Patents Examined by Teresa A Guthrie
  • Patent number: 12318896
    Abstract: A press jaw has a drive press jaw and a replaceable press insert which can be coupled thereto, to a drive press jaw having coupling elements, to a press insert having a coupler which can be used as a press jaw insert or as a press loop, and to a system for pressing fittings with tubes, having a modular design with a press jaw, at least two press inserts with different diameters, and a tension insert, wherein the tension insert and the drive press jaw form a tension jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Nemak, S.A.B. de C.V.
    Inventor: Jörg Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 12312788
    Abstract: Baffles for disposer systems, as well as disposer systems employing such baffles and methods of implementing and operating such baffles and disposer systems. In at least one example embodiment, a baffle includes a cylindrical rim and a plurality of pleats that are attached to, or integrally formed with, the cylindrical rim. A first face of the baffle includes a first structural characteristic and a second face includes a second structural characteristic. The first and second structural characteristics are of a same type but also are different, whereby due at least in part to the first and second structural characteristics being different from one another, the baffle is capable of being implemented within the disposer system in either of first and second orientations, respectively, so that the disposer system is configured to operate to achieve either of first and second functional objectives, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventor: Kevin McClory
  • Patent number: 12290850
    Abstract: Machine for working bars, suitable for working at least one bar having a mainly oblong development; the machine comprises at least two support sliders, of which at least one is mobile reciprocally toward/away from the other along an axis of movement and each provided with a work plane on which at least one curving unit is installed, suitable to curve at least a longitudinal portion of said bar, and at least a first bending unit, provided with a first contrast element having a first bending radius, and with a first bending element selectively rotatable about said first contrast element in order to bend said bar around the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: M.E.P. MACCHINE ELETTRONICHE PIEGATRICI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Del Fabro
  • Patent number: 12247903
    Abstract: A cross-contamination free and multiple laboratory sample grinder includes: a controller unit having a motor and a controller unit; a tube receptacle unit, removably laid on top of the controller unit, comprises a plurality of compartments designed to contain a plurality of laboratory tubes; and a top housing unit, removably laid on top of the tube receptacle unit, comprises an array of pestles coupled to a gear system that is operated by that motor. The top housing unit comprises a handle and a roller connector having a pair of wheels when rotated operable to eject the array of pestles into the plurality of laboratory tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
    Inventor: Toi Van Vo
  • Patent number: 12214413
    Abstract: A processing unit for processing a workpiece wall of a workpiece with a forward stroke carried out by the processing unit in a forward stroke direction of the processing unit towards the workpiece, and with a backward stroke carried out by the processing unit in a backward stroke direction of the processing unit away from the workpiece, wherein the workpiece and the processing unit move relative to each other along a working axis of the processing unit. A processing machine for processing a workpiece wall of a workpiece contains the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FELSS Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Udo Trautz, Alexander Muthny, Matthias Kluge
  • Patent number: 12179254
    Abstract: A workpiece executes a rotation movement about a longitudinal axis and is machined by a tool in a multitude of reshaping engagements, in which an active region of the tool comes into contact with the machining region. The tool is held by a tool holder. The tool holder is mounted in an orbiting body so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis and is driven to carry out a rotating movement about the rotation axis, and is driven to carry out an orbiting movement by the orbiting body. Rotation movement of the workpiece is synchronised with the orbiting movement of the tool holder and the rotating movement of the first tool holder is synchronised with the orbiting movement of the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ERNST GROB AG
    Inventors: Daniel Dériaz, Ekrem Kapkin, Jan Schmid
  • Patent number: 12157154
    Abstract: A method for preparing a high-performance difficult-to-deform metal precision seamless pipe includes steps of performing a heat treatment; drilling; externally grinding; internally grinding; straightening; performing four-roller warm-rolling; performing warm-drawing to reduce a diameter; performing warm-expansion to reduce a wall thickness and increase the diameter; performing precise cold-rolling; degreasing; brightening; performing surface grinding; cleaning dust; detecting flaws; testing metal structure performance; and sizing and packaging. By cycling the warm-drawing, the warm-expansion, and the precision cold-rolling, key indicators such as product dimensional accuracy, surface quality, material properties, and crystal grain size can be collaboratively controlled, to achieve higher accuracy, better performance, and more outstanding extreme specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhibing Chu, Qianhua Yang, Dong Wei, Duo Zhang, Chun Xue, Xiaodong Zhao, Yugui Li
