Patents Issued in August 1, 2017
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Patent number: 9718068Abstract: A shower assembly includes an inlet, a reservoir, a plurality of first outlets, and a plurality of second outlets. The inlet is for receiving water from a water source, and is configured to restrict water flow from the water source to a maximum inlet flow rate. The reservoir receives from the inlet. The plurality of first outlets are configured to pass water from the reservoir. The plurality of second outlets are configured to selectively pass water from the reservoir. The shower assembly is configured for a user to selectively control whether water passes through the plurality of second outlets. A sum of a first collective flow rate of the plurality of first outlets and a second collective flow rate of the plurality of second outlets is greater than the maximum inlet flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KOHLER CO.Inventors: Rafael Alfredo Rexach, Stephanie Szemetylo, David J. Richter-O'Connell, Jeffrey James Elsesser, James S. Giefer
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Patent number: 9718069Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a non-aerosol foam pump for use in association with an unpressurized liquid container and a foaming element comprising. The pump includes a liquid pump portion and an air pump portion. The liquid pump portion has a liquid chamber with a liquid internal volume and a shuttle liquid piston. The liquid chamber is in flow communication with the unpressurized liquid container and in flow communication with the foaming element. The air pump portion has an air chamber with an air internal volume. The air chamber is in flow communication with the foaming element. The liquid pump portion and the air pump portion have an activation stroke and a return stroke. During the activation stroke the air internal volume is reduced and during a beginning stage of the stroke the liquid internal volume remains the same and during a later stage the liquid internal volume is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: DEB IP LIMITEDInventors: David Michael Ross Creaghan, Robert Butler, Dean Philip Limbert, Christopher James Lang, Stewart Banks
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Patent number: 9718070Abstract: A foamer for use in dispensing a liquid product with a foam consistency includes a top cap, a closure, a housing, an air-flow diaphragm, a mesh screen and a valve structure. The closure includes a portion which is received by the cap and these two (2) cooperate to define a foam outlet. The housing is assembled into the closure and the diaphragm is assembled into the housing. The mesh insert is positioned adjacent the foam outlet. The valve structure is provided in two (2) embodiments, one being a duckbill valve with a corresponding holder and the other being a metering valve with a corresponding holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Arminak & Associates, LLCInventors: Armin Arminak, Gary M. Baughman, Yen Kean Lee
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Patent number: 9718071Abstract: The invention proposed refers to a Multifunctional cold macro- and micro-spray spraying machine, techniques known as “coldspraying” and “coldfogging” done automatically and independently by a single spray machine, making it a multifunctional spray machine able to perform shock treatments and to maintain atmospheric deinsecting, disinfection, deodorizing and odorizing depending on the liquid formulation of active agents dosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventors: Fernando Castillo Sancho, Igor Rodriguez Sanchez
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Patent number: 9718072Abstract: A dispenser system including a storage container a medium, having an outlet valve, a dispenser module having a medium chamber, a pumping device that is actuated to discharge medium from the medium chamber and having an inlet valve, and an actuating device. The medium chamber is a sealed chamber having a variable volume, and the dispenser module is coupled to the storage container to fill the medium chamber. During filling, the inlet valve and the outlet valve are opened such that the medium chamber communicates with the storage container. The actuating device has a magnet and a magnetic or magnetizable element interacting therewith for a volume change of the medium chamber. The actuating device causes a volume of the medium chamber to be enlarged to produce a differential pressure between the medium chamber and the storage container to convey medium out of the storage container into the medium chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBHInventor: Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 9718073Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump for discharging contents, in which a pump upper body having contents outlets formed therein is inserted into the upper part of a pump main body having a contents inlet formed therein, a pump inner body is fitted into the inside of the pump main body and the pump upper body, the pump inner body integrally includes the serving as a temporary content reservoir for temporarily storing the contents, a suction valve plate for sucking the contents, and a discharge valve protruding ring for discharging the contents, and thus the contents are discharged as the volume of the temporary content reservoir in the pump inner body is changed by vertically moving the pump upper body relative to the pump main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Sungil Kang
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Patent number: 9718074Abstract: A spray bottle cap comprising a base lid, a pressing head and a protective cap. An upper end of an inner wall of the base lid is provided with a first limit rib and a first guide groove penetrating the first limit rib. The pressing head connects to the upper end of the base lid, and comprises a outlet rob, a pressing handle and a connection portion, where the outlet rod is provided with an outer thread, the lower end of the connection portion is provided with a first limit flange and a protrusion portion, and the pressing handle is provided with an anti-reversion snap parent body; the first limit flange is arranged under the first limit rib, and the protrusion portion is up-down slidable along the first guide groove and is supportable on the upper end face of the base lid. The protection cap is a double-layer structure covering the outside of the outlet rod.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: SHENZHEN BONA PHARMA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yunhua Deng, Huashun Xing
