Patents Issued in February 21, 2017
  • Patent number: 9572339
    Abstract: A decoy trolling apparatus includes a frame assembly floatable on a water surface, a plurality of decoys connected to the frame assembly and floatable on the water surface, a trolling assembly rigidly connected to a first location of the frame assembly, and an anchor assembly rotatably connected to a second location of the frame assembly and anchored to a ground surface below the water surface. The second location is opposed to the first location. The trolling assembly drives the frame assembly in a generally circular motion about the anchor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Roy Dicken
  • Patent number: 9572340
    Abstract: Compounds and methods for refolding of proteins in an aqueous solution. In particular, biocompatible multiblock copolymer surfactants such as poloxamers, meroxapols, poloxamines, or polyols are used to catalyze proper refolding without changing the protein composition, and restore the protein to its native conformation and native biological function. The methods can be practiced both in vivo and in vitro. The biocompatible multiblock copolymer surfactants can be used for renaturation of recombinantly expressed proteins, and for renaturation of proteins that are unfolded due to heat, irradiation, mechanical shearing, electrical shock, frostbite, chemical stress, and other abiotic or biotic stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    Inventors: Raphael C Lee, Annie Kuo, Hanne Gissel Hyldkrog, Florin Despa, Devkumar Mustafi
  • Patent number: 9572341
    Abstract: An agrichemical-containing composition that exhibits excellent agrichemical efficacy is provided. The agrichemical-containing composition comprises hydroxypropyl cellulose, an agrichemical, an organic solvent having a saturated vapor pressure of 50 mmHg or higher at 25° C., and water. When the composition as a whole is taken as 100 wt %, the content of the organic solvent is 0.02 to 1 wt %, and the weight ratio of the hydroxypropyl cellulose to the organic solvent (hydroxypropyl cellulose/organic solvent) is in a range of 0.1 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Nomura, Masatoshi Kamei, Kazuhiko Kurita, Hiromoto Mizushima
  • Patent number: 9572342
    Abstract: A composition comprising a compound of formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, A, Q and n can have the definitions stated in the description, and at least one biological control agent selected from bacteria, fungi or yeasts, protozoas, viruses, entomopathogenic nematodes, and botanical extracts, or products produced by microorganisms including proteins or secondary metabolites, and optionally an inoculant, for reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts as well as losses in harvested fruits or vegetables caused by insects, nematodes and phytopathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Rüdiger Fischer, Heiki Hungenberg
  • Patent number: 9572343
    Abstract: The invention relates to active compound combinations, in particular within a composition, which comprises (A) an amidine compound of formula (I) and a further fungicidally (B). Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi of plants, to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG
    Inventors: Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Thomas Seitz
  • Patent number: 9572344
    Abstract: Provided are biocidal compositions comprising glutaraldehyde and a compound selected from the group consisting of 1-(3-chloroallyl)-3,5,7-triaza-1-azoniaadamantane; tris(hydroxymethyl)-nitromethane; and a hexahydrotriazine compound. The compositions are useful for controlling microorganisms in aqueous or water-containing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Bei Yin
  • Patent number: 9572345
    Abstract: A pesticidal composition is provided in the form of an aqueous emulsion, containing: (a) an agriculturally active ingredient in which a retention rate is less than 50% after irradiation with xenon light (290 nm cutoff) at an intensity of 0.68 W/m2 at 340 nm for 8 hours; (b) a hydrophobic organic solvent; (c) a water-soluble polymer dispersing agent; and (d) water. Liquid droplets in which the agriculturally active ingredient is suspended or dissolved in the hydrophobic organic solvent are emulsified in an aqueous continuous phase. A weight ratio of the agriculturally active ingredient to the hydrophobic organic solvent is from 5:95 to 70:30. With this pesticidal composition, it is possible to inhibit photodegradation of the agriculturally active ingredient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Yanagisawa, Motofumi Mizutani
