Patents Issued in April 26, 2016
  • Patent number: 9321178
    Abstract: A machine system including a sensor unit detecting periodically an acceleration at a tip part of a movable member, a data acquisition unit acquiring first time-series data of the acceleration at the tip part of the movable member corresponding to sensor signal received via a wireless signal path, a data calculation unit configured to calculate second time-series data corresponding to the first time-series data based on a driving command of the motor, a delay time calculation unit calculating a delay time of the first time-series data with respect to the second time-series data according to a degree of correlation between first time-series data and the second time-series data, and a correction unit correcting the first time-series data based on the delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ya Cho, Kaimeng Wang
  • Patent number: 9321179
    Abstract: A wrist structure of an industrial robot including a second wrist power transmission part transmitting power of a second wrist motor to a second wrist element and a third wrist power transmission part transmitting power of a third wrist motor to a third wrist element. The second wrist power transmission part includes a hypoid gear set, a drive shaft, a first reduction gear part reducing a speed of rotation from the second wrist motor and transmitting the reduced rotation to the drive shaft, and a second reduction gear part reducing a speed of rotation from the drive shaft and transmitting the reduced rotation to the second wrist small gear, and the third wrist power transmission part includes a hypoid gear set and a third reduction gear part reducing a speed of rotation from the third wrist motor and transmitting the reduced rotation to the third wrist small gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 9321180
    Abstract: An industrial robot device includes a swivel with an attachment mechanism for the attachment of a tool. The attachment mechanism includes at least two different attachment devices for two different kinds of tools. A first attachment device includes a positioning mechanism defining a certain angular position of an attached tool relative to the swivel. A second attachment device is arranged for allowing an arbitrary angular position of an attached tool relative to the swivel. Also contemplated is an industrial robot that is provided with the invented device and to a method for manipulating objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Daniel Wäppling, Guido Favot, Michael Fors
  • Patent number: 9321181
    Abstract: A cutting device comprises a body having two opposing sides which are mirror images and are fastened together by a plurality of fasteners, the body comprises a forward facing substantially triangular portion and a rearward facing substantially rectangular portion, a wedge member, the wedge member comprises a top side, a bottom side, a first end, a second end thicker than the first end, the top side of the wedge extending along a bottom surface of the substantially triangular portion to define a space there between, an interior cavity defined by the opposing sides of the body, a cutting blade being received in the cavity wherein a portion of the cutting edge extends outward from the bottom surface of the substantially triangular portion and into the space so that the portion of the cutting edge is exposed and two wheels mounted on each side of the of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Anthony Peppett
  • Patent number: 9321182
    Abstract: The invention features a razor for dispensing a fluid during shaving. The razor includes a handle and a razor cartridge removably attached to the handle. The razor cartridge includes a housing having a front surface and a rear surface and an aperture that extends from the rear surface to the front surface. A cartridge connecting structure is attached to the rear surface of the housing and includes a fluid dispensing member disposed therein. The fluid dispensing member includes a converging flowpath that is in fluid communication with the aperture in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Kelly Bridges, Michael H Bruno, Steven M Bourque, Hubert F Carneiro
  • Patent number: 9321183
    Abstract: A thumbpiece or thumb support (400) positioned between a head assembly (300) and a handle assembly (200) of a power operated rotary knife (100). The thumb support (400) includes a thumb supporting surface (454) to support a thumb of an operator's hand during operation of the power operated rotary knife (100). The thumb support (400) comprises a base portion (410) and thumb supporting portion (450) including the thumb supporting surface (454). The thumb support (400) further includes an interface assembly (480) between the thumb supporting portion (450) and the base portion (410) for relative pivotal movement between the thumb supporting portion (450) and the base portion (410).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Bettcher Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward A. Steele, Josiah Brinkerhoff, Tom Remm
