Patents Examined by Steven M Cernoch
  • Patent number: 12384437
    Abstract: A paint sprayer includes a cart assembly supporting a motor and a fluid intake conduit. The cart assembly has a frame with a pair of spaced-apart legs for supporting the cart assembly in an upright position, a telescoping handle movable between a retracted handle position and an extended handle position, an upper bracket projecting from the telescoping handle and a telescoping support movable between a retracted support position and an extended support position. The telescoping support supports the cart assembly in an inclined position between the upright position and a horizontal position of the cart assembly. The cart assembly has a pair of lower wheels for rolling the cart assembly when tilted back from the upright position and at least one upper wheel disposed on the telescoping handle for rolling the cart assembly along with the pair of lower wheels when in the horizontal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: TriTech Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Danuta H. Carey, Christopher M. Walsh, Bryan J. Tenbroeck
  • Patent number: 12364325
    Abstract: A fluid flow actuated tool including a housing, a tool and an actuating mechanism. The housing includes a housing interior. The housing interior receives a flow of fluid. The actuating mechanism includes a fluid wheel structure. The fluid wheel structure is connected to the tool. At least a portion of the fluid wheel structure is arranged in the flow of fluid for rotating the fluid wheel structure. The tool is actuated based on rotation of the fluid wheel structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Inventor: Erik Edenholm
  • Patent number: 12358008
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid topical composition includes a reservoir storing the composition and dispensing a pressurized flow of the composition. The device also includes an accumulator having an expandable chamber in fluidly communication with the reservoir. The chamber is biased towards a deflated configuration so that, when filled with the composition the chamber expands against this bias applying pressure to the composition stored therein. The device includes a supply valve regulating the flow of the composition from the reservoir to the accumulator, and a pressure sensor. The device further includes a processing arrangement analyzing data from the sensor to determine whether pressure in the accumulator is above a predetermined threshold and controlling the supply valve to maintain the pressure within a desired pressure range. The device also includes a deposition arrangement dispensing the composition from the accumulator under control of the processing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Kenvue Brands LLC
    Inventor: Curt Binner
  • Patent number: 12358004
    Abstract: A hose nozzle for spraying fluids is disclosed. The hose nozzle comprises a faceplate rotatable about a central pivot axis to two or more user-selectable rotational orientations. The faceplate comprises an upstream sealing surface and two or more entry openings. A seal member defines a seal opening that comprises a portion of a fluid flow pathway within the hose nozzle. The seal member may comprise a downstream sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Urry, Eric Tres Wangsgaard
  • Patent number: 12326087
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fire-prevention and extinguishing material for plugging an air leakage in an underground barrier pillar of a coal mine and a use method thereof. The fire-prevention and extinguishing material for plugging the air leakage includes an upper fabric layer, an intermediate layer, and a lower fabric layer. A plurality of fiber filaments are evenly distributed in the intermediate layer such that the intermediate layer has a flexible deformability. The intermediate layer is filled with a cement powder. The upper fabric layer is made of a flame-retardant flexible material. The upper fabric layer is configured to deform under a pressure to block off oxygen and plug the air leakage in the underground barrier pillar. The lower fabric layer is made of a water-soluble material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Quanlin Shi, Botao Qin, Xu Shao, Mingyue Hao, Zujie Ma, Gang Han, Jiahao Xie, Hu Liu
  • Patent number: 12311401
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a boom for a sprayer vehicle, comprising: a fluid-carrying medium; one or more first nozzles fluidly coupled to the fluid-carrying medium; and plural unmanned aerial vehicles tethered together, the plural unmanned aerial vehicles each comprising plural fans, wherein the one or more first nozzles are arranged to discharge material through one or more fans of the plural fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Aron Crowley
  • Patent number: 12296209
    Abstract: An aircraft engine fire extinguishing system includes a supply housing for containing a fire extinguishing agent. Also included is a line for routing the fire extinguishing agent from the supply housing. Further included is a nozzle structure operatively coupled to the line, the nozzle structure having a non-circular opening for expelling the fire extinguishing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mark P. Fazzio, Terry Simpson
  • Patent number: 12292002
    Abstract: There is provided a casing assembly for a gas turbine engine comprising: a casing and electrically conductive intumescent material extending around the casing. The intumescent material is being activatable in response to electrical current to expand. The casing assembly comprises an electrical activation line extending around the casing to activate the intumescent material. The activation line extends in a pattern such that an activation area which circumscribes the activation line has an axial extent of at least 50% of the casing and a circumferential extent of at least 50%, to thereby activate the intumescent material at multiple locations over a corresponding area of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Marcus J. George
  • Patent number: 12275031
    Abstract: A rotor nozzle structure has a chamber deployed with a rotor connecting to the water outlet and an adjusting element, wherein the rotor nozzle is capable of generating a directing stream and a wide-angle swirl stream, and the adjusting element is switchable by a rotational means for driving the rotor in a rotation or static status in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: YUAN MEI CORP.
