Patents Issued in June 27, 2017
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Patent number: PP28135Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the ground cover class which has abundant, apricot flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/SInventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
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Patent number: PP28136Abstract: A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Tree having a vigorous, upright growth habit. 2. Tree being a regular and productive bearer of large size, yellow flesh fruit. 3. Fruit with excellent flavor and eating quality. 4. Fruit with a high degree of soluble solids (Brix) of 20.2°. 5. Fruit with an attractive dark red skin color.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventors: Gary Neil Zaiger, Leith Marie Gardner, Grant Gene Zaiger
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Patent number: PP28137Abstract: A new and distinct variety of interspecific tree. The following features of the tree and its fruit are characterized with the tree budded on ‘Nemaguard’ Rootstock (non-patented), grown on Handford sandy loam soil with Storie Index rating 95, in USDA Hardiness Zone 9, near Modesto, Calif., with standard commercial fruit growing practices, such as pruning, thinning, spraying, irrigation and fertilization. Its novelty consist of the following combination of desirable features: 1. Tree having a vigorous, semi-spreading growth habit. 2. Tree being a regular and productive bearer of medium to large size fruit. 3. Fruit with an attractive orange skin color. 4. Fruit with very good flavor and eating quality.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventors: Gary Neil Zaiger, Leith Marie Gardner, Grant Gene Zaiger
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Patent number: PP28138Abstract: The red raspberry cultivar ‘Enrosadira’ was found in Trentino (Italy). The new cultivar is a primocane fruit-bearing variety producing two crops per year, wherein the fruits ripen on current season's cane in the middle of July and on previous season's cane in the beginning of June. The resulting fruits are conical and brilliant light red with a very good taste.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Aldo Telch
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Patent number: PP28139Abstract: A new and distinct red maple tree named ‘Miller’ characterized by its broad rounded growth habit, green mildew-resistant foliage, strong wood, and early autumn coloration.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Earl Cully
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Patent number: PP28140Abstract: A new hop plant named ‘HBC 344’ is disclosed. The cones of ‘HBC 344’ mature in late September, and yields a crop of 1,600 to 2,000 pounds per acre. ‘HBC 344’ is used for its aromatic quality.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Hop Breeding Company, LLC.Inventors: Eugene G. Probasco, Jason Perrault
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Patent number: PP28141Abstract: A new cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla named ‘Mother's Love’ that is characterized by its compact plant habit with tight internodes, its extremely floriferous bloom period, re-blooming through the spring and summer months, its profusion of light pink florets that often crowd out the foliage, and its extreme heat tolerance, regularly tolerating temperatures of 38° C. in the summer.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Carol Gray
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Patent number: PP28142Abstract: A new cultivar of Abutilon named ‘Passion’ that is characterized by a compact freely-branching habit and watermelon-pink flowers produced continually from spring until fall, and bearing prominent yellow staminal tube and anthers and cream to pale-green calyces.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: NuFlora International Pty LtdInventor: Graham Brown
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Patent number: PP28143Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALDESAL’, particularly characterized by having white flecked flowers, 2 to 5 peduncles, a peduncle that is long and moderate, leaves that are narrow oblong and moderately elongated, and is propagated by tissue culture is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
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Patent number: PP28144Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Phlox plant named ‘Versred’, characterized by its broadly upright and relatively compact plant habit; freely flowering habit; large inflorescences with cherry red-colored flowers; long flowering period; good garden performance; and relative tolerance to Powdery Mildew.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Adrianus Verschoor
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Patent number: PP28145Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of little bluestem plant, Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blue Paradise’ has a dense, upright habit. Early foliage coloration becomes nearly a silvery blue that develops into deep wine coloration by fall. The flowers remain effective with reddish-purple tinting into winter and the stems are strongly resistant to lodging.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Walters Gardens IncInventor: Hans A. Hansen
