Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
  • Patent number: 9623397
    Abstract: A system for processing hydrocarbon materials, comprising a hydrocarbon feedstock source; a process gas source; a waveguide; and a reaction tube structure. The process gas source comprises one or more sources of gases selected from the group consisting of helium, argon, krypton, neon, xenon, methane, propane, butane, ethane, acetylene, propylene, butylene, ethylene, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water vapor, hydrogen, and nitrogen. The waveguide comprises a lateral portion comprising housing having a first end portion configured to be connected to a microwave generator, a closed opposite end portion, a primary axis extending from the first end portion to the second end portion, and a central portion having an opening, wherein the central portion has a depth that is smaller than a corresponding depth of the first end portion and the second end portion, and a coaxial portion having a first end portion connected to the opening and a lateral dimension that is perpendicular to the primary axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: H Quest Partners, LP
    Inventors: George L. Skoptsov, Alan A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9623398
    Abstract: Provided herein are synthetic porous electron-rich covalent organonitridic frameworks (PECONFs). The PECONFs are useful as an adsorbent class of materials. In the PECONFs, inorganic nitridic building units are interconnected via electron-rich aromatic units to form porous covalent frameworks. The frameworks include tunable porous, electron-rich organonitridic frameworks, which are determined based upon synthetic methods as exemplified herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Lehigh University
    Inventors: Kai Landskron, Mohanty Paritosh
  • Patent number: 9623399
    Abstract: A method of surface modification of an alumina carrier. The method includes: 1) dissolving a soluble kazoe in deionized water to yield a kazoe aqueous solution; 2) submerging an alumina carrier in the kazoe aqueous solution and drying the alumina carrier in a vacuum environment; 3) placing the dried alumina carrier in a reactor, adding silicon tetrachloride and Grignard reagent dropwise to the reactor, sealing the reactor and heating it to a constant temperature, and maintaining the constant temperature for between 3 and 18 hours, where a volume ratio of the added silicon tetrachloride and the alumina carrier is between 0.5:1 and 5:1, the constant temperature is controlled to be between 160 and 350° C.; and 4) cooling the reactor, filtering, washing, and drying the alumina carrier in the vacuum environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SUNSHINE KAIDI NEW ENERGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shenke Zheng, Dechen Song, Xiaodong Zhan
  • Patent number: 9623400
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for producing hydrogen and a preparing method thereof. The method includes the steps of adding a first metal source, a second metal source, a third metal source and a cerium source into a first organic solvent containing a surfactant to form a colloidal mixture, wherein a metal of the first metal source is a Group IIIB metal; a metal of the second metal source is selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and Group IIIB metals, and a metal of the third metal source is a transition metal; calcining the colloidal mixture to form a metal solid solution; and allowing the metal solid solution to be carried on a carrier to obtain the catalyst. When the catalyst of the present invention is used for an ethanol oxidation reformation, the reaction temperature of the ethanol oxidation reformation can be significantly decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Chi-Shen Lee, Ping-Wen Tsai, Ho-Chen Hsieh, Yun-Sheng Chen, Yuan-Chia Chang, Sheng-Feng Weng
  • Patent number: 9623401
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst has enhanced NOx purification performance in a lean atmosphere, and a production method for producing an exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes sputtering a target material containing Ta and Rh to form composite fine metal particles respectively containing Ta and Rh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagao, Kazutoshi Akashi
  • Patent number: 9623402
    Abstract: Provided is a denitration catalyst with an improved wear resistance capable of stably reducing and removing nitrogen oxides in flue gases for a long period of time and a production method therefor. A denitration catalyst obtained by having a honey comb molded body that contains at least titanium oxide and vanadium pentoxide support magnesium surface, and wherein the peak intensity ratio of the first peak of the magnesium sulfate to the first peak of the titanium oxide in X-ray diffraction is 0.05-0.15, the content of the magnesium sulfate increases by 6-22% by mass, the pore volume is 0.17-0.40 cc/g, and the specific surface area is 33-100 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotsugu Masuda, Katsumi Nochi
  • Patent number: 9623403
