Patents Examined by Sarang Afzali
  • Patent number: 12379745
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pad for pressing a flexible display panel having at least one through hole to attach the flexible display panel to a cover glass. The pad includes a main body portion made of an elastic material. A surface of one side of the main body portion is a press surface for applying pressure to the flexible display panel. The main body portion is provided with at least one hollow structure, each hollow structure is provided with a first opening on the press surface, and each first opening corresponds to the at least one through hole of the flexible display panel. The embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shaokui Liu, Wei Qing, Xingguo Liu
  • Patent number: 12378064
    Abstract: A quasi-cylindrical cargo container is formed of a plurality of rigid, curved panels together forming first and second semi-cylindrical shells, and a plurality of rigid, flat extension panels bridging the first and second semi-cylindrical shells. A method of manufacturing the container includes forming the first and second semi-cylindrical shell from the curved panels, forming the quasi-cylindrical shell from the first and second semi-cylindrical shells and the flat extension panels, forming collars conformably encompassing the quasi-cylindrical shell, constricting the collars to compress joints formed at abutting edges of pairs of adjacent panels, rolling the shell and collars sequentially to bring the joints to a lower position, welding inside seams of the joints when at the lower position, removing the collars, rolling the shell sequentially to bring the joints to an upper position, and welding outside seams of the joints when at the upper position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Titan Trailers Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Kloepfer
  • Patent number: 12379693
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a timepiece component. The method includes: providing a timepiece component (1); breaking the timepiece component (1) into a plurality of pieces (10); and depositing the pieces (10) on a support (2) and creating a desired pattern to be reassembled having interstices (1). The support (2) is then transferred into a mould and a preform (3) is placed on the pieces (10). The assembly is then heated to a temperature higher than the vitreous transition temperature of the preform (3) and a force is applied on the preform to fill the interstices (11) and obtain a reassembled timepiece component (1?). The assembly is then cooled below the vitreous transition temperature of the preform (3) to form the reassembled timepiece component (1?) whereupon the timepiece component (1?) is machined to the required dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd
    Inventors: Loïc Oberson, Alexandre Netuschill, Stéphane Lauper, Gregory Kissling, Stewes Bourban, Pierre Sauret
  • Patent number: 12369713
    Abstract: A method for the production of a piece of furniture such as a seat, a bed, a table, the piece of furniture including at least one furniture component (10), the method including the steps of making a blank (11) of expanded polystyrene (EPS) with density between 15 and 25 kg/me, the blank (11) being configured to act as a core for the furniture component (10); providing an interface surface (12) in the blank (11); making a rigid insert (13) in rigid material having an engagement portion (14) configured to engage with the interface surface (12) of the blank (11) and a first connection portion (15) opposite the engagement portion; joining the rigid insert (13) and the interface surface (12) so that the engagement portion (14) is engaged with the interface surface (12) and the first connection portion (15) faces aside opposite to the blank (11); coating the blank (11) and the rigid insert (13) by at least one coating layer (30) of polyurethane material, so that the coating layer (30) completely covers the blank (1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: ALFA HOLDING DI ANNARITA CAPONI E C. SAS
    Inventor: Fabio Salvadori
  • Patent number: 12370637
    Abstract: A screw tightening system includes an actuator including a driver bit that rotationally drives a screw and a motor coupled with driver bit, and a controller that controls actuator. Controller includes an acquirer that acquires torque values of a torque generated in a motor, a calculator that calculates a standard deviation of the torque values in a temporary tightening period, and a determiner that determines that there is an abnormality when a ratio of the standard deviation to a reference standard deviation exceeds a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu Biwaki, Zhiqiang Liu, Masahiro Murai, Yuki Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 12365057
    Abstract: A method of replacing at least one tooth of a gear includes providing a tool jig including a mounting block with a plurality of indexing jig features. The tool jig also includes a tool-supporting feature in laterally movable contact with a jig rail feature. With at least one indexing jig feature, relative motion of the tool jig relative to the gear is resisted. A material-removal tool is operated, while attached to the tool-supporting feature in the tooth-removal position, to remove at least a portion of a working circumference of the gear including a native gear tooth to be replaced. Motion of the material-removal tool is guided to generate a circumferential gear cut including a relatively smooth first cut surface formed by removal of at least the native gear tooth to be replaced. The material-removal tool is removed from the tool-supporting feature. The tool jig is removed from the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTUS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Drake J. Viscome, Julia D. Batts, Martin E. Lohan