    Inventor: Shun Nan Lo
  • Patent number: 12269048
    Abstract: The present invention provides a spray device that generates a fluidic micro-jet spray and that allows and retains a relatively narrow droplet size distribution, of micro-jets and droplets obtained via the Rayleigh breakup mechanism, under a well-defined control of coalescence. To tint end a spray device is characterized in that a spray nozzle unit is formed by a nozzle body (1), comprising a support body (2) with at least one cavity (3) spanned by a membrane layer (4) having a nozzle orifice throughout a thickness of said membrane layer at an area of said cavity (3) in fluid communication with that cavity (3). The nozzle orifice may be part of a first relatively dense group of first orifices (5a) or of a less dense second group of second nozzle orifices (5b) in the membrane layer. A mean diameter of the nozzle orifices (5a) located in the first group substantially differs from the mean diameter of the nozzle orifices (5b) in the second group to obtain a uniform droplet size distribution in the spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MEDSPRAY B.V.
    Inventors: Cornelis Johannes Maria Van Rijn, Wietze Nijdam, Wilhelmus Petrus Johannes De Kruijf, Henri Joseph Van Egmond
  • Patent number: 12263365
    Abstract: A quint configuration fire apparatus includes a chassis, a body assembly coupled to the chassis and having a storage area configured to receive a ground ladder and a fire hose, a pump coupled to the chassis, a water tank coupled to the chassis, a ladder assembly having a proximal end that is coupled to the chassis, a single front axle coupled to a front end of the chassis, and a single rear axle coupled to a rear end of the chassis. The center of gravity of at least one of the chassis, the body assembly, the pump, and the water tank are positioned to counterbalance a moment generated by a tip load with the ladder assembly extended to the horizontal reach of at least 90 feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OSHKOSH CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael R. Moore
  • Patent number: 12257593
    Abstract: A sprinkler device for delivering an irrigation liquid for gravity-based pivot or linear irrigation systems includes a support structure having a first portion with a nozzle defining a longitudinal axis for generating a jet of liquid, and a second portion with a baffle plate pivoted thereto and facing the nozzle. The second portion includes a drive system, which has a first magnet moving with a reciprocating oscillatory motion due to a negative pressure generated by the liquid that flows through the nozzle, and is configured to move the baffle plate along, and force it to pivot with a reciprocating oscillatory motion about the longitudinal axis through a predetermined angle, to thereby deliver the liquid over a sector area of the soil. A method of delivering an irrigation liquid for gravity-based pivot or linear irrigation systems that uses such a sprinkler device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Komet Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Arno Drechsel
  • Patent number: 12251719
    Abstract: Nozzle assemblies adapted to produce an oscillatory spray pattern. A rotor member having at least one lobe engaged with one or more cavities of a stator surface for defining an oscillatory movement of the rotor member in response to a motive fluid along the rotor member and stator surface. The nozzle assembly directing the motive fluid along one or more tapered surfaces, such as complementary tapered surfaces of the rotor and stator surface. The rotor member is operatively coupled with the spray member for oscillatory movement therewith. The spray member adapted to receive the motive fluid and emit the fluid as a spray from the nozzle assembly. The spray having an oscillatory pattern that matches the oscillatory movement of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sonny's HFI Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Schuller, Ryan Olson
  • Patent number: 12246204
    Abstract: A sprinkler includes a sprinkler body having a fluid inlet; a seal configured to prevent fluid flow through the sprinkler body when the seal is in a first position; a bulb configured to retain the seal in the first position, the bulb configured to break at a temperature and allow the seal to move to a second position allowing fluid flow through the sprinkler body; and an identification device located within the bulb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MARIOFF CORPORATION OY
    Inventors: Nazar Krutskevych, Wojciech Zimny
  • Patent number: 12234016
