Patents Examined by Vipul Malik
  • Patent number: 12172353
    Abstract: To provide a plasticizing device capable of easily executing maintenance of a barrel. A plasticizing device includes: a drive motor; a flat screw having a groove forming surface in which a groove is formed, and rotating around a rotation axis of the drive motor; a barrel having a facing surface facing the groove forming surface and having a communication hole formed therein; and a heating unit configured to heat a material supplied between the flat screw and the barrel. The barrel has a separate structure including, when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis, a first barrel having the facing surface, and a second barrel separated from the facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsuhiko Sugita
  • Patent number: 12163342
    Abstract: A formwork core for a formwork system for concreting a bell body including a base frame and two corner supports detachably fastened at a variable distance. The corner supports each bear two corner connection panels, which are arranged at a right angle to each other around the corner and can be synchronously retracted and extended without touching each other. The corner supports also bear corner angle pieces, which likewise can be retracted and extended and, in the completely extended state, close the gap between the two associated corner connection panels in order to form a vertical outer shell of the formwork core. The vertical edges of the corner connection panels, which vertical edges are distant from the corner, have screw flanges facing inward. Optionally, at least one side formwork panel can be inserted between the corner connection panels one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: RATEC MASCHINENENTWICKLUNGS-UND VERWALTUNGS-GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Reymann
  • Patent number: 12145321
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping device includes a stage, a heater, a head dispensing a shaping material toward the stage to form a shaping layer, a thermal sensor measuring a temperature of a measurement region of the shaping layer, an actuator moving the stage, the thermal sensor, and/or the head relative to each other, and a processor. The processor sets the measurement region being a point. The point has the lowest heat dissipation property within the shaping layer. The processor causes the head to dispense the shaping material to form another shaping layer when the processor determines that the measured temperature is equal to or lower than the predetermined value and repeats the measurement and the determination if the processor determines that the measured temperature is higher than the predetermined value until the processor determines that the measured temperature is equal to or lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keitaro Hashizume
  • Patent number: 12134232
    Abstract: A system for 3D printing can include a printing device configured to create an object by depositing successive layers of uncured material and at least one mitigating device. At least one of the printing device and the at least one mitigating device can be configured to perform a method to mitigate a deformation of at least one of the successive layers of uncured material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Sudheesh S. Kairali
  • Patent number: 12134221
    Abstract: An on-orbit composite filament forming device for space 3D printing includes a constant tension unwinding module, a replaceable resin filament rotary wrapping module, a melt preheating chamber, a curved channel impregnation chamber, a variable aperture resin recovery device, a heat protective housing, a convective cooling device, a traction device, and a winding device. The replaceable resin filament rotary wrapping module wraps a resin filament on a surface of a carbon fiber by circumferential rotation and is provided with an active unwinding reel placed on a circular rail centered on the carbon fiber; the melt preheating chamber is used for melting resin to wrap the surface of the fiber, and is equipped with a lifting device for automatic opening and closing; the curved channel impregnation chamber is formed with a wedge-shaped high-pressure impregnation zone by mutual extrusion of upper and lower pressure blocks, thereby improving the quality of fiber impregnation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
    Inventors: Wenzhe Song, Congze Fan, Jinghua Zheng, Yiwei Chen, Jingxuan Wang, Zhongde Shan
  • Patent number: 12097670
    Abstract: An apparatus for correcting a defect in an object using three-dimensional (3D) printing. The apparatus includes a flexible wrapper-shaped printing module including an array of port openings adapted to allow a 3D printable material to move therethrough. The flexible wrapper-shaped printing module is configured to wrap around an object to allow the 3D printable material to move through a first set of selected port openings of the array of port openings and be injected into the defect in order to correct the defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Bender, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Christian Compton, Trisha Elaine Hanlon
  • Patent number: 12083597
    Abstract: A gas manifold for single-nozzle deposition chambers comprising a base having a top surface and bottom surface defining a thickness; a primary nozzle having an inlet and outlet extending through the thickness of the base; and a secondary nozzle having an inlet extending partially through the top surface of the base and at least one channel extending a distance from a sidewall of the base having an outlet, the channel in fluid communication with the inlet of the secondary nozzle. The inlet of the primary nozzle has a hollow protrusion extending from the top surface of the base into the gas feed. The channel of the secondary nozzle includes a bend between the sidewall of the base and the outlet configured to pass between a first direct energy source and second direct energy source, the first energy source and second energy source disposed on a top wall of a chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: James J. Murray, Shashwat Swami Jaiswal, Rajesh Kumar Venkata Gadamsetty, Hiteshkumar Rameshchandra Mistry