  • Patent number: 12367455
    Abstract: A member attachment support system is for supporting work of attaching a plurality of members to a device. The member attachment support system includes: an identification information storage unit provided for each of the plurality of members and configured to store identification information associated with an attachment position of each of the plurality of members; a terminal device configured to acquire the identification information from the identification information storage unit; and a display device configured to display a support image that indicates the attachment position corresponding to the identification information acquired by the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Sekine, Hyota Abe, Yutaka Kano, Taiichi Mure, Tomoyuki Yamazaki, Toshiyuki Wada, Hiroto Akitaya
  • Patent number: 12366088
    Abstract: An adjustable section latch and method of using thereof is disclosed. The adjustable section latch may be used to interlock two section poles of fence sections of a removable mesh pool fence, where the aforementioned section poles are situated at a section break gap in the removable mesh pool fence. The adjustable section latch may have a bracket body with a plurality of adjusting holes on one end and a keyhole at another end. One of the adjusting holes may be used to fasten the bracket body to a first section pole, while the keyhole on the bracket body may be used to receive a screw eye fastened to a second section pole. The adjustable section latch may be used in a process of interlocking the section poles that makes such latching more convenient than conventional latching mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SUNWEST INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Reed Hauge
  • Patent number: 12365110
    Abstract: An automated wall frame assembly system for use in assembling a wall frame includes an advancer assembly including a conveyor system configured to transport first frame members along an assembly axis to an output of the conveyor system. A frame unit is disposed generally at the output of the conveyor system and is configured to receive the first frame members from the conveyor system and attach a second frame member to the first frame members. A gantry assembly is disposed above the advancer assembly. The gantry assembly includes a gantry frame and at least one gantry tool movably attached to the gantry frame. The gantry tool is operable to deliver the second frame member to the advancer assembly from a location above the advancer assembly for being attached to the first frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: MITEK HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Manish Kanjee, Cameron Wake, Ganesh Patgar, David Schroder, John Whitton
  • Patent number: 12359689
    Abstract: A screwboss including a base, a main body, an opening into an end of the main body, distal from the base for fixing a threaded fastener thereinto. The screwboss further includes at least one rib adjoining the base and the main body to support the main body in an upstanding position. At least one rib extends from the main body at a position offset from a radial line from a center axis of the opening and toward a tangent from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Kacper Surowiak, Batlomiej Kaminski
  • Patent number: 12350703
    Abstract: One or more technique and/or systems for a coating roller assembly, including a coating applicator cage frame and a frame wire. The roller assembly can comprise a handle coupled with the frame wire configured to operably hold the coating applicator cage frame. Bearings can be fixed to the coating applicator cage frame at its both ends. Instead of using typical pinning or swedging techniques for holding the bearing, a sleeve can be crimped into place over a treated surface of the frame wire between the second end and third bend (112). In this way, for example, the structural integrity of the frame wire can be substantially maintained, providing for improved durability and a longer life for the roller assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Edward Ray Goodwin, Jr., Yandong Shen, Michael C. Lambertson, Jr., Victor J. Levand
  • Patent number: 12355318
    Abstract: An integrated motor disconnect tool is mounted at the base of a motor, which is operationally coupled to a gearbox. The tool facilitates the disconnection of the motor from the gearbox via a series of procedural steps. It features a collar flange with an interior surface concentric to the motor's neutral axis, and includes a set of extraction bolts inserted through apertures located on the top surface of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventor: Andrew Cardenas
  • Patent number: 12347578
    Abstract: Proposed is a device for assembling and disassembling a top nozzle of a nuclear fuel assembly wherein the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly is assembled and disassembled with improved convenience, and the load value is measured to ensure stable operations without damaging components. To this end, the device includes a pedestal including a threaded hole through both sides, a screw bar screw-coupled to the threaded hole to reciprocate in a straight line, a top nozzle plate configured to be detachably coupled to the screw bar and to be able to be hooked by and coupled to the top nozzle of the nuclear fuel assembly, and a load cell provided between the top nozzle plate and the screw bar to measure a load value applied to the top nozzle plate hooked on the top nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Je Won Lee, Min Kyu Lee, Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 12339068
