Patents Examined by Sang Kim
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Patent number: 9315352Abstract: A rolled material dispenser includes a brake mechanism designed to govern the rolling of a roll of packing material during dispensing of the packing material to reduce unintended tearing of the packing material and improve the user experience of handling such material dispensing. In one example, the brake mechanism includes a first portion configured to engage the roll during normal unloading of material from the roll and a second portion configured to engage the roll to impede rotation of the roll when unloading of material is uneven. An idler roller engages the material being dispensed, which idler roller may be resiliently supported to absorb forces on the material.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Encore Packaging LLCInventor: Timothy H. Nelson
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Patent number: 9309081Abstract: A device for controlling web tension is disclosed. The device includes a carriage in which a first guide roller is spaced from a second guide roller by a frame. The carriage or frame pivots about a pivot location. A moving web is threaded through the carriage in a serpentine path. Rotation of the carriage or frame causes web displacement. When tension disturbances occur in the moving web, the device rotates for accumulating or releasing the web material and thereby dampening tension variations downstream. The pivot dancer device can be placed in a communication with a controller for open loop control or closed loop feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Douglas N. Duehring, Mark G. Dollevoet, Jason M. Rudolph
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Patent number: 9309088Abstract: A cable management device is disclosed. The cable management device includes a first component and a second component, each component having a spooling portion to receive a cable, a flange extending from the spooling portion to maintain the cable on the spooling portion, and a coupling feature operable to facilitate coupling of the first component and the second component. The first component and the second component are configured to interface with one another such that the respective spooling portions mate to form a spool for the cable.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Cooper Technologies CompanyInventor: Martin Witherbee
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Patent number: 9309078Abstract: A roll of a sheet material such as a sheet vinyl floor covering and a process of manufacturing the roll to prevent the leading edge of the floor covering from causing damage to succeeding layers. The process comprises winding the sheet material about the surface of a roll core and inserting a thin sheet of a relatively stiff material, such as paperboard, between the leading edge of the sheet material and the next succeeding layer of sheet material. The relatively stiff material is inserted under tension so that the leading edge of sheet material is pulled down against the surface of the roll core.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: TARKETT INC.Inventors: Alain Rochon, Rene Labonte, Gaetan Leduc
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Patent number: 9302646Abstract: A retractor including a rotatable shaft including a coupling feature, a lock base having a recess, a spool configured to rotate about an axis of rotation to wind and unwind the seat belt, a longitudinal member, and a drive member. The spool includes a central bore that extends along the axis of rotation and is configured to receive a first portion of the shaft therein. The longitudinal member includes a longitudinal bore and a transverse bore that intersects with the longitudinal bore, the longitudinal bore being configured to receive a second portion of the shaft therein. The drive member includes a first portion passing through the transverse bore and a second portion disposed in the recess, the first portion including an engaging feature, where a load is transmitted between the shaft and drive member when the engaging feature is coupled to the coupling feature.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: TK Holdings Inc.Inventor: Christopher D. Hall
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Patent number: 9302891Abstract: A gantry crane (10) is configured in a panel turner application. The gantry crane (10) generally includes a gantry crane structure (14) having a first cross-beam (28) and a second cross-beam (30). A first main hoist mechanism (40) and a first auxiliary hoist mechanism (42) are coupled to the first cross-beam (28), and a second main hoist mechanism (44) and a second auxiliary hoist mechanism (46) are coupled to the second cross-beam (30). The crane (10) includes a hydraulic system configured to reduce the lift capacity of the first and/or second main hoist mechanism (40, 44), and to equalize the hoist capacity between the first and second main hoist mechanisms (40, 44) or the first and second auxiliary hoist mechanisms (42, 46) in certain applications. The auxiliary hoist mechanism (42, 46) are configured for powered movement along the respective cross-beams (28, 30).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Marine Travelift, Inc.Inventors: Jerry J. Wierzba, John E. Braun
