Patents Examined by Robert H. Muromoto, Jr.
  • 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: 12258688
    Abstract: Electronic-ink-based colorful patterned color-changing fabrics and preparation methods thereof are provided. The fabric includes a conductive fabric microstrip formed by weaving using conductive yarn and insulating yarn. The conductive yarn forms a conductive region, and the insulating yarn form an insulating region. An electronic ink microencapsule layer is arranged on the conductive region. A flexible transparent conductive layer is arranged on the electronic ink microencapsule layer. A transparent polymer layer is arranged on the flexible transparent conductive layer. A surface layer of the microstrip is a conductive layer, and a bottom layer of the microstrip is an insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chaoyi Yin, Ruifang Liu, Long Ba
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12252091
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes using additional yarn having a boiling-water shrinkage rate less than that of the base yarn, thereby suppressing shrinkage at the sides in the width direction of the fabric and thus reducing the difference in the crimp ratio between the center in the width direction of the fabric and the sides in the width direction. This enables the production of a fabric for airbags with high uniformity in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12245646
    Abstract: First-aid systems comprising an ultra compact first-aid pouch configured to fit behind the ballistic plates of a protective vest are disclosed. In this configuration, the first-aid kit is protected from shrapnel and tearing, is easily locatable and removable and does not effect the user's freedom of movement. When the first-aid pouch is removed from its protected location, it presents the first-aid equipment in a logical and easily viewable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Phokus Research Group, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Hanna, Jonathan M. Gumbert, Daniel C. Stein, Noel Edward Sons
  • Patent number: 12234581
    Abstract: A fabric weaving method and apparatus is disclosed. The method includes forming a fabric where the warp ends of the fabric are made of multifilament polyester yarns and the weft picks are made of cotton or regenerated cellulose fiber or linen fiber or a combination thereof. The woven textile fabric has 50-160 EPI of multifilament polyester yarns of denier within a range of 75 D-200 D with 7-250 filaments in each polyester yarn, and one or more yarns per dent is setup in the reed apparatus of the warp of the loom apparatus. Further, the woven textile fabric includes of 50-91 picks per inch of cotton or regenerated cellulose fibre or linen fiber or a combination thereof and of 20-50 count (NE). Furthermore, the total cover factor of the woven textile fabric is 10-38, and the warp cover factor is 8-19 and the weft cover factor is 10-19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Vishal Pacheriwala
  • Patent number: 12232579
    Abstract: A garment that is configured to protect against theft or otherwise unauthorized access of pocket items. The garment contains a pocket zipper connecting assembly system that is accessible from one or more garment surfaces, having pockets that feature zippers, each with an engagement device. The engagement device connects the zipper to another aspect of the garment, including a securing structure, or to the engagement device on another zipper. The latter case may comprise two pockets featuring zipper closures with the zippers in closed position when zipped towards each other, and each zipper engagement device featuring a complementing interface that connects the zippers together. The mutually conjoined zippers are secure against unintended opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Alan Shih, Mahsa Zadeh
  • Patent number: 12227884
    Abstract: Disclosed is a breathable fabric. In the disclosed breathable fabric, a first one side warp and a second one side warp are arranged above a first one side weft, a second one side weft, and a third one side weft and arranged below a first other side weft, a second other side weft, and a third other side weft, and a third one side warp is arranged below the third one side weft, the first other side weft, and the second other side weft and is arranged above the first one side weft, the second one side weft, and the third other side weft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: A-SUNG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki Hun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12220008
    Abstract: A wearable protection device including at least one inflatable member for moving between a rest configuration in a deflated status and an active configuration in an inflated status. The at least one inflatable member including at least one elongated portion which departs from a connecting body and the at least one elongated portion being in fluid communication with the connecting body. At least one part of the at least one elongated portion is enwrapped by at least one constraint which is designed to limit the expansion of said at least one elongated portion when the inflatable member moves in the active configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ALPINESTARS RESEARCH S.P.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Mazzarolo, Lorenzo Nardo, Filippo Galassini
  • Patent number: 12221726
    Abstract: A fibrous structure intended to form the fibrous reinforcement of a part made of composite material includes a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix, the fibrous structure having a three-dimensional or multilayer weave between a plurality of layers of warp yarns and a plurality of layers of weft yarns. The fibrous structure includes at least a first portion having a first type of weave and a second portion, continuing on from the first portion, having a second type of weave, the warp yarns and the weft yarns having a degree of interweaving in the first type of weave that is greater than the degree of interweaving of the warp yarns and the weft yarns in the second type of weave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Dominique Marie Christian Coupe, Célline Kribs, Adrienne Retiveau-Leca
  • Patent number: 12221055
    Abstract: A one-piece woven pressure-responsive air outlet, for use as a vent, for application to airbag discharge openings, includes a lower fabric layer, a middle fabric layer and an upper fabric layer. The lower fabric layer includes warp and weft threads and an inflow region in which the warp and weft threads float. The middle fabric layer includes warp and weft threads and a flow-through region in which the warp and weft threads float. The lower and middle fabric layers include a first chamber and a second chamber downstream of the first chamber in a flow direction. At least one of the chambers is sealed with a thread breakage zone, in which between the fabric layers, selected (warp) threads of one fabric layer are merely tacked to selected (weft) threads of the other fabric layer and are capable of breaking or rupturing at a predefined internal pressure in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GLOBAL SAFETY TEXTILES GMBH
