Patents Examined by Yewebdar T Tadesse
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Patent number: 11318666Abstract: A system for producing three-dimensional objects forms fluid paths within the support structure to facilitate the removal of the support structure following manufacture of the object. The system includes a first ejector configured to eject a first material towards a platen to form an object, a second ejector configured to eject a second material towards the platen to form support for portions of the object, at least one portion of the support having a body with at least one fluid path that connects at least one opening in the body to at least one other opening in the body, and a fluid source that connects to the at least one fluid path of the support to enable fluid to flow through the at least one fluid path to remove at least an inner portion of the support from the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David A. Mantell, Andrew W. Hays, Linn C. Hoover, Ron E. Dufort, Erwin Ruiz, Patrick J. Howe
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Patent number: 11313025Abstract: The disclosure provides a mask sheet and a pixel structure. The mask sheet includes a mask opening configured to manufacture a sub-pixel in a pixel opening of a display panel. An area of the mask opening is greater than an area of the pixel opening corresponding thereto. The pixel opening includes at least one curved edge with an inner concave surface, the mask opening includes at least one mask edge, and the at least one mask sheet is in one-to-one correspondence with the at least one curved edge. A curvature of each mask edge is less than a curvature of the curved edge corresponding thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhiqiao Liu
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Patent number: 11311902Abstract: A viscous material wiping device wipes the viscous material attached to the tip of a spatula with a sheet. A sheet support jig has a groove recessed in the sheet facing surface, the groove includes a receiving portion and a wiping portion that are continuous in the groove extending direction, and the wiping portion has a groove width smaller than that of the receiving portion and substantially equal to the outer dimension of the tip of the spatula. A controller drives the moving mechanism to position the spatula on the opposite side of the sheet supporting jig with respect to the sheet in a posture that the spatula extends parallel to the groove extending direction and overlaps the groove when viewed in a normal direction of the sheet facing surface, and move the spatula in the normal direction so that the tip of the spatula is received in the receiving portion by pressing the sheet against the groove with the spatula.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naohiro Otsuki, Satoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 11311898Abstract: A device for the powder coating of objects includes a main body on which an electrode arrangement designed for producing a powder cloud is arranged and on which a metering device is arranged above the electrode arrangement and is designed for the controlled discharge of an amount of a powder onto the electrode arrangement. A powder coating installation is equipped with at least one such device for powder coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: QUICKCOATING GMBHInventor: Botond Draskoczy
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Patent number: 11313237Abstract: A conforming coating mask is used with a turbine component having a plurality of cooling holes. The conforming coating mask includes at least two anchors; a plurality of radial mask strips integrally formed with and extending between each of the at least two anchors; and at least one coating mask securing insert. Each at least one coating mask securing insert integrally formed with a respective at least one radial mask strip; wherein the plurality of radial mask strips align with and cover the plurality of cooling holes.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Clarence Jones, Zachary John Snider, Christopher Donald Porter, Brad Wilson VanTassel
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Patent number: 11292021Abstract: An adjustable landscaping marking tool includes a strap having a hook disposed at a strap first end, a hook receiving ring disposed on an adjustable connector at a middle section, and at least one (1) marking device aperture disposed at a strap second end. The device is configured to permit a user to secure the hook about a vertical support structure. A marking means secured within a desired marking device aperture may then be used to circumscribe a mark on the ground surface around the vertical support structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventor: Tim Cumblidge
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Patent number: 11293099Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor processing apparatus. The processing chamber includes a chamber body and lid defining an interior volume, a substrate support disposed in the interior volume and a showerhead assembly disposed between the lid and the substrate support. The showerhead assembly includes a faceplate configured to deliver a process gas to a processing region defined between the showerhead assembly and the substrate support and an underplate positioned above the faceplate, defining a first plenum between the lid and the underplate, the having multiple zones, wherein each zone has a plurality of openings that are configured to pass an amount of inert gas from the first plenum into a second plenum defined between the faceplate and the underplate, in fluid communication with the plurality of openings of each zone such that the inert gas mixes with the process gas before exiting the showerhead assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Amit Kumar Bansal, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Sanjeev Baluja, Sam H. Kim, Tuan Anh Nguyen