  • Patent number: 12145243
    Abstract: A working head for a hydraulic power tool. The working head includes a head frame and a first moveable die head configured to move along the working head frame. The first moveable die head is configured to receive a first moveable die comprising a first body length and a second die head is adapted to receive a second die comprising a second body length. At least one of the moveable die or the stationary die comprises an elongated die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Koski, Troy Marks, Eric Norquist, James Ballard, Kris Kanack
  • Patent number: 12145287
    Abstract: A superabsorbent polymer hydrogel chopping device is provided. The superabsorbent polymer hydrogel chopping device includes a barrel body having a transfer space to which a hydrogel is transferred therein and a discharge portion through which the hydrogel is discharged is formed to face in a ground direction, a transfer unit installed in the barrel body and configured to transfer the hydrogel in the transfer space, a cutter member installed in the barrel body and configured to pulverize the hydrogel transferred by the transfer unit, and a perforated plate configured to discharge particles of the hydrogel pulverized by the cutter member to the outside of the barrel body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventor: Heechang Woo
  • Patent number: 12136736
    Abstract: A pouch-shaped case forming apparatus for forming a pouch-shaped case has a terrace step, wherein there are no dents or wrinkles at a pouch folding portion of the pouch-shaped case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Yoon Kong, Shin Hwa Lee
  • Patent number: 12128466
    Abstract: In a roll press device, a thickness meter is provided on the exit side of first and second pressure rollers and detects the thickness of an electrode plate of a secondary battery at three or more points in the width direction of the electrode plate. From thickness measurement values at the three or more points and a thickness target value, a calculation unit calculates three feature amounts: the deviation between a thickness measurement value at the central point among the three or more points and the thickness target value, the quadratic component of the thickness profile of the electrode plate, and the linear component of the thickness profile of the electrode plate, and adaptively changes the respective pressure setting values of the first press mechanism, the second press mechanism, the first bend mechanism, and the second bend mechanism based on the three feature amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Terasawa, Yoshihiro Miyoshi, Naoyuki Koide
  • Patent number: 12083575
    Abstract: A device and method for producing a thin-walled component, in particular a housing film for a pouch cell, from an initial part, comprising a first coil body, an electrical circuit for providing a pulsed electrical current, a die with a support facing the first coil body for the initial part to be reshaped, the support having the shape of the component to be produced, and a first separating device by which a first partial area can be at least partially separated from a second partial area of the initial part, it being possible for the initial part to be arranged between the first coil body and the die, to be accelerated by an electromagnetic force acting between the first coil body and the initial part towards the die and thereby to be deformed by the support and to be at least partially separated by the first separating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Frederik Grau, Kartik Jamadar, Christian Theuerkauf
  • Patent number: 12042835
    Abstract: A rolling controller executes speed and tension control, and roll gap and plate thickness control when rolling speed is less than a boundary value, while executing roll gap and plate tension control, and speed and plate thickness control when the rolling speed is equal to or greater than the boundary value. If the rolling speed rises across the boundary value, the rolling controller sets the rolling speed to zero such that a speed correction amount in the speed and tension control before the transboundary is not reflected to a calculation executed in the speed control amount of the rolling speed after the transboundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: TMEIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Minoru Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11819896
    Abstract: There is provided a method for identifying thrust counterforce working point positions of backup rolls of a rolling mill, the method including: changing at least either friction coefficients and inter-roll cross angles between the rolls with an unchanged kiss roll load to cause thrust forces at a plurality of levels to act between the rolls, and measuring thrust counterforces in a roll-axis direction acting on rolls forming at least one of roll pairs other than a roll pair of the backup rolls and measuring backup roll counterforces acting in a vertical direction on the backup rolls at reduction support positions in a kiss roll state; and identifying, based on the measured thrust counterforces, thrust counterforce working point positions of thrust counterforces acting on the backup rolls, using first equilibrium conditional expressions relating to forces acting on the rolls and second equilibrium conditional expressions relating to moments acting on the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Yamaguchi, Atsushi Ishii, Daisuke Nikkuni
