Patents Examined by Robert J Grun
  • Flow diverter valve for an extrusion system
    Patent number: 10252457
    Abstract: A flow diverter for an extrusion die is disclosed. The flow diverter includes a body having an outer surface, an elongate opening that extends along a first axis, a set of input passages that extend from said outer surface through said body to said elongate opening, and a set of output passages that extend through said body from said elongate opening to said outer surface. The flow diverter also includes an adjustable valve positioned in said elongate opening. The adjustable valve also has a monolithic spool including a first recess and a second recess opposite to said first recess. The spool is rotatable with respect to said outer body between a first position in a first flow configuration, and a second position in a second, different flow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Michael K. Truscott, Stefan Wöstmann
  • Method for molding two-piece blow molded hollow tank by using auxiliary male molds
    Patent number: 10245773
    Abstract: A method for molding a two-piece blow molded hollow tank by using auxiliary male molds includes the following steps: 1) blanking two parisons; 2) closing mold halves of a mold and a pre-molding template; 3) pre-stretching the molten parisons by using auxiliary male molds in the pre-molding template; 4) performing internal high-pressure blow molding, and pre-molding two housing portions; 5) opening the mold, and withdrawing the pre-molding template; 6) moving in a component built-in mechanism to perform built-in component connection; 7) moving out the component built-in mechanism; 8) closing the mold for the second time and finally blow molding a hollow tank; and 9) opening the mold and taking out the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: YAPP AUTOMOTIVE PARTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Sun, Lin Jiang, Songjun Xu, Liang Liu, Dejun Gao, Ye Wang, Lushun Wu, Jie Li, Weidong Su, Changru Wang, Xiaojun Li, Quanzhou Yang
  • Imprint apparatus, imprint method, and article manufacturing method
    Patent number: 10241424
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus includes: a stage configured to hold the substrate; a detector configured to detect a relative position between a shot region and the mold in a direction parallel to a surface of the substrate; and a controller configured to obtain, in an imprint process on a shot region different from a target shot region, information relating to a relative position, between the other shot region and the mold, used for aligning the other shot region after bringing the mold and the imprint material into contact with each other, and, when performing the imprint process on the target shot region, adjust a relative position between the target shot region and the mold in the direction by using a detection result on the target shot region and the obtained information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tosiya Asano, Keiji Emoto
  • Extrusion device and method of use
    Patent number: 10220561
    Abstract: The invention provides an extrusion device having an adjustment valve that is rotatable between first and second operative positions. The extrusion device is configured to produce a first layer arrangement when the adjustment valve is in the first operative position and to produce a second layer arrangement when the adjustment valve is in the second operative position. Also provided are methods of using an extrusion device to produce different layer arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Michael K. Truscott, Stefan Wöstmann
  • Edge breathers for composite products
    Patent number: 10220605
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing composite products. One exemplary embodiment is an edge breather for composite manufacturing. The edge breather is formed of a rigid material and includes an elongated body having a top open structure with a cross section that defines an arch. The edge breather also includes hollow passageways within the elongated body that are underneath the top structure and travel along a length of the elongated body. The top open structure defines multiple openings forming an open mesh through which air may enter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Jeffrey Stephenson, John R. Aubin, Jake Adam Reeves, William Stahl Hollensteiner
  • Injection device and resin injection method
    Patent number: 10213947
    Abstract: As an injection screw 2 applies pressure, a holding pressure plunger 22 is moved backward under the pressure of a resin to flow the resin into a holding pressure path 9, and the resin in a resin path 6 is pressurized (primary holding pressure process). A shutoff plunger 12 is closed, and the resin in the resin path 6 and the holding pressure path 9 is pressurized by the holding pressure plunger 22 (secondary holding pressure process). Further, the shutoff plunger 12 is opened, and the holding pressure plunger 22 is moved forward until its tip projects into the resin path 6 to discharge all the resin in the holding pressure path 9 to the resin path 6, whereby the resin beside the injection screw 2 as compared with the shutoff plunger 12 is held with respect to the holding pressure path 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horigome, Yasuhiro Hidaka
  • Extrusion apparatus
    Patent number: 10201925
    Abstract: An extrusion apparatus is provided with a cylindrical die, a core that is placed inside the die, that is able to move relatively to the die in an axial direction of the die, and that forms a flow path for molten resin between the core and the die, a recessed portion that is provided partway along the flow path and that is recessed in the axial direction, and a separator that is inserted into the recessed portion in the axial direction, an insertion position of the separator in the axial direction changing in conjunction with the movement of the core relative to the die, and that cuts the molten resin by means of a portion thereof that extends from the recessed portion into the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takuya Shimokawa
  • Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing
    Patent number: 10195693
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) objects, 3D printing processes, as well as methods, apparatuses and systems for the production of a 3D object. Methods, apparatuses and systems of the present disclosure may reduce or eliminate the need for auxiliary supports. The present disclosure provides three dimensional (3D) objects printed utilizing the printing processes, methods, apparatuses and systems described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: VEL03D, INC.