    Abstract: A naphtha reforming catalyst, comprising an alumina support and following components with the content calculated on the basis of the support: VIII group metal 0.1-2.0% by weight, VIIB group metal 0.1-3.0% by weight, sulfate ion 0.45-3.0% by weight, and halogen 0.5-3.0% by weight. The catalyst is used in a naphtha reforming reaction without presulfurization and has a high aromatization activity and a selectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Daqing Zhang, Gaoshan Zang, Yuhong Zhang, Jiaxin Wang, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 9623404
    Abstract: A method of using a metal organic framework (MOF) comprising a metal ion and an at least bidendate organic ligand to catalytically detoxify chemical warfare nerve agents including exposing the metal-organic-framework (MOF) to the chemical warfare nerve agent and catalytically decomposing the nerve agent with the MOF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Joseph T. Hupp, Omar K. Farha, Michael J. Katz, Joseph E. Mondloch
  • Patent number: 9623405
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a system having: a pipetting chamber; a set of pipettor cartridges docked in the pipetting chamber; a gantry system mounted on a ceiling within the pipetting chamber, the gantry system including: at least one stationary track aligned in a first direction; and a movable track aligned in a second direction distinct from the first direction, the movable track coupled to the at least one stationary track; and a carrier configured to transport each of the set of pipettor cartridges to a pipetting location within the pipetting chamber, the carrier configured to move each pipettor cartridge in a third direction perpendicular to both the first and second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HighRes Biosolutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Nichols, Louis J. Guarracina
  • Patent number: 9623406
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronic pipette, which pipette comprises a piston actuated in a cylinder by a motor, which motor is controlled with a control system, which control system is controlled through a user interface for operating the pipette, wherein actual backlash affecting the movement of the piston of the electronic pipette is measured with a system located in the pipette, the measured backlash value is forwarded to the control system of the electronic pipette, and the movement of the piston is adjusted by the control system based on the measured backlash value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific Oy
    Inventors: Mikael Lind, Arto Pekkanen
  • Patent number: 9623407
    Abstract: A microfluidic device including one or more microchannels. Each microchannel comprising: a microchannel portion with a longitudinal liquid barrier that defines first and second regions. The device includes one or more first liquid passages at the level of the longitudinal barrier. A liquid inlet allows liquid to enter the first region and a liquid outlet allows liquid to leave the microchannel portion. A transverse liquid barrier between the microchannel portion and the liquid outlet holds liquid in the first region. The device includes one or more second liquid passages at the level of the transverse liquid barrier. A liquid pump displaces liquid through a microchannel portion. The first liquid passages allow excess liquid in the first region to flow into the second region, transversally to the longitudinal barrier. The second liquid passages allow excess liquid in the longitudinal portion to be discharged via the liquid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Emmanuel Delamarche, Onur Gökce
  • Patent number: 9623408
    Abstract: A microfluidic system for separating an analyte from a sample fluid including a series of fluidic channels including at least one first region and at least one second region. The first region includes a plurality of L-nodes, which connects to each other in series. The second region includes a plurality of R-nodes, which connects to each other in series. The first region is configured to trigger at least about one lamination process cycle for both the sample fluid and the buffer fluid and the second region is configured to trigger at least about one reverse lamination process cycle for both the sample fluid and the buffer fluid, whereby the lamination process cycle and the reverse lamination process cycle causes the analyte to diffuse to the buffer fluid from the sample fluid. A method for separating the analyte is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: University of Macau
    Inventors: Cheuk-Wing Li, Ming Yuen Lee, Guodong Yu, Jingyun Jiang
  • Patent number: 9623409
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for detecting molecules of interest within a collected sample are described herein. In certain embodiments, self-contained sample analysis systems are disclosed, which include a reusable reader component, a disposable cartridge component, and a disposable sample collection component. The reader component may communicate with a remote computing device for the digital transmission of test protocols and test results. In various disclosed embodiments, the systems, components, and methods are configured to identify the presence, absence, and/or quantity of particular nucleic acids, proteins, or other analytes of interest, for example, in order to test for the presence of one or more pathogens or contaminants in a sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CUE INC.