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Patent number: 9302649Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, configuration is made such that in a state in which a restriction wall of a cam gear is positioned at a lateral the side of a pin of a link configuring a switching section, the restriction wall abuts the pin when the link attempts to move. The restriction wall does not actively move the link regardless of the number of revolutions made by the cam gear. Operation noise of the link, a stopper pawl and a slide stopper accordingly does not occur during pull-out and take-up of webbing during normal usage, and a desirable user sensation is achieved in pull-out and take-up of the webbing during normal usage.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Wataru Yanagawa, Masanori Ukai, Masaru Ukita
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Patent number: 9301596Abstract: An attachment assembly for an electronic device attaches to an electronic device, such as a cell phone, to prevent a user from dropping, losing or breaking the electronic device. The assembly includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimter wall coupled to and extending between the top wall and the bottom wall. A tether is retractable into and out of the housing. The tether has a first end extending outwardly of the housing. A connector is coupled to the first end of the tether. The connector is configured for releasably attaching an electronic device to the tether.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Steven Parker
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Patent number: 9302872Abstract: A web winding and measuring system is provided. The system includes a rotatably-mounted spool onto which a web of material is wound to form a roll. The system additionally includes a light-emitting device configured to illuminate the roll by light, providing a line on a cylindrical surface of the roll in a cross-machine direction, a light-receiving device configured to detect the line and generate measurement data from the detected line, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the light-receiving device and configured to receive the measurement data and calculate a diameter of the roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Gregory Michael Bixler, Vivek Moreshwar Karandikar, Daniel James Wilczynski
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Patent number: 9302648Abstract: The invention relates to a belt tensioner with a belt shaft (10), a force limitation arrangement (70) connected with the belt shaft (10), and a tensioner drive wheel (20) coupled with the belt shaft (10) so as to be locked against relative rotation, in which a retaining element (30, 50) is provided for coupling the tensioner drive wheel (20) to the belt shaft (10), and the retaining element (30, 50) is releasable by the rotation of the belt shaft (10) in the belt webbing withdrawal direction after the tensioning movement has been completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventor: Erik Rydsmo
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Patent number: 9290362Abstract: A remote heave compensation system associated with a crane on a vessel may include a heave compensator arranged remotely from the crane and configured to translate in association with and to compensate for heaving motion of the vessel, an equalizer arranged on the crane and coupled to an end of a multiline system of the crane, a heave line secured to the equalizer at a first end and secured to the heave compensator at a second end, wherein compensating motion of the heave compensator is transferred to the equalizer by the heave line to compensate for heaving motion of the vessel and stabilize objects suspended from the multiline system of the crane.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventor: John E. Hey
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Patent number: 9290152Abstract: [Object] Quietness is to be more effectively improved, without compromising stability in power transmission. [Solution] An annular internal gear member 24 is formed of a noise suppressing material having lower strength than a metal. A deformation restricting portion 22d of an annular flange shape is formed along an outer circumferential edge of a carrier 22. Accordingly, when a planetary gear mechanism is operating the internal gear member 24 is partially deformed so as to protrude radially outward of the annular shape. At this point, the protruding deformed portion of the internal gear member 24 abuts against an inner circumferential surface of the deformation restricting portion 22d. Therefore, deformation of the internal gear member 24 is effectively restricted.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Takata CorporationInventors: Tadayuki Asako, Takashi Sakano
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Patent number: 9290241Abstract: A vessel (4) includes a crane (1) connected to a deck (5) of the vessel. The crane (1) includes a frame (10) which is rotatable about a horizontal hinge axis (H), a rotation mechanism (20) connected to the frame (10) at a position away from the horizontal hinge axis (H), arranged to rotate the frame (10) about the horizontal hinge axis (H) from an upper position to a lower position and vice versa, and a swivel member (30), which is with a first end (31) rotatable connected to the deck (5) and which is with a second end (32) rotatable connected to the rotation mechanism (20). The swivel member (30) is rotatable between an inward position associated with the upper position of the frame (10) to an outward position associated with the lower position of the frame (10).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: IHC HOLLAND IE B.V.Inventors: Dennis Kweldam, Erwin Cornelis Johannes Bijvoet