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Patent number: PP28146Abstract: ‘Vermont’ is a new variety of calla lily plant having inflorescences with a purple-colored spathe that produces 3-25 inflorescences per tuber. The height of the top of an inflorescence above the soil can reach up to 35 cm, and the leaves are dark green with whitish spots and have a leathery texture.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Sande B.V.Inventor: Cecilius Jan-Jochem Randag
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Patent number: PP28147Abstract: ‘Fireworks’ is a new variety of calla lily plant having inflorescences with a pink/orange-colored spathe that produces 4-25 inflorescences per tuber. The height of the top of an inflorescence above the soil can reach up to 46 cm, and the leaves are dark green with numerous whitish spots and have a leathery texture.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Sande B.V.Inventor: Cecilius Jan-Jochem Randag
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Patent number: PP28148Abstract: ‘Nashville’ is a new variety of calla lily plant having inflorescences with a white/purple-colored spathe that produces 3-25 inflorescences per tuber. The height of the top of an inflorescence above the soil can reach up to 45 cm, and the leaves are dark green with whitish spots and have a leathery texture.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Sande B.V.Inventor: Cecilius Jan-Jochem Randag
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Patent number: RE46452Abstract: An electrostatic lens comprising a first conductive plate with a first aperture, a second conductive plate with a second aperture, the second aperture being substantially aligned with the first aperture, a voltage supply for supplying a first voltage to the first conductive plate and a second voltage to the second conductive plate, the first voltage being lower than the second voltage, and an insulating structure for separating the first conductive plate from the second conductive plate. The insulating structure comprises a first portion in contact with the first conductive plate and a second portion in contact with the second conductive plate, the first portion having an overhanging portion and the second portion having an indented portion at an edge of the insulating structure, so that a gap is formed between the overhanging portion and the second conductive plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: MAPPER LITHOGRAPHY IP B.V.Inventors: Stijn Willem Herman Karel Steenbrink, Johan Joost Koning, Peter Veltman
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Patent number: RE46453Abstract: The present invention relates to a fusion protein comprising a fusion polypeptide of E6 and E7 of a human papilloma virus, a signal peptide for secreting the polypeptide out of the cell, and an immune enhancing peptide for a subject; a polynucleotide encoding the fusion protein; and a vector containing the polynucleotide. The present invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the fusion protein or the vector; and a method for treating a disease caused by a human papilloma virus using the pharmaceutical composition.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignees: POSTECH FOUNDATION, GENEXINE, INC.Inventors: Young Chul Sung, Hyun Tak Jin, Sang Hwan Seo, Sang Hoon Park, Je-In Youn
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Patent number: RE46454Abstract: A method and cleaning solution for cleaning electronic substrates, such as a semiconductor wafers, hard disks, photomasks or imprint molds. The method comprises the steps of contacting a surface of the substrate with a cleaning solution comprised of a polyphosphate, and then removing the cleaning solution from the surface. Additional optional steps include applying acoustic energy to the cleaning solution while the cleaning solution is in contact with the surface, and removing the cleaning solution from the surface by rinsing the surface with a rinsing solution with or without the application of acoustic energy. The cleaning solution comprises a polyphosphate, such as any of the water soluble polyphosphates. Depending on the application, the cleaning solution may also comprise a base and/or a quantity of suspended particles. Complexing agents, amines, biocides, surfactants and/or other substances, may also be added to the cleaning solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Fontana TechnologyInventor: Mark Jonathan Beck
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Patent number: RE46455Abstract: Disclosed is a low-cost, compact image pickup lens for a solid-state image pickup element. The image pickup lens includes, in the order from an object side, a first lens L1, which has a convex surface facing the object side on an optical axis and has a positive refractive power; a second lens L2, which has a concave surface facing an image side on the optical axis and has a negative refractive power; a third lens L3, which has a convex surface facing the object side on the optical axis and has a meniscus shape; a fourth lens L4, which has a convex surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a positive refractive power, and has a meniscus shape; and a fifth lens L5, which has a concave surface facing the image side on the optical axis, has a negative refractive power, and has a meniscus shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: KANTATSU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshio Ise, Masaya Hashimoto
