carlin, Mathieu Desjardins
  • Patent number: 12312716
    Abstract: Binding warps have first and second binding warps arranged vertically in a pair and a third binding warp forming knuckles passing above upper surface side wefts. Upper surface side warps include an upper surface side collapsing yarn forming a pair with the third binding warp. The upper surface side collapsing yarn passes below the wefts and collapses a part of the upper surface side obverse surface texture at a position where the third binding warp forms knuckles on the wefts. The pair formed by the first and second binding warps complement each other while the pair formed by the third binding warp and the upper surface side collapsing yarn complement each other. Thereby, the pair formed by the first and second binding warps and the pair formed by the third binding warp and the upper surface side collapsing yarn form the same weaving pattern for the wefts in a weave repeat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Fujisawa, Yusuke Nomura
  • Patent number: 12286730
    Abstract: An intermediate receiving mechanism includes a base member capable of supporting both shaft end portions, a lever member for clamping both shaft end portions, and two beam support sets arranged side by side, corresponding to respective warp beams. Each beam support sets is constituted by two or more supporting rollers on the base member side and a contact part including one or more contact rollers on the lever member side. The lever member includes a swing member swings about a swing shaft and supports both the contact parts. Support positions on the swing member for both the contact parts are positions where a line segment connecting the support position for one contact part and a shaft center of the swing shaft forms an angle with respect to a line segment connecting the support position for the other contact part and the shaft center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TSUDAKOMA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daigo Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12287179
    Abstract: A spike resistant package containing a pouch, a first grouping of spike resistant textile layers, and a slip layer. The first grouping of spike resistant textile layers contains a plurality of spike resistant textile layers, where each spike resistant textile layer contains a plurality of interwoven yarns or fibers having a tenacity of about 14 or more grams per denier. The slip layer is a woven or knit fabric containing a main portion and a first pile portion on the upper surface of the main portion. The slip layer contains a plurality of yarns knitted or woven together and a plurality of holes between the yarns. The holes of the slip layer have an average max hole size of less than about 2 mm. The yarns and fibers in the pile portion are in loops or strands extending outward from the main portion of the slip layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Yunzhang Wang, Heather J. Hayes
  • Patent number: 12281417
    Abstract: A woven sleeve for routing and protecting an elongate member includes a wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise in generally parallel relation with a longitudinal central axis between opposite ends. The wall includes warp yarns extending lengthwise between the opposite ends and weft yarns extending circumferentially about the longitudinal central axis. At least some of the weft yarns are provided as bi-component yarns having a central core of heat-set material that biases the opposite edges into overlapping relation with one another, with an outer sheath encircling the central core. The central core and the outer sheath are different colors from one another, such that upon a portion of the outer sheath being split or worn, the central core becomes discernably visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC
    Inventors: Nizar Bechir, Amal Hmila
  • Patent number: 12274319
    Abstract: An IoT-based smart thermal wear includes thermal material that retains heat allowing wearers to work more efficiently and lower any risk of accidents, the IoT-based smart thermal wear being linked to a smart device and comprising an outer member, inner member, heat-insulating filler, heating-producing material, power unit, and a control unit so as to facilitate effective temperature control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: JANG EUN FNC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Jeong Jang
  • Patent number: 12276068
    Abstract: A forming fabric tape for a machine for producing or processing a fiber material web, the forming fabric tape including an upper fabric layer including upper longitudinal threads and upper transversal threads woven into the upper longitudinal threads; and a lower fabric layer including lower longitudinal threads and lower transversal threads woven into the lower longitudinal threads, wherein the upper fabric layer and the lower fabric layer are arranged on top of one another so that the upper fabric layer is oriented towards the fiber material web and the lower fabric layer is oriented away from the fiber material web, wherein the upper longitudinal threads are offset from each other unevenly, wherein the upper longitudinal threads are arranged so that average distances of the upper longitudinal threads have the following sequence which is repeated continuously in the transversal direction of the fabric tape: large distance, large distance, small distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Johann Boeck
  • Patent number: 12276049
    Abstract: A safety belt webbing for a vehicle includes a woven fabric from mutually intersecting warp and weft threads. The woven fabric is at least partially configured in the weave repeat with at least 6, preferably at least 8 ends. The weave repeat per warp thread includes at least four, preferably six, intersection points with the weft threads. The intersection points are weave points resulting between the warp and the weft threads when the warp thread within the weave repeat alternates from a warp elevation to a warp depression, or vice versa. Within the weave repeat the largest warp float per warp thread is across two weft threads, and the maximum warp depression is below two weft threads. Within the weave repeat, per warp thread there is at least one warp elevation additionally to the warp float across a weft thread, and at least one warp depression below a weft thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Berger GmbH & Co. Holding KG
    Inventor: Roland Brielmann
  • Patent number: 12271959
    Abstract: Garments are produced from patterns with a size grid that provides custom-like fit for ready-to-wear garments. The patterns are generated from a size chart of groups, sub groups and sub sub groups of anchor measures and priority measures. The size grid for various garments (men, women, children) includes a large number of sizes, anywhere from a few dozen to over two hundred. Given measures of a customer, these measures are screened against the groups, sub groups and sub sub groups to determine a correct size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Stantt, Inc.
    Inventor: Matt Hornbuckle
  • Patent number: 12262776
    Abstract: A multiple component system is provided for mounting on a safety helmet and includes a first component housing carrying a first component, and a second component housing carrying a second component. Each housing has a first mount connector and a second mount connector located on opposing faces of the housing. The first mount connectors are configured to be compatible with the second mount connectors to provide quick release mount connections between the housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Kingston T. Wong
  • Patent number: 12256798
    Abstract: A flip-up helmet with a breathing nose mask includes a body, the front end of which is a hollow portion, and the body having a first side and a second side, the first side being combined with a first cheek lining, the second side being combined with a second cheek lining, the second cheek lining being provided with a first magnetic element, and the front end of the body being installed with a liftable face shield covered over the entire hollow portion; and a breathing nose mask, the first end of which is fixed to the first side of the body, the second end of the breathing nose mask being provided with a second magnetic element for attracting with the first magnetic element, so the second end of the breathing nose mask is movably combined with the second side of the body or away from it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: AN YNG ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhong Qi Yang