Patents Issued in April 11, 2017
  • Patent number: 9616618
    Abstract: A vent structure includes: a first housing component having an opening portion for ventilation; a gas-permeable membrane that is attached to the first housing component to close the opening portion; and a laser welding portion that joins the first housing component with the gas-permeable membrane. The gas-permeable membrane includes a main body including a fluororesin film and a porous resin sheet that is laid on the main body. The porous resin sheet is located on the surface side of the vent structure. Both of the main body and the outer peripheral portion of the porous resin sheet that projects outwardly from the main body are fixed to the first housing component by the laser welding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Furuyama
  • Patent number: 9616619
    Abstract: A multifunctional detabber apparatus and method for producing bottles having a bottom surface with a hook projection integrally molded with and extending from the bottom surface in a deployed position. The bottom surface also includes at least one locking channel in order to receive and releasably secure the hook projection in a non-deployed position. The multifunctional detabber apparatus includes at least a grabber, a trimmer, and a hook closer. The grabber includes first and second jaws which surround the bottle and prevent movement. The trimmer includes first and second strikers for creating an outer periphery of the hook projection and an opening in the hook projection. The hook closer includes a mandrel that extends to bend and secure the hook projection in the locking channel in the bottom surface of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Graham Packaging Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Grzegorz Woinski, Slawomir Strupinski, Krzysztof Linka
  • Patent number: 9616620
    Abstract: A plant (100) for the layered construction of a molded body comprises a coating device (400) and a coating device cleaner (600). The coating device is movable horizontally across a construction field for applying a uniform layer of construction material to be solidified to the construction field and has an elongate metering shaft (410), at the lower side of which a longitudinal slot (412) is provided for outputting the construction material as the metering shaft (410) moves across the construction field. The coating device cleaner (600) is mounted on a construction frame (150) of the plant and serves for cleaning the metering shaft (410). The coating device cleaner (600) comprises an elongate wiper element (610) that is received under the metering shaft (410) of the coating device (400) at least in part in a construction material collection container (620).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ExOne GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Hoechsmann, Alexander Mueller
  • Patent number: 9616621
    Abstract: A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: THYSENNKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Christian Köhler, André Bartsch, Sandro Mäke, Michael Dreβler, Martin Lepper, Werner Hufenbach
  • Patent number: 9616622
    Abstract: An RTM method in which a preform formed from a reinforcing fiber substrate is placed in a cavity of a molding die, and resin is injected from a plurality of injection ports into the cavity and impregnated into the preform, includes disposing the plurality of injection ports in first positions in a central section of the cavity corresponding to positions of the preform located in a product area of an article to be finally molded and second positions located in a periphery of the cavity corresponding to positions of the preform outside the product area of the article to be finally molded or corresponding to positions inside the cavity but outside an area of the preform, and causing the timing of closing the injection ports after resin injection to be different from each other between injection ports disposed in the first positions and injection ports disposed in the second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kohnosuke Yamamoto, Seiji Tsuji, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9616623
    Abstract: A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system and method based upon a 3D variable die system and including one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to continuously produce thermoplastic composite pultrusions with at least one of varying cross-section geometry and constant surface contours, varying cross-section geometry and varying surface contours, and constant cross-section geometry and varying surface contours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ebert Composites Corporation
    Inventors: David W. Johnson, Scott A. Garrett, Stephen G. Moyers
  • Patent number: 9616624
    Abstract: A system to repair a hose made from deformable material includes an elongated container for holding a liquid heated sufficiently for softening the hose. A heater can be positioned in the container. A plurality of restraining members can be positioned to retain the hose immersed in the liquid within the container. A gas supply is used to pressurize the hose prior to immersion, and a support is provided for holding the hose before and after immersion. A method includes filling an elongated container with a heated liquid and pressurizing the hose with a gas. The pressurized hose is immersed in the liquid and maintained immersed by retaining members to soften the hose. The hose is removed from the liquid, depressurized and allowed to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Darren J. Blier, Louis E. Sansone, Michael A. Vartanian
  • Patent number: 9616625
