Patents Examined by Tony G. Soohoo
  • Patent number: 10576435
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispersion tool (4) that can be cleaned more easily. For this purpose, the dispersion rotor (8) is arranged on the dispersion tool (4) axially moveable between the working position in the shaft tube (5) and the cleaning position outside the shaft tube (5), the dispersion rotor (8), in the cleaning position, being preferably completely arranged outside the shaft tube (5) and therefore being more easily cleanable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: IKA-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Axel Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 10561278
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a food processing system presenting a recipient adapted for receiving food ingredients, and a driving arrangement adapted for driving a tool support provided inside of the recipient, and at least one weighing arrangement adapted for weighing the food ingredients. In particular, the weighing arrangement has an elongated structural member and at least one weighing member provided as a single piece that can be directly attached to the recipient or to the driving arrangement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FLAMA, FÁBRICA DE LOUÇAS E ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS, SA
    Inventor: Luis Alves
  • Patent number: 10561999
    Abstract: A pharmacy formulation preparation crock lid (34) or pharmacy formulation preparation crock bottom of a pharmacy formulation preparation crock (31) for preparing an individual pharmaceutical product in a pharmacy, wherein the pharmacy formulation preparation crock lid (34) or pharmacy formulation preparation crock bottom is adapted for quick and detachable screw-fastening to a pharmacy formulation preparation device lifting arm (56) for a pharmacy formulation preparation device (2) for preparing an individual pharmaceutical product, comprising: a lid plate (35) or a bottom plate, respectively; wherein the lid plate (35) or the bottom plate, respectively, comprises a substantially cylindrical fastening extension (36), hollow on the inside, extending from the lid plate (35) upwards or from the bottom plate downwards, respectively, and allowing access to the region of the pharmacy formulation preparation crock (31) located below the lid plate (35) or above the bottom plate, respectively, for detachably fastening
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: GAKO INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Konietzko
  • Patent number: 10566602
    Abstract: The occurrence of separation or reaggregation is suppressed in a suspension such as a battery electrode slurry. A battery electrode slurry distributing apparatus includes: a circulation pipe via which a positive electrode slurry is to be circulated; and a control unit that controls the supply of the positive electrode slurry to each of coaters. In a period in which either the coater is allowed to receive the supply of the positive electrode slurry, the control unit inhibits the supply of the positive electrode slurry to the other coater. The circulation pipe is structured in a polygonal loop. The coaters are connected to respective elbow portions formed in the circulation pipe via the pipes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ELIIY POWER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ono, Hideo Sanada, Hiroshi Sato, Taisaku Nakata
  • Patent number: 10556208
    Abstract: A vacuum blender having the ability to reduce oxidation of ingredients for a more nutrient-rich product. The blender includes a container for holding ingredients to be blended, the container being open at a top end and having blender blades at a lower end, a lid for covering the open end of the container, and a base having a motor contained therein for driving the blender blades, an interface for coupling with the blender blades of the container, a vacuum system for effecting a vacuum to the container and electronic controls for operating the motor and vacuum system. The vacuum system is configured to couple with the lid to draw a vacuum from the top of the container when activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: NUWAVE, LLC
    Inventor: Jung S. Moon
  • Patent number: 10556209
    Abstract: Present invention creatively makes convenient for any person using beverage to blend powder with liquid uniformly without use of shaking motion or battery and thereby preventing from spilling and running out batteries. Invention of unique reverse planetary gears system and side arm stirrer with window paddle has made possible convert torque of finger to multiple rotation of stirrer in order achieve efficient uniform blending. Moreover, this invention takes full advantage of removable snap mechanism to assemble and disassemble protein blender cup which is very necessary for washing every single parts to achieve highest sanitization. In short, this invention helps consumer to have protein blender cup which doesn't require shaking or battery and can be completely sanitized without any struggle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Inventor: Ashish Gandhi
  • Patent number: 10549246
    Abstract: A static mixer created using an additive process is disclosed. The static mixer is enabled to homogenously blend two fluids flowing in a pipe. The static mixer exhibits zero contact angle in relation to the two fluids being mixed within the pipe. The static mixer exhibits a first contact angle with the first fluid and a second contact angle with the second fluid. The first contact angle is either between 0 and 30 or greater than 85. The second contact angle is either between 0 and 30, or greater than 85.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Ray Merrigan, Aleksey Pinyayev, Billy Ray Dawson, Julie McWilliams
  • Patent number: 10549247