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Patent number: RE46456Abstract: An image processing device including a first control unit to control a normal operating mode during which image processing is performed, a second control unit to control an energy-saving mode during which power consumption is lower than during the normal operating mode, an interrupt request receiver connected to an external device to receive an interrupt request from the external device, interrupt factor distributors to distribute the interrupt request received by the interrupt request receiver based on whether or not the interrupt request includes a predetermined interrupt factor, interrupt request notification units to notify the second control unit as well as the first control unit of the interrupt request in accordance with distribution results from the interrupt factor distributors, and job adjustors to control transfer of a job between the first control unit and the second control unit based on notification from the interrupt request notification units.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Katsuhiko Katoh
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Patent number: RE46457Abstract: A proxy system enables a worker remote from a communication center and limited to a light computer device unable to operate as a workstation at the communication center to operate with full access to data and software at the communication center. A proxy server, which may be a LAN-connected server at the communication center, has a two-way data link to the light computer device operated by the remote agent, and executes software which ascertains the hardware and software characteristics of the light device. The proxy server accesses communication center data at direction from the light device, operates communication center software tools, and provides results to the light device over the communication link in a form usable by the light device.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: GENESYS TELECOMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC.Inventor: Musa Hanhan
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Patent number: RE46458Abstract: A digital television transmitting system includes a frame encoder, a block processor, a group formatter, and a multiplexer. The frame encoder forms an enhanced data frame and encodes the data frame for error correction and for error detection. The block processor further encodes the encoded data frame at a rate of 1/2 or 1/4, and the group formatter divides the encoded data frame into a plurality of enhanced data blocks and maps the divided data blocks into a plurality of enhanced data groups, respectively. The multiplexer multiplexes the enhanced data groups with main data.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Won Gyu Song, Sung Ryong Hong, Jong Moon Kim, Jae Hyung Kim, Jin Woo Kim
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Patent number: RE46459Abstract: A data redirection system for redirecting user's data based on a stored rule set. The redirection of data is performed by a redirection server, which receives the redirection rule sets for each user from an authentication and accounting server, and a database. Prior to using the system, users authenticate with the authentication and accounting server, and receive a network address. The authentication and accounting server retrieves the proper rule set for the user, and communicates the rule set and the user's address to the redirection server. The redirection server then implements the redirection rule set for the user's address. Rule sets are removed from the redirection server either when the user disconnects, or based on some predetermined event. New role sets are added to the redirection server either when a user connects, or based on some predetermined event.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: LINKSMART WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Koichiro Ikudome, Moon Tai Yeung
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Patent number: 9686896Abstract: Various forms of anti-clog suction tips apparatus are disclosed. An exemplary anti-clog suction tip apparatus includes a suction tip assembly having a suction tip with a suction opening at a first end thereof for removing debris through suction, a hose attachment portion for attaching the suction tip assembly to a suction source, and an ejection wire channel. The apparatus further includes an ejection wire assembly having an ejection wire extending within the channel and an ejection button integral with or connected to the ejection wire. Applying a force to the ejection button advances the ejection wire through the channel such that an end portion of the ejection wire enters the suction tip and dislodges debris clogging the suction tip. The ejection wire may include an enlarged end portion such as, for example a ball tip. One or more of the components of the apparatus may be single-use and disposable.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: H & M INNOVATIONS, LLCInventors: Robert Sean Hensler, Thomas James Philpott, Daniel Lee Bizzell, Michael Starkey, Raeshon Lamont McNeil, Juan Carlos Perez, Thomas Eric Melin
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Patent number: 9686897Abstract: A front end loader attachment for picking and sorting objects, including picking rocks and sorting them from soil. An embodiment of the attachment is a device comprising a rotatable drum having a longitudinal axis, a mount for reversibly mounting the attachment to the front end loader, and a rotator assembly, with the drum comprising a base and an opposing opening defined by sidewalls connected to the base, wherein the sidewalls comprises a plurality of openings and the rotator assembly is operable to rotate the drum about the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Kent Roessler