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Patent number: 9718075Abstract: A thermal sprayer system includes an injector conduit in communication with an injector and a first valve for selectively directing a coating fluid through the injector conduit. A flush fluid conduit is in communication with the injector conduit for directing a flush fluid through the injector conduit. A pressurized air conduit is in communication with the injector conduit for directing a pressurized fluid through the injector conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: William F. Werkheiser, Brian T. Hazel
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Patent number: 9718076Abstract: A sprinkler side frame coupling device including: a side frame coupled to support frames each having a locking step formed on top thereof and having a body, first bending portions formed on both sides of the body, a horizontal portion formed from each first bending portion, a second bending portion, a space portion formed on each first bending portion, pin support portions, long holes formed on the pin support portions, shaft support portions, and inclined projection portions; a locking pin having a shape of ‘U’ fitted to the long holes; and coupling members each having a plurality of inclined teeth.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KOPULSO CO. LTD.Inventor: Seung-il Oh
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Patent number: 9718078Abstract: A piezoceramic based atomizer for atomizing high viscosity liquid is provided. The atomizer comprises a storing tank as a reservoir for storing the liquid, a receiving tank connecting to the storing tank, a piezoceramic based nozzle for forming micro-droplets of the liquid, and an external ultrasonic oscillation circuit. The nozzle comprises a liquid absorbing medium with at least one sunk area at one end for pumping and delivering the liquid, a holder for holding the absorbing medium, a micro-perforated membrane whose one side is attached on the side of the liquid absorbing medium having the sunk area, and an annular piezoceramic adhered to the other side of the membrane. The nozzle is configured such that the sunk area can balance the feeding rate and atomization rate of the liquid as well as hold the back pressure underneath the micro-perforated membrane, facilitating forming micro-droplets of the high viscosity liquid continuously.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Acoustic Arc International LimitedInventors: Boa Fung Chau, Kak Man Chan, Yaorong Su
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Patent number: 9718079Abstract: A dip tank is fillable with a liquid. An accommodation device accommodates components and is rotatingly drivable around an axis of rotation. The accommodation device and the dip tank are movable relative to each other to dip the components in the dip tank or to lift the components out of the dip tank. A splash guard is provided. A lifting device is arranged to move the splash guard relative to the dip tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: WMV Apparatebau GmbHInventors: Martin Muller, Jurgen Muller, Hubert Jongen
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Patent number: 9718080Abstract: Provided are apparatuses for the infusion of one or more additives into the surface of a linear substrate. The apparatuses include a processing barrel having an infusion chamber defined therein as well as a linear substrate inlet and a linear substrate outlet. The processing barrel also includes an infusion fluid inlet and an infusion solution outlet in fluid communication with the infusion chamber. The infusion chamber is dimensionally reconfigurable, optionally during an infusion process.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: RADCO INFUSION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, SOUTHWIRE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez, Richard Yorde, Rick Anderson, Jess A. McGilvery, Washington I. McGilvery, Douglas Michael, Randy D. Kummer
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Patent number: 9718081Abstract: A new and improved hot melt adhesive or other thermoplastic material dispensing system comprises two separate and independent rotary gear-type metering pumps with two separate and independent supply sources and fluid supply passageways, or two separate and independent sets of rotary gear-type metering pumps with two separate and independent supply sources and fluid supply passageways, which are able to independently output precisely metered amounts of the hot melt adhesive materials simultaneously onto a particularly substrate through suitable output devices so as to result in a multitude of different hot melt adhesive patterns and at different locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Grant McGuffey
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Patent number: 9718082Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus is disclosed. Systems include an in-line or linear bladder apparatus configured to expand to collect a charge of fluid, and contract to assist with fluid delivery and dispensing. During a dispense-off period process fluid can collect in this bladder after the process fluid is pushed through a fine filter (micro filter). A given filtration rate can be less than a dispense rate and thus the system herein compensates for filter-lag that often accompanies fluid filtering for microfabrication, while providing a generally linear configuration that reduces chances for defect creation.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Anton deVilliers, Ronald Nasman, James Grootegoed, Norman A. Jacobson, Jr.