    Abstract: A nail polish creator is provided. The nail polish creator may include a processor that can receive a selection of the nail polish color from a device communicatively linked with the nail polish creator, such as via a wireless communication. Once the selection is received, the processor may determine an amount of one or more nail polish colors that are needed to create a nail polish corresponding to the selection. The nail polish creator may further include an assembly that may receive a nail polish bottle so that the nail polish bottle is in a position to receive the nail polish that is created based on the amount of the nail polish colors needed to create the nail polish. Moreover, the nail polish creator may include a mixer assembly for mixing the nail polish in the nail polish bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Eric D. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 10549245
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating and dispensing a solution formed of a solid product which is eroded or dissolved in a liquid, which may include methods for creating turbulent flow of the liquid. The apparatus includes an inlet portion for introducing the liquid into the dispenser system, a solution forming assembly, and an outlet portion for dispensing the solution. The solution forming assembly may include a support structure configured to support the solid product, and a reservoir coupled to the support structure, the reservoir configured to hold the liquid and allow flow of the liquid into and out of the reservoir, the reservoir including a base and one or more sidewall portions. The reservoir further including one or more liquid inlets located in the one or more sidewall portions configured to introduce liquid into the reservoir to contact the solid product and create the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Jared R. Freudenberg, Ryan Jacob Urban, John David Morey
  • Patent number: 10542843
    Abstract: A stand mixer arrangement includes a pedestal for a mixing bowl; an electric motor and a drive system including a rotary drive outlet disposed overhead of the bowl, capable of imparting a mixing action to a tool suspended into the bowl-from a socket supported by said drive outlet; and illumination means encircling, or substantially encircling, said drive outlet and arranged to direct light into the mixing bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KENWOOD LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Seidler, Jamie Weaden
  • Patent number: 10543620
    Abstract: A portable concrete mixer includes a frame, a hopper, coupled to the frame, for receiving therein dry commercially available prepackaged concrete mixes containing gravel aggregates, a chute coupled to the hopper, a water supply system that supplies water to the chute, a motor, and an auger coupled to and rotated by the motor. The auger includes a shaftless helical auger body extending from the hopper into the chute via an aperture in the hopper. The shaftless helical auger body has an interior volume and a plurality of fingers extending from the auger body into the interior volume. The shaftless helical auger body has an uneven pitch such that a second portion of the helical auger body in the chute has a greater pitch than a first portion of the helical auger body in the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: RED DOG MOBILE SHELTERS, LLC
    Inventors: Dirk Derose, Oscar T. Scott, IV
  • Patent number: 10546660
    Abstract: Examples of system for generating vortex cavity are disclosed. The system comprises a vessel into which a fluid is injected through one or more inlet ports and a fluid circulating system configured to circulate the fluid through the vessel such that the fluid is removed from the vessel through an outlet port and is returned back into the vessel through the one and more inlet ports. A first spinner is mounted at one wall of the vessel while a second spinner is mounted at the opposite wall of the vessel such that the second spinner is at some distance away from the first spinner and it faces the first spinner. When the fluid circulating system starts circulating the fluid within the vessel a vortex cavity is formed that extends between the first and the second spinners so that one end of the vortex cavity sits on the first spinner while the opposite end of the vortex cavity sits on the second spinner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Georges Laberge, David Franklin Plant, Victoria Suponitsky, Eunice Kuatsjah
  • Patent number: 10545069
    Abstract: A cascade wind tunnel T-bar turbulence generating grid for creating a turbulence intensity in an air flow having an air flow volume for testing at least two turbine blades having a turbine blade dimension and a pitchwise location, the turbulence generating grid comprising a plurality of cross bars having a front surface and a cross bar gap, a plurality of vertical bars having a vertical bar front surface and a cross bar gap and at least two support bars assembled to form a plurality of air flow. The support bar at an angle ? to the air flow and about parallel to the turbine blades. The cross bars mounted to the support bar such that the cross bar front surface is perpendicular to the air flow. The vertical bars are mounted to the support bar such that the vertical bar front surface is perpendicular to the air flow and wherein the vertical bar gap and a horizontal gap provide the turbulence intensity about constant across the pitchwise location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Connor Wiese, Kurt Rouser
  • Patent number: 10532336
    Abstract: A system for measurement of quantity (density) of particles/solid materials in wastewater, and dilution of particle quantity based on the intended application. Currently enabling quick and serial measurement of particle quantity in laboratory environment, this system is placed inside the desired step of the process of an industrial facility. This way, the system yields quick results and in turn reduces the analysis and evaluation costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: OZBEKOGLU ITH. IHC. INS. MUH. LTD. STI.
