Patents Examined by Shaun R Hurley
  • Patent number: 11920295
    Abstract: Provided is an elastomer reinforcement cord in which the problem of stress concentration at an interface between an elastomer and a metal cord is solved and the durability is thereby improved. The elastomer reinforcement cord includes metal filaments (1a) and (1b), and a polymer material (3) having a melting point or softening point of 80° C. to 160° C. The elastomer reinforcement cord has a core (11) and at least one sheath layer (12). In a region surrounded by a line connecting the centers of the metal filaments constituting the outermost sheath layer at a cross-section in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction after vulcanization, when a region occupied by other than the metal filaments is defined as a gap region, the polymer material is contained in this gap region, and a filling rate, which is a ratio of the area of the polymer material, is higher than 120%, taking the area of the gap region as 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahisa Shizuku
  • Patent number: 11920296
    Abstract: Embodiments of the knife cut resistant sleeve comprise a spring enclosed by a cut resistant material. The knife cut resistant sleeve is configured to be placed onto a rope of varying sizes and protect the rope from sharp objects. Embodiments of the knife cut resistant sleeve use cut resistant material and can be capable of rotation when hit by a knife in order to prevent the rope from being cut. The sleeve is configured to provide the correct amount of coverage on the rope depending on the length of the rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Buckingham Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Truesdell
  • Patent number: 11913141
    Abstract: In a drafting system (1) for a textile machine, in particular an air-spinning machine, for drafting a strand-shaped fibre band fed to the drafting system, having a plurality of roller pairs arranged in succession in a running direction (A) of the fibre band and each having a top roller (3) and a bottom roller (4), and a weighting device for applying a load to the top roller (3) of the plurality of roller pairs; wherein the respective bottom roller (4) is mounted and held in a housing (2) of the drafting system (1), wherein the respective top roller (3) is mounted and held in the housing (2) of the drafting system (1) by means of a top roller carrier (30) which can be pivoted about a rotary axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Intelligent Technology AG
    Inventors: Christian Griesshammer, Ludek Malina
  • Patent number: 11913169
    Abstract: A braided structure that includes a core and a sheath is provided. The core includes a yarn formed at least in part from an aromatic polymer (e.g., an aromatic polyester/liquid crystalline polymer or an aramid polymer), and the sheath, which includes a plurality of ultra high molecular weight polyolefin yarns, is braided around the core. The sheath has an overall diameter ranging from about 60 micrometers to about 650 micrometers. Despite its small diameter, the braided structure can be creep resistant and abrasion resistant while at the same time exhibiting low elongation, a high load at break, and high stiffness. The braided structure can be used in medical applications such as sutures, load bearing orthopedic applications, artificial tendons/ligaments, fixation devices, actuation cables, components for tissue repair, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ATEX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wesley Jessup, Paul Louis Van Hulle
  • Patent number: 11912528
    Abstract: A splicing head (100) for a splicing device comprising a splicing chamber and a clamping device (8) for clamping yarns. The clamping device (8) is disposed between two sections (4) of the splicing chamber. The clamping device (8) is arranged independently operable on the splicing head (100), so that the clamping device (8) is operable before and/or after closing the splicing chamber. The splicing head (100) comprises at least one drawing-in element for ensuring that the yarn ends are included in the splicing process, in particular for drawing the yarn ends into the splicing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Heberlein Technology AG
    Inventors: Nicola Chiusolo, Christopher Bonk, Lucas Ruoss
  • Patent number: 11905625
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning device for a yarn forming element of an air-spinning nozzle, to a spinning position of an air-spinning machine and to a method for cleaning a yarn forming element of this type. In order to provide a spinning position of an air-spinning machine and a method for cleaning a yarn forming element of an air-spinning machine which allow long and trouble-free operation with constant quality and strength of the yarn produced, it is provided that the cleaning device has a cleaning strip and a storage unit for providing and retracting the cleaning strip, a fixed end of the cleaning strip being fastened to the storage unit, and a free end of the cleaning strip being able to be provided for cleaning and retracted again after the cleaning. Furthermore, the cleaning device has a cleaning strip guide for feeding the free end of the cleaning strip to the yarn forming element of the air-spinning nozzle for mechanical cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Intelligent Technology AG