    Abstract: A transparent lens and differing plastic material housing is provided that includes a transparent lens including a front surface, a rear surface, and a perimeter edge, the perimeter edge including a flange, a plastic housing affixed to the perimeter edge flange having a different material than the transparent lens, a portion that is tangent to the front surface of the transparent lens; and a portion that is tangent to the rear surface of the transparent lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Joseph L. Allore, Adam R. Cole, Michael J. Formenti, Michael J. Lombardi, Michael L. Neau, Natalie J. Stevens
  • Patent number: 9616626
    Abstract: Ophthalmic device molds made from at least one vinyl alcohol copolymer and having a static sessile drop contact angle of less than 70 degrees, ophthalmic devices such as ocular inserts and contact lenses and including silicone hydrogel devices formed using these molds, and related methods are described. The methods of manufacturing ophthalmic devices can use dry or wet demolding processes, or dry or wet delensing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CooperVision International Holding Company, LP
    Inventors: Neil Goodenough, David Robert Morsley, Ian Bruce, Edyta S. Bialek, Lee Darren Norris
  • Patent number: 9616627
    Abstract: A molding element for a mold for vulcanizing a tread of a tire, comprising a base able to mold part of the tread surface of the tread and a bar able to mold a groove in the tread, the bar comprising two lateral faces extending along its length and projecting from the base and an upper face connecting the lateral faces. The molding element comprises a contact edge formed by the base and the bar, intended to come into contact with another molding element to form all or part of the vulcanizing mold, and further comprising at least one recess in the bar, which opens onto one of the lateral faces and onto the contact edge, but does not open onto the upper face of the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Bernard Villeneuve, Gaël Roty, Ludovic Greverie
  • Patent number: 9616628
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing tires for vehicle wheels wherein each tire includes a carcass structure formed starting from at least one carcass ply laid on a forming support extended along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus includes at least one device for positioning at least one annular anchoring structure on at least one end edge of the carcass ply, the positioning device being circumferentially extended around the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable with respect to the forming support between an operating position distal from the forming support and at least one operating position close to the forming support. The apparatus further includes a device for turning up the end edge of the carcass ply around the annular anchoring structure, the turning up device being circumferentially extended about the longitudinal axis of the forming support and axially movable for approaching/moving away to/from the forming support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Mancini, Maurizio Marchini, Gaetano Lo Presti
  • Patent number: 9616629
    Abstract: A blade including a structure with aerodynamic profile including two opposite skins obtained by three-dimensional weaving of a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix, and a longeron including a fibrous reinforcement obtained by three-dimensional weaving and densified by a matrix, the longeron including a first part extending outside the structure with aerodynamic profile and designed to be connected to a drive hub in rotation of the blade and a second part arranged inside the structure with aerodynamic profile between the two skins. The second part of the longeron has a thickness substantially similar to that of the skins of the structure with aerodynamic profile. In addition, the fibrous reinforcement of the second part of the longeron has the same weaving armor as that of the reinforcement of the skins of the structure with aerodynamic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Nicolas Horn, David Marsal, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz
  • Patent number: 9616630
    Abstract: Methods of making a golf ball that includes a lattice reinforced layer, which is a layer made of at least two materials with different properties, includes various injection and compression molding steps. In some embodiments, the lattice reinforced layer is manufactured using a shutoff molding technique so that the entire lattice reinforced layer is molded in the same mold. In other embodiments, a grid for the lattice layer is formed first, then filled using an injection molding technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas J. Kennedy, III
  • Patent number: 9616631
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method capable of effectively suppressing deformation when a honeycomb formed body formed by horizontal extrusion is supported by a cradle, and supporting even a large honeycomb formed body so that cell wall buckling hardly occur and a high shape accuracy is kept, wherein the lowermost end of a supporting surface of the cradle is located below the lowermost end of the honeycomb formed body immediately after extruded through the die during the horizontal movement, and a distance in a vertical direction between the lowermost end of the honeycomb formed body immediately after extruded through the die and the lowermost end of the supporting surface of the cradle is from 5 to 15 mm during the horizontal movement when a honeycomb formed body extruded through a die in a horizontal direction by extrusion is supported by a cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeki Kato
  • Patent number: 9616632
    Abstract: A device according to various embodiments for drying wet grain can include a first screw configured to receive wet grain. A second screw receives the wet grain from the first screw. At least one mechanism is included within at least one of the first screw and the second screw to vaporize water content in the wet grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONWIDE 5, LLC