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Patent number: 9290364Abstract: The within invention relates to a crane with a boom slewable in a vertical pivoting plane and a bracing boom arrangement, particularly a derrick boom arrangement in which a luffing cable is arranged between the boom and the bracing boom arrangement, in which the luffing cable has at least two guying cables that run from two guying points arranged on the opposite side of the pivoting plane, which cables belong to the bracing cable arrangement, to the boom, in which the two guying cables are each movable by means of a winch and in which a mechanical coupling is provided between the two winches by means of which the movement of the two winches can be force coupled.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbHInventor: Hans-Dieter Willim
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Patent number: 9290357Abstract: An apparatus for retrieving a hose on a hose reel includes a base, a pair of opposed arms for supporting the hose reel, a tensioning assembly, and a drive assembly. Each of the arms having a reel support member near a distal end thereof, and the arms being moveable relative to one another between an engaged position wherein the arms are positioned so that the reel support members are supportingly engaged with a hub of a hose reel, and a non-engaged position wherein the arms are positioned so that the reel support members are disengaged from the hub. The drive assembly is supported by at least one of the first and second arms in a way that activation of the drive assembly causes at least one of the reel support members to rotate and thereby rotate the hose reel when the arms are in the engaged position.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Polypipe Handling Specialists, Inc.Inventors: P. Mike Mays, Trevor J. Mays, Michael K. Mays
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Patent number: 9290348Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a film roll core used for winding a polymeric film around, an apparatus for winding the polymeric film on the film roll core, a process of winding the polymeric film on the film roll core, and a rolled film on the film roll core. The disclosure more particularly relates to an open gap film roll core that is capable of reducing defects in wound films.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Kevin B. Newhouse, Bruce E. Tait, Terence A. Lee, Christopher M. Eastman, Arlie J. Cecil, Andrew F. Neitzel
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Patent number: 9290358Abstract: A retractable cable system for coiling and uncoiling a cable. The system preferably includes an axle, a first drum having a spring nested inside the drum, a second drum, and a pulley assembly. The first drum is configured to be non-rotatably coupled to the axle while the second drum is configured to rotate around the axle. A cable is configured to wrap around the first and second drums and the pulley assembly, in which one of the ends of the cable is fixed to the system. The system prevents the cable from being twisted and allows the cable to maintain its geometry as the cable is being coiled and uncoiled.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Bryan L. Sparrowhawk
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Patent number: 9283930Abstract: In a webbing take-up device, a cut-out portion is formed in a close-off portion that closes off a pawl housing groove from a side opposite a spool body side. For this reason, the close-off portion is not formed in a position facing ratchet teeth which is at from a second ratchet tooth from a take-up direction side to the other side. Due to this, even if a head portion of a lock pawl, particularly a take-up direction side portion of the head portion, is displaced in such a way as to move away from the spool body, the head portion does not come into contact with the close-off portion or, even if the head portion comes into contact with the close-off portion, a force with which the head portion presses the close-off portion becomes smaller.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHOInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Akira Sumiyashiki
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Patent number: 9284147Abstract: The mandrel is formed from flexible and elastic material, and after the roll is wound, the mandrel is pulled longitudinally and withdrawn from the roll of paper to form a coreless roll.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Paper Converting Machine CompanyInventor: Michael E. Techlin
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Patent number: 9284155Abstract: A collapsible cord holder is an apparatus that is specifically designed to prevent entanglements when unwinding an existing cord bundle. The collapsible cord holder accomplishes this through the use of an extendable arm assembly that is pivotally coupled to a handle assembly and secured in both an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration through a locking mechanism. The arm assembly is able to arcuately expand beyond the diameter of the cord bundle in order to apply tension facilitating the unwinding of the cord bundle. The handle assembly permits an axial rotation of the cord bundle mounted on the collapsible cord holder in order to facilitate unwinding and prevent entanglements. The locking mechanism provides a secure engagement in the expanded configuration allowing the apparatus to transition into the collapsed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Inventor: Martin Patrick Stanton