    Inventors: Ayub Khattak, Clinton Sever, Paul Nelson, Ryan Cooper, Thomas Congdon, Justin Demartino, Raphael Shapiro, Mark Duncan
  • Patent number: 9623410
    Abstract: Provided are a simple, quick, and low-processing cost method capable of reliably separating part of an accommodated substance accommodated in a vessel only by simple mechanical operation while maintaining a hermetically-sealed state without any contact with an outside atmosphere, as well as a vessel with which the method may be used. A separable vessel comprises a first vessel portion, a second vessel portion which is contiguous with the first vessel portion, a fracture-inducing portion formed between the first vessel portion and the second vessel portion, and a self-fusing material provided on an outer surface so as to cover the fracture-inducing portion; and may contain an accommodated substance therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuo Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9623411
    Abstract: In one embodiment described herein, a cartridge is provided comprising a cartridge frame; a plurality of diluents each in an expandable container; a plurality of reagents each in an expandable container; and a plurality of mixing vessels comprising empty expandable containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Theranos, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Frenzel, Samartha Anekal, Daniel Young
  • Patent number: 9623412
    Abstract: A system for diagnostic testing may include a meter for performing a diagnostic test on a sample applied to a test media, the meter having a housing and an interface for receiving a signal representing coding information, and a container configured to contain test media compatible with the meter, the container having a coding element associated therewith. Additionally, the system may provide a mechanism for removing the meter from an interconnected test container and reattaching it to a new container using on-container coding methods that can recalibrate the meter for the new container of test strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Trividia Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary T. Neel, Brent E. Modzelewski, George R. Rounds, Carlos Oti, Allan Javier Caban, Jeffrey Akins
  • Patent number: 9623413
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for conducting a reaction at a selected temperature or range of temperatures over time. An array device is provided. The array device contains separate reaction chambers and is formed as an elastomeric block from multiple layers. At least one layer has at least one recess that recess has at least one deflectable membrane integral to the layer with the recess. The array device has a thermal transfer device proximal to at least one of the reaction chambers. The thermal transfer device is formed to contact a thermal control source. Reagents for carrying out a desired reaction are introduced into the array device. The array device is contacted with a thermal control device such that the thermal control device is in thermal communication with the thermal control source so that a temperature of the reaction in at least one of the reaction chamber is changed as a result of a change in temperature of the thermal control source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Fluidigm Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey Facer, Robert Grossman, Marc Unger, Phillip Lam, Hou-Pu Chou, Jake Kimball, Martin Pieprzyk, Antoine Daridon
  • Patent number: 9623414
    Abstract: Individual temperature control in multiple reactions performed simultaneously in a spatial array such as a multi-well plate is achieved by thermoelectric modules with individual control, with each module supplying heat to or drawing heat from a single region within the array, the region containing either a single reaction vessel or a group of reaction vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Ceremony, Daniel Y. Chu
  • Patent number: 9623415
    Abstract: A hand-held molecular diagnostic test device includes a housing, an amplification (or PCR) module, and a detection module. The amplification module is configured to receive an input sample, and defines a reaction volume. The amplification module includes a heater such that the amplification module can perform a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on the input sample. The detection module is configured to receive an output from the amplification module and a reagent formulated to produce a signal that indicates a presence of a target amplicon within the input sample. The amplification module and the detection module are integrated within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Click Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Andreyev, Keith E. Moravick, Brian Ciopyk, Victor Briones, Gregory Loney, Adam de la Zerda, Jesus Ching, Colin Kelly, Steven Chu, David Swenson, Helen Huang
  • Patent number: 9623416
    Abstract: A cuvette module comprises a cuvette carrier and a cuvette held by the cuvette carrier. An intermediate chamber is formed in the cuvette carrier. The cuvette carrier comprises an electrically conductive plastic material. The cuvette has a different material than the cuvette carrier and the wettability of the cuvette carrier is greater than the wettability of the cuvette. A method transfers a predetermined amount of liquid from a transport container to a cuvette, employs a cuvette module. The method makes it easier to check whether the intermediate chamber still contains a sufficient amount of liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Holger Behnk
  • Patent number: 9623417
    Abstract: A water saving and energy saving process the continuous production of whole grain flour and whole gluten-free flour is provided. The process includes preconditioning whole-grain or seed with water and uses an energy efficient blanching treatment with saturated steam. The process also provides flour having a bimodal size mixture of material having improved viscosity. The whole grain and whole gluten-free flour can be used to prepare grain products and baked foods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: INVESTIGACION TECNICA AVANZADA S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Felipe A. Rubio, Manuel J. Rubio, Roberto Contreras M.
