Patents Examined by Thomas Raymond Rodgers
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Patent number: 10806915Abstract: A handle for an applicator of coloured liquid to skin is provided. The applicator comprises a needle and a needle actuator. The handle comprises a handle body having top and bottom portions. The top portion is engagable with the needle actuator and having a top opening for receiving a drive shaft of the needle actuator. The bottom portion is engagable with a needle module comprising the needle and having a bottom opening for receiving a needle shaft of the needle. The handle also comprises a reciprocally movable interface sealingly affixed to an internal surface of the handle body. The interface separates the bottom opening from the top opening so as to prevent fluid communication from the bottom opening to the top opening, and is configured to abut the drive shaft and the needle shaft during use to allow the drive shaft to indirectly drive the needle shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Inventor: Long Xiao
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Patent number: 10807207Abstract: A method and a support for holding a substrate, wherein the support is included in a transportation system configured to transport the substrate. The method includes attaching an adhesive to the support, wherein the material of the adhesive is a synthetic setae material and wherein the adhesive is configured to attach the substrate to the support; and attaching the adhesive to the substrate. Moreover, the thickness of the substrate is about 0.3 mm or less, and/or wherein the substrate has a size of 1.4 m2 or more. The support includes a support body and an adhesive, wherein the material of the adhesive is a synthetic setae material and wherein the adhesive is configured to attach the support body to the substrate, wherein the support is included in a transportation system configured to transport the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventor: Simon Lau
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Patent number: 10792790Abstract: The present invention discloses a ratchet clamp comprising a first clamping arm and a second clamping arm which are pivotally connected with each other via a connecting shaft so as to be opened and closed relative to each other, a ratchet assembly, a swing assembly and a control assembly provided between the first clamping arm and the second clamping arm; the ratchet toothed assembly has a plurality of first ratchet teeth and a plurality of second ratchet teeth which are juxtaposed and are misaligned with each other; the swing assembly and the ratchet toothed assembly are moved away from or towards each other with the connecting shaft as the axial center of rotation; a latch member of the control assembly has at least a first pawl and at least a second pawl, a wrench member of the control assembly is used for toggling the latch member to be moved, the first pawls and the second pawls are respectively engaged with the corresponding first ratchet teeth and second ratchet teeth when the latch member is moved toType: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Great Star Tools Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yueming Li
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Patent number: 10773416Abstract: A wood retention device includes two (2) chains conjoined with a spring, a locking handle, and a body. A first end of a first chain is secured to the locking handle by a locking link while the opposite second end of the first chain is secured to a locking pin. The locking handle, affixed to a first end of a second chain is hingedly secured to an outer portion of the body and the opposite second end of the second chain is removably securable to the body in a slot. The slot is configured to secure the distal end of the locking handle when in a closed position when the locking pin is passed through the apertures of the railed slot and simultaneously through an aperture located within the distal end of the locking handle.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Inventor: Richard Lee
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Patent number: 10771388Abstract: A machine (10) for grinding and/or polishing slabs of stone material, such as natural or agglomerated stone, ceramics or glass, comprises: a support bench (12) for the slabs to be machined. At least one working station (14) is provided above the support bench (12), said station comprising at least one pair of bridge support structures (16, 18) situated opposite each and arranged transversely on either side of the support bench (12). First means (19) are provided for performing a relative movement in the longitudinal direction of machining station (14) and slab on the support bench (12). The machine further comprises at least one beam (20, the two ends (22, 24) of which are supported by the support structures (16, 18), and at least one rotating spindle (26) with a sliding vertical axis mounted on the at least one beam (20). The beam (20) is movable transversely on the support structures (16, 18).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Inventor: Luca Toncelli
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Patent number: 10766125Abstract: A ratchet screwdriver includes a mounting seat, a fixing ring, a control member, a driving shaft, two pawls, two springs, a fixing ring, a control member, a bead, a positioning spring and a bolt. The mounting seat has a front with a first slot, a second slot, a first extension slot, a second extension slot, a passage, a first hole and a second hole. The driving shaft has a ratchet portion. Each pawl is biased by one spring so as to be engaged with the ratchet portion. The control member is rotatably mounted to the mounting seat and the driving shaft to pivot the pawls to engage or disengage with the ratchet portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Inventors: Chiung-Chang Tsai, Chung-Yu Tsai
