Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Michael Kent
Jeffrey Michael Kent has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11079746Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 11020287Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and a component comprising a base design, wherein the base design comprises one or more design elements and a camouflaged code.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Taylor Javier Morris, John Andrew Strasemeier, Shahram Jahanian, Marita Susanna Hergert, Daniel Howard Hill
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Publication number: 20200201304Abstract: Systems and processes herein may be configured to correlate manufacturing parameters and performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles manufactured by a converting apparatus. Embodiments of the systems herein may include inspection sensors configured to inspect substrates and/or component parts advancing along the converting line and communicate inspection parameters to a controller and historian. The systems may also include process sensors configured to monitor equipment on the converting line and communicate process parameters to the controller and historian. The systems herein may also be adapted to receive performance feedback parameters based on the packaged absorbent articles. The systems may correlate inspection parameters, process parameters, and/or performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles produced on the converting line. The controller may also be configured to perform various functions based on the performance feedback parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Eric Christopher Berg, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Helen Louise Von Den Steinen, William Lawrence Lightcap, Daniel Royce
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Patent number: 10585424Abstract: Systems and processes herein may be configured to correlate manufacturing parameters and performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles manufactured by a converting apparatus. Embodiments of the systems herein may include inspection sensors configured to inspect substrates and/or component parts advancing along the converting line and communicate inspection parameters to a controller and historian. The systems may also include process sensors configured to monitor equipment on the converting line and communicate process parameters to the controller and historian. The systems herein may also be adapted to receive performance feedback parameters based on the packaged absorbent articles. The systems may correlate inspection parameters, process parameters, and/or performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles produced on the converting line. The controller may also be configured to perform various functions based on the performance feedback parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Eric Christopher Berg, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Helen Louise Von Den Steinen, William Lawrence Lightcap, Daniel Royce
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Publication number: 20190271972Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 10331113Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Publication number: 20180263832Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet; and a component comprising a base design, wherein the base design comprises one or more design elements and a camouflaged code.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jeffrey Michael KENT, Taylor Javier MORRIS, John Andrew STRASEMEIER, Shahram JAHANIAN, Marita Susanna HERGERT, Daniel Howard HILL
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Publication number: 20180143621Abstract: Systems and processes herein may be configured to correlate manufacturing parameters and performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles manufactured by a converting apparatus. Embodiments of the systems herein may include inspection sensors configured to inspect substrates and/or component parts advancing along the converting line and communicate inspection parameters to a controller and historian. The systems may also include process sensors configured to monitor equipment on the converting line and communicate process parameters to the controller and historian. The systems herein may also be adapted to receive performance feedback parameters based on the packaged absorbent articles. The systems may correlate inspection parameters, process parameters, and/or performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles produced on the converting line. The controller may also be configured to perform various functions based on the performance feedback parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Eric Christopher Berg, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Helen Louise Von Den Steinen, William Lawrence Lightcap, Daniel Royce
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Patent number: 9910429Abstract: Systems and processes herein may be configured to correlate manufacturing parameters and performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles manufactured by a converting apparatus. Embodiments of the systems herein may include inspection sensors configured to inspect substrates and/or component parts advancing along the converting line and communicate inspection parameters to a controller and historian. The systems may also include process sensors configured to monitor equipment on the converting line and communicate process parameters to the controller and historian. The systems herein may also be adapted to receive performance feedback parameters based on the packaged absorbent articles. The systems may correlate inspection parameters, process parameters, and/or performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles produced on the converting line. The controller may also be configured to perform various functions based on the performance feedback parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Eric Christopher Berg, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Helen Louise Von Den Steinen, William Lawrence Lightcap, Daniel Royce
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Publication number: 20170143556Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. At a downstream portion of a converting process, a continuous length of absorbent articles may be subjected to a final knife and cut to create discrete absorbent articles advancing on a first carrier. From the first carrier, the discrete absorbent articles may be transferred to a transfer apparatus, which in turn, transfers the discrete absorbent articles to a second carrier. The transfer apparatus may include carrier members that orbit around an axis of rotation and may be adapted to receive the absorbent articles from the first carrier and transfer the absorbent articles to the second carrier. Defective absorbent articles may be detected by an inspection system, which may be operably connected with the transfer apparatus and/or the first carrier to remove the defective absorbent articles from the converting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert George Cox, JR., Michael Devin Long, Justin Brent Owens, Todd Douglas Lenser, David Carlton Ordway, Kazuya Ogawa, Jeffry Rosiak, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Publication number: 20170128280Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. At a downstream portion of a converting process, a continuous length of absorbent articles may be subjected to a final knife and cut to create discrete absorbent articles advancing on a first carrier. From the first carrier, the discrete absorbent articles may be transferred to a transfer apparatus, which in turn, transfers the discrete absorbent articles to a second carrier. The transfer apparatus may include carrier members