  • Patent number: 9623418
    Abstract: A wear tip holder for holding a wear tip adjacent to an outflow opening of a vertical rotor wall of a rotor of a VSI crusher includes a mounting plate for mounting the wear tip holder to the rotor wall. The mounting plate has a mounting face for facing the rotor wall to which it is to be mounted, and opposite the mounting face, a wear face for facing the interior of the rotor. A wear body is connected to the mounting plate and is provided with an elongate wear tip recess for holding the wear tip. At least one material retention groove extends along the wear tip recess at a position upstream, as seen in a direction of an intended flow of material to be crushed, of the wear tip recess. The material retention groove has an upstream groove wall and a downstream groove wall, the downstream groove wall forming an acute angle with the wear face for retaining material to be crushed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg
  • Patent number: 9623419
    Abstract: A wear tip holder for holding a wear tip adjacent to an outflow opening of a vertical rotor wall of a rotor of a VSI crusher includes a mounting plate for mounting the wear tip holder to the rotor wall. The mounting plate has a mounting face for facing a segment of the rotor wall to which it is to be mounted and a wear face, opposite the mounting face, for facing the interior of the rotor. A side wall extends between the mounting face and the wear face. The side wall includes a material retention surface facing, when in use, the rotor wall segment, thereby allowing material to be trapped under the material retention face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rowan Dallimore, Knut Kjaerran, Andreas Forsberg
  • Patent number: 9623420
    Abstract: A material collider apparatus includes at least one rotor disposed for rotational movement having a plurality of circumferentially disposed pockets, each of the pockets retaining a portion of a flow velocity regulator and an adjustable retention mechanism. The adjustable retention mechanism includes a first wedge portion and a second wedge portion, the wedge portion each having inclined surfaces that are engaged with one another. An actuating member is disposed through the first and second wedge portions, in which the second wedge portion includes a mounting surface in contact with an edge of the velocity regulator and the first wedge portion includes a mounting surface in contact with an edge surface of the pocket. The second wedge portion is movable relative to said first wedge portion when the actuating member is engaged, thereby permitting tightening and release of the velocity regulator in a defined rotor pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventors: Henry Scott Dobrovosky, Richard James O'Neal, Bret Xavier Faircloth
  • Patent number: 9623421
    Abstract: An ecocompatible container for recycling cigarette butts is constituted by a cylinder including an openable upper cover, a base and an intermediate portion which houses a common hopper in external communication with ashtrays through which the cigarette butts are introduced, wherein via the hopper, the butts are introduced into a screening basket with balls, in which the rotation of the screening basket allows, by mutual impact and friction of the balls, crushing the cigarette butts and hence effectively separating the organic portion, i.e. the filter paper and the residual tobacco that fall by gravity through holes into an underlying suitable collection container, from the resistant, fibrous portion constituted only by the filters of the cigarettes which, when sucked by a small suction motor, will fall into an underlying filter accumulation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventors: Stefano Bolla, Manfredi Mancinelli Scotti
  • Patent number: 9623422
    Abstract: An electrofilter for smoke purification having a set of mutually parallel positive electrodes, which form a number of mutually parallel ducts through which the smoke to be purified can pass and by a set of negative electrodes, which are suspended midway between the collection plates, the collection plates are designed as circular plates mounted at a uniform mutual distance on a rotating shaft, and the discharge wires are suspended from a common frame on which a vibrator is mounted which can vibrate and thus clean the discharge wires of collected dust. On the frame of the electrofilter between each collection plate, stationary scrapers are mounted which bear against each collection plate and clean them of dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OVERDAHL ELECTRO FILTERS APS
    Inventor: Jorgen Overdahl
  • Patent number: 9623423
    Abstract: A spray head assembly comprising a body configured to receive a supply of fluid and a face in fluid communication with the body, the face having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a non-linear pattern for directing the fluid from the spray head, wherein the plurality of nozzles are configured to direct the fluid flow to form a wedge-shaped spray pattern between the face and a focal region at a focal length from the spray head, and wherein the spray pattern forms a linear spray arrangement in the focal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KOHLER CO.