  • Patent number: 9321184
    Abstract: A blade sharpening system for log saw machines is provided. An example multiphase grinding wheel has a grinding face with one or more abrasive concentric rings for sharpening the cutting blade of the log saw machine, and one or more padded concentric rings consisting of fiber padding. Sharpening with the multiphase grinding wheel improves cut quality, increases blade life, removes glues and varnishes from the cutting blade, reduces blade deformation, and hones the edge of the cutting blade. A pneumatic tensioning system uses air bladders to apply a dynamically cushioned pressure between the grinding wheels and the cutting blade. The fiber-padded grinding wheels and the air bladder tensioner provide improved sharpness of the cutting blade and longer life for the mechanical components. The padded grinding wheels decrease fire risk, and the tensioner can be operated remotely, decreasing human injuries common with conventional setup actions near the sharp cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Lawrence E Baker
  • Patent number: 9321185
    Abstract: A pivotable winch assembly for a wood chipper includes an attachment bracket permanently connected to the wood chipper, a boom pivotably coupled to the attachment bracket by a pivot pin such that pivoting of the boom helps to manipulate and draw material into the wood chipper, a pivot pin to enable the boom to pivot into a plurality of preferred positions with respect to the wood chipper, and a retention pin for securing the boom into the plurality of preferred positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Altec Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Daniel Satterwhite
  • Patent number: 9321186
    Abstract: A method for creating a vessel with a noise chamber comprising casting slip into a mold defining a vessel with a void in the foot, controlling the hardening process to facilitate the foot becoming leather-hard prior to the other parts of the vessel, placing a bead within the void in the foot, attaching a foot slab with a hole to the foot of the vessel to create a noise chamber out of the void in the foot, drying the vessel beyond a leather-hard state, applying a temporary cover to the hole in the foot slab, glazing the vessel, firing the vessel and applying a seal to the hole in the foot slab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Ashley Lin Ames
  • Patent number: 9321187
    Abstract: A process for the fabrication of a SiC-based article that includes preparing an aqueous suspension with SiC powder, a titanium source, a carbon source and boron carbide powder, spray drying the mixture to obtain a powder, preparing a green body from the powder, applying heat treatment to the green body in a pyrolysis/thermolysis step, pressureless sintering the green body, optimally followed by HIPing for further densification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: VERCO MATERIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Schenck Wiley, Robert F. Speyer
  • Patent number: 9321188
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing of ceramic electro-insulating pipes having an external diameter between 30 mm and 100 mm, a wall thickness between 5 mm and 10 mm, a length between 15 cm and 150 cm, the method comprising molding in a mold, an element made from a ceramic powder, compacting the ceramic element in a press, glazing, firing of a glazed element in a furnace and shaping the fired element in order to produce the ceramic insulating pipe characterized in that the element is molded in a mould (102) from a ceramic powder consisting of Al2O3 from 40% to 75% by weight, SiO2 from 5 to 25%, kaolin (white clay) from 5% to 20%, and potter's clay from 5% to 20%, wherein the mold (102) comprises a rigid cylindrical lower punch (202) and a flexible cylindrical outer membrane (203) placed around the lower punch (202) so that between them a cylindrical gap (204) is formed to be filled with the ceramic powder, wherein while filling the gap (204) with the ceramic powder, the outer membrane (203) is deformed from a circular
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGIES S.A
    Inventors: Artur Slawinski, Joachim Summerer
  • Patent number: 9321189
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ceramic honeycomb structure includes kneading inorganic particles and binder ingredient such that raw material paste including the inorganic particles and binder ingredient is prepared, forming a body made of the raw material paste and having a honeycomb structure such that the body has the honeycomb structure having multiple through-holes extending in the longitudinal direction of the body and multiple partitions formed between the through-holes, degreasing of the body including heating the body in atmosphere maintaining oxygen concentration of 0.2% or less in the first heating and heating the body in atmosphere having oxygen concentration which is higher than the oxygen concentration of the first heating in the second heating such that a degreased body having the honeycomb structure is formed, and sintering the degreased body having the honeycomb structure such that a ceramic body having the honeycomb structure is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Yamayose