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Patent number: 9686898Abstract: A tilling device for tilling ground surfaces, in particular lawn surfaces, comprising at least one machine frame, at least one supporting device which supports the machine frame on the ground, multiple tools which can be lifted and lowered relative to the machine frame and thus can dig into the ground and be pulled out again, and at least one adjusting device which adjusts the distance between the supporting device and the machine frame in the vertical direction in order to adjust the digging depth of the tools into the ground. The adjusting device additionally adjusts the distance between the supporting device and the tools.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: REDEXIM HANDEL—EN EXPLOITATIE MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.Inventor: Cornelius Hermanus Maria De Bree
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Patent number: 9686899Abstract: An agricultural tillage implement includes: a frame member; and a leveling blade assembly. The leveling blade assembly includes: a leveling blade; an arm coupling the frame member with the leveling blade; and a spring assembly including a spring and a spring guide assembly, the spring and the spring guide assembly being coupled with the arm and the frame member, the spring guide assembly including a sleeve which is slidably related to the spring and which is made of an ultra-high-molecular-weight (UHMW) plastic.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Michael G. Kovach, Rick L. Gerber
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Patent number: 9686900Abstract: An agricultural planting apparatus includes a chassis, and a row unit having a unit body carried by the chassis. The unit body includes a metering device, at least one furrowing disc, a biasing element selected from at least one of the following: an extension spring, a compression spring, and a cylinder. A pair of pinch wheels are also carried by the unit body and includes an axle assembly pivotally movable relative to the unit body and connected to the biasing element. The axle assembly is configured to readily connect to at least one biasing element.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Ryan R. Raetzman, Brian J. Anderson, Johnathon R. Dienst
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Patent number: 9686901Abstract: An agricultural device includes a number of row units that each includes a seed furrow opener that creates a furrow in the soil for seed placement. Each row unit is mounted to a toolbar of the device by way of a four-bar linkage which allows each row unit to move vertically to adjust to the contour of the soil independently of the other row units on the same toolbar. The four-bar linkages include one or more springs which work to transfer weight from the toolbar to the row unit. An actuator varies the tension in the spring thereby adjusting the down or up force applied to the row unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Courtney N. Achen, Marvin Bachman, Vaughan G. Stevenson
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Patent number: 9686902Abstract: One agricultural system includes a hitch assembly configured to couple an agricultural vehicle with an agricultural implement. The agricultural system also includes a sensor coupled to the hitch assembly and configured to provide a signal indicative of a force applied to the hitch assembly by the agricultural vehicle and/or the agricultural implement. The agricultural system includes control circuitry configured to receive the signal from the sensor, to select a parameter associated with operation of the agricultural vehicle and/or the agricultural implement, based on the signal, to determine if performance of the agricultural vehicle and/or the agricultural implement will be improved by adjusting the parameter, and to control the parameter if performance of the agricultural vehicle and/or the agricultural implement will be improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: James Harmon Thomson
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Patent number: 9686903Abstract: An air cart has a drop chute for conveying an agricultural product such as seed, from a metering device to a venturi portion of a product conveyance tube. The drop chute has a contoured downstream sidewall resulting in changes in drop chute width which introduce vortices providing an enhanced product flow. The downstream sidewall has an inward sloping region reducing the drop chute width beginning closely adjacent the metering device and continuing down about one-third the way from the metering device to the conveyance tube, and an abrupt corner causing an increase in drop chute width near the product conveyance tube followed by a curved region creating a gradual further increase in width terminating adjacent to the product delivery tube. A large low speed vortex is created near the inward sloping region and a small strong vortex is created adjacent the curved region.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Martin J. Roberge, Ryan C. Roberge, Stewart J. Millie, Ethan C. S. Bent
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Patent number: 9686904Abstract: The present invention is directed to a vibrator for seed delivery system that operates to vibrate seeds within the delivery system to enable the seeds to move through the system and into row meters that place the seeds into the desired location within a trench over which the discharge system is positioned. The vibrator is attached to an induction, box and includes a housing in which an impeller is rotatably mounted. The impeller is driven by incoming air flow used to direct the seeds through the induction box, and includes a number of different sized vanes thereon. The rotation of the vanes creates mechanical vibrations in the induction box and directs a pulsed air flow through the induction box to minimize the bridging of seeds with one another within the induction box.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Joshua Roszman, Grant Macdonald