  • Patent number: 9572346
    Abstract: The invention relates to an octanoic, nonanoic and decanoic (C8, 9, 10) fatty acids mixture with a pyrethroid. The invention also relates to methods of using the octanoic, nonanoic and decanoic (C8, 9, 10) fatty acids and pyrethroid mixture to achieve superior arthropod control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Valent BioSciences Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Belkind, Jason Clark, Peter DeChant
  • Patent number: 9572347
    Abstract: An agent for virus inactivation capable of exhibiting inactivation action based on structural destruction such as degradation and decomposition against viruses, which comprises a monovalent copper compound such as cuprous oxide, cuprous sulfide, cuprous iodide, and cuprous chloride as an active ingredient, and a virus inactivation material, which contains the agent for virus inactivation on a surface of a substrate and/or inside of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kazuhito Hashimoto, Kayano Sunada, Masahiro Miyauchi, Xiaoqing Qiu, Yoshinobu Kubota, Hitoshi Ishiguro, Ryuichi Nakano, Jitsuo Kajioka, Yanyan Yao
  • Patent number: 9572348
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for the control and management of wildlife populations (including domesticated animals) and pests such as rodents, birds including geese, deer and other herbivores such as rabbits, ground hogs, raccoons, moose and elk, tunneling animals such as moles, voles and gophers and insects, carnivores and other organisms such as predators. Specifically provided are FIFRA exemption-based formulations which may be applied to natural or artificial surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: James J. Messina
  • Patent number: 9572349
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for controlling Huanglongbing (HLB) disease of citrus plants through expressing genes encoding synthases for sesquiterpenes such as ?-caryophyllene, and ?-copaene, and combinations thereof, in citrus plants. Methods of controlling HLB comprising applying at least one purified sesquiterpene, which repels Diaphorina citri and/or Tryoza erytrae psyllid insects, so as to control the HLB disease of citrus plants, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura—Fundecitrus, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
    Inventors: Berta Alquezar García, Ana Rodriguez Baixauli, Josep Peris Rodrigo, Leandro Peña García, Andréia Henrique, Marcelo Pedreira De Miranda, Pedro Takao Yamamoto, Marcel Bellato Spósito, Nelson Arno Wulff, Diva do Carmo Teixeira, Antonio Juliano Ayres, Newton Cavalcanti De Noronha, Jr., José Maurício Simões Bento, José Roberto Postali Parra
  • Patent number: 9572350
    Abstract: A baking plate for a baking oven for producing baked products such as soft waffles, crispy wafers, pancakes and the like. The baking plate has a carrier plate and one or more baking inserts disposed thereon, which are configured for receiving the batter to be baked. The baking inserts are formed from sintered ceramic that are very sturdy and tough and have low thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Haas Food Equipment GmbH
    Inventors: Adam Reinhart, Johannes Haas, Josef Haas, Stefan Jirascheck, Manuel Lichtscheidl, Fritz Obermaier
  • Patent number: 9572351
    Abstract: A method of making bread uses an automatic bread maker and an ingredient box. The method includes: put the bread ingredient with flour and baking powder according to proper formula into the accommodating room of the ingredient box and packaged; then place the ingredient box faced down in the hanging rack above the baking pan inside the automatic bread maker, operate the bread maker to make the sawtooth blade of the hanging rack pierced the film of the ingredient box and the bread ingredient inside fell down into the baking pan, then water the baking pan; close the housing of the automatic bread maker and turn on the baking pan, the bread ingredient is processed with working dough of mixing, stirring and kneading; get the baking pan out, and remove the bread of baked and shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TSANN KUEN (ZHANGZHOU) ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Zhang, Shangqian Gao, Fudong Cui, Shihchin Chen