    Inventors: Karoline Guenther, Sarah Meissner, Chandrassekaran Seshayer
  • Patent number: 11896207
    Abstract: A method for making a braided medical device may involve positioning an insert inside a braided material, processing the braided material to form the braided medical device, dissolving and/or crushing the insert into multiple pieces, and removing the multiple pieces from the braided medical device. In some embodiments, the insert is made of gypsum. A braided medical device for occluding a defect in a heart may include a right disc for residing in a right side of the heart, a left disc having a partially circular shape for residing in a left side of the heart, and a waist extending between the right disc and the left disc and having a smaller diameter than that of either the right disc or the left disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KA Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Pat Russo, Bill Riewer, John Oslund
  • Patent number: 11898282
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming a tubular braid are disclosed herein. A braiding system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, an upper drive unit, a lower drive unit, a mandrel coaxial with the upper and lower drive units, and a plurality of tubes extending between the upper drive unit and the lower drive unit. Each tube can be configured to receive individual filaments for forming the tubular braid, and the upper drive unit and the lower drive unit can act against the tubes in synchronization to cross the filaments over and under one another to form the tubular braid on the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Inceptus Medical, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Quick
  • Patent number: 11898277
    Abstract: Yarns include one or more strands, each strand including an outer twisted with a continuous or substantially continuous core, the outer including coarse wool fibres. The coarse wool has average fibre diameter greater than 26 microns. The yarn may be worsted or semi-worsted. Fabrics and/or garments may be produced from the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TMC LIMITED
    Inventor: Andrew George Wynne
  • Patent number: 11891722
    Abstract: A screw feeder includes: a case that includes a material putting-in portion through which a fluff material is put in and a material putting-out portion through which the fluff material is put out below the material putting-in portion; and a screw that includes a rotational shaft and a blade portion, the rotational shaft being provided rotatably inside the case, the blade portion being spirally mounted on the rotational shaft; wherein the screw is rotated with repeated alternation of a slope-down direction in which the blade portion slopes downward spirally in a vertical direction and a slope-up direction in which the blade portion slopes upward spirally in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Gomi, Yuki Oguchi
  • Patent number: 11891729
    Abstract: A machine knittable hybrid yarn for providing conductive traces through a textile is disclosed. The hybrid yarn includes conductive wires coated with an insulating material and twisted together with a nonconductive yarn. The nonconductive yarn is from a strong, inelastic, and nonconductive fiber, such as a meta-aramid or para-aramid that protects the integrity of the conductive wire during knitting. The conductive wire can be copper-clad stainless steel or copper wire is coated with polyurethane, and the nonconductive yarn can have no-drip and no-drip properties to allow ablation of the hybrid yarn to remove the conductive yarn and insulating coating on the wire such that the ablated region becomes externally conductive and suitable for making an electrical contact. The hybrid yarn can be bonded with nylon or similar polymer after twisting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Propel, LLC
    Inventors: Clare King, Anjali Khemani, Birgit Leitner
  • Patent number: 11891264
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system of spinning yarn that comprises a filament feed system configured to vary the tension applied to at least two continuous filaments before the filaments are introduced to a roving and twisted to form a yarn. The invention allows the filaments to be introduced to the roving when under tension, under no tension, or when under slack at set distances from the roving centre line by a specialized two filament guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Libeau
  • Patent number: 11885047
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a twisted cord of liquid-crystal polyester multifilaments which gives various high-order processed products capable of retaining desired product shapes and which is suitable for use in general industrial material applications such as high-strength ropes, slings, and nets. The twisted cord of liquid-crystal polyester multifilaments has a coefficient of variation in longitudinal-direction cord diameter, X, of less than 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Sakae, Hisatoshi Tanaka, Munekazu Matoba
  • Patent number: 11885052