    Abstract: An aerial fluid dispersal system includes a fluid reservoir configured to hold a quantity of fluid, a manifold assembly in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir, a fluid pump coupled in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir and the manifold assembly, a plurality of nozzle assemblies coupled in fluid communication with the manifold assembly, and a controller coupled to the fluid pump and the plurality of nozzle assemblies. Each nozzle assembly includes an electrically-actuated valve, a spray nozzle fluidly coupled downstream of the electrically-actuated valve, and a check valve fluidly coupled in series with the electrically-actuated valve. The controller is configured to control the operating parameter of the electrically-actuated valve of each nozzle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Capstan Ag Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Madison, Andrew J. Holtz
  • Patent number: 12234135
    Abstract: A fire apparatus includes a chassis, a front axle coupled to the chassis, a rear axle coupled to the chassis, a torque box coupled to the chassis, a pedestal coupled to the torque box, a ladder assembly coupled to the pedestal, and a stability assembly. The torque box has a front end and a rear end. The pedestal is positioned between the front end and the rear end of the torque box. The stability assembly includes a housing coupled to the chassis and the front end of the torque box, a pair of outriggers received within the housing, and a downrigger coupled to the rear end of the torque box. The pair of outriggers is selectively extendable laterally outward in opposing directions. The downrigger is selectively extendable downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Archer, Don Parshall, Eric D. Betz, Eric R. Linsmeier, Jennifer L. Bloemer, Jeffrey D. Aiken, Jon J. Morrow, Michael R. Moore, Peter K. Kramer, Troy D. Lind
  • Patent number: 12219953
    Abstract: A pressure self-controlled irrigation and pesticide application sprinkler for a micro-irrigation system, the sprinkler mainly including a sprinkler body, a sprinkler cap, a spring sleeve, flow guide holes, a spring washer, a mist spraying nozzle, a rotary acceleration chamber, a compressible spring, arc-shaped flow passages, a thread, a deflection surface, an engagement recess, flow guide slots, a connecting rod movable hole, and a connecting rod. The sprinkler is configured as a double-flow-passage structure. The sprinkler body is provided therein with the spring sleeve and the spring washer. Water flow pressure is controlled to push the spring washer to drive the spring sleeve to move vertically, thereby achieving the switching between two operating modes, i.e., irrigation and mist spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Junping Liu, Xingye Zhu, Shouqi Yuan, Xinjian Wang, Qingsong Liu
  • Patent number: 12214456
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a device for mounting spring pieces on a machine housing that can enable high-accuracy press-fitting of the spring piece without any damages to magnetic shoes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HENGDIAN GROUP INNUOVO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haojie Jiang, Junjian Lu
  • Patent number: 12201107
    Abstract: A rotating atomizer device for the correction of eventual separations that random variations cause in the final result of the phytosanitary treatment so the application of the chemical products is done completely in agreement with what has been prescribed by the agronomic professional, achieving a greater efficiency of the phytosanitary spraying process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TECNOPULVERIZACION, SOCIEDAD ANONIMA
    Inventor: Mercedes Bonamico
  • Patent number: 12199415
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a line pulling system that may include an engagement assembly, which may include an engagement cable configured to be pushed or pulled. The assembly may also include a cable mounting assembly connected to the support member and the engagement cable, a hinged linkage connected to the support member and the engagement cable and configured to partially rotate in response to a push or pull from the engagement cable, an engagement arm connected to the hinged linkage and configured to move according to the rotation motion of hinged linkage, a coupling ring connected to the engagement arm and configured to transition between an engaged position and a disengaged position in response to movement from the engagement arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Sherman + Reilly, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Hanson, Nathan Russell, Reginald Jones, Robert Post, Erik Bracker