  • Patent number: 9572352
    Abstract: Filled dough producing method is disclosed for making a food product, such as baozi, a traditional Chinese food, by folding and constricting close a circular dough wrapper around a filling in an apparatus including a pocket assembly made of pliable fabric layer with an upper surface and lower surface, a flexible frustro-conical member connected to the lower surface of the pliable fabric layer, and draw strings for making a pouch, wherein the frustro-conical member is configured to be alternately inverted from a first rigid position to a second rigid position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: George Pul
  • Patent number: 9572353
    Abstract: A hide-on washer module includes striker assemblies mounted for vertical displacement from hydraulic cylinders. When each hydraulic piston reciprocates vertically, the striker assemblies and T-shaped tracking plates are displaced concomitantly. Roller assemblies are mounted to floor-mounted vertical columns that are interconnected to one another by stabilizer plates. A first set of roller assemblies engages a first tracking plate, a second set of roller assemblies engages a second reciprocating tracking plate, a third set of roller assemblies are mounted to the rear side of a front column, a fourth set of roller assemblies are mounted to the front side of a rear column, a fifth set of roller assemblies is mounted to the rear side of a front column, and a sixth set of roller assemblies is mounted to the front side of a rear column. Each roller assembly is biased to bear against its associated tracking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignees: Sanitation Chemical Dispensing, LLC
    Inventors: Terry Cemlyn Griffiths, Braiden Thomas Griffiths, Larry Paul Griffiths, Gregory L. Bilyeu
  • Patent number: 9572354
    Abstract: An assembly according to the invention includes two pairs of relays, such as SSR semiconductor relays. The relays of each pair operate with the opposite direct current potentials. Direct current with the voltage of 220 V to 400 V as well as control lines are connected to the clamps of the controlled relays. The operation of the relays is controlled by means of a controller, such as a PLC programmable controller. The relays are connected to the first electrode clamp, and the other relays to the second electrode clamp. The assembly operates in such a way that the PLC controller activates the relays from the line, which simultaneously activate the flow of the direct current with the voltage of 220 V to 400 V and mutually opposite polarity. As a result of this, a difference of potentials appears on the electrode clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Bluevent Air Systems SP. Z.O.O.
    Inventor: Igor Jakub Gielniak
  • Patent number: 9572355
    Abstract: A method is disclosed of mechanically deboning animal thighs for separating and collecting meat there from and an apparatus and an alternative apparatus for performing the method, including automated individual processing steps. The processing steps include: grasping a thigh bone of an animal thigh at a hip knuckle with a bone holder; cutting tissue near the hip knuckle; and engaging the thigh bone adjacent the bone holder with a meat stripper. The processing steps further include: moving the bone holder and meat stripper away from one another in a direction substantially coextensive with the longitudinal extend of the thigh bone; allowing the meat stripper to pass over the knee knuckle; and collecting the meat separated from the bone. In particular the method includes and each of the apparatuses perform the process step of cutting tissue adjacent a knee knuckle of the thigh bone, prior to allowing the meat stripper to pass over the knee knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Foodmate BV
    Inventors: Dirk Cornelis Stooker, Gerrit Hendrik Woltman, Jacobus Eliza Hazenbroek
  • Patent number: 9572356