    Inventor: Michael R. Thomas
  • Patent number: 9616633
    Abstract: A screw extruder for the continuous extrusion of materials with high viscosity, in particular metals such as aluminum and its alloys. The extruder includes an Archimedes screw (1) rotationally provided within a liner (2) of a screw housing (4) having an inlet (11) for the feeding of the material to be extruded, a compacting or extrusion chamber (5) and an extrusion die assembly with a die (6) which forms the shape of the extruded product (7). The required compaction takes place at the down-stream end of the screw towards the extrusion chamber (5) corresponding to up to 540° of the rotation of the screw, or up to 1.5 turns of the screw flight length. The solid plug of metal formed at the end of the screw and extrusion chamber (5) is restricted from rigid rotation to obtain the required compaction and extrusion pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Norsk Hydro ASA
    Inventors: Jens Christofer Werenskiold, Lars Auran, Lillian Krakeli, Hans Jørgen Roven, Nils Ryum, Oddvin Reiso
  • Patent number: 9616634
    Abstract: A method for making a cushioning air bag with a predetermined opening in an air cylinder turning zone, including: providing an air cylinder sheet; adhering the two sheets of outer film to form turning points; determining a turning middle line on the air cylinder sheet; configuring nodes on two respective sides of the turning middle line; turning the air cylinder sheet along the turning middle line; and adhering two sides of the turned air cylinder sheet with lateral heat sealing lines; wherein two lateral sides of the air cylinder sheet between nodes and the turning middle line form a non-heat sealing section; a bottom surface is formed between turning points, the non-heat sealing section of the turning zone is expanded to form a lateral polygonal opening, and a supporting surface is formed on a bottom of the opening, after the air cylinder sheet is filled with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: AIR-BAG PACKING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chieh-Hua Liao
  • Patent number: 9616635
    Abstract: A method for making a multilayer foam structure of nominally-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is disclosed. The method comprises synthesizing a layer of CNTs and sandwiching the layer of CNTs between two polymeric layers, or between two metallic layers or foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chiara Daraio, Abha Misra, Jordan R. Raney
  • Patent number: 9616636
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cardboard-based unit, structural elements comprising said unit and land-vehicles comprising said units and structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: I.G. CARDBOARD TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventor: Izhar Gafni
  • Patent number: 9616637
    Abstract: A die for forming a honeycomb structure, including: a second plate-shaped portion that is formed of iron and the like and has back holes; and a first plate-shaped portion that is formed of tungsten carbide based cemented carbide and has cavities communicating with the back holes and slits communicating with the cavities, with the first plate-shaped portion having a first layer arranged in the second plate-shaped portion side and a second layer arranged on the first layer, the cavities are opened on both sides of the first layer, and the slits are opened on both sides of the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kitamura, Hirofumi Hosokawa, Tomoki Nagae
  • Patent number: 9616638
    Abstract: A nonwoven industrial fabric comprising a first layer secured to a second layer, with each layer comprising a plurality of flow-through apertures and profiling protrusions, wherein: a) at least a portion of the flow-through apertures of the first layer is aligned with at least a portion of the flow-through apertures of the second layer; b) the first layer comprises a plurality of securing protrusions integral to the first layer; c) the second layer comprises a plurality of detents integral to the second layer; and d) the first layer is secured to the second layer by a plurality of locking pairs, each locking pair comprising a securing protrusion lockably engaged with a detent. A method of making the nonwoven industrial fabric is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventor: Allan R. Manninen
  • Patent number: 9616639
    Abstract: Tin-plated copper-alloy material for terminal in which: a Sn-based surface layer is formed on a surface of a substrate made of Cu alloy, and a Cu—Sn alloy layer is formed between the Sn-based surface layer and the substrate; the Cu—Sn alloy layer is an alloy layer containing Cu6Sn5 as a major proportion and having a compound in which a part of Cu in the Cu6Sn5 is substituted by Ni and Si in the vicinity of a boundary face at the substrate side; an average thickness of the Sn-based surface layer is 0.2 ?m or more and 0.6 ?m or less; an oil-sump depth Rvk of the Cu—Sn alloy layer is 0.2 ?m or more; an area rate of the Cu—Sn alloy layer exposed at a surface of the Sn-based surface layer is 10% or more and 40% or less; and dynamic friction coefficient is 0.3 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: MISTUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Taninouchi, Naoki Kato, Kenji Kubota
  • Patent number: 9616640
