Patents Examined by Sidney D Full
  • Patent number: 12193629
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner, includes a dirty air inlet, a clean air outlet and an air channel arranged between the dirty air inlet and the clean air outlet. A vacuum generator is arranged inside the air channel. A first filter is arranged in the upper reach of the vacuum generator. A second filter is arranged in the upper reach of the first filter. The vacuum cleaner further comprises a state sensor. When in a second state, the first filter and the second filter are not combined, and the state sensor is not triggered. Missing mounting prevention detection of a main filter and a pre-filter can be realised at the same time by means of a micro-control switch, thereby saving on cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Skybest Electric Appliance (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiping Liu, Zhao Kong, Liang Xia
  • Patent number: 12173818
    Abstract: A fluid fitting installation system includes a first handle and a second handle movably coupled to the first handle. The second handle is movable between a first position and a second position. The fluid fitting installation system includes a grasping member coupled to the second handle. The grasping member is configured to be coupled to a first fluid fitting. A movement of the second handle from the first position to the second position is configured to couple the first fluid fitting to a second fluid fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Deanna Stangas, Marcus J Baker, Ramesh Kavalur, Jimmy Mickens
  • Patent number: 12150611
    Abstract: The cleaning device includes a water injection member and a mopping cloth cleaning member. The water injection member is configured to wet the mopping cloth of a cleaning robot. The mopping cloth cleaning member which reciprocates up and down to flap the mopping cloth of the cleaning robot, in order to clean the mopping cloth of the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FLY RODENT DYNAMICS INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pan Du, Linlin Zhou
  • Patent number: 12128525
    Abstract: A workpiece supporting device (6) includes a base stand (10), a shoe (11) which is disposed on at least one place in a circumferential direction of a workpiece (1a) that is rotationally driven using a rotary drive device (4) and is in sliding contact with a circumferential surface of the workpiece (1a), and a supporting body (12) which supports the shoe (11) with respect to the base stand (10). The supporting body (12) includes a compliant structure portion (a leaf spring (14)) which tilts the shoe (11) in accordance with tilting of the workpiece (1a) with respect to the base stand (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ebina, Koji Yokoe, Takashi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 12108920
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet. An air treatment member and suction motor are positioned in the air flow path. The air treatment member is provided at the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner and has an air outlet provided at the rear end of the air treatment member. A pre-motor filter housing is provided rearward of the air treatment member. A pistol grip handle has an upper end that is mounted to the pre-motor filter housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 12103136
    Abstract: A method of machining includes mounting a component in a drilling machine. The component has a target region where the hole is to be drilled. The component and a jet head are situated relative to each other in a drilling arrangement in which the target region is at a first position that is vertically equal to or vertically above a second position at which the jet head is located. A liquid stream is jetted from the jet head and contains either abrasive particles or a laser beam. The stream impinges the target region, and the abrasive particles or the laser beam cause removal of material from the component to form the hole. The liquid stream rebounds off of the component as back-splash. The drilling arrangement causes gravitational draining of the back-splash from the target region to reduce interference between the back-splash and the liquid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhigang Wang, Paul F. Croteau, Gajawalli V. Srinivasan, John D. Riehl, Robin H. Fernandez
  • Patent number: 12096907
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a suction motor; a hose in communication with the suction motor; a first receptacle that is configured to communicate with the hose and to collect at least one first object outside of the cleaning device; a second receptacle that is configured to communicate with the first receptacle and to collect at least one second object outside of the cleaning device; wherein the at least one second object is smaller than the at least one first object; and a third receptacle that is configured to nest with the first receptacle and the second receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pickup Bricks LLC
    Inventor: Marc Frederick Weinstock
  • Patent number: 12082765
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including: a suctioning unit; a main body including a cyclone part for separating dust from suctioned air and a dust container for storing the separated dust, and a body cover for opening and closing the lower side of the body; a filter unit, disposed in the body, for filtering air separated from the dust; an actuating unit capable of moving in the body between the outside of the filter unit and the inner circumference surface of the body; an operating unit disposed outside the body which operates in order to move the actuating unit; a transmission unit penetrating the body and connecting the actuating unit with the operating unit; and an elastic member disposed outside the body which elastically supports the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjoo Lee, Jungmin Ko, Soohan Eo, Kietak Hyun, Inkyu Hwang, Sangchul Lee, Jonguk Her
  • Patent number: 12075963
    Abstract: A mobile cleaning robot can include a body, a drive wheel, and a plurality of skids. The drive wheel can be connected to the body and can be engageable with a floor surface of an environment. The drive wheel can be operable to move the mobile cleaning robot about an environment. The skids can be separate skids that can be connected to the body and can be engageable with the floor surface to support, together with the drive wheel, the mobile cleaning robot with respect to the floor surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy R. Ohm, Erik Amaral, Andrew Deschenes
  • Patent number: 12059121
    Abstract: Disclosed are an air duct assembly and a cleaning device. The air duct assembly includes a dirt collecting box, a filter, a cyclone separator and a fan. The dirt collecting box is provided with a dirt collecting cavity and the dirt collecting box is also provided with a dirt inlet and an air outlet communicated with the dirt collecting cavity. The dirt collecting cavity is provided with an air guiding structure, the filter is arranged in the air outlet, the cyclone separator is connected with the air outlet, and the fan is connected with the cyclone separator. The fan drives an air flow to enter into the dirt collecting cavity from the dirt inlet, and enter the cyclone separator from the air outlet after being guided by the air guiding structure, and then enter the fan from the cyclone separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Anker Innovations Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jixin Wang, Yongbin Yang, Suijun Wei