    Abstract: A method for forming an annular heat pipe wick in a controlled atmosphere includes wrapping a plurality of layers of a fine mesh screen around a mandrel to form a wick. The method also includes inserting the mandrel and the wick into a sheath, and compressing the wick between the sheath and the mandrel to form an assembly. The compressing of the wick comprises applying pressure to an exterior of the mandrel and the sheath. The method further includes diffusion bonding the assembly at a temperature sufficiently high achieving self-diffusion of the plurality of layers of the fine mesh screen used to form the wick to themselves. The method also includes cooling the diffusion bonded assembly to room temperature, and etching the mandrel and sheath from the diffusion bonded assembly, leaving the wick as a porous tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stowers Reid, Morgan T. Biel, Lindsey M. Gaspar, Kirk Weisbrod, Katrina M. Sweetland, Robert A. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 12336112
    Abstract: A substrate includes a substrate body made of a material such as glass, and at least one electrical via that extends at least into or through the substrate body. The via is metalized with a molten metal that enters the via under capillary action and solidifies to establish electrical conductivity through the via. The melting temperature of the metal is less than the transition temperature and melting temperature of the substrate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher David Bohn, Mark Crain, Justin Roehm, Thomas Jacob Hammann, Nathan Robertson, Jeremy Brown, Christopher Pelkey, Adam Owens, Russell Payton, Russell Frank
  • Patent number: 12334255
    Abstract: Magnets having various portions of different densities and resistivities are disclosed. In a refinement, the various portions may have the same composition but different physical structures. Unique dies may be used to during processing, such as during sintering to manufacture the magnets. The die may include conductive and non-conductive surfaces that contact the green magnetic powder mixture during sintering such that the electrical current applied to the magnetic powder mixture is managed by the conductive and non-conductive surfaces to provide unique and complex magnets. Methods of manufacturing the magnets with the dies such as field assisted sintering, i.e., spark plasma sintering, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanfeng Li, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 12330253
    Abstract: A control device of a processing machine controls a first drive source based on detection values from a first sensor so that a reference workpiece other than a workpiece is processed from a first direction by a tool into a prescribed target shape. The control device measures a shape of the reference workpiece based on a detection value from the first sensor at the time when contact in the first direction of a touch sensor with the processed reference workpiece by the touch sensor. The control device specifies a first deviation amount of a position of the tool in the X-direction based on a deviation amount in the first direction between the target shape and the measured shape, and corrects control for processing the workpiece based on the specified first deviation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12332001
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing heat dissipation module is provided. The method includes: providing a main body; disposing a thermal interface material (TIM) layer on the main body; applying a first pressure to a surface of the TIM layer away from the main body in stages regionally; and applying a second pressure to an entire portion of the surface at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Jentech Precision Industrial Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yi Chiang, Yi-Sheng Chiu, Chiao Hsiang Chang
  • Patent number: 12311729
    Abstract: For assembling a heat pump, an apparatus includes a loading part located in an initial section of the fully automatic intelligent production line of an integrated thermal management module. The apparatus includes a first assembling part, located downstream of the loading part, that assembles a refrigerant side components of the heat pump. The apparatus includes a first testing part, located downstream of the first assembly part, that tests the refrigerant side components. The apparatus includes a second assembling part, located downstream of the loading part, that assembles the cooling water side components of the heat pump. The apparatus includes a second testing part, located downstream of the second assembling part, that tests the cooling water side components. The apparatus includes a finished product part, located downstream of the second testing part, that outputs a finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG ZOCH TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shicheng Zhang, Yunpeng Hou, Yuzhi Guo, Tong Wu, Pengfei Zhang, Chunyu Dai, Kaiqiang Yan, Binqi Rao, Yan Zhang, Keyun Wang, Ke Shi
  • Patent number: 12316177
    Abstract: A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the spider arms. The method for repair includes supporting the rim from the top of the spider and thereby relieving some or all of the weight of the rim being supported by the rim support ledges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Electromechanical Engineering Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Sinkhorn, J. Barry Sargeant, Lauren Haley, Thomas Schildkamp