  • Patent number: 9321190
    Abstract: A shaft assembly for use in a temperature-controlled K-mixer is provided, along with the mixer including the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes an inner hollow shaft defining an inner passage, and an outer hollow shaft coaxially surrounding the inner hollow shaft. An outer passage extends between the inner and outer hollow shafts. The shaft also includes a plurality of blades extending from the outer hollow shaft, for mixing the material. Each of the blades is provided with channels. The inner passage, the channels and the outer passage form a continuous flow path allowing a pressurized fluid to circulate within inner and outer hollow shafts and the blades, for controlling temperature of the shafts and the blades. The channels allow a flow of the fluid in the blades in an opposite direction of a rotational direction of the shaft assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Phoenix Innovation Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvain Martel, Stephen Murphy
  • Patent number: 9321191
    Abstract: A one-piece mold can be used to form molded items that incorporate features or encroachments with negative draft angles, and such molded items can be removed from the mold in a single piece by lifting, tilting, or pulling, or a combination thereof, without breaking the mold or the item to be molded. The mold and method of molding are suited to a bathtub or shower unit. The mold and method of molding permit the removal of molded items with negative draft angles by coordinating the angle of the sump front wall and sump back wall with the angles of other encroachments in the molded item within specified ranges that permit one-piece removal of the item to be molded from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Raymond Doss
  • Patent number: 9321192
    Abstract: A process is described for manufacturing articles by selective fusion of polymer powder layers, especially the rapid prototyping by solid-phase laser sintering of a powder based on a copolyamide of type 6 having a low enthalpy of cold crystallization. Further described, are the articles obtained by such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: RHODIA OPERATIONS
    Inventors: Cécile Corriol, Pierre-Yves Lahary
  • Patent number: 9321193
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a resin product manufacturing system, a manufacturing method, a resin molding machine and a mold capable of easily manufacturing a burr-free finished product in injection molding or the like. In a resin product manufacturing system for forming an intermediate product by a resin molding machine and manufacturing a finished product by deburring the intermediate product by a deburring device, the resin molding machine is provided with a mold including a storing portion for storing an overflow resin (burr) formed at a site corresponding to the entire periphery of an intermediate product in a matching surface, the intermediate product having the overflow resin (burr) integrally formed over the entire periphery thereof is formed by the mold, and the deburring device cuts the overflow resin (burr) integrally formed over the entire periphery of the intermediate product together with the burr to manufacture a finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIHON SHORYOKU KIKAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norio Tanaka, Yoshiyasu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 9321194
    Abstract: An ejector assembly for removing a molded part from a mold includes an ejector arm and mounting structure. The ejector arm has a first end with a tongue that extends partially into a cavity of the mold and an opposite second end with a handle that extends outwardly from the mold cavity. The mounting structure pivotally mounts the ejector arm to the top portion of the mold so that the ejector arm may be pivoted between an operating position and an ejection position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SNYDER INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Rian Suiter
  • Patent number: 9321195
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a pipe, which is capable of reducing the amount of thermoplastic material, without complicating an device for producing a pipe. The present invention provides a method for producing a pipe, comprising a thermoplastic material filling process for filling a die with a thermoplastic material, and a thermoplastic material discharging process for pushing out an unsolidified part of the thermoplastic material in the molding die using pressurized fluid, wherein the thermoplastic material is mixed with a foaming agent, the method further comprises a process for foaming the thermoplastic material filling the molding die, and the thermoplastic material discharging process is a process for pushing out a inner part of the thermoplastic material foamed in the molding die, by using the pressurized fluid prior to solidification of the inner part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sanoh Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ezure, Masao Motonaga, Naoya Mieda
