Patents Issued in September 30, 2014
  • Patent number: 8845287
    Abstract: A nacelle for a turbojet engine is provided that includes an air intake upstream from the turbojet engine, a middle section intended to surround a fan of the turbojet engine and its case, and a downstream section. The middle section is made from at least one aerostructure capable of ensuring external aerodynamic continuity of the nacelle, and the aerostructure is rigidly bound, so as to be able to be taken apart, to at least one surrounding fixed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Hervé Hurlin, Nicolas Dezeustre, Olivier Kerbler, François Gallet, Bertrand Desjoyeaux
  • Patent number: 8845288
    Abstract: A turbine rotor assembly (32) comprising a turbine rotor (34) and a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially outwardly extending turbine rotor blades (36). The turbine rotor (34) has a rim (38) and a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots (40) provided in the rim (38) of the turbine rotor (34). Each turbine rotor blade (36) has a root (42) and the root (42) of each turbine rotor blade (36) is arranged in a corresponding one of the slots (40) in the rim (38) of the turbine rotor (34). Each of the slots (40) has a chocking device (50) and each chocking device (50) abuts a radially inner surface (52) of the slot (40) and each chocking device (50) abuts a radially inner surface (48) of the root (42) of the corresponding turbine rotor blade (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Abraham I. Tholath
  • Patent number: 8845289
    Abstract: A bucket assembly for a turbine system is disclosed. The bucket assembly includes a main body having an exterior surface and defining a main cooling circuit, and a platform surrounding the main body and at least partially defining a platform cooling circuit. The platform includes a forward portion and an aft portion each extending between a pressure side slash face and a suction side slash face. The platform further includes a forward face, an aft face, and a top face. The bucket assembly further includes a passage defined in the aft portion of the platform. The passage is in fluid communication with one of the main cooling circuit or the platform cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jalindar Appa Walunj, Mark Steven Honkomp
  • Patent number: 8845290
    Abstract: A rotorcraft having an operational range and a plurality of rotor blades, each rotor blade capable of assuming an angular pitch, utilizes a control apparatus a mechanism for independently controlling an angular pitch value of each of the plurality of rotor blades wherein a collective sum of the angular pitch values of the plurality of rotor blades is not constant over the operational range of the rotorcraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard H. Lugg
  • Patent number: 8845291
    Abstract: An engine arrangement has a gear assembly that drives a first propeller assembly. The gear assembly is driven by a power drive shaft that joins to the gear assembly at a first side. The engine arrangement has a static conduit that extends along a longitudinal internal cavity of the power drive shaft. The conduit penetrates the gear assembly such that a portion of the conduit projects from an opposing second side of the gear assembly. The engine arrangement has one or more first fluid supply lines routed along the static conduit between a hydraulic pressure power source and the first hydraulic actuator. A first hydraulic rotating coupling is mounted to the projecting portion of the static conduit. The first fluid supply lines fluidly communicate with the first hydraulic actuator via the first rotating coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Andrew Swift, Antony Morgan
  • Patent number: 8845292
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine propeller including multiple blades assembled on a hub rotating around an axis of rotation of the propeller, that can reduce risks of loss of the blade following impact of a foreign body. At least one blade includes a recess opening radially towards the inside in the area of the base of this blade. A retaining device includes a moving retaining mechanism positioned in the recess and configured to be moved from a retracted position to a deployed blade-retaining position, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventor: Laurent Lafont
  • Patent number: 8845293
    Abstract: Devices, apparatus, systems, and methods for the quick installation of ceiling fan blades for ceiling fans. The invention uses a blade with three slots running in a linear direction from the mounting end of the blade, and three pre-attached fasteners upwardly projecting from the outer end of a blade arm. One of the fasteners is springably bendable with inwardly extending clip edge, another fastener that forms an upright post, and a third fastener having a top end with an outwardly extending lip edge. Another embodiment can include four slots per blade and four pre-attached upwardly protruding fasteners per blade arm. A novel method of installing each blade can include angling the blade to the mounting ends of the blade arm so that the outwardly extending lip edge catches on the third slot in from the mounting end of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Chien Luen Industries Co., Ltd., Inc.