  • Patent number: 11801515
    Abstract: A paper scrap pushing structure of a paper shredder, having a paper pushing unit, with a spindle having a longitudinal axis, a spindle flap coupled along the longitudinal axis to the spindle; and a paddle pushing segment, coupled to the spindle flap. The spindle is arranged under a paper outlet of the paper shredder and is in linkage with a paper shredder cutter shaft through a synchronous transmission device. When the rotating shaft rotates, the rotating shaft drives the paddle pushing segment to move in the circumferential direction along with the spindle flap, removing paper scraps at the top of a paper scrap pile in a shredded paper waste bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aurora Office Equipment Co., Ltd. Shanghai
    Inventors: Chung Shih Tsai, Er Ren Zhong, Guanglong Chen
  • Patent number: 11794227
    Abstract: A working roller for a rolling mill for laminating a sheet of alkali metal or alloy thereof into a film is disclosed. The working roller has a cylindrical center portion defining a central axis, the center portion having an outer surface defining a lamination surface; and first and second frustoconical portions extending from first and second ends of the center portion respectively. When the central axis is straight, an angle between the outer surface of the center portion and an outer surface of each of the first and second frustoconical portions is less than 0.05 degrees. A width of the center portion is greater than a width of each of the first and second frustoconical portions. The width of the center portion is less than a sum of the widths of the first and second portions. A rolling mill having two such working rollers is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE SOLUTIONS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Dube, Francois Lapierre
  • Patent number: 11795710
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit which feeds a wire, a curl guide which curls the fed wire around an object to be bound, a binding unit including a twisting shaft provided to be rotatable around an axis, a gripping part provided at one end of the twisting shaft and a drive unit provided to the other end of the twisting shaft, a control unit which controls the drive unit, and a binding machine main body which accommodates therein the binding unit and the control unit. When an inside of the binding machine main body is divided by a virtual plane perpendicular to the axis to be partitioned into a first space in which the gripping part is accommodated and a second space in which the drive unit is accommodated, the control unit is arranged in the second space in which the drive unit is accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Itagaki
  • Patent number: 11794232
    Abstract: A system for shaping a workpiece, which may be in the form of a structural framing component, includes a tool with first and second indenting blades for indenting the workpiece as driven by a blade control apparatus. The workpiece is supported at the tool by one or more workpiece support modules that are each selectively and removably securable to the tool. A base plate is provided at the tool for removably securing the workpiece support modules to the tool without having to detach the tool from a platform of substructure. The workpiece support modules may therefore be quickly replaced to coordinate with workpieces of various size and shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SIMPSON STRONG-TIE COMPANY INC.
    Inventor: Charles Mears
  • Patent number: 11795616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade for a disc refiner intended for refining lignocellulosic material, the blade (10) comprising a surface (1) delimited by an inner circumference (11) and an outer circumference (12), a refiner zone (2) on the surface (1) for refining lignocellulosic material, a blank zone (3) on the surface (1), wherein the refiner zone (2) is arranged closer to the inner circumference (11) than the blank zone (3), the blade (10) further comprising a separation groove (4) that is arranged between the refiner zone (2) and the blank zone (3), and at least one connecting groove (5) that connects the separation groove (4) to the outer circumference (12) of the blade (10) across the blank zone (3). The invention also relates to a blade pair and to a refiner comprising at least one blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VALMET AB
    Inventors: Thommy Lindblom, Marcus Sjölund
  • Patent number: 11786948
    Abstract: A roll state monitor device includes: rolling force detector configured to detect rolling force of a monitored roll selected from an upper roll set and a lower roll set; force variation value extractor configured to extract a rolling force variation value based on the rolling force for each rotation position of the monitored roll; and identification part configured to identify a roll eccentricity amount of the monitored roll by acquiring a plurality of accumulated values by accumulating separately for each rotation position of the monitored roll a value which is one of the rolling force variation value and a roll gap equivalent value calculated based on the rolling force variation value, and by dividing each of the plurality of accumulated values by a correction coefficient corresponding to a roll rotation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI—ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Imanari, Yukihiro Yamasaki