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Patent number: 9686905Abstract: A seeding machine with a seed meter and a seed delivery system for moving seed from a seed meter to a furrow formed in the soil. The delivery system has an endless member moving in a housing about pulleys to move seed from an upper opening in the housing to a lower discharge opening. In one embodiment, a loading wheel at the upper opening to the housing engages seed on a metering disk to move seed into the housing. The metering disk and housing can be arranged in planes parallel to one another.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Elijah B. Garner, Daniel B. Thiemke, David J. Rylander, Nathan A. Mariman, Michael E. Friestad
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Patent number: 9686906Abstract: A seeding machine with a seed meter and a seed delivery system for moving seed from a seed meter to a furrow formed in the soil. The delivery system has an endless member moving in a housing about pulleys to move seed from an upper opening in the housing to a lower discharge opening. In one embodiment, a loading wheel at the upper opening to the housing engages seed on a metering disk to move seed into the housing. The metering disk and housing can be arranged in planes parallel to one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Elijah B. Garner, Daniel B. Thiemke, David J. Rylander, Nathan A. Mariman, Michael E. Friestad
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Patent number: 9686907Abstract: A rotary flow divider assembly is provided that includes a housing having an inlet passage configured to receive agricultural product, a first outlet passage configured to discharge the agricultural product, and a second outlet passage configured to discharge the agricultural product. The rotary flow divider assembly also includes a rotary valve selectively rotatable between a first position that facilitates flow of the agricultural product from the inlet passage to the first and second outlet passages, a second position that facilitates flow of the agricultural product from the inlet passage to the first outlet passage, and substantially blocks flow of the agricultural product from the inlet passage to the second outlet passage, and a third position that facilitates flow of the agricultural product from the inlet passage to the second outlet passage, and substantially blocks flow of the agricultural product from the inlet passage to the first outlet passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.Inventors: Ka Po Catherine Hui, Darwin L. Zacharias, Dennis G. Thompson, Dennis W. Chahley
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Patent number: 9686908Abstract: An apparatus includes a hinge mount top plate, a hinge mount bottom plate, and a pin connecting the top plate and bottom plate. A cam adjuster element includes a top aperture, a middle aperture, and a bottom aperture. A first fastener passes through the top aperture to connect the cam adjuster element to the hinge mount top plate. The first fastener may be disposed in different positions in the top aperture. A second fastener passes through the middle aperture to connect the cam adjuster element to the hinge mount top plate. The cam adjuster element may pivot about a longitudinal axis of the second fastener. The pin is retained in the bottom aperture. An assembly includes a disc, a seed boot, and a mounting mechanism that allows for movement between the seed boot and the disc about first pivot axis and second pivot axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: AGCO-AMITY JV, LLCInventors: Leonard Carl Mead, Nicholas W. Schrapp, Collin David Miller
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Patent number: 9686909Abstract: A riding lawn care vehicle may include a battery power source, an electric drive motor, at least one blade drive motor, a current sensor, and a controller. The electric drive motor may be powered by the battery power source. The electric drive motor may be operably coupled to wheels of the riding lawn care vehicle to provide drive power for the riding lawn care vehicle. The at least one blade drive motor may be powered by the battery power source. The at least one blade drive motor may be operably coupled to at least one cutting blade of the riding lawn care vehicle. The current sensor may be disposed to monitor total current drawn from the battery power source. The controller may receive total current data from the current sensor and provide feedback to an operator of the riding lawn care vehicle based on the total current data.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: HUSQVARNA ABInventors: Sebastian Schygge, Daniel Carlsson, Lars Dernebo, Peter Mejegård, Sean Dwyer