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composite film having a linearly-scratched, thin metal film and a plastic film, which has good absorbability to electromagnetic waves in various frequencies, as well as reduced anisotropy in electromagnetic wave absorbability, suitable for electromagnetic wave absorbers, and its production apparatus. The composite film having a linearly-scratched, thin metal film and a plastic film according to the present invention comprises a plastic film, and a single- or multi-layer, thin metal film formed on at least one surface of the plastic film, the thin metal film being provided with large numbers of substantially parallel, intermittent, linear scratches with irregular widths and intervals in plural directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEIJI KAGAWA
    Inventor: Seiji Kagawa
  • Patent number: 9616641
    Abstract: A glass laminate comprises an external glass sheet, an internal glass sheet, and a polymer interlayer formed between the external glass sheet and the internal glass sheet. The external glass sheet can be a thin chemically-strengthened glass sheet or can be a non-chemically strengthened glass sheet, the polymer interlayer can have a thickness of less than 1.6 mm, and the internal glass sheet can be a non-chemically-strengthened glass sheet or a thin chemically strengthened glass sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Cleary, Timothy Scott Huten, Michael John Moore
  • Patent number: 9616642
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer pipe which comprises (in the following order, from the inside of the pipe outwards): optionally, a layer C1 of a fluoropolymer; a layer C2 of a fluoropolymer onto which at least one unsaturated monomer has been radiation-grafted, optionally blended with a fluoropolymer; optionally, an adhesion tie layer C3, this layer C3 being directly attached to the layer C2 containing the radiation-grafted fluoropolymer; a layer C4 of a polyolefin optionally blended with a functionalized polyolefin, directly attached to the optional layer C3 or else to the layer C2; optionally, a barrier layer C5; and optionally, a layer C6 of a polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Anthony Bonnet, Michael Werth
  • Patent number: 9616643
    Abstract: An embossed thermoplastic label includes (a) a facestock having an upper surface and a lower surface with at least one layer and the layer has at least one thermoplastic resin, and (b) the facestock includes at least one embossed pattern on the upper surface of the facestock. The embossed pattern includes at least one embossed section and at least one unembossed section on the facestock. An intermediate configuration is also disclosed. A method is provided for embossing a thermoplastic label. The embossed thermoplastic label is useful in various labeling and brand awareness applications and provides visual and textural effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hannington, Peter J. Heederik, Osei Owusu
  • Patent number: 9616644
    Abstract: A lamination device includes a jig configured to accommodate a window having a curved surface; a transfer member configured to allow a film member attached to the window to be spaced from the window; a roller unit configured to press a surface of the transfer member to which the film member is not attached and attaching the film member to the window; a driving unit connected to the roller unit and configured to move the roller unit along the curved surface of the window by rotating with respect to a single rotational center; and a pressing unit connected to the driving unit and the roller unit and configured to press the roller unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Young Kim, Yang-Han Son, Myung-Gil Choi
  • Patent number: 9616645
    Abstract: A laminating roller for laminating a sheet of a packaging laminate comprises at least one groove extending along the periphery of the roller and forming a border between two circumferential portions, wherein each of the two circumferential portions are extending continuously around the surface area of the roller. The laminating roller can also be used in a method for providing a packaging laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Ion Postoaca, Åke Persson, Sven Keiter, Krister Uvnäs, Andreas Hessmark, Magnus Just
  • Patent number: 9616646
    Abstract: A method of producing an apparent etched or embossed effect in a print purely by the use of printing and lamination processes, in which a varnish 3 is pressed into to selected areas of a softer coating 2 to produce indentations in the coating layer 2 as during lamination of a printed article comprising a substrate 1 and an optional overlay 4, and a printed article obtainable using the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Philip Anthony Wilkinson
  • Patent number: 9616647
    Abstract: A device for bonding a window includes a chamber having an internal space, a display panel fixing unit in the chamber and including a first curved surface, the first curved surface being configured to attach to a flexible display panel, a window fixing unit in the chamber and including a second curved surface, at least part of the window fixing unit including an ultraviolet transmitting material, the second curved surface facing the first curved surface and being complementary with the first curved surface, and the second curved surface being configured to attach to a window, and an ultraviolet irradiating unit on the window fixing unit, the ultraviolet irradiating unit being configured to irradiate ultraviolet light through the window fixing unit toward the first curved surface of the display panel fixing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Youl Cho, Jong-Hwan Kim, Kyung-Su Lee
  • Patent number: 9616648