    Inventors: Tien S. Lowe, Mark Velutini
  • Patent number: 8845294
    Abstract: Spacers interposed between blades attached to the disk of a rotor having slots and bottoms of the slots are disclosed. Each spacer is made of an elastically deformable material and at least one longitudinal segment of the spacer presents a transverse profile of arcuate shape to define two lateral contact zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Jean-Luc Christian Yvon Goga, Jean-Noel Mahieu
  • Patent number: 8845295
    Abstract: A turbine bucket for a steam turbine low-pressure final stage has an exhaust area exceeding 9.6 m2 and 13.8 m2 in steam-turbine final-stage buckets for a rated speed 3600 rpm and 300 rpm machines, respectively. The turbine bucket is made of martensite steel. A blade portion of the turbine bucket has a suction surface 7 and a pressure surface 8 which are each formed, at a turbine blade root, of three areas consisting of a steam inlet side area 12 with curvature, a steam outlet side area 13 with curvature and an approximately straightly formed area located between the two areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamashita, Shigeki Senoo, Eiji Saito, Takeshi Kudo, Tateki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8845296
    Abstract: A turbine bucket is provided including a bucket airfoil having an airfoil shape, the bucket airfoil having a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 1 wherein the Z values are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to Z distances in inches by multiplying the Z values by a height of the airfoil in inches and adding the radius of the airfoil base, and wherein X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z, the profile sections at the Z distances being joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Matthew Durham Collier, Gayathri Puram, Paul Kendall Smith, Jacob Charles Perry, II
  • Patent number: 8845297
    Abstract: An assembly for mounting wind turbine blades to a wind turbine hub is disclosed. Such assembly includes a blade retaining arrangement to accommodate at least two blades and an interface to a lifting device for lifting the assembly to the hub. Furthermore, a system and a method for the same purpose are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bo From
  • Patent number: 8845298
    Abstract: Driving arrangement (11) for a pump, compressor or similar, adapted to provide alternating pressure in at least two chambers (27a, 27b, 27?, 27?), such as chambers of a pump or compressor, as result of a reciprocating movement of a bar element (23). The bar element is connected to two movable pressure chamber faces being pistons (21a, 21 b) or plungers having fluid connection to said chambers, which bar element (23) is reciprocally supported in a housing (19). The driving arrangement further comprises an electric motor (31) which is adapted to provide the reciprocating movement of the bar element (23). The bar element extends through the rotor (31b) of the electric motor (31). The electric motor is an electric rotary motor. The invention also relates to a pump assembly with a plurality of such driving arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignees: Ing. Per Gjerdrum AS, Techni AS
    Inventors: Andreas Børre Larsen, Jan Martin Bendiksen, Trond Sjulstad, Tor Helge Brandsæter, Ola Strand, Christian Petersen
  • Patent number: 8845299
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for reducing vibration in server or data storage units. An anti-vibration system according to the present invention includes one or more disk drives and one or more fans in a defined area, and a controller which is configured to control operation of each of the one or more fans. A nominal speed setting and a speed range are determined for the one or more fans, either commonly or independently with respect to each, and the fans are caused to be driven in accordance with the determined speed setting and speed range. As a result the occasions in which individual fan speeds are coincident with fixed frequency sensitivities for each disk drive are substantially minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: PAI Capital LLC
    Inventor: Robert William Hughes
  • Patent number: 8845300
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide a control system and method that is able to automatically cycle one or more compressor valves, for example to prevent freeze up. For example, in one embodiment, a system includes a compressor having a compression device configured to increase a pressure of a gas, a valve configured to control flow of the gas from the compression device, and a controller configured to cycle the valve to reduce buildup of contaminants in the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Ross Renner
  • Patent number: 8845301
    Abstract: A compressor control method for prolonging operating time of a vehicle air conditioning compressor. The method includes monitoring an operating temperature of an insulated gate bipolar transistor in the compressor, comparing the operating temperature to at least one predetermined threshold temperature, and continuing operation of the compressor if the operating temperature is below the at least one predetermined threshold temperature. At least one mitigating step is implemented to prevent premature shutdown of the compressor if the operating temperature is above the at least one predetermined threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mark G. Smith
  • Patent number: 8845302