  • Patent number: 9321196
    Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a method of molding a composite molded article enabling compression molding without requiring a large sized injection molding machine and a mold system used for that. [MEANS FOR SOLUTION] A method of molding a composite molded article using a first mold member 13 to mold a primary molded article 29 by primary molding, switching a movable mold member 14 holding the primary molded article 29 with a movable mold member 14 positioned with a second mold member 15, then using a second mold member 15 in which the primary molded article 29 is inserted to mold a secondary molded article 30 by secondary molding, wherein the primary molding and the secondary molding are executed by non-continuous different steps at points of time different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Meikiseisakusho, Teijinkasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Fukumoto, Shizuo Jinno, Atsushi Tsukamoto, Toshiaki Hotaka, Fumitaka Kondo, Yasuhiro Sugihara, Kazuma Hisaki
  • Patent number: 9321197
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of a composite part with a multi-part outer layer and with a foam layer bonded on the reverse side to the outer layer, in particular internal cladding of a vehicle, and also to a composite part. The inventive process comprises the following steps: a) arrangement of a first skin and of a second skin with angled-off end regions on the surface of a mold in such a way that the angled-off end regions of the first and second skin have firstly been oriented away from the surface of the mold and secondly are adjacent to one another; b) application of a reduced pressure in the region of the position of the angled-off end regions, in such a way that the angled-off end regions are pressed two-dimensionally against one another; c) reverse-side foaming of the first and second skin with a foam composition. The inventive process permits the simple production of visually attractive composite parts with multi-part outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: FAURECIA INNENRAUM SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Claus Heinz, Bernhard Baumann, Andreas Meyer, Bernd Hemberger, Christian Koetter, Christo Gavrilov
  • Patent number: 9321198
    Abstract: A foamed plastic container in which the cell diameters vary along a gradient so as not to decrease the content protection performance, in a manner quite different from the foamed cells distributed in the conventional foamed containers. The foamed plastic container has a container wall formed by using a plastic material and in which foamed cells are distributed, the lengths of the foamed cells in the surface direction of the container wall decreasing from the outer surface of the container toward the inner surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentarou Ichikawa, Nobuhisa Koiso, Norio Akuzawa
  • Patent number: 9321199
    Abstract: A method of insert molding comprises placing in a first mold a curable rubber composition comprising a reactive species; placing on a surface of the rubber composition a first thermoplastic material in a film or layer comprising a group reactive with the reactive species of the rubber composition; curing the rubber composition in the mold to form a first molded article of cured rubber having a first thermoplastic material layer covalently bonded through reactive of the reactive species and the group; placing the first molded article as an insert into a second mold, the cured rubber contacting an inside surface of the second mold and the thermoplastic layer facing into the second mold cavity; closing the second mold and injecting into the second mold a second thermoplastic material that to form a second molded article comprising the first molded article thermally welded and/or covalently bonded to the second thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: N. Spencer Stone, Sui-Chieh Yu, Denis Schiller, Ruzica Krstic
  • Patent number: 9321200
    Abstract: A method of insert molding comprises placing in a first mold a curable rubber composition comprising a reactive species; placing on a surface of the rubber composition a first thermoplastic material in a film or layer comprising a group reactive with the reactive species of the rubber composition; curing the rubber composition in the mold to form a first molded article of cured rubber having a first thermoplastic material layer covalently bonded through reactive of the reactive species and the group; placing the first molded article as an insert into a second mold, the cured rubber contacting an inside surface of the second mold and the thermoplastic layer facing into the second mold cavity; closing the second mold and injecting into the second mold a second thermoplastic material that to form a second molded article comprising the first molded article thermally welded and/or covalently bonded to the second thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: N. Spencer Stone, Sui-Chieh Yu, Denis Schiller, Ruzica Krstic