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Patent number: 11285503Abstract: A system and method have been shown for the effective implementation of a height and rotational adjustment system for a plurality of spray guns for use in a line striper.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: AVANT-GARDE IP LLCInventors: Scott Ferguson, Ramraj Soundararajan
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Patent number: 11285506Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer is disclosed including a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, and a nozzle for dispensing lacquer, wherein the nozzle is connected to the frame, wherein an outside contact surface of the lateral wall comprises several depressions, wherein the transfer roller is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation at the frame, wherein the nozzle is arranged contactless to or in direct contact with the outside contact surface of the lateral wall for dispensing lacquer into respective depressions in the lateral wall while the transfer roller is rotated about the axis of rotation, and wherein the transfer roller is configured to roll with the outside contact surface on a work surface of a work piece for transferring the lacquer from the depressions to the work surface of the work piece.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH, AIRBUS (SAS)Inventors: Alexander Gillessen, Pierre Zahlen, Christian Schepp, Daniel Kress, Waldemar Kümmel
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Patent number: 11280000Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fixing apparatus for fixing a substrate to be processed below a bearing base during an evaporation process, the substrate to be processed includes a base substrate, a ferromagnetic material is formed on a front surface or a back surface of the base substrate, and a magnetic field generator is disposed on a back surface of the bearing base at a location corresponding to the ferromagnetic material; the magnetic field generator is configured to generate a magnetic field so that the ferromagnetic material and the magnetic field generator are approaching to each other under an effect of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator to fix a front surface of the bearing base with the back surface of the base substrate. An evaporation method is further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Xinwei Gao, Xinxin Wang
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Patent number: 11267014Abstract: A device for lacquer transfer includes a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, a drive unit and a lacquer application unit. The lacquer application unit is mounted on the frame and applies lacquer to a work surface of a work piece while the device is moved in an application direction across the work surface. The drive unit drives the transfer roller in a rotation direction about an axis of rotation. An outside contact surface of the lateral wall comprises a plurality of depressions forming a predetermined structure. The transfer roller rolls with the outside contact surface on the work surface of the work piece for transferring the predetermined structure defined by the depressions in the outside contact surface to lacquer previously applied to the work surface by the lacquer application unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Pierre C. Zahlen, Alexander Gillessen
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Discharge device for liquid material containing solid particles, discharge method and coating device
Patent number: 11266957Abstract: Problem: To supply a device and a method for accurately discharging a fixed amount of a liquid, the liquid containing solid particles, in a state that the solid particles are dispersed in the liquid material. Solution: A discharge device for a liquid material containing solid particles includes a first reservoir, a first air pressure supply pipe, a metering portion having a metering hole, a plunger moving back and forth in the metering hole, a nozzle, a switching valve having a first position and a second position, a plunger driver, and a switching valve driver. The discharge device further includes a second reservoir, a second air pressure supply pipe, a branch portion provided in an upper portion of the metering hole and having a branch flow path, and an opening/closing mechanism that establishes or cuts off communication between the second reservoir and the metering hole.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima -
Patent number: 11254106Abstract: A machining system includes an application device that applies a photocurable resin to surfaces of a plurality of linear objects provided in a workpiece; a curing device that brings the linear objects, to which the photocurable resin has been applied by the application device, into close contact with each other in radial directions and that radiates light onto the photocurable resin, which has been applied to the linear objects brought into close contact, thus curing the photocurable resin; and a machining device that machines the workpiece, in which the plurality of linear objects have been bound together through the curing of the photocurable resin performed by the curing device.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Jun Oomura
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Patent number: 11252855Abstract: A seed treatment applicator for applying a liquid seed treatment to an agricultural seed within a treatment chamber. A multi-port valve allows a first liquid source and a second liquid source to be fluidly connected to the multi-port valve. Multiple liquid sources may contain the same liquid treatment, mixed differently to have different densities. A liquid pump, such as a static rate pump, is fluidly connected downstream of the multi-port valve or directly connected to a liquid source. A modular control stick comprises a frame mounted to the treatment chamber, a mass flow meter mounted to the frame and fluidly connected downstream of the liquid pump and configured to generate a measured mass flow signal relative to a real time mass flow rate of the liquid seed treatment; and a flow meter transmitter operably connected to the mass flow meter and configured to generate a switch signal when comparison of the measured mass flow signal deviates from a reference value corresponding to a desired flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: KSi Conveyor, Inc.Inventors: Dominic E. Meyer, Jason P. Kaeb
