Patents Examined by Virak Nguon
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Patent number: 11413641Abstract: A spray gun with a faux carbon fiber pattern comprises a main portion and an operating portion, at least one area of the main portion or the operating portion comprises a faux carbon fiber pattern, the pattern defined on a mold for the spray gun and formed directly on a surface of the spray gun during injection.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventor: Chin-Yuan Chen
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Patent number: 11400628Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing decorative parts with a rear plastic carrier element, which is poured over with plastic under process pressure in a casting tool for producing an upper layer on a front visible side, characterized in that the carrier element is fixed in the casting tool and is impinged upon with pressure at least during the production of the upper layer at the rear and in the direction of the upper layer that is to be produced on the front visible side, said pressure counteracting the process pressure during the overmolding with plastic.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: HIB TRIM PART SOLUTIONS GMBHInventor: Bernd Keller
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Patent number: 11376771Abstract: A method relates to manufacturing an in-mold decorative molded product including a transfer layer formed on a surface of an injection-molded product. The method includes inserting, in a first mold for injection molding, an in-mold transfer film including the transfer layer disposed on a base film; forming a molding injection space by mold clamping of the first mold and a second mold including a structure for injecting a molding resin into the molding injection space and a structure for holding the in-mold decorative molded product; and forming the in-mold decorative molded product by filling the molding injection space with the molding resin and then opening the first and second molds. When the base film is separated from the in-mold decorative molded product by opening the first and second molds, a peeling weight varies depending on a portion in an end part of the in-mold decorative molded product.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nakagawa, Takayuki Nagahara
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Patent number: 11370253Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion provided with lateral grooves extending in a tire axial direction and blocks divided by the lateral grooves. At least one of the lateral grooves is provided with a first projected portion with a bottom protruding from a groove bottom of the at least one of the lateral grooves. The first projected portion includes at least one tie-bar portion connecting a pair of blocks with each other which is arranged adjacently through the at least one of the lateral groove, and a narrow rib-portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the lateral groove from the at least one tie-bar portion without being connected to the pair of blocks.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Hoshino, Yuya Meguro
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Patent number: 11370155Abstract: A molding system and a method for operation of the molding system are provided. The method includes flowing a molten polymeric material into a shot tuning chamber from an upstream device, adjusting a temperature of and/or pressure applied to the molten polymeric material in the shot tuning chamber, and flowing the molten polymeric material from the shot tuning chamber into a mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: NIKE, IncInventors: Hossein A. Baghdadi, Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark, H. Kenneth Hanson, III, Danny David Lumpkin, Robert L. Ritchie, Shawn J. Schnee
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Patent number: 11370705Abstract: A method of manufacturing geopolymer tubes comprises forming a geopolymer composition comprised of an aluminosilicate source and an alkali activator, wherein the geopolymer composition has a fluid consistency and a shear thinning index of greater than 1.05, transferring the geopolymer composition into a tubular mold, rotating the mold to shear and distribute the composition onto the inner wall of the mold until the geopolymer composition reaches non-flowable consistency, and curing the geopolymer in the mold to form geopolymer tubes. A method for making geopolymer tubes with the disclosed geopolymer composition comprises shearing the geopolymer composition in a tubular mold at a high rotational speed to significantly reduce apparent viscosity to form the tubular shape, at least in the initial process stage. A ceramic tube made from the geopolymer composition of the present invention is used as a membrane or adsorbent for filtration applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: NOVOREACH Technologies LLCInventors: Jun Jason Cai, Jia Julia Liu
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Patent number: 11365543Abstract: A one-piece component comprising a tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb lattice is disclosed herein, along with a mold, a system and methods of making the component. A one-piece component comprising a truncated tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb lattice also is disclosed, along with corresponding molds, systems and methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: RigidCore Group LLCInventor: Robert J. Bingham
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Patent number: 11366385Abstract: An imprint mold includes a mesa portion projecting from a base material. The mesa portion includes a contact surface configured for contact with a curable composition made of an organic material, and a surface of a side wall at which the contact surface projects from the base material. A liquid repellent surface is formed on at least the surface of the side wall, the liquid repellent surface having a contact angle with respect to the curable composition being higher than a contact angle of the contact surface. The liquid repellent surface includes at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of an oxide of an inorganic element, a fluoride of an inorganic element, and a nitride of an inorganic element.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiki Ito, Masayuki Nakajima, Kiyohito Yamamoto, Yuichiro Oguchi, Naoki Kiyohara
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Patent number: 11364655Abstract: A device for producing concrete blocks, in particular concrete paving slabs, having a mold for filling with a concrete mixture, wherein the mold has at least one mold cavity for receiving the concrete mixture, and wherein the upwardly open mold cavity has walls as lateral boundaries, and wherein the at least one mold cavity can be filled with the concrete mixture by means of a filling device, and wherein the mold with the at least one mold cavity and the filling device are movable relative to one another in a filling axis. The filling axis is oriented obliquely to an axis of symmetry of the at least one mold cavity, with the result that preferably all of the walls of the mold cavity extend neither perpendicularly nor parallel to the filling axis, but at an angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Franz Carl Nüdling Basaltwerke GmbH + Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Klöppner, Bernd Büttner, Steffen Mothes
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Patent number: 11350687Abstract: A helmet manufacturing method involves: producing a shell and a protector, the shell having two opposing cheek-protecting portions, the protector having a jaw-protecting portion and a neck-protecting portion connected to the jaw-protecting portion; putting the shell and the protector in a die such that bottom edges of the cheek-protecting portions of the shell connect to a top edge of the neck-protecting portion of the protector; introducing a foam material into the die, apply heat and pressure to the foam material such that the foam material expands and binds to an inner side of the shell and an inner side of the protector; and taking a helmet finished product out of the die. Therefore, both the jaw-protecting portion of the integrally-formed protector and the helmet finished product are reinforced.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: VOG—IMAGE POLICE INC.Inventor: Gavin Michael Vos