  • Patent number: 9321201
    Abstract: A method of forming a golf ball is disclosed herein. The method includes injecting a cover mixture into a mold to form a cover mixture comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane resin and a polyahl, subjecting the golf ball to a polyisocyanated solution to create a golf ball with a polyisocyanated cover, and heating the golf ball or polyisocyanated cover to remove a solvent component of the polyisocyanated solution and promote the reaction of the polyisocyanate with the cover mixture and polyahl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Callaway Golf Company
    Inventor: Shane Parnell
  • Patent number: 9321202
    Abstract: A device for producing a molded part with a fiber-reinforced support and an attachment part connected thereto. The support is made from a fiber-reinforced mat and the attachment part is made from a plastics material. The device includes a first tool component including a nozzle for supplying liquefied plastics material and a second tool component including a cavity for forming the attachment part. One of the first and second tool components is configured to be movable relative to the other one of the first and second tool components. The device is configured to receive the mat when the device is in an open state, and to place the mat under pressure and to compress the mat to produce the support when the device is in a closed state. The nozzle is configured to introduce the plastics material into the cavity through the mat to produce the attachment part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Hubauer, Astrid Jünger
  • Patent number: 9321203
    Abstract: Provided is a decorated sheet for insert molding in which at least a base sheet, a print layer and a surface resin layer are laminated, wherein the above base sheet comprises an ABS resin having a butadiene content of 10 to 33% by weight based on the total component, and the surface resin layer has a thickness of 50 to 150 ?m. Capable of being provided is a novel decorated sheet which does not generate harmful gases such as a chlorine gas and the like in burning and therefore does not bring about problems such as environmental pollution and the like and which is excellent in a so-called vacuum molding property and can suitably be used for various interior decorations of automobiles and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Suga
  • Patent number: 9321204
    Abstract: Disclosed is a removable erosion-control and fencing (“REAF”) system for shoreline preservation along a line defined by a plurality of posts. An exemplary REAF system comprises first and second post clamp pairs mounted to adjacent posts. Each post clamp pair “sandwiches” a post and is fixedly attached to the post by virtue of fasteners that lock one half of the post clamp pair to its other half. In this way, the post clamp pair “hugs” the post and is secured thereon without having to be permanently fixed to the post or damaging the structural rigidity of the post. Each post clamp pair includes a substantially vertical wall slot such that one or more cross-members may be received into the walls slots to form a wall section in a space defined between the adjacent posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Deron Nettles
  • Patent number: 9321205
    Abstract: Injection machine and fluid distribution system having a valve pin reciprocally movable along its longitudinal axis between upstream and downstream (axial) positions, including a valve pin rotation limiter for resisting or preventing rotation of the valve pin around its axis. The limiter includes an elongated rail having a rail axis, stationarily mounted relative to an actuator that drives the valve pin upstream-downstream along its longitudinal axis wherein the rail axis is radially spaced from the valve pin axis. A finger projects between the rail and the valve pin, having a first end mounted on or to one of the rail and the valve pin, and a second end slidably engaged against a receiving surface of the other of the rail or valve pin, wherein such engagement is adapted to resist or prevent rotation of the valve pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Vito Galati, Zhuang Rui Tan
  • Patent number: 9321206
    Abstract: A method and a machine that account for changes in material properties of molten plastic material during an injection run. If viscosity of the molten plastic material changes during an injection run, a controller alters an injection pressure to ensure that molten plastic material fills a mold cavity within a correct amount of time to prevent part flaws such as short shots or flashing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: iMFLUX, Inc.