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Patent number: 9718083Abstract: A fluid application device having a modular nozzle assembly is provided. The fluid application device includes an applicator head and a modular nozzle assembly fluidly coupled thereto. The modular nozzle assembly includes at least one guide slot configured to receive a strand of material, at least one orifice configured to discharge a first fluid onto a respective strand of material, and at least one securing opening extending through the modular nozzle assembly. Each securing opening is configured to receive a releasable securing element. The modular nozzle assembly may be a contact nozzle assembly or a non-contact nozzle assembly, and include fluid or air assist for altering a flow of the first fluid. The modular nozzle assembly may be selectively removed from and secured to the fluid application device so that the modular nozzle assembly may be selectively switched between the contact nozzle assembly and the non-contact nozzle assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Mel Steven Lessley, Edward Wayne Bolyard, Jr.
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Patent number: 9718084Abstract: A fluid application device having a contact nozzle assembly with a fluidic oscillator is provided. The fluid application device includes an applicator head and a nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly includes a first conduit configured to receive a first fluid from the applicator head, a second conduit configured to receive a second fluid from the applicator head and an application conduit including a receptacle and first and second branches. The receptacle is fluidically connected with the first conduit and configured to receive the first fluid. The first and second branches are fluidically connected to the second conduit and receptacle and are configured to receive the second fluid. The nozzle assembly further includes an orifice fluidically connected to the application conduit and configured to discharge the first fluid for application onto a strand of material, and a guide slot extending from the orifice and configured to receive the strand of material.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Edward Wayne Bolyard, Jr.
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Patent number: 9718085Abstract: A dispensing system for dispensing fluid onto a substrate includes a manifold having internal passageways for fluid flow and one or more driving gears, a drive arm mounted on the manifold, the drive arm movable between first and second positions, and having a drive motor configured to drive the one or more drive gears. The system further includes one or more pump assemblies mounted on a top surface of the manifold, each pump assembly formed as a rotary gear pump having a gear train including two gears. One of the gears is disposed in meshed relationship with a respective drive gear of the one or more drive gears. The system also includes a filter block for filtering the fluid, one or more nozzles for dispensing the fluid onto the substrate, an applicator or nozzle adapter, and one or more valve assemblies for controlling flow of the fluid to the one or more nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Grant McGuffey
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Patent number: 9718086Abstract: A cap for an additive manufacturing recoater rake includes a clip portion defining a slot configured to receive a side edge portion of a recoater rake, and an angled surface extending from the clip portion. The angled surface is configured to contain powder pushed by the recoater rake on the powder bed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Diana Giulietti, Kiley J. Versluys
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Patent number: 9718087Abstract: A paint applicator having improved paint-carrying capacity, release, and coverage. The applicator includes a paint-carrying surface that is treated with a silicone emulsion, a silicone emulsion comprised of a nonionic macro-emulsion of a functional polysiloxane, or a mixture thereof. Also provided is a method for treating such paint applicators in which a silicone emulsion is applied to the paint-carrying surface, and subsequently dried and cured.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams CompanyInventors: Jason T. Woods, Jospeh N. Biber, Charles T. Buckel, Jr.