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Patent number: 10770334Abstract: A substrate holding device includes a base body that has a flat plate-like shape and in which gas holes that open in an upper surface of the base body are formed, and a plurality of protrusions that protrude upward from the upper surface of the base body. A groove that opens in a lower surface of the base body and that is connected to the gas holes is formed in the base body, and a plurality of protrusions that protrude downward are formed in the groove.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomohiro Ishino, Shinya Kikuchi
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Patent number: 10751860Abstract: An electric rapid ratchet wrench includes a driving device mounted in a body to which a power device is mounted. A transmission device is mounted between the driving device and the power device and is rotatably mounted to the body. The transmission device transmits a torque from the power device to drive the driving device. A clutch device is mounted between the driving device and the power device. The clutch device includes a driven member and a driver member movable in a radial direction perpendicular to a rotating axis to disengageably engage with the driven member. When a large resistance larger than the torque of the power device is encountered at a position while the driving device is driving a fastener, the driver member repeatedly engages with and disengages from the driven member. The body is manually rotatable to forcibly drive the fastener through the position via the driving device.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Inventor: Bobby Hu
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Patent number: 10744621Abstract: A clamp device is equipped with a clamp body, a piston rod, a link mechanism, a detection mechanism for detecting a state of rotary motion of a clamp arm, and a determination unit for determining whether a state of clamping exists. The detection mechanism includes a first proximity sensor, and a knuckle joint having a first sloped surface. The determination unit, on the basis of a comparison of an output signal from the first proximity sensor to a clamp threshold value, determines whether a state of clamping exists, and on the basis of a comparison to a clamping force generation threshold value, determines whether a state of generation of clamping force exists.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Chiaki Fukui, Kazuyoshi Takahashi, Hideki Sasaki, Takeshi Seo, Jiro Mandokoro, Koichi Katsumata
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Patent number: 10702114Abstract: A vacuum cleaner handle mount assembly securable to a vacuum cleaner having a handle that can be pivoted from a storage position to an in-use position is disclosed. The vacuum cleaner handle mount assembly has a housing with a first and second channel, a handle with a first and second leg for respectively connecting to the first and second channel of the housing, a first and second locking mechanism for preventing the handle from pivoting during use, and a first and second nest respectively disposed in a side of the first and second channel for holding the first and second locking mechanisms respectively. The first and second locking mechanisms are rotatable from an in-use position extending across the respective first and second channels above the respective first and second legs and a storage position wherein the first and second locking mechanisms are located within the first and second nest respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: SHOP VAC CORPORATIONInventors: Craig A. Seasholtz, Jason Gottschall, John Griffin
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Patent number: 10694911Abstract: Provided is a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body including a suction motor for generating a suction force, a suction part communicating with the cleaner body to suction air and dusts, at least one battery disposed in the cleaner body or suction part to supply a power to the suction motor, and a controller controlling an operation of the suction motor. The controller control an output of the suction motor according to a voltage of the at least one battery.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Changhoon Lee, Gunho Ha
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Patent number: 10690171Abstract: A nut element installation tool includes a holder for a nut element and retaining clip and a shaft coupled to the holder. The holder includes an upper plate, a lower plate and a shuttle movable between an extended position and a released position. The shuttle has a pocket configured to receive the nut element and the retaining clip. The retaining clip is compressed and held in a compressed state in the pocket until the shuttle is moved to the released position when the retaining clip is free to move to an expanded state in a nut plate basket to retain the nut element in the nut plate basket. The shaft is releasably coupled to the shuttle and holds the shuttle in the extended position.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Kwok-Wood Leung, Adam James Begg, Timothy Michael Trewern
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Patent number: 10618149Abstract: Disposable torque-limiting devices having an upper shank component with a torque-limiting interface, a lower shank component with a torque-limiting interface, and a spring element. Torque-limiting interfaces having a plurality of undulations arranged around an axial bore or drive socket and separated by a plurality of transition regions, with each undulation having an upslope, a peak, and a downslope. The torque-limiting interfaces are configured to engage and disengage to provide torque transmission with predetermined torque limits at various rotational speeds and for amounts of actuations while remaining within a specified operational range. The encasement provides mounts for a tool and for a drive shaft which may be connected to a powered device.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: ECA Medical InstrumentsInventors: John Nino, David Ivinson, David Tory