    Inventors: Gene Michael Altonen, Kimberly Nichole McConnell, Vincent Sean Breidenbach, Milko Georgiev Gergov
  • Patent number: 9321207
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for micropelletization of a polymeric material, a melt thread of the polymeric material is formed by an extruder. A flowing gas is directed to the melt thread to form Rayleigh disturbances in the melt thread and break up the melt thread into discrete microdroplets. The discrete microdroplets are then solidified to form micropellets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Tim Osswald, Martin Launhardt
  • Patent number: 9321208
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing nanofibers of an aliphatic polyester resin (a biodegradable resin) with higher productivity than heretofore achieved, for example, without the need of cumbersome steps such as drawing and with operability at normal temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: TMT Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Ono, Yukitaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 9321209
    Abstract: Method for making multiple durometer bulb seals includes cooling separately at least one structural member and at least one bulb portion of the bulb seal, which have different durometers and shapes. At least a first extrusion is drawn through a die of an extruder for forming a structural member profile and the extruded material is pulled by a first pulling device along a longitudinal axis to a first calibrator device and then through a first cooling tank to cool the structural member profile to a predetermined temperature. Cooling medium directly contacts the outer and inner surfaces of the first profile. The bulb portion is extruded and attached onto the cooled structural member and pulled downstream to a second calibrator device and through a second cooling tank to cool the profile a predetermined amount. Disparity in cooling expansion and cooling differential between the multiple durometers and shapes is avoided or overcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Vintech Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James Schoonover, Vince McNish
  • Patent number: 9321210
    Abstract: A multi-layer bell is formed from the outer shell of a multi-layer pipe in a secondary process, thereby allowing the extrusion process to be conducted at normal speeds. The bell may include a strain limiting membrane fused or mechanically secured between the outer shell extrusion layer and the inner liner extrusion layer, increased hoop or circumferential stiffness. This invention allows the extrusion process to be in its simplest form, with no adjustments to the corrugator or extruder speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy Toliver, Tony Kime, Hubert Kossner
  • Patent number: 9321211
    Abstract: An apparatus (1) for the transforming of plastics material preforms (10) into plastics material containers with a blow molding nozzle (2) arranged on a blow molding piston (14) extending in a predetermined longitudinal direction (L), in order to act upon these plastics material preforms with a gaseous medium for the expansion thereof, with an attachment device in order to supply the gaseous medium to the blow molding nozzle (2), and with at least one connecting line (22) which conveys the gaseous medium from the attachment device to the blow molding nozzle. According to the invention at least one portion of this connecting line (22) extends obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Eduard Handschuh, Florian Geltinger
  • Patent number: 9321212
    Abstract: Provided is a filled fluororesin sheet excellent in stress relaxation properties, in particular stress relaxation properties at a high temperature. The filled fluororesin sheet includes a fluororesin and an inorganic filler having a revised Mohs hardness of not less than 8, in a fluororesin:inorganic filler volume ratio of 30-55:70-45 (wherein the total of the two is 100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 9321213
    Abstract: A template system, and a nano-imprint method using the same, include a template having a nano-pattern and configured to transfer the nano-pattern to a resin material on a substrate, and a pressure controlling apparatus configured to change a pressure of the template with respect to the substrate according to an intensity of bubbles captured between the substrate and the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ki-yeon Yang, Woong Ko, Jae-kwan Kim, Du-hyun Lee, Byung-kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9321214
    Abstract: A method for creating a nanoimprint lithography template includes exposing (600) a mass transport layer of material adjacent to a support substrate to electromagnetic radiation in a predetermined pattern to form a nanoimprint lithography template in the mass transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: University of Utah Research Foundation
    Inventors: Rajesh Menon, Nicole Brimhall
  • Patent number: 9321215
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for efficient 3D printing that address conventional inefficiencies while utilizing a single compact device are set forth. Some embodiments utilize a circular-shaped build area revolving symmetrically around a single center point utilizing a continuous helical printing process. In one embodiment a liquid photopolymer for solidification is deposited on a build platform to form the physical object The Build platform is continuously rotated and simultaneously raised in a gradual programmed manner. Focused from below the platform produces a single continuous “layer” of material deposited and bonded in a helical fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ORANGE MAKER, LLC
