Patents Examined by Thomas M Wittenschlaeger
  • Patent number: 11607220
    Abstract: Jaw assemblies for a surgical stapler are provided. The jaw assemblies comprise a first jaw having a first clamping surface and a plurality of staples disposed therein and second jaw assembly having a second clamping surface. The jaw assemblies can be actuated from a closed configuration in which the first clamping surface contacts or is adjacent to the second clamping surface to an open configuration in which the second jaw is pivoted away from the first jaw to a stapling position in which the second clamping surface is parallel to the first clamping surface and spaced apart from the first clamping surface. A pivoting link or sliding pivot joint can couple the second jaw to the first jaw to facilitate motion between the closed position, the open position, and the stapling position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Covach, Matthew M. Becerra, Gary M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11602831
    Abstract: An air impact tool includes an inner tubular member that is connected to the barrel. The inner tubular member has an annular wall and a cavity. The annular wall has exhaust hole. An air flow channel communicating with the air flow control valve and the cavity is defined inside the annular wall. The air flow channel is formed with a first air inlet. A hammer is in the cavity. The hammer is in close contact with the annular wall. A cylindrical gap is defined between a middle section of the hammer and the annular wall. The hammer has an exhaust passageway communicating with the cavity and the cylindrical gap. When the compressed air is injected into the cavity from the first air inlet, the hammer is pushed back, and the compressed air is exhausted via the exhaust passageway, the cylindrical gap and the exhaust hole in sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: STORM PNEUMATIC TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yung Yung Sun
  • Patent number: 11602830
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various embodiments of a combustion-powered-fastener-driving tool that include a lockout device to ensure the tool's valve sleeve doesn't move to an unsealed position and the tool's combustion chamber remains sealed until the piston returns to the pre-firing position. The lockout device is engageable with a lockout device engaging member operably connected to the tool's trigger, which gives the operator direct control over locking the valve sleeve in the unsealed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Taylor, Julius Schwartzenberger
  • Patent number: 11602916
    Abstract: A method and system for forming domes or protruded structures in a flat material such as paper is disclosed. The method includes cutting one or more sheets; applying an adhesive between the one or more sheets, joining the one or more sheets together in a registered manner to form a substrate, encapsulating the one or more sheets in a container to prevent curing of the adhesive, opening the container, and pressing the adhesive under pressure to shape the substrate into a desired shape may include the domes or protruded structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: LITTLE FEET PACKAGING, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas P. De Luca
  • Patent number: 11597067
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a tool holder, a motor for rotational and/or percussive driving of the tool holder, and a magnetic field sensor disposed in a vicinity of the motor, where a magnetic field of the motor that is created by driving the tool holder by the motor is detectable by the magnetic field sensor. The hand-held power tool further includes a control device where the control device determines a load state of the motor in dependence on a detected magnetic field of the motor and differentiates between an idle mode of the hand-held power tool and a load mode of the hand-held power tool based on the determined load state of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventor: Christian Iglhaut
  • Patent number: 11597547
    Abstract: A strapping apparatus for strapping articles with a strapping band having a base plate provided for arranging on an article, a tensioning device with which a band tension can be applied to the strapping band, and a sealing device for permanently connecting two band layers to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventor: Flavio Finzo
  • Patent number: 11596404
    Abstract: An end effector of a surgical stapler includes first and second jaw members and a buttress releasably secured to the first jaw member. The first jaw member defines a first projection and a second projection distal of the first projection. The buttress defines a first slot and a first aperture distal of the first slot. The first slot is dimensioned to receive the first projection of the first jaw member, and the first aperture is dimensioned to receive the second projection of the first jaw member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Ernie Aranyi
  • Patent number: 11597546
    Abstract: A strapping machine configured for and method for actuating the belt drive mechanism of a strapping machine during a loss of band carrying out the following steps: (1) polling the detector as to a proper shooting of the strapping band in the shooting direction up until the end of the shooting trajectory, and (2) for an improper shooting of the strapping band, activating the shooting and retrieval unit to retrieve the strapping band with a definite retrieval speed for a defined retrieval time so that the strapping band emerges from the shooting and retrieval unit opposite the shooting direction, and (3) actuating the drive of the back-tensioning unit so that the back-tensioning unit transports the strapping band back into the shooting and retrieval unit in the shooting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Signode Packaging Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Höhn, Jochen Witzgall, Jürgen Schödel
  • Patent number: 11584102
    Abstract: A system includes a source of sheet material and a conversion machine. The conversion machine is configured to receive the sheet material and to form the sheet material into a fill material. The conversion machine further includes a cutting mechanism configured to cut the fill material. The cutting mechanism is configured such that, when cutting the fill material to form two pieces of fill material, uncut portions of the fill material remain between the two pieces of fill material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)
    Inventors: Thomas P. Orsini, Kostadin I. Kostadinov, Donald Durant, Laura A. Favitta, Russell T. Christman
  • Patent number: 11583274
    Abstract: A surgical stapler for stapling the tissue of a patient is disclosed. The surgical stapler comprises a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, and an end effector extending from the shaft, wherein the end effector comprises a plurality of staples and an anvil configured to deform the staples. The surgical stapler further comprises a firing mechanism configured to deploy the staples, a sensor configured to detect a target, a controller configured to calculate the firing path based on the target, and a motorized drive system configured to move the end effector toward the target along the firing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Tamara Widenhouse, David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 11584010
    Abstract: Techniques for corrugate and chipboard knocked-down case inspection and assembly are described herein. In one example, the disclosed techniques include a method to inspect and assemble a knocked-down case. In the example, a measurement of at least one aspect of the knocked-down case is obtained. A difference is determined between the obtained measurement and a standard measurement and/or a range of standard measurements. Programming of a case-handling tool is executed that is based at least in part on the determined difference. In an example, the programming is configured to adjust for and/or compensate for differences between the actual knocked-down case and a knocked-down case that is within a specification. A case-handling tool is operated responsive to the executed programming to at least partially erect the knocked-down case into an erected case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Pearson Packaging Systems