    Abstract: A profile carrier includes a base profile of metal and a reinforcement member of fiber-reinforced plastic material that reinforces the base profile. The reinforcement member and the base profile are connected to each other by at least one wall-side positive-locking element that is provided on a profile wall of the base profile and that extends in a transverse direction of the profile wall. The at least one wall-side positive-locking element and the reinforcement member engage one inside of the other in the transverse direction of the profile wall with a positive-locking connection between the reinforcement member and the base profile formed substantially parallel to the profile wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: TRUMPF Sachsen GmbH, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Gunter Harnisch, Carsten Knobel, Wilfried Haas, Matthias Wolfrum, Tom Wunderlich, Joerg Herbst, Eckart Schuetze, Martin Schuetze, Rainer Schuetze
  • Patent number: 9616649
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing dished laminated glazing including two sheets of glass, a separator layer made of polymer material arranged between the sheets of glass, and an electrical conductor, the method including the simultaneous thermal dishing of the sheets of glass in the paired state followed by their cooling and then the assembly of the laminated glazing by bonding of the sheets of glass to the separator layer on either side thereof, the cooling including a controlled cooling of the sheets of glass in the paired state, the controlled cooling including a general controlled cooling and a local controlled cooling of a cutting zone, the local controlled cooling being faster than the general controlled cooling, a cutting of one of the sheets of glass along a cutting line in the cutting zone to form a holed zone, the electrical conductor being placed between the sheets of glass and exiting from the laminated glazing through the holed zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Alexandre Hennion, Philippe Frebourg
  • Patent number: 9616650
    Abstract: The described method of fabricating a composite engineered wood material floor board, having a top wood layer secured to a wood material substrate layer, minimizes the effect of telegraphy in the resulting floor board. The method includes selecting a top wood layer from a top surface quality wood material having a thickness of between 1 mm and 8 mm, and selecting a substrate wood material layer having a minimum thickness of 6 mm and a thickness ratio between 1:1 and 1:10 between the top wood layer and the substrate wood material layer. A plurality of transverse rectangular spaced-apart grooves are also formed in a bottom surface of said wood substrate layer. The ratio between the depth of said grooves and the thickness of the substrate wood material has an impact on telegraphy of said grooves in said top wood layer and is therefore selected accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: BOA-FRANC S.E.N.C
    Inventor: Francois Roy
  • Patent number: 9616651
    Abstract: An apparatus for laying fiber tapes includes a deflection guide for the fiber tapes consisting of pressure plates which are arranged adjacent to one another transversely to the deflection axis and a frame which is displaceable in the laying direction for accommodating the pressure plates. At least a part of the pressure plates respectively form a sliding shoe which is resilient in the pressing direction for the deflection of the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: GFM—GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Dietachmayr
  • Patent number: 9616652
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for removing a touch panel from a display panel. The system includes: a carrying device on which the display panel adhered with the touch panel is placed; a heating device configured to heat an adhesive between the touch panel and the display panel; and a cutting device arranged on the carrying device and configured to cut the adhesive so as to remove the touch panel from the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangfang Wu, Long Xia
  • Patent number: 9616653
    Abstract: An ink-based digital printing system for variable data lithographic printing includes an imaging member having a surface configured to absorb dampening fluid. A dampening fluid patterning system jets dampening fluid onto the imaging member surface according to image data to form a dampening fluid pattern. The system includes a transfer member that receives the jetted dampening fluid pattern from the imaging member at a dampening fluid loading nip for subsequent inking of the dampening fluid pattern to form an ink pattern. The ink pattern is transferred to a substrate from the transfer member at an ink pattern transfer nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Chu-heng Liu
  • Patent number: 9616654
    Abstract: An imaging member includes a surface layer comprising a fluorosilicone and an infrared-absorbing filler. At least 75% of the siloxane units in the fluorosilicone are fluorinated. Methods of manufacturing the imaging member and processes for variably lithographic printing using the imaging member are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mandakini Kanungo, Maryna Ornatska, David J. Gervasi, Patrick J. Howe, Santokh S. Badesha, Jack Lestrange, Matthew M. Kelly
  • Patent number: 9616655
    Abstract: A method for operating a web printing press is provided. The method includes unwinding a substrate from a roll to define a web; during makeready, printing the web using at least one print unit, the makeready ending when the web is being printed to a desired standard; stopping the web after the makeready; rewinding the web so that the substrate printed during the make ready pass back through the print unit; and unwinding again the rewound substrate to pass through the print unit. A press and printed product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Raymond Rancourt, Howard W. Hoff, Laura Schuler Cossette
  • Patent number: 9616656