    Abstract: Provided is a fat or oil composition having high oxidative stability even though containing large amounts of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, and having suppressed degradation odor and unpleasant odor derived from a rosemary extract at the time of cooking. The fat or oil composition comprises the following components (A), (B), and (C):(A) a fat or oil in which a total content of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in constituent fatty acids of the fat or oil is from 0.1 to 20 mass % with respect to total constituent fatty acids of the fat or oil; (B) a rosemary extract; and (C) a dill extract, in which a mass ratio of a content of the component (B) to a content of the component (C), [(B)/(C)], is from 2 to 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9572357
    Abstract: A method for preparing a sword bean tea is provided. In the method, a washed sword bean or a pod of the sword bean is cut into a predetermined size. The sword bean or the pod of the sword bean is dried at 30° C. to 40° C., for 24 hours to 72 hours. The sword bean or the pod of the sword be is roasted at 250° C. to 400° C. for 10 min to 30 min. The sword bean or the pod of the sword bean is left at 70° C. to 100° C. for 3 min to 10 min, and the sword bean or the pod of the sword bean is then stirred. The leaving and the stirring are alternately and repetitively performed five times. The sword bean or the pod of the sword bean is roasted at 180° C. to 200° C. for 3 min to 5 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Myung Ok Yang
  • Patent number: 9572358
    Abstract: Use of particles of insoluble water-absorbing food ingredient, such as dietary fibre, as carrier for a humectant, such as water of glycerol, for the introduction of the humectant into a chocolate product. Furthermore, a tropicalizing agent comprising discrete particles of insoluble food ingredient material, such as citrus fibre particles, loaded with water or humectant. That tropicalizing agent is dispersed in liquid fat, such as cocoa butter. The tropicalizing agent is used to make chocolate products heat resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventor: Andrew Steven Whitehouse
  • Patent number: 9572359
    Abstract: A hand-held candy device for rotational engagement of a confectionery such as a sucker or lollipop at the distal end of a handle adapted for gripping by the fingers of a user. The candy sucker is rotationally engaged on an axle positioned at or adjacent to the distal end of the handle. The candy may be provided in multiple colors and flavors or with indicia thereon in candy components each of which is engageable to the axle on the handle by a user thereby providing users with the ability to customize and reuse the sucker handles and to spin the engaged candy once engaged to the axle for amusement or to allow tasting different sections of the unitary formed candy which have different flavors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Chuck Block, Dan Blanchard
  • Patent number: 9572360
    Abstract: A method for producing an edible composite of gas hydrate and ice is provided, the method comprising the steps of contacting an aqueous solution with carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide at a sufficiently high pressure to form a gas hydrate, but at a temperature preventing this; and then reducing the temperature of the solution to form the gas hydrate and ice; characterized in that the aqueous solution contains from 0.0001 to 2 wt % of an ice structuring protein. Frozen confections containing gas hydrates and methods for producing them are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Deryck Jozef Cebula, Julia Helen Telford, Andrea Williams, Shiping Zhu
  • Patent number: 9572361
    Abstract: A cooking system for automating cooking steps of a recipe on a stove comprising a stove including a plurality of cooking elements; power controller for controlling the operation of each one of the cooking elements; and computer system in communication with the power controller, said computer system including a processor, computer readable data storage, and a visual display unit. The processor causes the computer system to perform the steps of: for each automated step of said recipe, generates a control signal for actuating at least one of the cooking elements and sends said control signal to the power controller; and for each manual or user step of said recipe, generates data representing user readable instructions for performing the user step and displays said data on the visual display unit. The power controller is adapted to actuate the cooking elements in accordance with each control signal received from the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ICOOKIT PTY LTD.