    Inventor: Daniel Albiez
  • Patent number: 12215444
    Abstract: A safety airbag mesh, which includes a fiber layer. The fiber layer includes a warp fiber unit that extends warpwise and a weft fiber unit that extends weftwise, characterized in that the warp fiber unit includes a plurality of first fibers and second fibers arranged weftwise. The first fibers warpwise cover a buffer area and a support area, and the first fibers in the buffer area take on nonlinear formation, and extend longer than the second fibers in the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: JIAXING NIUDA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huicheng Yan, Ronghua Wu
  • Patent number: 12209334
    Abstract: A loom includes a pair of side frames configured to support a beating device and each having a beam support configured to support a warp beam; and a drive mechanism configured to rotationally drive the warp beam including a beam gear, where each of the side frames is configured by a main body frame configured to support the beating device and a let-off frame fixed to the main body frame and configured to support the beam support. The drive mechanism is attached to the main body frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TSUDAKOMA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichi Myogi, Daigo Yamagishi, Koichi Tamura, Kazuya Yama
  • Patent number: 12203196
    Abstract: A non-coated air bag fabric according to the present invention includes a plurality of weft yarns and a plurality of warp yarns, in which the weft yarns and the warp yarns are constituted by multifilament yarns in which polyethylene terephthalate fibers are used, the number of filaments in each of the multifilament yarns ranges from 122 to 242, and a coefficient of kinetic friction of a surface of the fabric ranges from 1.15 to 1.25 or less, the coefficient of kinetic friction being calculated when a friction block in which polyvinyl chloride is used is brought into contact with the fabric placed on a stage that is rotating at a rotation speed of 663 rpm, at a load of 5 N, using a torque type friction and wear tester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SEIREN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Kodera, Tsuyoshi Houraiya
  • Patent number: 12201168
    Abstract: A garment having an integrated breast pad holding apparatus used when lactating is disclosed. The garment includes a first fabric set sewn to a second fabric set to form a breast pad holder for a breast pad for each breast. The breast pad holder, one for each breast, is sewn to a fourth fabric having an elastic band. A wearable garment is attached to the fourth fabric at two or more sewn regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Jennifer Tam Wong
  • Patent number: 12185772
    Abstract: A shoulder pad assembly has main body cushions consisting of a plurality of different types of foam material joined together to result in a hybrid pad structure constructed from slow-response foam and open-cell foam. A main body cushion is constructed from a first sheet or panel of slow-response foam disposed over the torso of the wearer, a second sheet or panel of slow-response foam disposed over the back of the wearer, joined together by a third sheet or panel of open-cell foam positioned between the first sheet and second sheet, disposed over the wearer's shoulder. Optionally, a fourth sheet or pad of slow-response foam is disposed on the third sheet, disposed over the wearer's shoulder, preferably at the location that is most likely to suffer blows during football play. Optionally, a fifth sheet or pad of open-cell foam is disposed on the first sheet, on the side of the first sheet in contact with the wearer and a sixth sheet or pad of open-cell foam is disposed on the second sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SCHUTT SPORTS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Fred Williams, Scott Williams
  • Patent number: 12185771
    Abstract: Pants having a large portion around a waist, but having slimmed-down portions of a crotch and around legs. The pants include a right front-body component, a left front-body component, a right back-body component, and a left back-body component. When, in the right front-body component and in the left front-body component, a line which is in parallel with a waist line of the right front-body component and that of the left front-body component, and which passes through a position where a rise portion has a minimum width is defined as a minimum width line, a position of the minimum width line in the vertical direction is formed within a range that is equal to or greater than 3 cm but equal to or smaller than 27 cm from the waist line, and a width of the waist line is formed so as to be larger than the minimum width within a range that is equal to or greater than 1 cm but equal to or smaller than 7 cm therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Kouya Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12188178
    Abstract: A woven fabric for a fiber web producing machine has a defined machine direction, a cross machine direction, a web facing side, and a machine side. The web facing side is formed by MD yarns that extend substantially in the machine direction and by CD yarns extending substantially in the cross machine direction of the woven fabric. The MD yarns and CD yarns are interwoven with each other and the woven fabric is configured to structure the fiber web produced on the woven fabric. A plurality of adjacent long flotations of MD yarns on the web facing side form together a discrete element that is raised on the web facing side for allowing the woven fabric to structure the fiber web. The term “long flotation” means that the MD yarn passes over at least six adjacent CD yarns on the web facing side of the woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Scott D. Quigley
  • Patent number: 12180653
    Abstract: Provided are woven papermaking fabrics having a web contacting surface having protuberances formed from woven warp and shute filaments. The protuberances, which may be oriented in the machine direction (MD) converge, merge, or diverge and may be arranged to form a pattern. In certain instances, the protuberance may comprise a first MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about 0.5 to about 15 degrees, a second MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about ?0.5 to about ?15 degrees wherein the first and second protuberances converge at a convergence area to form a third MD oriented protuberance having an element angle from about ?15 to about 15 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin
  • Patent number: 12180622
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multiple woven fabric including a ground weave and a pattern weave, in which the ground weave and the pattern weave are arranged to be neighboring, the ground weave includes a plain weave woven so that a warp and a weft participate in weaving, and the pattern weave is a multi-layer weave including a first weave forming a first layer and a second weave separated from the first layer to form a second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Soo Bok Song