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a polyolefin product is disclosed. The method includes the steps of printing an image on a transfer medium, hot pressing a carrier medium (such as a textile or wood product) and the transfer medium such that the image is transferred to the carrier medium, and adhering the carrier medium to a first polyolefin article to produce a polyolefin product. The polyolefin product may then be subject to further processes, such as cutting, thermoforming, etc. into its desired form. An improved method of producing polyolefin products having colorful imagery thereon is provided. A method of manufacturing a case is also disclosed, including printing an image on a transfer medium, hot pressing a carrier medium and the transfer medium such that the image is transferred to a first side of the carrier medium, and assembling a case, wherein a panel for the case includes the carrier medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: XPE Limited
    Inventor: Ian Rumsey
  • Patent number: 9616657
    Abstract: A method is provided of charging an inker in a lithographic printing press. The method comprises placing all of the printing units of the printing press in an off impression position, with a continuous substrate passing through the printing units, each printing unit including a blanket cylinder; and in one or more printing units of the plurality of printing units, moving the takeaway roller into contact with the blanket cylinder of the printing unit. Thereafter, the method includes driving the ink train, plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and the take away roller at a first surface speed, whereby the ink from the ink train transmitted to the plate cylinder from the ink train, from the plate cylinder to the blanket cylinder, and from the blanket cylinder to the take away roller; and during said driving step, keeping the continuous substrate stationary or moving the continuous substrate at a second surface speed less than 50% of the first surface speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Raymond Rancourt, Brian Robert Elkinson, Howard W. Hoff
  • Patent number: 9616658
    Abstract: A waveform selecting process includes selecting one of a plurality of kinds of driving waveforms for each of a plurality of dot elements, based on a density value set to each of the plurality of dot elements in image data. The waveform selecting process includes, for a dot element array of each of the plurality of ejection ports: determining whether a dot element corresponding to a target dot has a second density value and determining whether a subsequent dot element corresponding to a subsequent dot has a first density value and, when both determinations are positive, setting the dot element corresponding to the target dot as a correction-target dot element, the subsequent dot being subsequent to the target dot in the formation order; and selecting one of a first driving waveform and a second driving waveform as a driving waveform of a correction-target dot element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuaki Suzuki, Katsunori Sakai, Motohiro Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 9616659
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller for controlling a print execution unit. The print execution unit repeatedly performs ejection processing of ejecting a droplet of color material onto a printing medium. The controller is configured to perform: specifying an estimate value for a target partial image by using color gap information, the target partial image being selected among a plurality of partial images included in an N-th band image; determining whether the estimate value satisfies an estimate condition; determining an ejection execution direction with respect to an N-th ejection processing to be a first direction in response to determination that the estimate value satisfies the estimate condition; and determining the ejection execution direction with respect to the N-th ejection processing to be opposite to the ejection execution direction with respect to an (N?1)-th ejection processing in response to determination that the estimate value does not satisfy the estimate condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shota Morikawa
  • Patent number: 9616660
    Abstract: A liquid ejection device includes a switching circuit. The switching circuit includes: a multilayer wiring board including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer; a first transistor and a second transistor mounted on the first wiring layer side of the multilayer wiring board; and a capacitor mounted on the second wiring layer side of the multilayer wiring board. When the multilayer wiring board is viewed in a plan view, a third via conductor is arranged in an area not overlapping a straight-line path connecting a source electrode of the first transistor with a drain electrode of the second transistor in a second wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Oshima, Noritaka Ide
  • Patent number: 9616661
    Abstract: An inkjet device for controlled positioning of a droplet of a substance onto a substrate includes a print head having a nozzle configured to eject the droplet. A camera is configured to detect and generate images of the droplet after ejection of the droplet from the nozzle. If the droplet volume, velocity, flight path, viscosity or surface tension start to deviate from preset values, a computer is configured to correct for this in a closed loop manner. If the droplet fails to eject, the computer is configured to stop the inkjet device and an operator can maintain the print head. The computer is configured to determine viscosity and surface tension of the droplet from characteristics of the droplet identified from the droplet images, and the computer is configured to control the positioning of the droplet onto the substrate during the printing process based on the determined viscosity and surface tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Anke Pierik, Antonius Johannes Jo Wismans, Willem-Jan A. De Wijs, Johan Frederik Dijksman, Martin Maurice Vernhout, Adrianus Theodorus Anthonius Maria Raaijmakers, Leonardus Johannes Cornelius Van Den Besselaar