  • Patent number: 12042865
    Abstract: A high-throughput 3D printing system for preparing multi-component, small sized samples, includes a raw material supply module, providing a various kinds of metal powders for printing small sized samples; the first mixer module, mixing the metal powders obtained from the raw material supply module to generate the first blended metal powders; the second mixer module, mixing the first mixed metal powders, in order to generate the second blended metal powders for printing small sized samples; the first printing module, printing the secondary blended metal powder into a small-sized sample; a control module, controlling other functional modules of the high-throughput 3D printing system for generating small-size samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NCS TESTING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lei Zhao, Hui Wang, Lixia Yang, Haizhou Wang, Xuejing Shen, Yunhai Jia, Dongling Li, Xing Yu, Suran Liu
  • Patent number: 12005665
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a stiffened panel with reinforcements which each have a final thickness and a final height. The manufacturing device includes tools configured to each support a preform of fibers having a U-shaped or C-shaped cross section with a base and two wings. Each tool comprises, at at least one of its first and second lateral faces, a set-back portion which, when two tools are juxtaposed, delimits a recess configured to form a reinforcement during a consolidation or polymerization step. The tools are dimensioned such that each recess has a width, at the consolidation or polymerization temperature, that is substantially equal to the thickness of the reinforcements. This solution makes it possible to more effectively control the geometry of the stiffened panel by avoiding the formation of beads. A method for manufacturing a stiffened panel using the device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventor: Jago Pridie
  • Patent number: 11999112
    Abstract: Provided are a composite structure that is formed by joining a metal member and a molded article of a polyarylene sulfide resin composition and is more excellent in terms of joint strength and heat cycle resistance and a producing method therefor. More specifically, provided are a composite structure formed by joining a surface-roughened metal member and a PPS member, in which a number average value of developed area ratios (Sdr) of an interface measured at five random points on a surface of the surface-roughened metal member using a confocal microscope based on ISO 25178 is 5 [%] or more, and a melt viscosity of a PPS resin is 15 to 500 [Pa·s], and a producing method therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Kenta Hiwatashi, Hideaki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11992874
    Abstract: A method to manufacture a ceramic foam filter includes: sintering a filter body to a temperature greater than a molten metal to be filtered through the body; creating multiple tortuous path channels extending through the filter body individually having a repeated and controlled passage geometry creating a continuously changing diameter and area of a flow path through the multiple tortuous path channels causing localized increases and decreases in molten metal flow rate through the multiple tortuous path channels; and applying a mixture of at least one ceramic powder and at least one binder using additive manufacturing to shape the filter body including the multiple tortuous path channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Qigui Wang, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Zach Steffes, Jeffrey B. Harris, Brennon L. White, Liang Wang
  • Patent number: 11966157
    Abstract: Imprint apparatus performs, on shot regions of substrate, imprint process for transferring pattern of mold to imprint material arranged on the substrate. The apparatus includes detector for detecting first mark of the substrate and second mark of the mold, and controller configured to control positioning of the detector based on driving amount, held in a storage, by which the detector is to be driven to fit the first mark and the second mark within specific region of field of view of the detector, and correction value held in the storage and used to correct the driving amount. The controller performs alignment between shot region selected from the shot regions and the mold based on output of the detector, and updates the correction value held in the storage based on the output of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kengo Kamei
  • Patent number: 11911940
    Abstract: For in mold spraying, a double-inclined mixing nozzle is connected obliquely and fixedly with a side surface of a third half-mold through a lateral sealing structure and connected with a side surface of a first half-mold in an inclined and sealing manner, side faces of a first half-mold and the third half-mold are respectively provided with installation inclined surfaces. A lateral sealing structure includes a mounting plate and a sealing member. The sealing member is sleeved on the double-inclined mixing nozzle and is in transition fit with the double-inclined mixing nozzle and the mounting plate respectively. A butt sealing groove provided on the installation inclined surface of the first half-mold and is in sealing fit with the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Tederic Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Zheng, Hongwei Zhou, Jiahui Lu, Haibo Shen, Wu Lin, Binqi Rao, Hongyuan Ma, Bo Liu, Guolin Liu, Jia Zhou
  • Patent number: 11813812
    Abstract: A manufacturing method is disclosed herein. The method includes arranging a preform with a plurality of clamping assemblies, the plurality of clamping assemblies disposed along ends of the preform; and forming the preform into a shaped body, the forming including: incrementally tensioning the preform around a surface of an inner mold line using the plurality of clamping assemblies; and drawing the preform into a set of forming beads of the inner mold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventors: Luby R. Weaver, Katherine E. Waugh, Christopher C. Koroly, Anthony H. Becher, Vijay V. Pujar