    Inventors: Benyamin Buller, Erel Milshtein, Sherman Seelinger
  • Method for forming micropattern of polyimide using imprinting
    Patent number: 10189203
    Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a pattern of polyimide that is simpler and is more excellent in the pattern shape and in the dimensional accuracy in comparison with the conventional techniques of patterning polyimide, such as photolithography and laser processing. In a method for forming a micropattern of polyimide, which includes using as polyimide a solvent-soluble polyimide resin composition that is photosensitive and is moldable at a temperature of less than or equal to a glass-transition temperature; patterning the composition using thermal imprinting; and thermally curing the composition, ultraviolet irradiation is performed after the composition is released from a mold after a molding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Sung Won Youn, Sang Cheon Park, Hiroshi Hiroshima, Hideki Takagi, Kenta Suzuki
  • Method for producing a structural component, particularly for a vehicle body
    Patent number: 10189190
    Abstract: A method for producing a structural component for a vehicle body, the method includes forming a flat carrier material made of a metal, a thermoplastic material and/or a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material to give a three-dimensional component, and providing a supporting material made of a thermoplastic material, such that the carrier material and the supporting material form an integral material composite. The material composite made up of the carrier material and the supporting material is produced before the carrier material is formed. The material composite is heated before the forming in order to make forming of the thermoplastic material possible. A rib structure is impressed into the supporting material during the forming of the material composite, and the temperature of the three-dimensional component having the rib structure is controlled, it preferably being cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Torsten Krahnert, Lothar Patberg, Stefan Mayer
  • Method and system of making a customized dental blank
    Patent number: 10182892
    Abstract: A method of making a customized dental blank comprises the steps of providing individual tooth color information, forming an open-celled dental blank precursor, providing the open-celled dental blank precursor with color in accordance with the individual tooth color information, and compressing the dental blank precursor. The method helps maximizing the optical quality of dental restoration at minimized costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Malte Korten, Helmar Mayr, Michael Jahns
  • Detection apparatus, detection method, and lithography apparatus
    Patent number: 10185876
    Abstract: A detection apparatus includes an image pickup unit and a processor which detects a position of a mark using a two-dimensional image of the mark. The processor generates a one-dimensional signal having a plurality of peaks by accumulating images included in a detection region, detects peaks in which differences between values of the peaks and a reference value are equal to or larger than a threshold value and peaks in which differences between values of the peaks and the reference value are smaller than the threshold value from among the plurality of generated peaks and obtains a failure region in the mark, resets the detection region such that the differences between the values of the detected peaks and the reference value become smaller than the threshold value, generates a one-dimensional signal by accumulating images included in the reset detection region, and detects a position of the mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tadaki Miyazaki
  • Method for injection molding of plastic materials
    Patent number: 10183431
    Abstract: A system and method for the injection moulding of plastic material through a plurality of injectors each having a pin valve displaceable in a controlled fashion between a closing position and an opening position by a respective actuator of an electronic control type, in which there is provided prompt activation of a preset function of changing a color of the plastic material to be injected, actuated according to an optimized sequence which minimizes a number of moulding operations required to change the color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: INGLASS S.p.A.