    Inventor: Mustafa Sen
  • Patent number: 10532490
    Abstract: A screw for a plasticating apparatus has one or more helical flights. A portion of the screw has a plurality of advancing grooves arranged in a noncontinuous helix cut in the screw. The advancing grooves are dimensioned to receive material therein as the material is conveyed through the barrel. The screw has a plurality of noncontinuous cross-cut grooves traversing one or more of the advancing grooves. The cross-cut grooves have a second helix angle greater than the first helix angle and less than ninety degrees; and/or one or more of the cross-cut grooves have a third helix angle of about ninety degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Davis-Standard, LLC
    Inventor: John P. Christiano
  • Patent number: 10525378
    Abstract: An at least two shaft reactor/mixer, in particular for process engineering treatment of highly viscose, elastic and/or solid containing reaction substance and mixture, in which at the housing inner wall inwardly directed static mixing elements are arranged, which interact with scrapers of the at least two shafts in such a way, that in the area of the spaces between the scrapers the static mixing elements and the housing inner wall sheer forces, in particular a flow disturbance, are generated in an enhanced manner. In addition, there is a system including an end cap for a one or multiple shaft reactor/mixer and a discharge screw connector block being connectable with the end cap in a detachable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BUSS-SMS-CANZLER GMBH
    Inventors: Hans Peters, Steffen Mohr
  • Patent number: 10526136
    Abstract: In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to a portable support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material and output bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. The portable support structure may include a frame for receiving and holding the one or more portable bulk material containers in an elevated position proximate the blender hopper, as well as one or more gravity feed outlets for routing the bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. In some embodiments, the portable support structure may be transported to the well site on a trailer, unloaded from the trailer, and positioned proximate the blender unit. In other embodiments, the portable support structure may be a mobile support structure that is integrated into a trailer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Hawkins, Bryan John Lewis, Tori H. Miller, Wesley John Warren, Austin Carl Schaffner, Glenn Ray Fowler, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Calvin L. Stegemoeller
  • Patent number: 10518232
    Abstract: Devices and methods manually open glass ampules within the devices. One device may include a holder having at least one deformable side wall, a supporting element, and at least one strainer/filter arranged below the holder so that the content of the opened glass ampule may flows therethrough. A first lever of the device may pivot around a first axis and a free end of the first lever may be pressed against the deformable side wall of the holder. A second lever of the device may pivot around a second axis that may divide the second lever into a short lever arm and a long lever arm. The short lever arm may be pressed against the first lever and a glass ampule may be broken open by pressure of the free end of the first lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBH
    Inventor: Sebastian Vogt
  • Patent number: 10513051
    Abstract: An mixing section for an extrusion screw has an inlet end and an outlet end as well as alternating wiping lands and barrier lands. The wiping lands have a greater helix angle than the barrier lands. The wiping lands and the barrier lands define inlet channels which narrow toward the outlet end and outlet channels which widen toward the outlet end. A helical pattern of mixing channels is cut into the wiping lands and the barrier lands. The mixing channels may be oriented generally at approximately right angles to the wiping lands and the barrier lands. A portion of the extrudate encounters the inside wall surfaces of the mixing channels and changes direction which improves the mixing of the extrudate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Terry Wayne Williams
  • Patent number: 10507439
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject invention are directed to methods and apparatus for inducing mixing in a fluid using one or more plasma actuators. In an embodiment, a pair of electrodes is positioned near a fluid and a voltage potential is applied across the pair of electrodes such that a plasma discharge is produced in the fluid. In an embodiment, the plasma discharge creates turbulence in the fluid thereby mixing the fluid. In an embodiment, flow structures, such as vortices are generated in the fluid. In an embodiment, the fluid is mixed in three dimensions. In an embodiment, a plurality of fluids are mixed. In an embodiment, solids are dispersed in at least one fluid. In an embodiment, heat or other properties are dispersed within at least one fluid. In an embodiment, at least one of the pair of electrodes has a serpentine shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventor: Subrata Roy