    Abstract: A method for continuously controlling the flow rate of a meat input stream for making a meat product is disclosed. A flow rate algorithm is provided that depends upon pump speed (RPM) for control of the flow rate. A correction factor provides further control of the system and is dependant upon loss in weight data when meat is not being added. When meat is being added and a new target flow rate is desired, a modified correction factor is calculated based upon a previous error factor and a new initial pump speed based on the new target flow rate. The modified correction factor is used to obtain an adjusted pump speed. The RPM of the pump motor is used as the main control of the flow rate, and the loss in weight data fine tunes this RPM parameter for finer control to better achieve a target flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
    Inventor: Daniel B. Wilke
  • Patent number: 8845303
    Abstract: A pump control system and a torque control valve are disclosed. In one embodiment, the torque control valve includes a sleeve, a spool disposed in the sleeve, and a piston rod disposed through the spool. The spool has a first recess area, a second recess area, and a third recess area. The first and third recess areas each have a port extending into a central bore of the spool. The piston rod includes a groove orifice feature having a spiral groove and is configured such that a fluid flowing from the port in the first recess area to the port in the third recess area must flow through at least a portion of the spiral groove. The fluid flowing through the spiral groove operates to bias the spool in a direction towards the second axial end of the spool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventor: Shu Wang
  • Patent number: 8845304
    Abstract: The motor-driven compressor is mounted on a mounting of a vehicle. The motor-driven compressor includes a compressor body, a mounting, a damper and a fastener. The compressor body is electrically powered to draw in fluid for compression and to discharge the compressed fluid. The mounting of the compressor is formed on the compressor body and has a mounting hole. The damper is made of a resin and receives therein the mounting of the compressor. The damper is interposed between the compressor body and the mounting of the vehicle and has a through hole. The fastener is inserted through the through hole of the damper and the mounting hole of the compressor for securing the damper to the mounting of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sugiyama, Ken Suitou
  • Patent number: 8845305
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump (10) having a pump body (11) providing opposing pump chambers (12, 13). Mounted in the body is a piston assembly (14) having pistons (15) joined by a piston rod (16). Each piston (15) is sealingly connected to the body (11) by a diaphragm (22) so that each of the chambers (12, 13) is divided into a first and a second sub-chamber, with the flow of fluid being pumped is governed by a pair of valves (30). Each valve (30) includes a base (31) to which there is movably attached a movable valve member (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Joe Santa & Associates Pty Limited
    Inventor: David Luiz Santa
  • Patent number: 8845306
    Abstract: A pumping system comprising a membrane pump (1) for pumping a medium into or out of a vessel (6), the membrane pump comprising an actuating member (13) for moving a membrane (3) in a first direction from a first end position to a second end position against the action of a spring (12), the membrane being movable in the opposite direction from the second end position to the first end position under the action of the spring. The pumping system comprises sensing means (14) for generating a measuring value representing the location of said first end position of the membrane (3), and processing means (17) for establishing a pressure value representing the pressure inside a vessel (6) connected to an inlet (5) or outlet (24) of a pump chamber (4), the processing means (17) being adapted to establish said pressure value based on said measuring value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Xavitech AB
    Inventor: Johan Stenberg
  • Patent number: 8845307
    Abstract: There are provided a micro-ejector and a method for manufacturing the same. The micro-ejector according to the present invention includes a passage plate including a barrier rib portion disposed in an upper space in a chamber and a protruding portion disposed in a lower space in the chamber and forming a passage in the same direction as a fluid discharging direction together with the barrier rib portion; and an actuator formed on the upper portion of the passage plate to correspond to the chamber and providing a driving force of discharging the fluid to the nozzle from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changsung Sean Kim, Sang Jin Kim, Suk Ho Song
  • Patent number: 8845308
    Abstract: A thrust module and a seal module for use in an electric submersible pump assembly is provided. The thrust module provides increased lubrication and heat dissipation while increasing sealing redundancies within the module. The thrust module includes a thrust bearing that absorbs thrust from the primary pump. A circulation pump assembly is coupled to the thrust bearing to circulate fluid through the thrust bearing and dissipate heat generated in the thrust bearing through a plurality of fins formed on an exterior surface of the circulation pump assembly. The seal module has labyrinth discs positioned within the seal module that inhibit fluid flow through the seal module. The seal module also includes check valves that release fluid from and allow fluid into the seal module at predetermined pressures. The sealing assembly is interposed between the thrust bearing and a primary pump of the electric submersible pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven K. Tetzlaff, Chad A. Craig
  • Patent number: 8845309