    Inventor: Maurizio Bazzo
  • Method for manufacturing dental prosthesis
    Patent number: 10182894
    Abstract: An object is to provide a method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis consisting of a plurality of layers with high productivity. The method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis comprises: filling a cavity (21a) formed in a mold which has a shape of the dental prosthesis with a layered material body (23) that is made by layering materials (23a, 23b) corresponding to the plurality of layers; and after this filling, rotating the mold on a material inlet (21b) of the mold and cutting the materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: GC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujimoto, Masatoshi Yoshinaga, Go Mashio, Daisuke Ohta
  • Method and device for producing three-dimensional models
    Patent number: 10179365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing three-dimensional objects based on computer-provided data, whereby a material is deposited in layers in a process chamber and the material is selectively solidified and/or bonded using a bonding apparatus and/or a solidifying apparatus in the process chamber, these steps being repeated. A conveyance of the material proceeds during the build process and proceeds continuously, sequentially and evenly up to an unpacking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: VOXELJET AG
    Inventors: Ingo Ederer, Daniel Günther, Andreas Dominik Hartmann
  • Printing process
    Patent number: 10174205
    Abstract: A process including providing a curable gellant ink composition having a phase transition temperature; heating the ink composition to a temperature above the phase transition temperature; depositing the ink composition onto a substrate; wherein upon contact with the substrate the ink composition freezes to provide a gel ink layer; treating at least a portion of the gel ink layer whereby treated gellant ink reacts to form a three-dimensional object and wherein untreated gellant ink does not react and remains in gellant form; optionally, wherein the unreacted gellant ink provides a support structure for overhang portions of the three-dimensional object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Barkev Keoshkerian, Carolyn Moorlag, Edward G. Zwartz, Naveen Chopra, Marcel P. Breton, Sarah J. Vella
  • Disposable core die and method of fabricating a ceramic body
    Patent number: 10173932
    Abstract: A disposable core die includes a first portion defining an inlet configured to receive a slurry therethrough, a second portion integrally formed downstream from the first portion and configured to receive the slurry from the first portion, and a third portion integrally formed downstream from the second portion. The second portion includes a plurality of hollow tubes that are substantially coaxially aligned and have a wall thickness within a range defined between about 0.1 mm and about 0.5 mm, and the third portion defines an outlet configured to discharge excess slurry from the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Russell Ryder Dennison, Robert Peter Hanet, Jerod Curtis Kruse, Xi Yang
  • Method of forming composite handle
    Patent number: 10166711
    Abstract: A method of forming an elongated composite element includes providing an elongated tubular member and establishing a plurality of holes through an outer wall of the elongated tubular member. A polymeric resin is provided that comprises a curable material that, when uncured, comprises a fluid material and that, when cured, comprises a substantially rigid material. The uncured polymeric resin is extruded along the elongated tubular member, whereby the polymeric resin flows at least partially through the holes and is disposed within the inner cavity and at an outer surface of the outer wall of the elongated tubular member. The polymeric resin is cured to form the composite element whereby the cured polymeric resin limits flexing of the at least one elongated tubular member and the elongated composite element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventor: Van M. Kassouni
  • Photo-sodification modeling apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10166717
    Abstract: A photo-sodification modeling apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises: a container, a holding plate, a lifting mechanism, a light source module, and a control unit. The container provides an accommodation space for accommodating a light-curable material, and includes: a base plate and a wall structure. The base plate is transparent or translucent. The wall structure is disposed around the base plate. The lifting mechanism is used for moving the holding plate. The light source module is disposed under the container. During formation of a solidified layer of a three-dimensional object, the base plate provides an electric or magnetic field so that the light-curable material in the container will not solidify on a surface of the base plate, thus resulting in the solidified layer having a reduced viscosity when the solidified layer is closer to the surface of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jeng-Ywan Jeng, Yih-Lin Cheng, Freeman Chen, Han-Hsuan Lee
  • Methods to fabricate needled preforms with randomly oriented short length carbon fibers
    Patent number: 10160170
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a short length carbon fiber preform with a through thickness reinforcement is disclosed herein. The starting media for fabricating a net shape (e.g., annular disc) may meet specific requirements including a sufficient fiber volume and a binding mechanism compatible with the needle-punching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Le Costaouec