    Inventor: Domenic Bordin
  • Patent number: 9572362
    Abstract: Apparatus for cooking foods such as stock or pasta, rice including a container which receives a liquid to be heated and a cooking strainer-basket partially submerged in the liquid for cooking within the container, the container having selectively placed interior generally cylindrical support pins, cooperating with selectively placed alternating outwardly and inwardly extending planar support sections on the strainer-basket for alternatively positioning of the basket in the liquid for cooking of the food and repositioning of the basket above the liquid to provide for straining of the food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Agostino Difante
  • Patent number: 9572363
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method for enhancing the taste of a food product, which includes the steps of culturing a submerged mycelial liquid tissue culture in a media, collecting the supernatant fluid of the submerged mycelial liquid tissue culture, and adding the collected supernatant fluid to a food product in an amount sufficient to enhance the food product's taste. In one embodiment, the mycelial liquid tissue culture comprises C. sinensis, and the culture step is carried out for between about one and sixty days. The food products include stevia plant parts, steviol glycoside, aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose, carbohydrates, monk fruit, cacao, cacao liquor, tea, ginseng, pea protein, sugar alcohol, coffee, cranberry, grapefruit, pomegranate, coconut, wine, beer, liquor and spirits. The present invention also includes products made by the disclosed methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MYCOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: James Patrick Langan, Brooks John Kelly, Huntington Davis
  • Patent number: 9572364
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method for enhancing the taste of a food product, which includes the steps of culturing a submerged mycelial liquid tissue culture in a media, collecting the supernatant fluid of the submerged mycelial liquid tissue culture, and adding the collected supernatant fluid to a food product in an amount sufficient to enhance the food product's taste. In one embodiment, the mycelial liquid tissue culture comprises C. sinensis, and the culture step is carried out for between about one and sixty days. The food products include quinoa, amaranth, whole wheat, stevia plant parts, steviol glycoside, aspartame, acesulfame-K, sucralose, carbohydrates, salt substitutes such as potassium chloride, monk fruit, cacao, cacao liquor, tea, ginseng, pea protein, sugar alcohol, coffee, cranberry, grapefruit, pomegranate, coconut, wine, beer, liquor and spirits. The present invention also includes products made by the disclosed methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: MYCOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: James Patrick Langan, Brooks John Kelly, Huntington Davis, Bhupendra Kumar Soni
  • Patent number: 9572365
    Abstract: The invention relates to a product consisting of bovine colostrum for use in a method for minimal enteral nutrition for preterm infants, which product is given according to a specified dosage regime, while supplemental nutrients are supplied by total parenteral nutrition during at least the chief part of the treatment period. In a second aspect is provided the use of said product as minimal enteral nutrition for preterm infants according to the first aspect of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
    Inventor: Per Torp Sangild
  • Patent number: 9572366
    Abstract: Heat exchange devices, including aseptic cooler devices, and systems including same are provided. Methods of using heat exchange device are also provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides heat exchangers having an open chamber configuration and including a first section containing a cooling or heating media and a second section containing a food product. The first section includes a level detecting device that is configured to maintain a level of cooling or heating media in the first section, while preventing the cooling or heating media from pressurizing the first section. The open chamber configuration provides an air break at a top portion of the first section that ensures that the cooling or heating media entering the first section is at, or close to, atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Ediz Batmaz, Barbara Burzinski Hartliep, Ricardo Reyes-Trevino, Ernst Beutler
  • Patent number: 9572367
    Abstract: A tunnel 2 for the in-line anti-bacterial treatment of plucked poultry carcasses (or other animal carcasses) with a liquid cryogen or a cold gas at a temperature of less than 0° C. has an entrance 18 and an exit 20 for the poultry carcasses. A monorail conveyor 22 extends from the entrance 18 to the exit 20 and passes thorough the tunnel 2. Poultry suspension shackles 24 are able to pass along the conveyor 22. Thus, poultry carcasses are able to be conveyed through the tunnel 2. The conveyor 22 may follow a path which reverses direction at least once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Keith Nicholson
  • Patent number: 9572368
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and at least one sweetness enhancer in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof. The sweetness enhancer is selected from naringin dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, swingle extract, rubusoside, rubus extract, rebaudioside, and stevioside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Givaudan S. A.