    Abstract: A carrier for supporting a yarn to be used by a braiding machine, has: a spool carrying the yarn; a motor drivingly engaged to the spool; at least one sensor for producing data about a condition of the yarn in the spool; and a controller operatively connected to the motor and to the at least one sensor, the controller having a processor and a computer-readable medium operatively connected to the processor and having instructions stored thereon executable by the processor for: receiving said data from the at least one sensor; determining operation parameters of the motor based on the received data; and operating the motor per the determined operation parameters to create the desired tension in the yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Louis Laberge Lebel, Pascal Assi, Cristian Stefan Talos, Guillaume Villeneuve, Olivier Chabot, Philippe Bousquet, Vincent Delisle
  • Patent number: 11885053
    Abstract: Methods of braiding using a braiding mechanism are described. The braiding mechanism includes a disc defining a plane and a circumferential edge, a mandrel extending from a center of the disc that is adapted to hold a plurality of filaments extending radially from the mandrel toward the circumferential edge of the disc, a plurality of catch mechanisms positioned circumferentially around the edge of the disc, a plurality of actuators adapted to move the plurality of catch mechanisms in a substantially radial direction relative to the circumferential edge of the disc, and a plurality of filaments extending radially from the mandrel towards circumferential edge of the disc. A middle portion of each filament of the plurality of filaments contacts an end of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MICROVENTION, INC.
    Inventors: James M. Thompson, Brian J. Cox, Robert Rosenbluth, Philippe Marchand, John Nolting, Darrin J. Kent, Tan Q. Dinh, Hung P. Tran, James A. Milburn
  • Patent number: 11879192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nonwoven fabric recycling apparatus and a nonwoven fabric recycling method using same, the apparatus including: a mixing tank in which pulverized waste nonwoven fabric bodies and a filler are dispersed in water and mixed with each other to form a waste nonwoven fabric mixture; a fixing agent addition part for supplying a fixing agent for aggregating the pulverized waste nonwoven fabric bodies and the filler to the nonwoven fabric mixture to form a recycling raw material; and a filter tank in which the recycling raw material supplied thereto is received so that a recycling sheet is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: S PLUS COMTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Soo Shin, Jin Seok No
  • Patent number: 11873590
    Abstract: A triaxially hybrid braid reinforcement material for polymer matrix composites. The braid includes hybrid tows, which include at least one carbon fiber tow commingled with carbon nanotube yarns to introduce toughness to the hybrid tows. The hybrid tows may be arranged in any and all of the braiding directions. The braid may also include carbon fiber tows, which can be arranged in the axial direction or other braiding directions not occupied by the hybrid tows. The braid is infiltrated with resin, which is impregnated into the braid and cured, to form the toughened polymer matrix composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Tiffany Williams
  • Patent number: 11871702
    Abstract: A baler implement a tag installer operable to attach an RFID identification tag to a bale. A reader is positioned to interrogate the identification tag for receiving data from the identification tag. The reader is operable to emit an interrogation signal for interrogating the identification tag in accordance with a pre-defined timing sequence. The reader emits the interrogation signal regardless of a position of the bale in the baling chamber or on the baler implement. As such, the interrogation signal is emitted based on the pre-defined timing sequence. The pre-defined timing sequence may include a repeated on/off interrogation sequence, or continuously scanning interrogation sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel E. Derscheid, Kyle R. Teach, Gerald W. Shook, Robert V. Weinmann, Nathan J. Yost
  • Patent number: 11864637
    Abstract: A Brunnian link is a link formed from a closed loop doubled over itself to capture another closed loop to form a chain. The example kit provides for the successful creation of unique wearable articles using Brunnian link assembly techniques and includes several pin bars that are supported in a desired special orientation by at least one base. The desired special orientation is dependent on the desired linked configuration of the completed article. The pins may be assembled in various combination and orientations to provide endless variation of completed link orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Choon's Design LLC
    Inventor: Cheong Choon Ng
  • Patent number: 11866856
    Abstract: Disclosed is a needle-pass paper cord (200) made of paper. The paper cord is formed by means of weaving yarn (201) made of paper, and the yarn has a cross-section that is similar to a circle formed of a thread folded to a point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huizhou Asun Paper Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Yang