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Patent number: 9686910Abstract: A trimmer head that can be attached to trimmer stems of varied length includes a stem attachment point, a lift, a base, a pull and twist mechanism, a plurality of blade posts, and a plurality of resting cavities. The trimmer stem is attached to the stem attachment point. The stem attachment point is positioned in between the lift and the base allowing the trimmer head to receive longer trimmer stems. Trimmer blades or trimmer lines are attached to the plurality of blade posts. The lift and the base are positioned adjacent to each other. Moreover, the plurality of blade posts are oriented towards the base. By using the pull and twist mechanism, the trimmer blades or the trimmer lines are positioned in between the lift and the base. The lift is offset from the base providing a maximum range of motion for the attached trimmer blades or trimmer lines.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Randy A. Duvall
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Patent number: 9686911Abstract: A blade for a mower disc body is provided. The blade includes a cutting blade body of a first base material, top and bottom surfaces and an outer surface that extends around the cutting blade body vertically between the top and bottom surfaces. The blade further includes a cutting edge formed along the outer surface and a plurality of clad beads extending along one of the top and bottom surfaces transversely away from the non-serrated cutting edge.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Kondex CorporationInventors: Neal J. Stoffel, Keith A. Johnson
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Patent number: 9686912Abstract: A lawn mower includes a mower deck including a blade rotationally driven to cut grass and generate an air flow to feed the cut grass. A cutting chamber houses the blade. An ejection outlet is open to the cutting chamber and ejects the cut grass. A grass collection container collects the cut grass ejected from the ejection outlet. An air chamber is provided in a vicinity of the cutting chamber and receives the air flow generated by rotation of the blade through the grass collection container. A first passage connects the ejection outlet and the grass collection container. A second passage connects the grass collection container and the air chamber. The air flow supplied from the grass collection container to the air chamber through the second passage is supplied to the cutting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Hirokazu Ito, Kazuo Koike
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Patent number: 9686913Abstract: System and method which automatically updates estimated field and in-transit yield values as a function of estimated vehicle load values and correction values determined from more accurate yield values obtained later, such as at a processing or other receiving facility, thereby providing better estimates of yield values between yield monitor system calibrations.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLCInventors: Christopher A. Foster, Justin R. Ringwald, Douglas S. Fitzkee, Kevin S. Richman, Jesse H. Orsborn, Thomas H. Brown, Jr., John H. Posselius
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Patent number: 9686914Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for monitoring yield while harvesting grain. Grain released from paddles on the clean grain elevator chain of a harvester contacts a flow sensor which reports the rate of grain flow through the clean grain elevator. In some embodiments a brush is mounted to the chain and disposed to clean the flow sensor surface. In other embodiments a bucket mounted to the clean grain elevator chain releases grain against the flow sensor at a rate dependent on a grain property.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Precision Planting LLCInventors: Justin Koch, Michael Strnad
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Patent number: 9686915Abstract: A system and method for producing a feed product, and the product, are disclosed. A processor apparatus may comprise a housing and at least two generally cylindrical rolls rotatably mounted on the housing, with a gap being formed between the rolls through which the path of the crop materials passes. At least one roll may have alternating longitudinal ridges and grooves forming teeth on the surface of the roll. A rotating assembly may be configured to rotate the rolls with respect to the housing, the rotating assembly being configured to rotate the pair of rolls at different rotational speeds. A method may comprise cutting plants growing in a field, chopping the plants of the crop materials in a manner to produce pieces of the plants that have lengths of approximately 1 inch to approximately 2.5 inches long, and processing the plant pieces between the rolls rotating at a speed differential of at least 10 percent.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Claas Saulgau GMBHInventors: Bob A. Scherer, Ross D. Dale, Loren O. Olson
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Patent number: 9686916Abstract: A cleaning shoe material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge system of a combine harvester has a thresher rotor assembly configured to produce a stream of thresher rotor MOG and a shoe disposed beneath the thresher rotor assembly configured to produce a stream of shoe MOG. A chopper receives and chops the stream of thresher rotor MOG. Vanes disposed at an outlet of the chopper distribute the chopped thresher rotor MOG. A plate having top and bottom surfaces is adjacent to the plural vanes. A duct is set on the plate, the duct having a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet disposed adjacent to an outlet of the shoe to receive the stream of shoe MOG, the first outlet disposed downstream of the outlet of the chopper such that the stream of shoe MOG is received in the stream of chopped thresher rotor MOG.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventor: Joseph M. Biggerstaff