    Inventor: Perry Erickson
  • Patent number: 9623424
    Abstract: A handheld showerhead including a showerhead portion, a handle portion, and a movable mode selector portion. The mode selector portion includes a rotationally-fixed first end coupling and a rotationally-fixed second end coupling, which is concentrically aligned with the first end coupling, and a rotatable control knob body. The movable mode selector includes a fluid seal coupled to the rotatable knob body, the first fluid seal including at least one fluid control aperture. The second end coupling also includes a fluid inlet aperture and a fluid outlet aperture. The inlet aperture is in fluid communication with a fluid supply, and the outlet aperture is in fluid communication with the control knob body. A second fluid seal is positioned between the second end coupling and the control knob body. A single mechanical fastener axially couples the control knob body to the first end coupling and the second end coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Water Pik, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold A. Luettgen, Leland C. Leber, Michael J. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9623425
    Abstract: A showerhead including a handle portion, a showerhead portion, a water supply connector, and a mode selector positioned around the water supply connector. The mode selector is positioned around the water supply connector and includes a rotatable control knob mounted above the handle portion and configured to rotate about an axis and a rotatable valve core received within and sealed to the control knob to create a second fluid chamber between the valve core and the control knob. The valve core further defines a first aperture and a second aperture and rotation of the control knob rotates the valve core to selectively align the second aperture of the valve core with one of two or more fluid inlets while maintaining the first aperture in at least partial alignment with a second fluid outlet from the first fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Water Pik, Inc.
    Inventors: Harold A. Luettgen, Leland C. Leber, Michael J. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9623426
    Abstract: An atomizer nozzle (1) for a sanitary water outlet, which atomizer nozzle (1) is intended for atomizing water under pressure. The characterizing feature of the atomizer nozzle (1) according to the invention is that the atomizer nozzle (1) has a swirl chamber (2), in which at least one feed channel (4) that is oriented transversely in relation to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle and runs approximately tangentially into the swirl chamber (2) opens out, wherein the swirl chamber (2) tapers in the outflow direction, in the direction of a nozzle channel (5). The atomizer nozzle (1) can be used to produce a water jet of a homogeneous jet pattern that gives the impression of a voluminous water jet in spite of having a low volumetric flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Schurle
  • Patent number: 9623427
    Abstract: A spray device, such as one used with a pressure washer, includes a housing, a chemical container coupled to the housing, and a chemical conduit coupled to the container. The chemical conduit has an inlet and an outlet forming a chemical flow path therebetween. The spray device further includes a chemical flow controller allowing a user to adjust a chemical flow rate through the chemical conduit. Further, the spray device includes a water conduit forming a water flow path through the housing, the water conduit terminating at a spray orifice. The chemical flow path and the water flow path merge at a point proximate the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Gilpatrick, James A. Louden
  • Patent number: 9623428
    Abstract: The invention is a fluid dispensing device suited to be connected, by means of a connection element (220), to a container (C) holding the fluid that can be dispensed from the inside to the outside of the container through an actuator element (400), comprising: a suction duct (240) suited to communicate with the fluid held inside the container (C), a dispenser duct (440) in communication with the outer space with respect to the volume (V) enclosed by the container (C), a suction/compression chamber (300) that can communicate with the suction duct (240) and the dispenser duct (440), a suction valve (260) suited to alternatively allow and prevent the passage of a fluid between the suction duct (240) and the suction/compression chamber (300) when, respectively, the suction valve is closed and open, a dispensing valve (460) suited to alternatively allow and prevent the passage of a fluid between the dispenser duct (440) and the suction/compression chamber (300) when, respectively, the suction valve is closed and o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Taplast S.p.A.