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Patent number: 9718088Abstract: A sealant forming nozzle is disposed to seal an object that a sectional shape in a first plane is a stair shape. The sealant forming nozzle includes a shaping section and a guide section. The shaping section includes a shaping surface orthogonal to the first plane, and a sealant output hole to supply a sealant to a space surrounded by the object and the shaping surface. The guide section has a guide surface. The guide surface is orthogonal to the first plane and formed to have a line contact with a corner section of an upper step of the stair shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nawata, Akihito Suzuki
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Patent number: 9718089Abstract: An intermediate piece includes an upper element and a lower element, and a check valve including a head and a spring element exerting an opening pressure on the head. The check valve is arranged between the upper element and the lower element at the first or second passage and is configured such that a first or second passage can be closed by the check valve and such ay that the first or second passage is opened when a dispensing pressure counteracting the opening pressure is applied at least at the respective flowable component.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: SULZER MIXPAC AGInventor: Andreas Hiemer
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Patent number: 9718090Abstract: Method for rotolining metallic hollow articles with metallocene-produced polyethylene.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Total Research & Technology FeluyInventor: Eric Maziers
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Patent number: 9718091Abstract: A method of stripping, prepping and coating a surface comprises first stripping the exiting coating from a surface, using continuous or pulsed fluid jet, followed by prepping the surface by the same fluid jet. The method also provides entraining particles into a fluid stream, if desired to generate a particle-entrained fluid stream that is directed at the surface to be stripped and prepped. The particles act as abrasive particles for prepping the surface to a prescribed surface roughness required for subsequent application of a coating to the surface. The method then entails coating the surface by electrically charging particles having the same chemical composition as the particles used to prep the surface. Finally, a charged-particle-entrained fluid stream is directed at high speed at the charged surface to coat the surface. The particles form both mechanical and electronic bonds with the surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: VLN Advanced Technologies Inc.Inventors: Mohan M. Vijay, Meisheng M. Xu, Emilio Panarella, Wenzhuo Yan, Andrew Hung Tieu, Bruce R. Daniels
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Patent number: 9718092Abstract: A method for coating a metal substrate with a white, off-white or gray colored autodeposited coating comprising water, polymeric resin, HF and pigment particles comprising a core of titanium dioxide, an intermediate zirconia and/or alumina layer, and an outer organic layer, optionally the particles are treated with an anionic surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Omar Lufti Abu-Shanab, Bashir Ahmed, Manesh Nadupparambil Sekharan, William E. Fristad, Nicholas Herdzik
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Patent number: 9718093Abstract: The invention relates to a friction ring, in particular for wet-running clutches or transmissions, having a carrier (10) and a friction lining (12) with a friction lining starting material (20) being a mixture at least of a thermosetting binder and a filler, and with the friction lining starting material (20) having a non-flowable, pasty processing consistency and the friction lining (12) having a solid final consistency after processing on the carrier (10). The invention further relates to a method producing such a friction ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HOERBIGER ANTRIEBSTECHNIK HOLDING GMBHInventors: Andreas Ohr, Michael Bergheim
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Patent number: 9718094Abstract: A block copolymer film having a line pattern with a high degree of long-range order is formed by a method that includes forming a block copolymer film on a substrate surface with parallel facets, and annealing the block copolymer film to form an annealed block copolymer film having linear microdomains parallel to the substrate surface and orthogonal to the parallel facets of the substrate. The line-patterned block copolymer films are useful for the fabrication of magnetic storage media, polarizing devices, and arrays of nanowires.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: UNIST ACADEMY-INDUSTRY, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSInventors: Thomas P. Russell, Sung Woo Hong, Dong Hyun Lee, Soojin Park, Ting Xu
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Patent number: 9718095Abstract: A method and kit for restoration of a plastic headlight surface including the steps of conditioning a headlight surface by wet sanding with 600 grit sandpaper effective to remove a laminate coating, wiping the headlight surface with a lint free towel, cleaning the headlight surface with an alcohol treated towel, coating the headlight surface with an ultra violet light curable restoration formulation comprising aliphatic urethane acrylate in the range of 25% to 60%, a photoinitiator in the range of 1% to 5%, N-butyl acetate in the range of 5% to 25%, Toluene in the range of 3% to 15%, a Methyl isobutyl ketone in the range of 3% to 15%, a light stabilizer in the range of 1% to 5%, and includes a flow agent; and exposing the coated headlight surface to an ultra-violet light for about 2 minutes. In the preferred embodiment, the formulation includes a hydrocarbon propellant and is applied from a spray can.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Search Automotive Technologies, LLCInventor: John Ryan
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Patent number: 9718096Abstract: An inkjet-based process for programmable deposition of thin films of a user-defined profile. Drops of a pre-cursor liquid organic material are dispensed at various locations on a substrate by a multi-jet. A superstrate is held in a roll-to-roll configuration such that a first contact of the drops is made by a front side of the superstrate thereby initiating a liquid front that spreads outward merging with the drops to form a contiguous film captured between the substrate and the superstrate. A non-equilibrium transient state of the superstrate, the contiguous film and the substrate then occurs after a duration of time. The contiguous film is then cured to crosslink it into a polymer. The superstrate is then separated from the polymer thereby leaving a polymer film on the substrate. In such a manner, non-uniform films can be formed without significant material wastage in an inexpensive manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Shrawan Singhal, Ovadia Abed, Lawrence Dunn