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Patent number: 11247224Abstract: A device for applying a liquid of different viscosity to a surface to be wetted is presented, having a reservoir for the liquid arranged in a housing, a valve unit for the metered discharge of the liquid from an outlet opening of the reservoir and an application unit connected to the valve unit on its outer side facing away from the housing, wherein, according to the invention, a removal device for removing excess liquid from the surface wetted by the application unit is arranged on the side of the housing opposite the valve unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Inventor: Turhan Günaydin
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Patent number: 11246249Abstract: A dispensing system includes a dispensing unit assembly configured to dispense viscous material and a gantry coupled to the frame. The gantry is configured to support the dispensing unit assembly and to move the dispensing unit assembly in x-axis and y-axis directions. The dispensing unit assembly includes a support bracket secured to the gantry and a movable bracket rotatably coupled to the support bracket by a first strain wave gear system configured to enable the rotation of the movable bracket with respect to the support bracket about a first axis. The dispensing unit assembly further includes a dispensing unit rotatably coupled to the movable bracket by a second strain wave gear system configured to enable the rotation of the dispensing unit with respect to the movable bracket about a second axis generally perpendicular to the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Thomas C. Prentice, Fernando J. Aguiar, Scott A. Reid
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Patent number: 11235890Abstract: A system including an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or aerial robotic system (ARS) to perform at least one task to an object during flight of the UAV in a movement mode configured for maneuvering near a surface of the object. A task sensor configured to sense at least one parameter of the surface. An adjustable sensor arm attachable to the UAV and supporting the task sensor to facilitate the task performed to the surface of the object by the UAV during flight of the UAV. The sensor arm being resilient to impact forces caused by direct contact of the sensor or sensor arm with the surface to bend, spring or swivel relative to a contour of the surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: WORKING DRONES, INC.Inventors: Robert Lewis Dahlstrom, Jeffrey C. McCutcheon, Tariq Rashid
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Patent number: 11229923Abstract: An apparatus and a method performing work free from variations among a plurality of work heads having individual differences. A working apparatus includes a number n (a natural number 2 or greater) of work heads, a stage retaining a work object, drive devices moving the stage and the work heads relative to each other in three directions, a work amount measurement device measuring a work amount of each work head, and a control device, wherein the first-direction drive device enables the number n of work heads to be independently moved in a first direction, and the second-direction drive device includes a second-direction main drive device moving the number n of work heads simultaneously in a second direction, and a second-direction auxiliary drive device moving n?1 work heads among the number n of work heads independently in the second direction. A working method is carried out using the working apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC.Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima
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Patent number: 11213845Abstract: Provided is a can inner surface-coating apparatus with which inspection of bottomed cylinders can be favorably performed in parallel without being affected by the coating process. In the can inner surface-coating apparatus, inspection cameras to be used for inspection following coating of the inner surface of a bottomed cylinder that will become the body of a can or bottle-shaped can are disposed above spray devices that are used for coating the inner surface of bottomed cylinders. Moreover, the coating area including the spray devices and the inspection area including the inspection cameras are covered with a cover. By supplying air inside the cover from the upper part (air supply port) of the inspection area and discharging the air out of the cover from the lower part (coating mist collection duct) of the coating area, an air flow is formed from the upper part of the inspection area to the lower part of the coating area.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: TMC JAPAN CO., LTD., G&P INC.Inventors: Ryosuke Kusubashi, Naoyuki Yaguchi
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Patent number: 11213839Abstract: A coating device includes a rotary head, a power supply part that applies a voltage to the rotary head, and a control part that controls the power supply part. The rotary head is configured so that a coating material is electrostatically atomized. The control part is configured so as to calculate a discharge current based on a total current flowing from the power supply part to the rotary head and a leak current, and control the power supply part based on the discharge current.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Trinity Industrial Corporation, Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K.Inventors: Shinji Tani, Akira Numasato, Kazuki Tanaka, Takahito Kondo, Yuki Murai, Yuki Hirai, Atsushi Tomita, Kenji Okamoto, Naohiro Masuda