    Inventor: Evans Santagiuliana
  • Patent number: 9623429
    Abstract: A method for assembling a spray pattern adjustment assembly for use with a spray head assembly is provided. The spray head assembly may define an outlet passage that has a height. The method may include the steps of inserting the spray pattern adjustment assembly having a reduced height compared to the height of the outlet passage into the outlet passage, increasing the height of the spray pattern adjustment assembly to at least match the height of the outlet passage, and substantially fixing the position of the spray pattern adjustment assembly relative to the spray head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Peter William Anderton, Nainesh M. Parmar, David E. Nelson, Monte C. Cook
  • Patent number: 9623430
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a slit nozzle cleaning device for coaters. The slit nozzle cleaning device for coaters comprises a heating source, a crucible and a mixing means, the heating source is used to heat the materials in the crucible; the mixing means is used to mix the materials in the crucible. The mixing means is used to mix the materials in the crucible, thus a uniform heating environment in the crucible can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZEHN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yueyan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9623431
    Abstract: The present invention includes an improved sprinkler design having a magnetic sensing system for determining the position of the riser nozzle, a waterproofed motor housing and related cables, configurable sprinkler body compartments, and a pilot valve with a check valve assembly, both of which are located within the sprinkler body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Toro Company
    Inventors: Leo James Lichte, James Zimmerman, Jeff McKenzie, James T. Wright, III, Peter Janku
  • Patent number: 9623432
    Abstract: A treatment unit for the surface treatment of articles having at least one treatment chamber and a conveying system which conveys articles to be treated into the treatment chamber, along a conveying path through the treatment chamber and back out of the treatment chamber. Each article in each position on the conveying path prescribes a conveying direction tangential to the conveying path. An application system includes at least one multiaxis application robot, which takes along with it an application device and moves along a robot path of movement. The conveying system and the application system are set up such that the at least one application robot moves in relation to the conveying direction of an article optionally with a movement component parallel to the conveying direction of the article and/or a movement component perpendicular to the conveying direction of the article. Also, an installation and a method for the surface treatment of articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: EISENMANN AG
    Inventor: Roger Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9623433
    Abstract: A device for coating surface portions of a board material with a liquid material. The device includes a wheel which transfers the coating material and compressed air which positions the coating material. A method for surface coating and a floorboard with a finished surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Jan Peterson, Niclas Hakansson
  • Patent number: 9623434
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes substrate holding unit that holds wafer W horizontally, rotation driving unit that rotates the substrate holding unit, first chemical liquid nozzle that discharges first chemical liquid toward the peripheral portion of wafer W, second chemical liquid nozzle that discharges second chemical liquid, which is different from the first chemical liquid, toward the peripheral portion of wafer, and first nozzle driving unit and second nozzle driving unit each moves the first chemical liquid nozzle and the second chemical liquid nozzle, respectively. Each chemical liquid nozzle is moved by each nozzle driving unit between processing position disposed when a chemical liquid is discharged toward the peripheral portion of wafer W, and stand-by position disposed when the chemical liquid is not discharged. Each stand-by position is disposed in the center side of wafer W compared to the processing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Amano
  • Patent number: 9623435
    Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes a moving mechanism that moves a wafer in a horizontal direction, coating sections that eject the coating liquid to the wafer, and dry sections that dries the coating liquid, and a controller that controls the drying sections, the coating sections, and the moving mechanism. In each coating section, the wafer is moved in the horizontal direction while causing the coating liquid to be in contact with the wafer so that the coating liquid is coated on the entire surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Yukihiro Wakamoto
  • Patent number: 9623436
    Abstract: A lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which a liquid supply system provides a liquid between the projection system and the substrate. An active drying station is provided to actively remove the liquid from the substrate W or other objects after immersion of all or part of a surface of the substrate W or other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Bob Streefkerk, Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders, Erik Roelof Loopstra, Johannes Catharinus Hubertus Mulkens
  • Patent number: 9623437
    Abstract: A die and a method for impregnating fiber rovings with a polymer resin are disclosed. The die includes a manifold assembly (220), an impregnation zone (250), and a gate passage (270). The manifold assembly (220) flows the resin therethrough, and includes a channel (222). The impregnation zone (250) is in fluid communication with the manifold assembly (220), and is configured to impregnate the roving with the resin. The gate passage (270) is between the manifold assembly (220) and the impregnation zone (250), and flows the resin from the manifold assembly (220) such that the resin coats the roving. The gate passage (270) includes a projection (300). The projection (300) is configured to diffuse resin flowing through the gate passage (270).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Tibor, Timothy A. Regan, Aaron H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9623438