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Patent number: 11351704Abstract: A resin injection molding method uses a mold having a cavity and a hole-forming columnar body. The hole-forming columnar body is movable in an axial direction while extending through the cavity, and includes a first diameter portion having a first diameter, a second diameter portion having a diameter greater than the first diameter, and a tapered portion having a diameter gradually increasing from the first diameter portion toward the second diameter portion. The method includes moving the hole-forming columnar body in the axial direction such that at least one of the first diameter portion or the tapered portion is positioned in the cavity, injecting the molten resin to fill the cavity, maintaining an inside of the cavity under pressure, moving the hole-forming columnar body in the axial direction such that the second diameter portion is positioned in the cavity, and solidifying the injected filling molten resin.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Munehito Kawakami
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Patent number: 11351716Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a polymer film (P) comprising a polyamide composition (PC) by extruding the polyamide composition (PC) through an annular die and then stretching the tube thus obtained by blowing in air. The present invention further relates to the polymer film (P) obtainable by the process of the invention and to a process for packaging foodstuffs with the polymer film (P).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Inventors: Rolf Minkwitz, Silke Biedasek, Rony Knierim, Frank Herboth
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Patent number: 11338482Abstract: A movable mold includes a main mold part, a separate mold part separate from the main mold part, and a relative movement mechanism moving the separate mold part relative to the main mold part in a driving direction of a mold driver.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NANJO AUTO INTERIOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Sugiyama, Toshikazu Tanimura
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Patent number: 11338479Abstract: Disclosed here is an autoclave system for curing a part. The autoclave includes a gas recirculation system, at least partially external to a vessel pf the autoclave system and fluidly coupleable to the vessel such that gas contained in the vessel is delivered to the gas recirculation system, passed through the gas recirculation system, and recirculated back into the vessel. The autoclave system also comprises at least one mold core, located within the vessel. The mold core comprises a conduit extending through the mold core and the mold core is configured to define a shape of the part. The gas delivered to the gas recirculation system from the vessel is gas received directly from the conduit of the mold core.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: James M. Streeter, Scott J. Nicholson
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Patent number: 11338492Abstract: Method for making blow molded articles having a predetermined feature incorporated into the wall provided by variations in the thickness of the wall of the article corresponding to a predetermined pattern etched into the preform from which the article was formed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Nicole Ashley Rizzo, Andrew Joseph Horton, Joseph Craig Lester, Philip Andrew Sawin
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Patent number: 11331948Abstract: A radial tire (10) for a heavy vehicle of construction plant type, and more particularly, the sidewalls thereof (20), arranged to minimize the temperature of the tire while guaranteeing its electrical conductivity. The tread (30) comprises two tread wings (31) and a central portion (32). The bead layer (71), the elastomeric coating compound of the carcass layer (50), the second sidewall layer (22) and the tread wing (31) constitute a preferential conductive pathway of the electric charges between the rim and the ground when the tire is mounted on its rim and flattened on the ground.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Christophe Lemarchand, Cécile Roussel, Cécile Belin, Thierry Royer
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Patent number: 11325279Abstract: The present disclosure describes architectural blocks configured to give the appearance of real cut stone. A plaster composition may be applied to one or more surfaces of a block, such as a concrete masonry unit (CMU) to form an architectural block having the appearance of cut stone. The plaster composition includes a cementitious component, such as white Portland cement, a limestone aggregate component, and optionally an adhesive component. The limestone aggregate component includes a fine sand portion and a coarse sand portion that effectively enable the appearance of cut stone after finishing of the plaster surface via sanding and/or polishing.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TUSCAN STONEWORX USA, LLCInventor: Mat T. Nielsen
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Patent number: 11305467Abstract: A roll stack for the production of plastic sheeting uses a pneumatically-operated toggle joint, instead of a hydraulic press, to precisely separate two rollers. The pneumatically-operated toggle joint allows the rollers to be more quickly and safely further separated from each other in case there is an emergency.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Mega Machinery, Inc.Inventors: Richard Risch, Roger A. Blaney
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Patent number: 11279059Abstract: A method for producing an electrical heating device with the steps of preparing a sleeve from a first material that has a first strength; arranging an electrical heating element in the sleeve; arranging of a filler material in the sleeve, so that parts of the electrical heating element carrying current are electrically isolated from the sleeve and the position of the electrical heating element in the sleeve is fixed, and at least section-wise compression of the sleeve, of the electrical heating element is arranged in sections of the sleeve that are compressed, and of the filler material arranged in sections of the sleeve that are compressed, wherein, before the completion of the at least section-wise compression of the sleeve, in sections to be compressed, a tubular section is arranged that is made from a second material that has a second strength higher than the first strength.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: TÜRK & HILLINGER GMBHInventor: Andreas Schlipf
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Patent number: 11267175Abstract: An injection-molding system includes an extruding system configured to produce a mixture; discharging channels communicable with the extruding system, wherein each of the discharging channels includes an outlet; and a molding device configured to receive the mixture from the outlets and including a space and feeding ports correspondingly engageable with the outlets. An injection-molding method includes providing an extruding system configured to produce a mixture, a first discharging channel including a first outlet, a second discharging channel including a second outlet, and a molding device including a space and first and second feeding ports communicable with the space and respectively engageable with the first and second outlets; engaging the first outlet with the first feeding port; engaging the second outlet with the second feeding port; injecting the mixture through the first outlet and the first feeding port; and injecting the mixture through the second outlet and the second feeding port.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: KING STEEL MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang-Hui Yeh, Ching-Hao Chen