Patents Examined by Shawn M. Braden
  • Patent number: 12024333
    Abstract: A container includes a first container portion, a second container portion, and an articulation device connecting the first container portion to the second container portion to be pivotable around a first hinge axis. The articulation device includes a sliding joint, which allows a sliding of the first container portion relative to the second container portion transverse to the first hinge axis. A blocking element is movable from a blocking position, which blocks the sliding joint against a spring force, to an unblocking position, which unblocks the sliding joint by an actuation of the sliding joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Schoeller Allibert GmbH
    Inventor: Matthew David Dent
  • Patent number: 12024344
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper handle for a box, and a manufacturing method therefor. In order to implement this, the present invention has a box handle which has a holding part formed in the center of a body, and which has catching parts formed at both facing sides thereof so as to be insertedly fixed to fitting holes of a packaging box, wherein the body is folded at a predetermined width to form at least two layers so that both the long-side ends thereof face each other, and the catching parts are respectively formed on both short sides of the body and comprise a first wing part and a second wing part, which are continuous, formed by folding a plurality of points, having predetermined intervals in the longitudinal direction of the long side, orthogonally to the long side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DONG BANG PLUS PAPER
    Inventor: Soung Yeob Kim
  • Patent number: 12017845
    Abstract: A cargo container includes a plurality of panels, a first set of rales, a first pack, and a second pack. The plurality of panels defines a chamber that has an opening configured for loading and unloading of cargo in the chamber. The plurality of panels includes a first panel with the first set of rails connected to the first panel and disposed within the chamber. The first pack and the second pack are slidably received on the first set of rails and each include a phase-change material (PCM) disposed therein. The first pack and the second pack are interlocked with one another such that the first pack and the second pack slide in concert with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Composite Structures, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas R. Pherson
  • Patent number: 12012273
    Abstract: A thermal insulation article for placement in a shipping container to hold an item includes a thermally insulating pad shaped to be positioned in a cavity of a rectangular prism shipping container to be adjacent to and cover one or more of a floor, four side walls and cover of the container while leaving an interior space to receive the item. The thermally insulating pad includes a compostable panel that holds together as a single unit and is formed primarily of starch, and compostable or recyclable film forming a pocket and surrounding the panel to prevent water from reaching the panel within the pocket. The film is secured to the panel along a portion but not all of the opposite surfaces of the compostable panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Vericool World LLC
    Inventor: Darrell Jobe
  • Patent number: 12012261
    Abstract: Described herein are one or more embodiments of closures with a child-resistant safety structure. A cap couples to a container neck, such as via threads. An overcap extends around the cap. A biasing element in the overcap biases the sidewalls of the overcap above the cap so that rotating the overcap does not transfer sufficient torque to the cap to also rotate the cap. When the overcap is pressed towards the container body, the sidewalls of the overcap interface with the cap, thereby providing a sufficient interface with sufficient friction to permit rotation of the overcap to translate into rotation of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLC
    Inventor: Gary Berge
  • Patent number: 12006109
    Abstract: Provided is a system a push and turn child safety container with finger indents. This improved safety container is characterized by a outer body having a first circular element bounded by a first circumferential wall having an inward lip at the distal end. An inner surface of the first circular element providing a plurality of first ridges. Nested within the outer body is an inner body characterized by a second circular element bounded by a second circumferential wall extending normally away from the second circular element. The inner surface of the second circumferential wall having first threads; and an outer surface of the second circular element having a plurality of second ridges for temporarily engaging with the first ridges of the first circular element. The safety container has a screw element screw element characterized by a circular first element having an outer circumferential wall having at least one indent structured and arranged to receive a user's finger tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: GROWPACK LLC
    Inventor: Michael S. Lempert
  • Patent number: 12007072
    Abstract: Protective devices for pressurized gas cylinders have a housing which is arranged around an inner cavity intended for receiving an extraction valve and which has access openings for the extraction connection and for further fittings. In order to counteract soiling or contamination of the extraction connection, the invention provides for an elastically deformable safety element to be fastened to the housing in the region of the access opening of the extraction connection, said element being able to be swung out from a closed position, in which the extraction connection is completely covered and/or enclosed by the safety element, into a position in which it frees the extraction connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: MESSER GASPACK GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Kriese
  • Patent number: 12007073
    Abstract: A heat insulation structure for corner parts of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank includes a secondary insulation wall arranged on an inner wall of a hull, a secondary sealing wall disposed on the secondary insulation wall, a primary insulation wall arranged on the secondary sealing wall, and a primary sealing wall disposed on the primary insulation wall. The heat insulation structure includes a corner assembly finishing an edge of the primary sealing wall at a corner part of the storage tank to complete sealing of the storage tank. The corner assembly includes an endcap sheet finishing each of four corners of the primary sealing wall provided to each surface of the storage tank to seal the four corners. The endcap sheet includes an endcap corrugation and an elongated corrugation extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the endcap corrugation extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Hanwha Ocean Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Kim, Seong Woo Park, Seung Min Kwon, Kang Je Bang
  • Patent number: 12006091