    Abstract: A mask according to the invention includes a masking having a first side, a second side, and a perimeter opening. The second side is either tacky or has an adhesive applied and includes a backing, and the first side may include a cover. In use, the backing is removed to apply the mask to a hatch on a surface, with the perimeter of the hatch exposed through the perimeter opening. If used, the cover is then removed and liquid sealant is applied to the perimeter through the perimeter opening. Excess sealant collects on the masking rather than on the hatch or surface surrounding the perimeter. Once the sealant dries, the masking is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Heath Moore
  • Patent number: 9623439
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a film, including: applying, onto a substrate, a photocurable composition containing a polymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a photosensitive gas generator that generates a gas through light stimulation to form an applied film; bringing a mold into contact with the applied film; irradiating the applied film with light through the mold to cure the applied film and to generate the gas in the applied film; and releasing the mold from the applied film after the irradiation of the applied film with the light to form a film (cured film) having a predetermined pattern shape on the substrate, in which in the irradiation of the applied film with the light, a reaction rate of a polymerization reaction of the polymerizable monomer in the applied film is higher than a reaction rate of a gas-generating reaction of the photosensitive gas generator in the applied film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki Ito, Naoko Matsufuji, Kanae Kawahata
  • Patent number: 9623440
    Abstract: A method for at least partially applying a hydrophilic polymer to a measurement channel of a sensor cartridge is provided, which sensor cartridge can be replaceably inserted in an analyzer. The measurement channel comprises at least one sensor element. The method comprises inserting the sensor cartridge into the analyzer, introducing an aqueous solution containing chitosan or a chitosan derivative into the measurement channel of the sensor cartridge, and following a residence time replacing the aqueous chitosan solution with a gaseous or liquid medium, wherein residues of the chitosan or chitosan derivatives remain on the inside surface of the measurement channel and hydrophilize the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Hofmann, Taghi Noormofidi, Doris Zahrl
  • Patent number: 9623441
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate having a long polarizing coating formed by coating directly on a long retardation film and to provide such a long laminated polarizing plate. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a long laminated polarizing plate comprising a long retardation film having a slow axis in its longitudinal direction and a long polarizing coating placed on the retardation film and having an absorption axis or a transmission axis in an in-plane direction at an angle of 25 to 65° to the slow axis direction of the long retardation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoichi Matsuda, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Tadayuki Kameyama
  • Patent number: 9623442
    Abstract: A coating for an ink jet printhead front face, wherein the coating comprises an oleophobic low adhesion coating having high thermal stability as indicated by less than about 15 percent weight loss when heated to up to 300° C., and wherein a drop of ultra-violet (UV) gel ink or a drop of solid ink exhibits a contact angle of greater than about 50° and sliding angle of less than about 30° with a surface of the coating, wherein the coating maintains the contact angle and sliding angle after the coating has been exposed to a temperature of at least 260° C. for at least 30 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Varun Sambhy, Kock-Yee Law, Hong Zhao, Darren Smith
  • Patent number: 9623443
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device unit includes a substrate having a planar part and a recess part recessed from the planar part, an ultrasonic device which has an element array including a plurality of thin film ultrasonic transducer elements disposed in an array and is disposed in the recess part, a first flexible printed board, one end of which is superimposed on a portion of an array surface of the ultrasonic device and connected to the same, the other end of which is superimposed on a portion of the planar part and connected to the same, wherein the array surface of the ultrasonic device which the one end of the first flexible printed board is superimposed on is positioned within a plane including the planar part or a plane outside of the recess part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Yoshida, Kazuyuki Kano, Yusuke Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 9623444
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rolling screen assembly. The rolling screen assembly may include a frame, a screen assembly mounted to the frame, a wheel assembly mounted to the frame, and a foot affixed to the frame, where wheels of the wheel assembly are height adjustable relative to the frame to allow the foot to be raised from, and lowered onto, a support surface. Such assembly may facilitate replacement of a rolling screen assembly with minimal downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Gordon Ong, Cristobal Brant
  • Patent number: 9623445
    Abstract: An apparatus suitable for separating particles and methods for using such apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Hasan Eroglu, John Ferney McKibben, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Patent number: 9623446
    Abstract: A sieving apparatus includes first and second sieving portions. The first sieving portion includes a sieve with a plurality of elongated holes or slits for separation of an object to be sieved based on difference in cross-sectional diameter. The second sieving portion with a sieve constituted by a porous plate includes round holes for separation of the object that has passed through the elongated holes or slits based on difference in aspect ratio. The second sieving portion is employed after sieving by the first sieving portion. A diameter of the round holes in the porous plate constituting the sieve included in the second sieving portion is longer than an opening width in a shorter direction of the elongated hole or the slit of the sieve included in the first sieving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NARA MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Iwamatsu, Yohei Kawaguchi, Masato Shindo