  • Patent number: 12048401
    Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a surface interaction layer (ML), a cleaning fluid supply (CFF) provided with a cleaning fluid channel (CFC) at the surface interaction layer (ML) for supplying a cleaning fluid to a surface (F) through the surface interaction layer (ML) being in contact with the surface (F), and a dirty fluid drain (DFD) having a dirty fluid channel (DFC) at the surface interaction layer (ML) for draining, by means of underpressure, dirty water from the surface (F) through the surface interaction layer (ML) being in contact with the surface (F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bastiaan Johannes De Wit, Matthijs Hendrikus Lubbers, Pieter Kingma
  • Patent number: 12029363
    Abstract: A floor cleaning head body includes: a cleaning head body having at least one suction port at the bottom; a base plate; a water supply tank mounted to the cleaning head body and located above the base plate; a water distributor mounted to the base plate; and a communicating tube. The water supply tank includes a venting hole in communication with the exterior. A first chamber is provided inside the water supply tank, and a water outlet is provided at the bottom of the water supply tank. The water distributor includes a housing, a water inlet provided at the top of the housing, a second chamber formed inside the housing, and a water outlet hole provided at the bottom of the housing. The first chamber, the water outlet, the water inlet, and the second chamber are in communication sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventors: Zhuang Bian, Pierre-Louis Bodin
  • Patent number: 12029362
    Abstract: A cleaning module includes a box body, at least one driving mechanism, and at least one rotating plate assembly. The at least one driving mechanism is positioned on a bottom surface of the box body and includes at least one drive shaft. Each rotating plate assembly is connected to a corresponding drive shaft and includes a cleaning surface, and the cleaning surface is configured to rotate under the drive of the corresponding drive shaft to clean a to-be cleaned surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FLY RODENT DYNAMICS INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Yang, Xiaofei Chen, Changtai Xia, Junpeng Qian
  • Patent number: 12022987
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a water tank and a cleaning robot, the water tank is applied to the cleaning robot, internally provided with a water storage cavity. The water tank has a splicing side, the splicing side is provided with an accommodating area recessed towards the inside of the water tank, the splicing side of the water tank is configured to splice with the body of the cleaning robot, and the accommodating area is configured to accommodate part of the structural parts of the body of the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FLY RODENT DYNAMICS INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusheng Huang, Jianya Li, Linlin Zhou, Wenhai Deng, Changtai Xia, Ruijun Yan
  • Patent number: 12000036
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus for performing a predetermined treatment on a substrate. The apparatus includes: a holding mechanism including a plurality of support pins configured to rotate between a holding position and a delivery position, a first magnetic part configured to rotate the support pins individually between the holding position and the delivery position by switching surrounding magnetic poles, and a second magnetic part configured to rotate the support pins individually to the holding position by constantly applying a magnetic field to the first magnetic part; and a switching mechanism configured to apply no magnetic field of a third magnetic part to the first magnetic part normally and apply a magnetic field of the third magnetic part to the first magnetic part to rotate the support pins individually to the delivery position only when the substrate is delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Tonai
  • Patent number: 11969858
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate polishing unit 40 having a polishing pad for polishing a wafer W, and a top ring 41 for holding a wafer and pressing the wafer against the polishing pad. An elastic membrane 80 for holding a surface opposite to a polishing surface of the wafer W is attached to the top ring 41 as a consumable. The elastic membrane 80 is provided with a plurality of strain sensors 85 and 86 for measuring strain occurring in the elastic membrane 80 during polishing, and data of an amount of strain is read to a control device 15 by detection units 90 and 91. The control device 15 sets a processing condition such as a polishing recipe for the wafer W based on strain information of the elastic membrane 80 measured by the strain sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Namiki, Makoto Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11957288
    Abstract: A double-tank water spraying mop, comprising a mop rod, a water tank housing, a first water tank, a second water tank, a water pump, a nozzle, and a distribution body, wherein the first water tank, the second water tank, the water pump, the nozzle and the distribution body are located in the water tank housing, the water pump is connected to the nozzle, after the water pump is started, the liquid entering the water pump from the first and second water tanks may be sprayed out through the nozzle; a distribution valve is further arranged in the distribution body, and under the distribution of the distribution valve, the liquid in the first water tank and the second water tank may flow into the water pump through the distribution body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Yuexiangshang Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongge Huang
  • Patent number: 11919133
    Abstract: A quick-release captive clamping pin that uses a ball-lock pin and an endcap assembly to provide a tooling assembly with both holding and clamping action with a quick-release function. The captive clamping pin may include an adjustable-length ball-lock pin inserted through the tool and workpiece, where the length adjustment is used to apply clamping force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Carr Lane Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Colin Walker Frost, Joshua Matthew Herschbach, Michael William Viejo-Robles, Nancy Jerrell Ruth Shepard
  • Patent number: 11904436
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an abrasive water jet full-section cutting type cutter head and application devices. The cutter head includes a cutter head body and a rotor eccentrically arranged on a working surface of the cutter head body. The rotor revolves with the cutter head body and also rotates about its own axis. At least one first nozzle is arranged on an edge of a working surface of the rotor. At least one group of second nozzles and at least one third nozzle are arranged on the working surface of the cutter head body, and the second nozzles and the third nozzle cooperate during the rotation of the cutter head body and the rotor, then a material to be cut is cut into a plurality of concentric rings, and the first nozzle cuts off the ring material to form fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dun Liu, Yifei Zhang, Hongtao Zhu, Weijie Zhang, Chuanzhen Huang