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vibration reducing device for pump cover body of water shut-off diaphragm pump comprising a hood cover mount and a pump cover body with a containing pit, which orderly accommodates a plastic elastic membrane disk, an obstructing baffle and a compressed spring therein. The plastic elastic membrane disk includes a downward central flow directing buffer, which can insert into a flow directing compartment in the containing pit when the hood cover mount docks with the pump cover body. The flow directing buffer can not only absorb the direct impacting momentum of pumped high pressurized water to the surrounding internal wall of the flow directing compartment but also redirect the random impacting direction of the high pressurized water. Thus, the vibration of the pump cover body with annoying noise created by the impacting momentum of the high pressurized water is deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventors: Ying Lin Cai, Chao Fou Hsu
  • Patent number: 8845310
    Abstract: A scroll compressor including a casing, a scroll compression mechanism that compresses refrigerant, a driving motor that has a driving shaft, an insulator and a stator, and is connected to the scroll compression mechanism through the driving shaft to drive the scroll compression mechanism, a main frame that supports the scroll compression mechanism in the casing, a bearing plate that has a boss portion in which the driving shaft is inserted, and supports the driving shaft of the driving motor in the casing, and a cover that covers the surrounding of the driving shaft between the driving motor and the bearing plate and is formed of an insulating material and provided to the insulator of the driving motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iitsuka, Tsutomu Kon, Akihiro Hayashi, Katsuki Akuzawa, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yasunori Kiyokawa
  • Patent number: 8845311
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor having a plurality of helical grooves, a casing containing the screw rotor and a gate rotor. The casing includes a discharge port on an inner peripheral surface of the casing. The gate rotor has gates meshing with the helical grooves of the screw rotor to compress gas in compression chambers to discharge the gas from the discharge port after being compressed. The compression chambers are defined by the helical grooves, the casing, and the gates. The discharge port is divided into a first port and a second port when two adjacent helical grooves of the plurality of helical grooves is open to the discharge port as a result of rotation of the screw rotor, with one of the two adjacent helical grooves being open in the first port and the other of the two adjacent helical grooves being open in the second port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Fujiwara, Hideyuki Gotou, Harunori Miyamura, Nozomi Gotou
  • Patent number: 8845312
    Abstract: Provided is a screw compressor, accommodating a pair of rotatable male and female screw rotors in a compression chamber formed in a casing, wherein the casing includes: an internal dividing wall that defines an inside interior space; and an outer wall that defines an outside interior space arranged outside the inside interior space The screw compressor further includes: a communication pipe member that penetrates the outer wall and extends across the outside interior space, and an end of the communication pipe member being inserted into the internal dividing wall so that the inside interior space communicates with a passage outside the outer wall. By using this communication pipe member, fluid can pass across an interior space in the casing to be fed to another interior space formed further inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shugo Takaki
  • Patent number: 8845313
    Abstract: Embodiments of an oil pump for an engine have an increased pump capacity while maintaining or marginally increasing the overall physical size of the pump. In some embodiments, this increased capacity is reflected in a pump length efficiency ratio, which compares an effective gear length (LG) of first and second pump gears used in the oil pump, to an effective housing length (LH). The effective housing length (LH) is a longitudinal distance between surfaces on opposite ends of the oil pump that must be maintained for the oil pump to fit into an available space. Accordingly, the pump length efficiency ratio indicates how much of the effective housing length (LH) can be occupied by the gears. Alternatively, the pump capacity is measured using an output flow efficiency ratio, which compares a theoretical pump flow (FP) at a given gear speed (SG) to the effective housing length (LH) of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis John Graham, Adam William Ostein, Patrick William Savage, Jr., Christopher Lee Bach
  • Patent number: 8845314
    Abstract: A lens manufacturing apparatus includes a concave-convex shape forming unit that makes a notch in the surface of a workpiece to form a concave-convex shape portion, a resin supply unit that supplies resin for a lens onto the surface of the workpiece, a resin curing unit that cures the supplied resin for a lens, a moving unit that moves the concave-convex shape forming unit, the resin supply unit, and the resin curing unit relative to the workpiece, and a control unit that controls driving of the concave-convex shape forming unit, the resin supply unit, the resin curing unit, and the moving unit so as to form the concave-convex shape portion extending in a predetermined direction, supply the resin for a lens between adjacent concave-convex shape portions and cure the supplied resin for a lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Yasuda, Keishi Shimizu, Yoshio Nishihara
  • Patent number: 8845315
