Patents Examined by Spencer H Kirkwood
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Patent number: 10368679Abstract: A slow cooker comprises a case; a control circuit component and an inner pot for receiving food are disposed inside the case; the inner pot is arranged inside the case in a pick-and-place manner; a temperature detection component for temperature detection is arranged on the sidewall of the inner pot, and a mount seat connected to the case is arranged at the bottom of the inner pot; a liftable heating apparatus is arranged on the mount seat; the heating apparatus comprises a heating component and a lifting mechanism which can drive the heating component upwards and downwards. A temperature detection component arranged in the slow cooker is capable of detecting the temperature in the inner pot precisely; a lifting mechanism arranged in the slow cooker is capable of adjusting the distance from the inner pot to preheat the inner pot, improving cooking efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: T.F. ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenhung Chou
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Patent number: 10357039Abstract: A baking device for producing baked goods, in particular for producing filled baked goods, includes baking presses that can be swung open and closed, can be moved from a feeding device through the baking chamber of the oven and to a goods removal device on a continuously moving continuous conveyor that circulates in the longitudinal direction of the oven. The baking presses have a lower baking mold and an upper baking mold, each movable between open and closed positions about a baking-press axis. The baking presses are connected to the continuous conveyor by releasable mechanical connections. The baking device also has a baking-press removal station at at least one point of the continuous conveyor, at which baking-press removal station baking presses can be removed and reattached. The removal and redelivery of the baking presses are performed on the continuously moving continuous conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Haas Food Equipment GmbHInventors: Adam Reinhart, Johannes Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jiraschek
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Patent number: 10285530Abstract: The invention relates to a cooking attachment (2) for a heatable vessel (3) of a kitchen appliance, which cooking attachment (2) has a bottom (4) comprising at least one bottom opening (5), through which steam, which escapes from the vessel (3), can enter the cooking attachment (2) and/or condensate, which escapes from the cooking attachment (2), can enter the vessel (3). To attain a more homogenous and quicker cooking of the food contained in the cooking attachment (2), it is proposed for the bottom (4) to have a plurality of spacers (6), which stick out from the bottom (4), for keeping a food contained in the cooking attachment (2) at a distance from the bottom opening (5), on the side, which faces the interior of the cooking attachment (2), wherein the bottom opening (5) is at least partially surrounded by the spacers (6) in circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventor: Markus Cornelissen
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Patent number: 10279984Abstract: A cartridge for obtaining a beverage by injecting into the cartridge a pressurized fluid, comprising a box-like body, which accommodates a substance from which it is possible to extract the beverage, and which accommodates on its inside an insert which separates the substance from a bottom wall of the box-like body, forming an interspace. The insert comprises an orifice for the passage of the beverage toward the interspace, whereas the bottom wall comprises a region which can be pierced to obtain an opening for the outflow of the beverage. In the interspace there is a basin which is arranged laterally with respect to the pierceable region in order to accumulate the beverage received directly from the orifice and make it flow out of the opening by overflowing.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: ILLYCAFFE' S.P.A.Inventors: Luca Mastropasqua, Angelo Dori, Stefano Santagiuliana, Giuseppe Cutuli, Gaia Brollo, Furio Suggi Liverani, Gianluca Giamba
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Patent number: 10278539Abstract: An actuating mechanism for a toaster, and in particular a bread identification actuating mechanism for a toaster, comprises a toast frame arranged in a housing, a sliding rack capable of moving upwards and downwards, and a control circuit, a toast rack being coupled to the sliding rack, a bracket being fixed to one end of the toast rack, the bracket being hinged to the sliding rack: wherein the toaster actuating mechanism is provided with a sensing device for identifying an angular displacement of the bracket, and the bracket drives a light barrier, the sensing device being arranged on a movement tack of the light barrier, the light barrier being capable of blocking a sensing light passage of the sensing device, the sensing device being coupled to the control circuit via a data line.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Shenzhen Crastal Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: George Mohan Zhang, Huajin Chen, Yanbing Luo
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Patent number: 10231565Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric pressure cooker, which includes a cooker body and a cooker cover, wherein the cooker body is provided with a magnetic sensitive switch and a magnetic member, and the magnetic member can move between a first position and a second position relative to the magnetic sensitive switch so that a control circuit of the electric pressure cooker can be powered on or powered off; and the cooker cover is arranged on the cooker body, and can rotate relative to the cooker body so that the magnetic member can move between the first position and the second position. According to the electric pressure cooker, the magnetic sensitive switch and the magnetic member constitute a detection device for detecting whether the cooker cover is closed in place, and therefore the electric pressure cooker is simple in structure and low in manufacturing cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: Foshan Shunde Midea Electrical Heating Appliances Manufacturing Co. Limited, Midea Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanping Song, Ruide Chen, Siheng Cao