that orbit around an axis of rotation and may be adapted to receive the absorbent articles from the first carrier and transfer the absorbent articles to the second carrier. Defective absorbent articles may be detected by an inspection system, which may be operably connected with the transfer apparatus and/or the first carrier to remove the defective absorbent articles from the converting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert George Cox, JR., Michael Devin Long, Justin B. Owens, Todd Douglas Lenser, David Carlton Ordway, Kazuya Ogawa, Jeffry Rosiak, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 9597235Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. At a downstream portion of a converting process, a continuous length of absorbent articles may be subjected to a final knife and cut to create discrete absorbent articles advancing on a first carrier. From the first carrier, the discrete absorbent articles may be transferred to a transfer apparatus, which in turn, transfers the discrete absorbent articles to a second carrier. The transfer apparatus may include carrier members that orbit around an axis of rotation and may be adapted to receive the absorbent articles from the first carrier and transfer the absorbent articles to the second carrier. Defective absorbent articles may be detected by an inspection system, which may be operably connected with the transfer apparatus and/or the first carrier to remove the defective absorbent articles from the converting process.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert George Cox, Jr., Michael Devin Long, Justin B. Owens, Todd Douglas Lenser, David Carlton Ordway, Kazuya Ogawa, Jeffry Rosiak, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 9585797Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. At a downstream portion of a converting process, a continuous length of absorbent articles may be subjected to a final knife and cut to create discrete absorbent articles advancing on a first carrier. From the first carrier, the discrete absorbent articles may be transferred to a transfer apparatus, which in turn, transfers the discrete absorbent articles to a second carrier. The transfer apparatus may include carrier members that orbit around an axis of rotation and may be adapted to receive the absorbent articles from the first carrier and transfer the absorbent articles to the second carrier. Defective absorbent articles may be detected by an inspection system, which may be operably connected with the transfer apparatus and/or the first carrier to remove the defective absorbent articles from the converting process.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert George Cox, Michael Devin Long, Justin B. Owens, Todd Douglas Lenser, David Carlton Ordway, Kazuya Ogawa, Jeffry Rosiak, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Publication number: 20160342153Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 9429937Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Publication number: 20150290047Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses sensing emitted light caused by fluorescence of adhesive to determine characteristics of absorbent structures during the manufacture of absorbent articles. Some absorbent articles may have absorbent structures that include an absorbent core disposed between a topsheet and a backsheet. And one or more of the absorbent structure components may be assembled with adhesive that fluoresces when excited by ultraviolet light. Aspects of the present methods relate to an inspection system that may be configured to interact with, monitor, and/or control a converting line. The inspection system may include a radiation source that illuminates a surface of an absorbent structure with ultraviolet light. A sensor may be adapted to receive light caused by fluorescence of the adhesive while being irradiated with the ultraviolet light. In turn, the inspection system may determine characteristics of the absorbent structure based on the detected emitted light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Daniel Richard Royce, Rene Gaber, Charles Jeffrey Spaulding, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Stephen Michael Varga, Michael Dennis Kembel
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Publication number: 20150066187Abstract: Systems and processes herein may be configured to correlate manufacturing parameters and performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles manufactured by a converting apparatus. Embodiments of the systems herein may include inspection sensors configured to inspect substrates and/or component parts advancing along the converting line and communicate inspection parameters to a controller and historian. The systems may also include process sensors configured to monitor equipment on the converting line and communicate process parameters to the controller and historian. The systems herein may also be adapted to receive performance feedback parameters based on the packaged absorbent articles. The systems may correlate inspection parameters, process parameters, and/or performance feedback parameters with individual absorbent articles produced on the converting line. The controller may also be configured to perform various functions based on the performance feedback parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Eric Christopher Berg, Louis J. Cedrone, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Helen Louise Von Den Steinen, William Lawrence Lightcap, Daniel Royce
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Publication number: 20140200701Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Patent number: 8712570Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for detecting and rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. In particular, the systems and methods may utilize feedback from technologies, such as vision systems, sensors, remote input and output stations, and controllers with synchronized embedded clocks to accurately correlate inspection results and measurements from an absorbent article converting process. As such, the systems and methods may accurately apply the use of precision clock synchronization for both instrumentation and control system devices on a non-deterministic communications network. In turn, the clock synchronized control and instrumentation network may be used to control a reject system on converters of absorbent articles. In some embodiments, the controller will reject only defective absorbent articles without the need to reject non-defective absorbent articles.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone
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Publication number: 20130296148Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for rejecting defective absorbent articles from a converting line. At a downstream portion of a converting process, a continuous length of absorbent articles may be subjected to a final knife and cut to create discrete absorbent articles advancing on a first carrier. From the first carrier, the discrete absorbent articles may be transferred to a transfer apparatus, which in turn, transfers the discrete absorbent articles to a second carrier. The transfer apparatus may include carrier members that orbit around an axis of rotation and may be adapted to receive the absorbent articles from the first carrier and transfer the absorbent articles to the second carrier. Defective absorbent articles may be detected by an inspection system, which may be operably connected with the transfer apparatus and/or the first carrier to remove the defective absorbent articles from the converting process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Uwe Schneider, Robert George Cox, Michael Devin Long, Justin B. Owens, Todd Douglas Lenser, David Carlton Ordway, Kazuya Ogawa, Jeffry Rosiak, Jeffrey Michael Kent, Louis J. Cedrone