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Patent number: 10618086Abstract: A drain cleaner includes a base unit having a frame, a drum rotatably supported by the frame, a cable at least partially disposed within the drum, a motor supported by the frame for driving rotation of the drum and the cable, and a handle for guiding the cable into a drain. The handle includes a body, a passage formed in the body, and an actuator supported by the body. The passage receives a portion of the cable such that the handle is disposed around the cable and is movable along the cable relative to the base unit. The actuator is in communication with the motor for actuating rotation of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: William D. Stoneback, Vasil Zhmendak
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Patent number: 10596689Abstract: An engine servicing system includes a motorcycle that has an engine. The engine has a cylinder head, an intake valve and an exhaust valve. A mount is provided and the mount is selectively coupled to the cylinder head. A plurality of bolts is provided and each of the bolts extends through the mount and engages the cylinder head at predetermined points on the cylinder head to retain the mount on the cylinder head. A compression unit is provided and the compression unit is removably coupled to the mount. The compression unit engages each of the intake valve and the exhaust valve such that the compression unit selectively compresses each of the intake valve and the exhaust valve. In this way each of the intake valve and the exhaust valve may be serviced while the engine is mounted in the motorcycle and without removing the cylinder head from the engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Inventor: Glenn Lewis
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Patent number: 10583808Abstract: A wiper device is provided. An operating range of each of two sets of wiper arm units can be properly restricted. A first wiper arm unit is prevented from colliding with a first front pillar or a dash panel when a first output shaft of a first speed reduction mechanism has rotated beyond a first control angle, and a second wiper arm unit is prevented from colliding with a second front pillar or the dash panel when a second output shaft of a second speed reduction mechanism has rotated beyond a second control angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: MITSUBA CorporationInventors: Masaaki Kimura, Hayato Saito
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Patent number: 10562158Abstract: A threaded fastener, inserted into a hole in materials to be joined, receives a free-running collar (nut) with out-of-round duplex barrels. Spring-loaded twin sockets cradle the barrels and a restraining polygon key extends through the sockets and into a recess in the small face on the pin tail. Installation advances in tandem sequence; tightening before swaging. A machined groove with flat bottom and side rising at about 20 degrees from axial forms a boundary and partly reshapes crests from parallel to angular. Such inclination keeps the collar connected to the cavity of the larger of twin sockets throughout tangential tightening, rise of torque, displacement of crest material, recoil of the smaller socket on the end barrel, cessation of collar rotation and plunging torque. When recoil ends, radial torque on the smaller socket crushes and locks barrel material into underlying left hand helical troughs that interrupt the last few pin threads.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Inventor: Lloyd S. Binns
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Patent number: 10555658Abstract: A mop comprising a mop handle with a grip end and a mopping end and includes spline ribs that surround a surface of the mop handle. The mop includes a ratchet sleeve surrounding the mop handle and is rotatable in first and second directions. The ratchet sleeve includes a flexible collar with an inward-facing integral pawl on an interior portion of the flexible collar. The mop includes a mop head at the mopping end of the mop handle. The mop head has a first end connected to the mopping end and a second end connected to the ratchet sleeve. The flexible collar is flexible between a locked position where the pawl engages with the spline ribs preventing rotation of the ratchet sleeve in the first rotational direction, and an unlocked position where the pawl disengages the spline ribs allowing rotation of the ratchet sleeve in first and second rotational directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Freudenberg Household Products LPInventors: Doug Metzel, Conrad Alfaro
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Patent number: 10532783Abstract: An apparatus for lifting and rotating a frame of a motor vehicle includes a rotisserie and a rotatably connected fixture that holds the motor vehicle frame during production. The fixture includes clamps extending from arms of the fixture and clamps extending from the front support for affixing the frame of the motor vehicle to the fixture. The fixture may further include a passive lock mechanism for engaging a side sill of the frame that includes a latch, a locking extension, a latch spring that holds the latch in engagement with the frame, and a pendulum that rotates relative to the fixture but remains oriented in a fixed location relative to horizontal. The latch may only be disengaged from the frame when the locking extension is aligned to be received by a slot in the pendulum when the fixture is rotated to the home location.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Matthew Taylor, Mark Bowman, Werner Wilson, Steven Boyer, Donald K Ingles, Sandip Suvedi
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Patent number: 10478035Abstract: A charging stand (100) for a vacuum cleaner (200) includes: a body (1), a charger (7) and a wire-winding frame (6). The charger (7) is connected with the body (1) via a power cord (71) and provided with a pin (72); the wire-winding frame (6) is disposed to the body (1) and defines an inserting slot (611), in which the pin (72) is configured to be fitted with the inserting slot (611), and the power cord (71) is configured to be wound around the wire-winding frame (6).Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: JIANGSU MIDEA CLEANING APPLIANCES CO., LTD.Inventors: Chaoyi Deng, Min Zhong, Xinzhou Wang, Yonghua Wang