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Patent number: 10213049Abstract: A rotisserie adapter apparatus for use with a cooking device includes an annular cylindrical base. The base has an inner wall about a central opening, the inner wall having a substantially consistent depth about the base. The base also includes a top surface abutting the inner wall and an outer wall abutting the top surface, the outer wall having a depth ranging from a first depth at a front of the base comparable to the depth of the inner wall to a near zero depth at a back of the annular cylindrical base. A bottom surface of the base connects between a bottom of the outer wall and an outer surface of the inner wall. At least two notches are formed in the inner wall, wherein the central opening is positioned between notches, and wherein at least one of the notches extends through the top surface of the cylindrical base.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: KAMADO CONCEPTS, LLCInventors: Joseph Frank Skrodzki, Gary F. Bertassi
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Patent number: 10189116Abstract: A laser machining head includes a collimation lens, a focusing lens, and a nozzle unit. The nozzle unit includes a protective member, an inner nozzle, an outer nozzle, a nozzle holding section, and an orifice. The outer nozzle is disposed outside the inner nozzle and the nozzle holding section holds the inner nozzle and the outer nozzle. The orifice is in contact with the inner nozzle and is interposed between the nozzle holding section and the outer nozzle. The nozzle holding section has a first gas path connecting the air supply port disposed in the nozzle holding section and the orifice. The orifice has a third gas path for connecting a second gas path disposed between the inner nozzle and the outer nozzle, and the first gas path. In the vicinity of the tip of the nozzle unit, an opening connected to the second gas path is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Wataru Takahashi, Yasushi Mukai, Yiheng Kung
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Patent number: 10183354Abstract: A weld stud for drawn-arc stud welding has a functional portion and a welding portion which represents one end of the weld stud and which is delimited by a front face that is curved outwards in a longitudinal direction of the weld stud.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Erich Kerscher, Reinhard Holzner
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Patent number: 10172495Abstract: Embodiments of an infusion extractor are provided including a plunger to be inserted into an infusing container containing the infusion mixture that can have vertical inner walls oriented parallel to a vertical axis of the container. In some implementations, the plunger includes a first surface with a seal situated at an edge of the surface. The seal is adapted for sealing against the inner walls of the infusing container as the plunger moves within the container. The plunger also includes a second surface extending from the first surface and defining a second chamber. At least a portion of the extract flow openings are situated at a depth either above or below the first surface along the vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: ESPRO, Inc.Inventors: Christopher R. McLean, Bruce A. Constantine
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Patent number: 10149568Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a filter positioning structure for a beverage infuser. In the filter positioning structure, a casing member includes upper and lower engaging parts respectively connected with top and bottom ends of a connecting part. A filter can be combined with the lower engaging part. The upper engaging part is ring-shaped and has protruding parts on an outer periphery thereof. Therefore, the filter positioning structure can be positioned in the beverage infuser by blocking between the protruding parts and a stop part of a body of the beverage infuser.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: Tzu Yuan Shen
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Patent number: 10149352Abstract: A microwave oven includes an outer housing defining an accommodating chamber therein and having a first cooling air inlet and a first cooling air outlet therein; an inner housing disposed within the accommodating chamber and defining a heating chamber therein, the heating chamber having a second cooling air inlet and a second cooling air outlet communicated with the first cooling air outlet, a cooling air passage being defined between an upper surface of the inner housing and a top wall of the accommodating chamber and communicated with the second cooling air inlet; a cooling fan having an air inlet communicated with the first cooling air inlet via an air inlet passage and an air outlet communicated with the cooling air passage; and an electrical component disposed within the cooling air passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA KITCHEN APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhifei Huang, Quanhong Jiang, Shiyong Liu, Motan Zhu