    Inventors: Chad Allen Hansen, Jay Patrick Slack, Christopher Todd Simons
  • Patent number: 9572369
    Abstract: Disclosed are sweetened consumables and methods of forming said sweetened consumables that comprise certain sweeteners and at least one sweetness enhancer in a concentration near its sweetness detection threshold. The sweeteners include sucrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose, erythritol, xylitol, mannitol, sorbitol, inositol, acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, sucralose, saccharine, or combinations thereof. The sweetness enhancer is selected from naringin dihydrochalcone, mogroside V, swingle extract, rubusoside, rubus extract, rebaudioside, and stevioside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: Chad Allen Hansen, Jay Patrick Slack, Christopher Todd Simons
  • Patent number: 9572370
    Abstract: Dynamic crusher for treading fruit, particularly grapes, with a treading chamber having, when considering the direction of the path followed by the fruit in the crusher, an upstream fruit-introduction opening, a downstream discharge opening for discharging the must that results from the treading, a rotary ejector that allows kinetic energy to be imparted to the fruit introduced into the treading chamber, and allows the fruit to be cast against a fixed fruit-bursting wall, wherein the rotary ejector is mounted such that it can rotate about a vertical axis and a fixed fruit-bursting wall is positioned around the rotary ejector or facing the peripheral edge thereof against which fruit is cast, rotation of which allows the fruit to be cast, under the effect of centrifugal force, against the fixed fruit-bursting wall, causing the fruit to burst. A method for dynamically treading fruit using such a crusher is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PELLENC (SOCIETE ANONYME)
    Inventors: Roger Pellenc, Magali Bes, Alain Samson, Jean-Michel Salmon
  • Patent number: 9572371
    Abstract: The embodiments and methods described are directed to a solid-state laser module having a first end, a second end, and a surface between the first end and the second end. A mounting component is placed in communication with at least a portion of the surface of the laser module for selectively securing the laser module to a chamber wall of a chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Forrest Landry
  • Patent number: 9572372
    Abstract: A battery assembly configured to cooperate with an atomizing assembly to form an electronic cigarette is provided; and the battery assembly comprises a sleeve, a battery disposed along an axial direction of the sleeve, and an end cover mounted on an end of the sleeve; the end cover is telescopically connected to the sleeve; and a first charging electrode and a second charging electrode are mounted on the end cover and arranged in the sleeve; the first charging electrode and the second charging electrode are configured to be exposed and connected to an external charger when the end cover extends out of the sleeve, thereby providing charging electric power to the battery. In the present application, outside impurities cannot adhere to the atomizing assembly, and the normal working of the electronic cigarette cannot be adversely affected by the impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9572373
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette is provided, which includes: a housing having a chimney formed therein; a liquid reservoir for storing liquid in the housing; and an atomizer assembly received in the housing. The atomizer assembly includes a heating tube capable of absorbing liquid. The heating tube defines a plurality of micropores on a wall thereof; an inner surface of the heating tube is in contact with the air in the chimney.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen
  • Patent number: 9572374
    Abstract: An atomizer cover which is made of glass, plastic, silicone, metal or glass-lined metal for a vaporizing device wherein a side air inlet hole through the atomizer cover is located at a lower portion of the cover, wherein upon assembly of the cover with an atomizer and an atomizer base, the side air inlet hole is located near the atomizer and atomizer base, at or below the atomizer cup level, which creates a vortex of air to increase the efficiency in pulling of the aerosol or vapor from the interior of the atomizer cover, while cooling down the aerosol or vapor which is then inhaled by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: DACOLN LLC
    Inventor: Eyal Gabbay
  • Patent number: 9572375
    Abstract: A vapor-permeable waterproof sock includes a cylindrical main body including a cloth having vapor permeability and that is waterproof. The vapor-permeable waterproof sock covers a range from a foot tip portion to a crus portion. The cylindrical main body includes a plurality of cloth areas, each of which expands and contacts more easily in one direction as compared with other directions. The plurality of cloth areas are joined together, and include a crus cloth area expanding and contracting more easily in a circumferential direction of the crus portion as compared with in a longitudinal direction of the crus portion, the crus cloth area covering the crus portion; and a planta portion cloth area expanding and contacting more easily in a longitudinal direction of the planta portion as compared with a width direction of the planta portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: OKAMOTO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Shinga, Toshio Ando
  • Patent number: 9572376
    Abstract: A wearable or swaddling accessory blanket provides gentle pressure on the side and/or on the thoracic area of an infant to mimic the human hold. The wearable garment or swaddling blanket appliance includes integrated protrusions in the form of pressure accessories for simulating the slight pressure felt from a caregiver when holding or cradling an infant. The pressure accessories are enlarged or expanded areas disposed at locations on a textile base such as a blanket such that they approximate the arm and hand positions of a caregiver when the swaddling appliance is engaged by wrapping around an infant. Wings or flaps of the appliance facilitate engaging the appliance around an infant such that tension in the wrapped blanket appliance induce a slight inward pressure on the pressure accessories such that the infant perceives the pressure and interprets a caregiver hold or touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Nested Bean Inc.