    Inventor: Kurt Dudley
  • Patent number: 9321216
    Abstract: A medical device consists of a stent having a first surface and a second surface parallel to the first surface; a single expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) layer contacting the first surface of the stent; and an elastomeric layer applied to at least one surface of the stent. In at least one embodiment, the elastomeric layer is silicone. In at least one embodiment, the medical device is manufactured by positioning the ePTFE layer such that a first surface of the ePTFE layer contacts a first surface of the stent to form a stent-ePTFE assembly; and applying an elastomeric solution to the first surface of the ePTFE layer and at least one surface of the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kurt A. Geitz, Paul K. Norton, Michael Madden, Ralph J. Barry, Jr., Claude O. Clerc, Gerald Fredrickson
  • Patent number: 9321217
    Abstract: A method for thermally processing and curing unprocessed components within a thermal processing and consolidation system which includes upper and lower chamber assemblies configured to couple to one another and a first tool, the method including positioning the first tool on the lower chamber assembly moving the lower chamber assembly relative to the upper chamber assembly and coupling the upper chamber assembly and the lower chamber assembly to form a plenum, thereby completely enclosing the first tool in the plenum, the plenum operable to maintain a pressurized and/or temperature controlled environment about the first tool, providing services to the first tool and the plenum via a service interface, and thermally processing and curing the first set of unprocessed components within the first tool wherein the services are supplied to the first tool as directed by a set of process parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Lightweight Labs, LLC.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Jacobsen, Antonin Pelc, Calvin D. Bamford, Jr., Terrance William Cooke, Victor Wayne Croston, Russell Carver Warrick
  • Patent number: 9321218
    Abstract: A 3-dimension (3D) multi-layer composite comprises a first sheet layer with fastening components on at least one side of the first sheet layer, a second sheet layer with fastening components on both sides of the second sheet layer, and a third sheet layer with fastening components on at least one side of the third sheet layer, wherein the second sheet layer is positioned adjacent to and between the first sheet layer and the third sheet layer, wherein the fastening components on the one side of the first sheet layer engage with the fastening components on one side of the second sheet layer, wherein the fastening components on the one side of the third sheet layer engage with the fastening components on the other side of the second sheet layer, and wherein the engaged fastening components enhance interlayer strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Inventor: Nanlin Han
  • Patent number: 9321219
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of assembling composite material parts (10, 12). The method makes provision for: mounting (S6) the parts for assembly under stress on a stand (14), which parts have been partially polymerized; heating (S7) these parts so as to polymerize them completely, thereby enabling the stresses in the parts to be relaxed and enabling them to match the shape of the sand; cooling (S8) the parts; and assembling (S9) in conventional manner the parts as cooled in this way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations, Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Pierre Zahlen, Virginie Charbonnier, Philippe Blot, Melania Perez-Sanchez
  • Patent number: 9321220
    Abstract: A material preparation device is provided. The material preparation device includes a bias-ply assembly, a feedstock assembly and an application head. The bias-ply assembly is configured to pass a bias-ply backing material along a first path. The feedstock assembly is configured to pass a feedstock along a second path that crosses the first path at a select angle. The feedstock includes resin pre-impregnated fiber reinforced material (pre-preg) having the fibers at a first orientation relative to an edge of the feedstock. The application head is configured to transfer the pre-preg from the feedstock to the bias-ply backing material at a location where the first path crosses the second path to form a bias-ply with the fibers of the pre-preg having a second different orientation relative to an edge of the formed bias-ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Slack, Christopher J. Madsen, Don C. Jones, Vernon M. Benson, Peter G. Turner, Ralph Douglas Cope, Kimberly Ann Ferrara, Anthony Dale Johnson, Michael James Case, Jesse Paul Brown, James Gargel, Steven Andrew Cope, Kyle Putnam Tarry
  • Patent number: 9321221