  • Patent number: 9616662
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a liquid discharging head unit including multiple nozzles to discharge liquid droplets, individual liquid chambers communicated to the multiple nozzles, and pressure generating units to generate pressure applied to a liquid in the individual liquid chambers; and a head drive control unit to generate a common driving waveform including multiple discharging pulses arranged in time series within one driving cycle of discharging liquid droplets of the liquid, to select at least one of the multiple discharging pulses from the common driving waveform, and to apply the selected at least one of the discharging pulses to the pressure generating units. The common driving waveform, generated by the head drive control unit, include at least a first discharging pulse and a second discharging pulse for discharging liquid droplets of same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoko Kitaoka, Takahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9616663
    Abstract: Adhesion of particles to a liquid ejecting head due to an electric field generated at an electric power supply wire disposed in the liquid ejecting head can be suppressed. The liquid ejecting head is provided with a conductive member covering at least a part of the electric power supply wire for supplying electric power to an ejection energy generating unit configured to generate ejection energy for ejecting liquid, with an insulator therebetween. The conductive member covers the electric power supply wire in a coverage determined based on a relative movement speed between an ejection port and a print medium, a size of particles floating between an ejection port forming surface and the print medium, an electric charge amount of the particles, and a voltage applied to the electric power supply wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Itoh, Nobuhito Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Arimizu, Yusuke Imahashi, Arihito Miyakoshi, Masahiko Kubota, Koichi Ishida
  • Patent number: 9616664
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head, including: an ejection unit including: a recording element substrate including a plurality of recording elements configured to generate energy; and a support member formed of a plate-like member and configured to support the recording element substrate, the support member including: a liquid chamber configured to store liquid therein, and an inlet formed in the liquid chamber so as to allow the liquid to flow into the liquid chamber; a flow path unit including a liquid path through which the liquid is supplied into the ejection unit from a liquid tank storing the liquid therein; a joint member sandwiched between the support member and the flow path unit and configured to seal the liquid; and a buffer chamber formed in a space defined by the joint member, the ejection unit, and the flow path unit and configured to retain gas therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Oikawa, Hiroshi Yamada, Atsushi Omura, Satoshi Kimura, Kousuke Nakahata
  • Patent number: 9616665
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid supply member that supplies a discharge port with liquid includes preparing a transparent member and an absorption member, at least one of both members having a groove for a supply path; bringing both members into contact; and forming the supply path by emitting laser beams simultaneously from a plurality of laser beam sources, toward a contact portion, which is provided in a vicinity of the groove and at which both members are in contact, to weld both members. Laser beams are emitted during the forming such that a total laser-beam irradiation amount per unit area for a first portion included in the contact portion and located in a vicinity of an end in a longitudinal direction of the groove is larger than that for part with a smallest irradiation amount of a second portion other than the first portion of the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Osamu Morita
  • Patent number: 9616666
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing an element substrate, including: forming first and second resists on a predetermined surface of a substrate so that part of the predetermined surface is exposed; etching the substrate with the first and second resists being used as a mask to form a first recess in the substrate; removing the second resist to expose a portion of the substrate that is different from the first recess; etching the substrate with the first resist being used as a mask to deepen the first recess and to form a second recess communicating with the first recess in the substrate; and covering openings of the first and second recesses with an orifice forming member to form a pressure chamber by the first recess and an orifice forming member and to form a flow reducing portion by the second recess and the orifice forming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yoshioka, Toru Nakakubo, Shinichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9616667
    Abstract: An inkjet head including a substrate configured to discharge ink including a supporting surface formed of a resin material and configured to support the substrate, the supporting substrate including a portion continuing to a surface intersecting the supporting surface and forming a corner portion, the portion forming the corner portion including a non surface treated area which is not surface treated, the supporting surface including a portion adjacent to the non surface treated area being surface treated areas which is surface treated, wherein the substrate and the supporting surface are bonded via an adhesive agent disposed in the non surface treated area and the surface treated area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kyosuke Toda