    Inventors: Timothy Lynn Hill, Baran T Thompson, Michael Donavien Williams, Daniel Vincent Brown, Joshua A. Burright, Pete Lawton
  • Patent number: 11577484
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a web control guide for an inflation and sealing assembly of a protective packaging formation device for inflating a web material into a chain of inflated cushions. The web control guide is positioned along a material path at a transverse spacing from a first compression element and constrains a first thickness of the material path measured normal to the longitudinal and transverse directions of the material path. The transverse spacing and constrained thickness dimension are sufficiently small to prevent transverse movement of the flexible material towards the first compression element to avoid excessive heating of the web material outside a sealing zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC
    Inventors: William James Watts, Julian Michael Moore, Charles Anthony Daigle, Joseph Vincent Prisco
  • Patent number: 11577374
    Abstract: A labor-saving stapler is provided, including: a housing, having a nail outlet; a striker, disposed within the housing and movable between a preset position away from the nail outlet and a nailing position near the nail outlet; an energy-accumulating mechanism, including a connection portion connected to the housing and a connection end cooperating with the striker; an operable mechanism, movably connected to the housing and having a depression portion abutable against the energy-accumulating mechanism; a limitation mechanism, connected to the housing, the striker being positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism; wherein when the striker is in a preset position and positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism is depressible by the depression portion to be in a energy-accumulating state, and when the striker is free of restriction by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism actuates the striker to move toward the nailing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11577869
    Abstract: A packaging apparatus for packaging objects, in particular for packaging food portions, having a conveying device (10) for transporting a continuous web of a first packaging material (12), in particular of a bottom film, in a transport direction (TR); and having a feed device (14) for feeding a continuous web of a second packaging material (16), in particular of a top film, in the transport direction (TR), wherein the conveying device (10) comprises a first reception shaft (18) for receiving a first supply roll (20) of the first packaging material (12) and the feed device (14) comprises a second reception shaft (22) for receiving a second supply roll (24) of the second packaging material (16); wherein the first reception shaft (18) can be driven by means of a first drive motor (26) to carry out a rotational movement; and/or wherein the second reception shaft (22) can be driven by means of a second drive motor (28) to carry out a rotational movement, with the first and/or second drive motor (26, 28) in particu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: WEBER MASCHINENBAU GMBH BREIDENBACH
    Inventors: Josef Mayer, Jörg Schmeiser
  • Patent number: 11577864
    Abstract: Recyclable pouches formed from rollstock and having a resealable closure that extends into both side edges of the pouch may be produced at high speeds on a single manufacturing line in which the pouches are formed, cut apart, filled, and then sealed if the film forming the pouch comprises a recyclable heat seal layer and a second recyclable layer having a melting temperature of at least 30° C. greater than the heat seal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: General Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Mychal Brosch, Peter L. Novotny
  • Patent number: 11577375
    Abstract: An electric carpet stapler comprises a trigger and switch assembly that has an actuation caused by a change of state of a sensor, which causes the sensor to send a signal to a control circuit to begin a process to supply power to a winding. The trigger and switch assembly includes a trigger that moves in a trigger actuation direction to move a sensor actuator in a sensor actuation direction, causing a change of state in the sensor, which causes the control circuit to begin the process to supply power to the winding. The trigger and switch assembly may also include a toggle. At the actuation of the trigger and switch assembly, the toggle creates a mechanical instability, and a toggle signal to the user, which may be produced mechanically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Crain Cutter Company
    Inventors: Gregory Joseph Chambers, Tan Dinh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11571776
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a motor positioned substantially within the housing, a drive mechanism supported by the housing and coupled to the motor, a battery pack electrically coupled to the motor, and an isolation system. The isolation system includes an interface member positioned substantially within the housing. The interface member receives a portion of the battery pack to electrically couple the battery pack to the motor. The isolation system also includes a plurality of isolators coupled between the housing and the interface member to isolate the battery pack from the housing during operation of the power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Troy C. Thorson, Jeffrey M. Wackwitz, Andrew J. Weber
  • Patent number: 11571210
    Abstract: Surgical instruments are disclosed comprising a firing assembly including a fuse having a plurality of operating states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Gregory J. Bakos, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 11572209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transporting ready-cut and filled pieces of tube. In order to simplify the structural design of a device for transporting ready-cut and filled pieces of tube within a machine for producing double-chamber bags filled with brewable material, having a transport wheel, which has distributed over its circumference a plurality of double-chamber bag forming sets comprising a leading arm and a trailing arm and a profile part provided therebetween and being radially movable and supporting a bottom of a double-chamber bag, and which is rotatably mounted under a cover arranged in the vicinity of the upper vertex of the transport wheel, the present invention proposes that the arms are swivelably mounted eccentrically to the axis of rotation of the transport wheel and that the arms of adjacent double-chamber bag forming sets are swivelably mounted on a common swivel axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Knops
  • Patent number: 11565392
    Abstract: A dust collecting system includes a power tool configured to perform processing operation on a workpiece by driving a tool accessory and a dust collector configured to collect dust generated by the processing operation. The power tool includes a first motor, a driving mechanism, a body housing, a first detecting device, an operation member and a second detecting device. The first detecting device is configured to detect an operation of pressing the tool accessory against the workpiece. The operation member is configured to be externally operated by a user. The second detecting device is configured to detect an operation of the operation member. The dust collector includes a second motor and a fan. The dust collecting system includes a first control device configured to control driving of the second motor based on detection results of the first detecting device and the second detecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hajime Takeuchi