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Patent number: 9686917Abstract: A combine harvester including a frame, threshing apparatus, a grain cleaning system, and a feederhouse pivotally mounted to the frame on a transverse lift axis. The feederhouse includes a conveyor for conveying cut crop material from a fore opening to an aft opening. The feederhouse is configured to support a cutting header at its forward end. The grain cleaning system includes a transverse cross-flow fan having a debris screen protecting an air inlet channel. The debris screen is pivotally mounted along a first transverse edge to the frame and along a second transverse edge to the underside of the feederhouse. One of the first transverse edge and second transverse edge is slideably mounted to the frame or feederhouse respectively to permit the feederhouse to be raised and lowered around the lift axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventor: Michael S. Stahl
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Patent number: 9686918Abstract: A combine has a a threshing and separating system to separate grain from crop material and a feeder housing receives crop material from the harvesting head and conveys it to the threshing and separating system. A grain tank has a conveyor for transferring separated grain to the grain tank. The feeder housing has a perforated floor section sufficiently coarse to permit passage of grain to a conveyor beneath the perforated floor section that receives the grain and delivers it to downstream of the threshing and separating system or the separated grain conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Matthew D. Weeks, Robert Stewart Boyd
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Patent number: 9686919Abstract: A method for containing a bale of compressible material includes compressing the bale of compressible material to form a compressed bale having a plurality of grooves in at least one side thereof. The grooves are recessed from an outer surface of the compressed bale. The compressed bale is transferred to a flexible container. The container conforms to a shape of the compressed bale such that at least some portions of the flexible container take the shape of the grooves to define container portions recessed from the outer surface of the compressed bale. A containerized bale made by the method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLCInventors: Andrew J. Nyckowski, Timothy B. Pearson
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Patent number: 9686920Abstract: The device for removing flowers from a fruit tree by pulling off from their branch is formed by a rod, a gripping and a puller. The gripper can be a handle. The puller is mounted at the end of the handle for pulling off flowers. The puller can be formed of at least one roller provided with fibers in the form of bristles, each roller being mounted articulated, freely rotating at the end of the rod, so that the transverse displacement of the rod into contact with the branch induces a rotation of each roller.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Jean-Pierre Villanou
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Patent number: 9686921Abstract: A method for growing grapevines in a root inhibiting vessel permanently planted in previously existing solid waste landfill mounds is disclosed. The vessel or container is a porous polymeric bag or fabric sleeve liner closely received in the container. A fabric disc is positioned in the bottom of an excavated hole in the cover layer of a landfill. The fabric liner is needle-punched to create a rough surface capable of trapping the roots of the growing grapevine and direct the roots into the side of the container such that the apical dominance of the root is stopped to restrict growth and promote root branching on the inside of the container to create a fibrous root system within the container.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Richard S. Baron
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Patent number: 9686922Abstract: Embodiments provide a cutting system for the stump grinder including a cutting assembly configured to be coupled to a wheel on the stump grinder. The cutting assembly may include a mounting block and a cutting block. The mounting block may be disposed in a pocket of the wheel that extends inward from a circumferential outer edge of the wheel. The cutting block may be coupled to the mounting block. The cutting block may have a continuous cutting edge that extends from a first side of the wheel to a second side of the wheel around a circumferential outer edge of the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Inventor: Keith Cairns
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Patent number: 9686923Abstract: An artificial soil structure includes a water shield layer provided on a soil layer, the water shield layer includes water repellent sand processed by water repellent treatment. A water retentive layer is provided on the water shield layer, and the water retentive layer includes water retentive sand with no water repellent treatment. A water repellent soil body is provided in part of the water shield layer so as to penetrate the water shield layer and be in contact with the soil layer and the water retentive layer. The soil body includes sand processed by water repellent treatment, and the water shield layer has a water infiltration pressure higher than that of the water repellent soil body.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yumi Wakita, Norihisa Mino, Osamu Yamada