    Inventors: Manasi Gangan, Susan Sofia-McIntire
  • Patent number: 9572377
    Abstract: A maternity garment, which provides mild support to shape a woman's body and to act as a suspender for bottoms such as pants, shorts, or skirts that may be ill fitting due to body changes as a result of pregnancy, wherein the preferred garment has at least one shoulder strap, a belly panel, a hip band, two side panels, and a back panel, and is made of high performance fabric with varying degrees of compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Blanqi, LLC
    Inventors: Sabina Melarti, Valerie Caron
  • Patent number: 9572378
    Abstract: A wetsuit (101) is provided which comprises (a) a first central region (125, 127) comprising a first material and having a first thickness; and (b) a second lateral region comprising a second material and having a second thickness. The buoyancy per unit area of the first region is greater than the buoyancy per unit area of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROKA SPORTS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Allen Canales, Kurt Robert Spenser
  • Patent number: 9572379
    Abstract: A swimsuit having a swimsuit bottom having a rear portion, a front portion, a pair of leg openings and a waist band for encasing the lower portion of a wearer's torso. The swimsuit bottom is form-fitting and made of elastic material of stretchable, resilient synthetic or synthetic blend fabric. The swimsuit bottom has a pair of pockets formed in the interior of the swimsuit bottom of the buttock area of the rear portion sized to accommodate a pair of pads designed for insertion into each of the pockets for enhancing the buttock of the wearer. The pads may be of different sizes and shapes to accommodate different body sizes and shapes in order to provide the desired enhancement. Decorative adornment such as ruffles or lacy trim is added on the swimsuit bottom to hide the pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Karen E. Jones
  • Patent number: 9572380
    Abstract: A non-encircling comfort pad system that allows the user to selectively attach a pad to and detach the pad from the article of clothing is disclosed. The non-encircling comfort pad system includes a pad having a pad fastener part and a mount fastener part that is attached to the article of clothing. The pad fastener part is configured to engage the mount fastener part such that the pad is held to the article of clothing without requiring any encirclement of the protected body part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Brent Douglas Sizemore
  • Patent number: 9572381
    Abstract: A clothing system has removable leggings that have two legging portions. Each legging portion has an ankle end and a distal end; the distal end has at least one attachment mechanism and a seam of the distal end has elastic material there within. A shorts portion has a waistband and at least one mating attachment mechanism. A skirt portion is affixed to the shorts portion at the waistband. When worn, each of the legging portions is connected to the shorts portion by the attachment mechanisms and respective mating attachment mechanisms in the shorts portion and the shorts portion substantially covers and hides the distal end of each of the legging portions. When the skirt portion is deployed, the skirt portion substantially covers the shorts portion and, when the skirt portion is not deployed, the skirt portion is worn over the waistband to provide the appearance of a belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Denise Maryea
  • Patent number: 9572382
    Abstract: Disclosed is a modified set of gloves, system, and method of glove removal and retention that is particularly well suited for, but not limited to, tactical situations (i.e. fast-roping) and action sports environments. In one embodiment, the glove(s) feature at least one catch between at least two fingers of the glove(s). Preferably, the catch defines a mechanism for rapidly removing and retaining the glove(s). Further disclosed is a system for removing the glove(s) featuring a garment with an attached anchor, such as a carabineer or a hook. In a preferred embodiment, the anchor is positioned in the sternum area of the vest and glove wearer. Operably, a user moves the gloved hand(s) down and over the anchor to place the catch on the anchor so that the continued movement of the user's hands rapidly removes and stores the glove(s) via the anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Shaun Donovan
  • Patent number: 9572383
    Abstract: A glove particularly useful for cycling includes a plurality of finger elements a thumb element a dorsal side panel and a palmar side panel. The finger elements cover the fingers the thumb elements cover a thumb the dorsal side panel covers a back or dorsal side of the hand and the palmar side panel covers a palm of the hand. Shock absorbing pads are provided on the palmar side of the glove to extend along opposed sides of the ulnar nerve when in a use condition. Moreover one of the ulnar protective pads is placed generally between the ulnar and the median nerves and thereby off loads the stress on the ulnar nerve in the wrist area of the wearer when a wearer is gripping objects such as the handle bars of a bicycle or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.