    Abstract: An exemplary injection molding apparatus includes a first mold defining a passage therein, a second mold engaging with the first mold, working fluid received in the passage of the first mold, and a thermal conductive member engaged in the first mold and thermally interconnecting the first mold and the working fluid. The first mold and the second mold cooperatively define a molding chamber therebetween adapted to receive injected molten material therein. The thermal conductive member transfers heat from the first and second molds to the working fluid when the first and second molds are hotter than the working fluid, and transfers heat from the working fluid to the first and second molds when the working fluid is hotter than the first and second molds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nien-Tien Cheng, Ming-Hsiu Chung
  • Patent number: 8845316
    Abstract: A process for producing at least one three-dimensional object by solidifying a solidifyable material, comprising the steps of: providing an object carrier capable of carrying the object to be produced; providing a material capable of solidifying when subjected to energy supply; bringing a solidifyable material carrier/provider in a position to carry/provide solidifyable material at least in a building region where solidifyable material is to be solidified; supplying, to the building region, energy capable of solidifying the solidifyable material; and sensing, measuring and/or controlling a condition selected from the group consisting of pressure and/or strain. Alternatively or in combination, contact pressure, fluid pressure and/or material flowability can be sensed and/or adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Envisiontec GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Schillen, Ali El-Siblani
  • Patent number: 8845317
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus for performing alignment between a mold and a substrate and imprinting a pattern of the mold to a layer of the substrate. A holder holds the mold. A stage holds the substrate opposite to the mold held by the holder. A microscope, including an image pickup device, detects a first alignment mark formed in the mold, via a first image pickup area of the image pickup device, and detects a second alignment mark formed in the substrate, via a second image pickup area of the image pickup device. The first and second image pickup areas do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhito Suehira, Junichi Seki, Hideki Ina, Koichi Sentoku
  • Patent number: 8845318
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus for imprinting a mold pattern onto a substrate or a member on the substrate includes a light source for irradiating a surface of the mold disposed opposite to the substrate and a surface of the substrate with light; an optical system for guiding the light from the light source to the surface of the mold and the surface of the substrate and guiding reflected lights from these surfaces to a spectroscope; a spectroscope for dispersing the reflected lights guided by the optical system into a spectrum; and an analyzer for analyzing a distance between the surface of the mold and the surface of the substrate. The analyzer calculates the distance between the surface of the mold and the surface of the substrate by measuring a distance between the surface of the mold and a surface formed at a position away from the surface of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhito Suehira, Junichi Seki, Hideki Ina
  • Patent number: 8845319
    Abstract: A means for modifying a building space for a device for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by layerwise solidification of a powdery building material at the locations corresponding to the object in the respective layers comprises one or several small supports (32) or one or several building space partitioning elements (20) on a building platform (2), thereby the device has one or several small building areas (22.1, 22.2, 22.3), in which the powdery material may be efficiently used and different powder materials may be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Johann Oberhofer, Robert Eichner
  • Patent number: 8845320
    Abstract: An arrangement suitable for use in an imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed. The arrangement includes a support structure arranged to support an imprint template arrangement, a first actuator configured to apply a force to the imprint template arrangement, and a second actuator attached to the support structure, and arranged in use to extend between the support structure and the imprint template arrangement, the second actuator configured to apply a force to the imprint template arrangement, a range of movement of the second actuator being greater than a range of movement of the first actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Catharinus De Schiffart, Andre Bernardus Jeunink, Johannes Petrus Martinus Bernardus Vermeulen, Sander Frederik Wuister, Yvonne Wendela Kruijt-Stegeman, Norbert Erwin Therenzo Jansen
  • Patent number: 8845321
    Abstract: A split thread insert is disclosed with integral cooling channels utilized for the continuous internal circulation of cooling fluid around a molding surface of the split thread insert, wherein the molding surface forms a neck area of a preform during an injection molding process. The molding surface of the split thread insert is semi-circular with a profile corresponding with a threaded area of the preform. The split thread insert is assembled from two or more cut pieces, wherein at least one of the cut pieces includes a curved groove formed therein proximate the molding surface for forming a curved cooling fluid channel when the cut pieces are joined to form the split thread insert. The cooling fluid channel includes a flow diverter positioned therein for defining a portion of a continuous cooling fluid circuit of the split thread insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Witold Neter