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Patent number: 10080462Abstract: A sprayhead for a pour over coffee brewing machine for delivering hot water to coffee grounds held in a brew basket therebelow, has a housing with a water inlet at one end thereof, which is connectable to an intermittent source of hot water. A holding chamber for accumulating a quantity of hot water therein is located within the housing and is connected to the water inlet. A dispensing chamber is located within the housing and below the holding chamber, in use. A bell siphon located in the holding chamber delivers the accumulated quantity of water from the holding chamber to the dispensing chamber, and then to the coffee grounds, once the water level in the holding chamber rises above an open end of a siphon tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Inventors: Sean Martin Moran, Paul Drewry Pearson, Paul Francis Stack
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Patent number: 10040145Abstract: When two high-strength steel sheets (1A, 1B) whose sheet thickness ratio={the sum of sheet thicknesses of the steel sheets}/{the sheet thickness of the thinner steel sheet (when they have the same thickness, the sheet thickness per one sheet)} is within a range of not less than 2 nor more than 5 and which both have tensile strength of not less than 780 MPa nor more than 1850 MPa are stacked to be subjected to resistance spot welding, a first welding step being pre-welding with a pressurizing force P1 kN and a welding current I1 kA and a second welding step being main welding with a pressurizing force P2 kN and a welding current I2 kA are performed, the pressurizing forces P1, P2 are set to a fixed pressurizing force P=P1=P2 all through the first welding step and the second welding step and are set within a range expressed by {0.5?P?3.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Furusako, Hatsuhiko Oikawa, Yasunobu Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10016095Abstract: A salad spinner includes an outer bowl configured to hold an inner basket. The bowl and basket are each configured with a central post supported by a base structure having a pillar and a piston. A helical screw positioned within the pillar engages a drive shaft within the piston in order to rotate the drive shaft as the piston moves upward and downward with respect to the pillar. A spring biases the piston in the upward position to enable reciprocal telescoping movement.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Lawrence M. Hauser, Jennifer K. Cotter, Cole Dalton
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Patent number: 10014084Abstract: Nuclear reactor vessel segmenting utilizing improved arc saw systems and methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Arc Saw Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas S. LaGuardia, Richard Simoneau
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Patent number: 9968220Abstract: There are disclosed cooking devices and methods for automatically emptying the drain/waste water of such devices with minimal spillage of the drain/waste water. More particularly, disclosed are structures for automatically emptying the drain/waste water of cooking devices that employ a moveable collection device with minimal spillage of the drain/waste water. The cooking devices of the present disclosure provide increased safety by: reducing the possibility of a slippery floor; reducing the potential of food/food area contamination; and reducing the possibility of water penetrating building construction or causing mold growth. Also disclosed are methods of suing such devices and methods of retrofitting cooking devices with such means for automatically emptying the drain/waste water.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: CONVOTHERM ELEKTROGERAETE GMBHInventors: Hannes Wild, Martina Feierabend, Konstantin Stroh
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Patent number: 9961919Abstract: A machine for making variegated ice cream or ice cream shake, including: a basic structure; one or more basic product mixing and freezing units, where each mixing and freezing unit in turn includes a processing cylinder containing the basic product and cooled by a respective refrigerating system and a stirring member mounted inside the processing cylinder and rotating to mix the basic product to prevent it from hardening and sticking to the cooled inside wall of the processing cylinder and to transform the basic product into a basic flavor; a closing element for closing the cylinder and provided with at least one outlet duct leading to the processing cylinder at one end and to an outlet mouth at the other end.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: ALI S.P.A.—CARPIGIANI GROUPInventors: Andrea Cocchi, Roberto Lazzarini
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Patent number: 9955823Abstract: A system when coupled with a material inputting, material holding, and washing device is a fully automated robotized cooking system. Computer control what material is inputted in the Cooking Chambers, the correct time and degree of heat, required amount of rotation, placing the cooked item in the bowl, and washing the Cooking Chamber. The device have horizontal rotation, like a ferris wheel, that keep each Cooking Chambers horizontally until rotation is required. The Pivoter pivot the Cooking Chambers up or down at any position in the rotation. There can be up to 6 Cooking Chambers independently operating at the same time. This invention can cook up to six different food items at the same time twenty four hours a day.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Inventor: Tony Kahn Vong
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Patent number: 9950385Abstract: A wire feeding mechanism includes feeding rollers and a cushioning mechanism. The feeding rollers feed a wire, which is drawn from a wire supply source, along a predetermined feed path. The cushioning mechanism is arranged between the wire supply source and the feeding rollers. The wire has an intermediate portion that extends from the wire supply source to the feeding rollers. The cushioning mechanism applies tension to the intermediate portion while the length of the intermediate portion is changing.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: DAIHEN CorporationInventors: Gen Tsujii, Ryoji Tamaki