    Inventor: James M. Kleinert
  • Patent number: 9572384
    Abstract: An illuminated glove assembly for providing illumination to a user, wherein the illuminated glove assembly has a glove with a hand portion and an illumination data controller. The hand portion includes a back portion, fingers, a wrist end and a palm portion. The back portion includes a first pocket with a first opening proximate the fingers and a first terminal end proximate the wrist end. The illumination data controller is configured for selective mounting in the first pocket. The illumination data controller has a housing with a front face, a top surface, a length, a width and a thickness. The front face includes a light source from which light emanates and the width is greater than the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Mangata, LLC
    Inventor: Mary Tiffin
  • Patent number: 9572385
    Abstract: A self-mounting bowtie has a pair of wings extending outwardly from a central wrapping band. A first magnetic element located at the wrapping band. A second magnetic element for magnetic attraction to the first magnetic element is provided to be positioned adjacent the central wrapping band with a layer of an article at a location at which the bowtie is to be attached being sandwiched between the central wrapping band and second magnetic element. The bowtie is thus magnetically retained at the desired location. The second magnetic element may be located on a fabric flap extending from the central wrapping element. Rare earth magnets, which provide a strong magnetic attraction despise a small size, are preferably used in the construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Alexandra Whitaker
  • Patent number: 9572386
    Abstract: One embodiment of a flat, round magnet (1) inserted into a non-magnetic metal “cup” (2) and enclosed entirely within a square, thin laminate covering (3). The flat, round magnet (1) is inserted such that one flat surface of the magnet is exposed and the opposite flat surface of the magnet is set against the inner surface of the non-magnetic metal cup (2). The non-magnetic metal cup (2) serves to block or reduce the magnetic force of the surface of the flat, round magnet (1) set against the inner surface of the cup. Such magnet, cup and laminate assemblies with exposed magnet surfaces of opposing polarities can be sewn or stitched on opposing sides of garment or clothing openings and used close or fasten the garment or clothing utilizing magnetic force. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Magnificent Baby L.L.C.
    Inventors: Lawrence Scheer, Lauren Feuer
  • Patent number: 9572387
    Abstract: An improved edge band for a protective helmet includes a flexible woven-fiber elongate band applied to the edge of a helmet shell. The elongate band is positioned such that side edges of the elongate band extend in intimately conforming contact along a surface contour of the helmet shell. The edge band includes a matrix material in contact with fibers of the elongate band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ARTISENT, LLC
    Inventor: David Charles Rogers
  • Patent number: 9572388
    Abstract: A helmet mount for electronics is provided. The helmet mount includes a clamping bracket for affixing to a helmet chin guard. In addition, the helmet mount includes an adjustable arm, swivel bracket and electronic device. A first end of the arm is rotatably attached to the clamp bracket, and a second end of the arm is rotatably attached to the slider bracket. Meanwhile, the electronic device is attached to the slider bracket that allows it to slide in an arcuate manner. Preferably, the clamp bracket includes a first clamping member and second clamping member which are both movable and rotatable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: NITERIDER TECHNICAL LIGHTING & VIDEO SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Edward Carroll