  • Patent number: 8845322
    Abstract: A mold assembly includes a male mold, a female mold, and a driving unit. The male mold includes a stationary member, a moveable member defining through holes, and mold cores fixed on the stationary member and received in the respective through holes. The female mold covers the moveable member. The female mold defines recesses aligned with and communicating with the respective through holes. The moveable member, the female mold and the mold cores cooperatively form mold cavities at the through holes. The driving unit is fixed on the stationary member and supports the moveable member. The driving unit is configured for driving the moveable member to move upward or downward along the mold cores relative to the stationary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yun-Yu Chou
  • Patent number: 8845323
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for burning combustible fluids, such as biofuel byproducts and feedstocks, which are difficult to burn in a stable and clean manner. The method includes preheating the combustion zone prior to initiating flow of the combustible fluid and maintaining a minimum oxygen concentration in the oxidant gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Leighta M. Johnson, Matthew J. Watson, Aleksandar G. Slavejkov
  • Patent number: 8845324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for controlling regenerative burners used as a firing device, particularly for iron and steel product heating furnaces or for radiating tubes for continuous strip steel processing lines, according to which the supply of at least one of the fluids involved in the combustion (fuel and comburent) is carried out through a rotary injector (12) rotating by means of a rotatable actuator (M) so as to supply fluid alternately to one and then the other of the burners (B1, B2), the rotary injector (12) being placed on the comburent inlet duct (6), particularly air, and is provided to partially obstruct the supply pipe (19.1; 19.2) to the burner (B1; B2) such that one portion of the fumes from a regenerator (2.2; 2.1) for the non-operating burner (B2; B1) is led to the operating burner (B1; B2) and such that the other portion of the fumes is discharged to the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fives Stein
    Inventor: Patrice Sedmak
  • Patent number: 8845325
    Abstract: An apparatus for lighting an oxygen candle within a drum and for sealing the drum of an oxygen candle furnace. The apparatus includes a housing member for positioning the ignition assembly on a lid of the drum. The housing member having an upper portion, a lower portion and a borehole extending through the upper and lower portions. An ignition nail is placed in the borehole and housing member is structured to hold prevent the ignition nail from moving laterally, and to automatically align the nail with the oxygen candle within the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Matthew J. Smith
  • Patent number: 8845326
    Abstract: An gas burner assembly for a cooking appliance includes a main burner assembly, a simmer burner assembly positioned in a stacked relationship with and located below the main burner assembly, a venturi assembly for delivering a gas flow to the main burner assembly, a gas boost pump configured to control a pressurization of the gas flow, a gas valve assembly for controlling a rate of the gas flow, and an encoder coupled to the gas valve assembly, the encoder configured to track a position of the gas valve assembly and provide a signal to the gas boost pump for pressurization of the gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Scott Shaffer, Eric K. Watson, Brian Michael Schork, Paul Bryan Cadima, Paul E. McCrorey
  • Patent number: 8845327
    Abstract: A casting abutment for a dental implant comprising: an apical socket portion, a transition portion bordering coronally on the socket portion, an occlusal portion bordering coronally on the transition portion and having an apical lower rim, wherein the occlusal portion, starting from its lower rim, is provided on its peripheral surface with an area having indentations, whose crests face the transition portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Straumann Holding AG
    Inventors: Marcel Schlüssel, Holger Kast, Fabian Schwieder
  • Patent number: 8845328
    Abstract: A jaw-mounted dental implant with an implant body. The implant body includes an attachment fastening structure arranged in the implant body which fastens an implant attachment on an implant body longitudinal end facing away from a jaw. An attachment plane is arranged at the implant body longitudinal end facing away from the jaw and is inclined at an attachment angle ? of 75° to 45° relative to an implant body longitudinal axis. A support structure projects outward from an implant body outer surface on a longitudinal end of an implant body bone portion facing away from the jaw. The support structure is formed by at least one support web arranged in a web plane. The web plane is interrupted by an interruption region arranged in a circumferential direction at an obtuse-angle side of the implant body so as to not extend around an entire circumference of the implant body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Marcus Abboud
  • Patent number: 8845329