    Abstract: An accessory for use with a portable container includes a jacket having a storage member and configured to extend around at least a portion of the sidewall of the container and a connection member connected to the jacket and configured to support the jacket in connection with the container. The connection member includes a connector configured to be connected to a port on the container such that a portion of the connector is received through the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Roy Joseph Seiders, Mark Carlson Rane, Donald Edward Desroches, Tobias Hotchkiss
  • Patent number: 11999534
    Abstract: A composite closure which includes an improved sealing gasket material and shape. The Closure includes an end panel that is received in a circular plastic fitment having a central opening therein defined by an inwardly extending flange which over-lies in an outer periphery of the end panel and an integral skirt downwardly depending from the flange. The fitment includes an inwardly extending circumferential bead or bead segments which include a substantially non-deformable flat vertical surfaces that are substantially parallel to the axis of the closure and axially positioned to contact the radial outer-most edge of the end panel when the closure is fully applied to a container. The sealing gasket has the shape of an annulus with a particular cross-section and formed from a PVC free material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLC
    Inventors: Mark Hewett, Dennis Szczesniak, William J. Kapolas, Darren Neputy, Tian Liang, Dustin Vance
  • Patent number: 11993424
    Abstract: A closure that is retainable with a container is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Berry Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Bloom, Kenneth S. Bloom, Andrew Kreinbrink
  • Patent number: 11986830
    Abstract: A device for storage and transport of biological samples. Multiple trays are assembled into a stack with sample tubes constrained between adjacent trays. The surface of each tray has radial grooves sized to hold the sample tubes. Each tray is secured to an adjacent tray with a bolt or snap-fit connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventor: Michael Zions
  • Patent number: 11982405
    Abstract: Disclosed is a storage container for liquefied gas, for example, a storage cabin for marine equipment such as ships. A bottom wall of a storage container includes a bottom wall sealing layer including a central section and at least one annular section. The annular section includes a plurality of first sealing plates and a plurality of second sealing plates, which are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. The first sealing plates have a circumferential size gradually reduced in a radially inward direction, and the second sealing plates have a circumferential size gradually expanded in the radially inward direction. The sealing layer of the storage container of the present disclosure may be made of standard parts with regular shapes, without requiring special shaped segments, which is simple to process and saves materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SINOTECH ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Wei, Wei He
  • Patent number: 11984312
    Abstract: A system (2) for storing and delivering a gas includes a container (4), a porous absorbent material (7) provided within the container, the porous absorbent material storing the gas in a concentrated form, and an adapter assembly (6) structured to be coupled to the container. The adapter assembly is structured to enable the gas to be extracted from the container and delivered to an individual through a cannula or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Blake Dubé, Christopher Wilmer
  • Patent number: 11974707
    Abstract: A water tank for a sweeper and a sweeper including the same are provided. The water tank for the sweeper includes: a water tank lower cover, a bottom of which is provided with a containing groove; a water tank upper cover, which is connected with the water tank lower cover; a water tank release button arranged at the containing groove; and a reset member, a first end of which is coupled to the water tank release button and a second end is coupled to the water tank lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA ROBOZONE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo He, Xiaowei Xu, Xiaogang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11970329
    Abstract: A housing (1, 1?) for a pressurized container, has a bottom (12, 12?) a stopper, sealing means (124, 124?) to ensure sealing between the stopper (2, 2?) and the housing (1, 1?) when the housing is provided with a stopper; and retaining means (126, 126?) to retain, when the container is pressurized, a stopper (2, 2?) closing the opening. The retaining means (126, 126?) are distinct from the stopper (2) and are in an inactive initial form (125, 126) and must, in order to fulfill their function, be activated (126, 126?) after the opening has been closed by a stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LINDAL FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Hervé Bodet, Eric Gaillard
  • Patent number: 11963928
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: James Ernest Webb, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, Steven Edward DeMartino, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
  • Patent number: 11963929
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Connor Thomas O'Malley, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Christy Lynn Chapman, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
  • Patent number: 11958665
    Abstract: Provided is a system a push and turn child safety container with finger indents. The child safety container has an outer body having a first circular element bounded by a first circumferential wall extending normally away from the first circular element for a first distance, the distal end of the first outer wall having a retainer with an inner body having a second circular element bounded by a second circumferential wall extending normally away from the second circular element a second distance less than the first distance with an inner surface of the second circumferential wall having a first screw thread, the inner body nested with in the outer body and retained by the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventor: Michael S. S. Lempert
  • Patent number: 11952178
    Abstract: A bottle closure and opener device for use on a wine bottle including a sleeve having a top side, a bottom side, an outer surface, and an inner surface, the top side having a first opening, the bottom side having a second opening, and the inner surface including inner threads, wherein the internal threads are configured to mate with external threads on a top portion of the wine bottle. A cork having an upper portion positioned within the first opening of the sleeve and extending above the bottle top and a lower portion of the cork positioned within the wine bottle's neck opening to seal a liquid within the wine bottle and to seal oxygen from entering the bottle. During operation, the cork and sleeve combination are configured to be removed from the wine bottle's opening via unscrewing the sleeve from the top portion of the wine bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Gardner Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: William A. Gardner