    Abstract: A continuous preform device for a composite stringer continuously preforms the composite stringer having three-dimensional curved surfaces in an efficient manner, the continuous preform device including a dispenser device 200 adapted to supply a prepreg laminate to a next process by sandwiching upper and lower faces of the prepreg laminate with carrier films, a section preform device 300 adapted to form the prepreg laminate sandwiched between the carrier films into a desired cross-sectional shape during passage, a press/puller device 400 adapted to apply a pressing process to the prepreg laminate and intermittently feed a composite downstream, and a curing mold forming device 500 adapted to preform the prepreg laminate into a desired stringer shape on a curing mold 20, which are placed in a straight line from upstream to downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: JAMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Aijima, Masamoto Shuto
  • Patent number: 9321222
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating at least one parameter in a downhole environment includes: an optical fiber configured to be disposed in a borehole, the optical fiber having a property that causes intrinsic backscattering of signals transmitted therein. The property varies along a length of the optical fiber to generate a variable intensity of the backscattering, the intensity of backscattering varying along the optical fiber as a function of distance from an end of the optical fiber. The apparatus also includes a light source configured to send an optical signal into the optical fiber; and a detector configured to receive a return signal including backscattered signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brooks A. Childers, Roger Glen Duncan
  • Patent number: 9321223
    Abstract: A repair patch for an elastomer component, in particular for a vehicle tire, includes a cover layer, a connecting layer for contacting a wall of the elastomer component and at least one intermediate layer arranged between the connecting layer and the cover layer. The connecting layer has such a initial tack before vulcanization with the elastomer component that a connection between the repair patch and the elastomer component transmits at least the own weight of the repair patch and the connecting layer has a separation value of at least 5 N/mm after vulcanization with the elastomer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: REMA TIP TOP GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Casper, Christian Rauch, Patric Scheungraber
  • Patent number: 9321224
    Abstract: An infrared absorption film includes a polymer resin substrate, a polymer dispersant and an infrared absorption material. The infrared absorption material has a plurality of tungsten oxide and/or composite tungsten oxide nanoparticles dispersed in the polymer resin substrate by the polymer dispersant, wherein a weight ratio of the polymer dispersant to the infrared absorption material is between 0.3 and 0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: TAIFLEX Scientific Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Che Chuang, Yu-Chih Kao, Chen-Kuo Lu, Kuan-Yu Li, Tzu-Ching Hung, Chiu-Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 9321225
    Abstract: An optical plate includes a substrate having a light emitting surface, a rear surface opposite to the light emitting surface, and a plurality of microstructures that cooperatively define the light emitting surface and each of which parallelly extends in a light traveling direction. Each of the microstructures includes first and second convex portions and a concave portion disposed between and interconnecting the first and second convex portions, and two adjacent ones of the microstructures are connected. Intersections between the microstructures cooperatively define an imaginary plane, and a lowest point of the concave portion is disposed at one side of the imaginary plane opposite to the rear surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CHI MEI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hsiu-Fang Hsiao, Chueh-Yang Tsai, Chun-Liang Kuo, Hsin-Hung Chen, Chung-Ping Huang
  • Patent number: 9321226
    Abstract: A method for mechanical and/or optical functionalization of a transparent timepiece component, including: forming a body of methyl polymethacrylate, including a bottom surface and a mechanical and/or optically functionalized intermediate surface; coating the body with a layer made by injecting a second transparent polymerizable material into a cavity between a mold and the body or an intermediate body delimited by a complementary intermediate surface of a contact surface of a preceding mold, the last mold being the negative of the top surface of the component; polymerizing the second material therein; removing the component from the flexible mold by deformation of the mold. Hardness can be improved by UV irradiation of a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
    Inventors: Christian Poffet, Philipp Gaechter
  • Patent number: 9321227
    Abstract: A step of forming a layered body including a resin layer (a) containing a resin A having positive intrinsic birefringence and a resin layer (b) containing a resin B having negative intrinsic birefringence, the resin layer (b) being provided on one side of the resin layer (a); a first stretching step of stretching the layered body in one direction at a temperature T1; and a second stretching step of, after the first stretching step, stretching the layered body in another direction that is approximately orthogonal to the previous stretching direction at a temperature T2 which is lower than the temperature T1 to obtain a phase difference plate are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taku Hatano, Kenichi Harai