    Abstract: Dental retention systems which facilitate the adjustment or removal of an oral appliance, e.g., a crown or bridge, from a reconfigurable abutment assembly are described. The adjustable abutment assembly may be secured to an anchoring implant bored into the bones within the mouth. The abutment assembly has a projecting abutment portion with one or more shape memory alloy compression plates or elements extending along the projecting abutment portion. Each of the plates has a length with one or more straightened portions and with at least one curved or arcuate portion. Energy may be applied to the elements such that the arcuate portion self-flattens to allow for the oral appliance to be placed thereupon while removal of the energy allows the elements to reconfigure into its curved configuration thereby locking the oral appliance to the abutment. Removal of the oral appliance may be effected by reapplication of energy to the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Rodo Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Young Seo
  • Patent number: 8845330
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for creating a physical teeth model. The method comprises the following steps: providing a virtual three dimensional (3D) representation of a patient's dentition that comprises at least a region of the teeth that includes a tooth stump on which a crown is to be fitted or a region on to which a bridge is to be fitted; and preparing a physical model of the jaws of a subject from a blank, based on information from said virtual 3D image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Cadent, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eldad Taub, Avi Kopelman
  • Patent number: 8845331
    Abstract: A kit to make an individual impression tray for dental use, the kit having a standard model reproducing a dental arch, a semifinished product of thermoformable material, for example, a plate member, and a container for a heat exchange liquid. The first step that is carried out by the dentist to obtain the individual impression tray provides the insertion of the model in the container. Then, next to dental arch of the model a plate member is arranged and hereafter a certain amount of a liquid is put, for example, water, in the container up to covering plate member. The liquid is then heated by a source of thermal power, for example, a microwave oven, stopping heating when the temperature of the liquid achieves a value T* higher than the temperature for softening the thermoformable material of the plate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Antonio Monicelli
  • Patent number: 8845332
    Abstract: An educational and interactive system for teaching children the importance of maintaining proper nutrition in order to induce healthy growth utilizing an interactive audio system that updates a child regarding the child's height and outputs pre-recorded messages. A system having an elongate member adapted to determine accurate height measurements of a child, the elongate member having a measurement indicator extending from the top of the face of the elongate member to the bottom of the face of the elongate member, the elongate member with a series of food decals disposed at predetermined locations on the face of the elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Donald J. Reid
  • Patent number: 8845333
    Abstract: Apparatus for training the art of forcible door entry for emergency personnel such as firefighters and, in particular, a reusable forcible entry door training apparatus that allows individuals to simulate forcible entry of outward opening metal doors mounted in metal frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Perrone
  • Patent number: 8845334
    Abstract: An apparatus for teaching and practicing an ophthalmologic surgical technique of creating the continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis comprises a housing with a first base end and a second suction cup end for holding a malleable body; a flexible film or cellophane-type membrane covers the operating area of the malleable body; this flexible film can be held into place on the first base end with a first cap with an aperture or opening; in between the first base end and the second suction cup end, there can be a flexible stock with a threaded connection. There can also be a second cap addition, which simulates a cornea and anterior chamber, which can be filled with viscoelastic material, which can increase the pressure in the eye and flattens the anterior capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Stuart Stoll
  • Patent number: 8845335
    Abstract: A device for the support of photovoltaic modules such that the tilt angles of the photovoltaic modules can be varied to modify the exposure of the photovoltaic modules to sunlight for the purpose of generating solar electricity. The device allows for the reversible attachment and detachment of photovoltaic modules, serves as the storage for the photovoltaic modules when the photovoltaic modules are detached, and is easily portable by a single person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Lisa Echeverria Benatar
  • Patent number: 8845336
    Abstract: The present invention is a learning organizer for assisting a learner. The learning organizer comprises a sheet having a front portion and a rear portion, the sheet folded substantially along a central line to form a first half and a second half, a plurality of flaps located on the first half, a plurality of holes provided along and proximate to the central line and punched through the first half and the second half, a plurality of lines on the rear portion and a plurality of fill-in-blanks pre-printed on the second half to write details of the learner. Each of the plurality of flaps includes a plurality of perforations and a plurality of scorings. The plurality of lines is provided for neat writing. The learning organizer allows the learner to write down learning information into each of the plurality of flaps so as to present, organize, learn and memorize learning concepts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Walsh, Trisha Vanbrederode Kee