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Patent number: 9718097Abstract: A method of forming multi-layer paint films comprises forming a first base paint film, wherein an aqueous first base paint (A) is coated over an object; forming a second base paint film wherein a second aqueous base paint (B) is coated over the uncured first base paint film; forming a clear paint film wherein a clear paint (C) is coated over the uncured second based paint film; and heating and curing the first base paint film, the second base paint film, and the clear paint film at the same time and in which the aqueous first base paint (A) includes as the base resin a water-soluble or water-dispersible acrylic resin (A1) and one or more type of water-soluble or water-dispersible resin (A2), selected from among the polyester resins, polyurethane resins and acrylic-urethane resins, both (A1) and (A2) having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 100,000.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: BASF Coatings GmbHInventors: Hisayuki Nakashima, Souichi Mori, Takamasa Miyamoto
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Patent number: 9718098Abstract: CMOS Ultrasonic Transducers and processes for making such devices are described. The processes may include forming cavities on a first wafer and bonding the first wafer to a second wafer. The second wafer may be processed to form a membrane for the cavities. Electrical access to the cavities may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Butterfly Network, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Keith G. Fife, Tyler S. Ralston, Gregory L. Charvat, Nevada J. Sanchez
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Patent number: 9718099Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration damper (1) configured to be provided on a low frequency sound generator, which comprises a feeder unit (2) with a positive feedback system regulated by a reciprocating spring loaded piston (3) and a resonator tube (4). The vibration damper (1) may be positioned outside the resonator tube (4). The vibration damper (1) comprises a first flange (5) connected to the resonator tube (4), a number of springs (6), a second flange (7) and a number of weights (8).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventors: Martin Ellebro, Mats Olsson
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Patent number: 9718100Abstract: A spray unit, including a body assembly including a solution supply port, the solution port to supply cleaning solution; a flow channel in the body assembly, the flow channel connected with the solution supply port, the cleaning solution to flow through the flow channel; and a spray slit connected to the flow channel, the spray slit to spray out the cleaning solution, the flow channel including at least two chambers to hold the cleaning solution and at least two internal slits connecting the chambers to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Je-Yung Yum
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Patent number: 9718101Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cleaning and/or disinfecting surfaces, particularly for cleaning inner surfaces of the toilet bowl. The device comprises an elongated housing connected to a bottle with the cleaning and/or a disinfecting liquid, and a pumping mechanism for pressurizing said liquid composition, and at least one nozzle for the output of said liquid composition, wherein the nozzle is in fluid communication through a conduit of the device with said pumping mechanism. The pumping mechanism is provided at one side of said housing and said at least one nozzle is provided at the opposite side of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ZOBELE ESPANA, S.A.Inventors: Dominic Doyle, Julio Ruiz Ballesteros
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Patent number: 9718102Abstract: An air-sourced cleaning and deburring workpiece mechanism includes a fixed frame, a transfer assembly coupled to the fixed frame, and a cleaning assembly. The cleaning assembly includes a drive member, a slide member, and a first cleaning member. The drive member can drive the first cleaning member to move back and forth along a transfer direction of the transfer assembly, so that the first cleaning member can be applied to a workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: FU DING ELECTRONICAL TECHNOLOGY (JIASHAN) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Heng Duan
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Patent number: 9718103Abstract: The present invention provides devices or systems and a method for remediating a soil comprising contaminants, comprising the steps of: —introducing in said soil at least one perforated column for contaminant extraction from a contaminated region of said soil; in close proximity of said at least one perforated column introducing at least one non-perforated column for providing heat to said contaminated region of said soil; providing heat to said at least one non-perforated column; extracting said contaminant vapor containing said soil contaminants out of said contaminated region of said soil into said at least one perforated column; removing said contaminant vapor from said at least one perforated column, thereby providing remediated soil; wherein said at least one perforated column and said at least one non-perforated column are connectable to at least one surface-located device comprising a combustion, a heating and control unit for heating and thereby cleaning said soil.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Good Earthkeeping Organization, Inc.Inventor: Jan Haemers
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Patent number: 9718104Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for remediating highly contaminated fine soil using multiple micro hydrocyclones that includes: a mill adapted to mix contaminated soil with water and to individualize the soil; a screen adapted to separate the soil introduced from the mill into soil having given particle sizes; a separator adapted to finely separate the soil having particle sizes of less than a given value by particle size from the soil having the given particle sizes separated through the screen; a remediating unit adapted to wash the finely separated soil introduced from the separator by particle size by means of process water for washing; and a filtering unit adapted to separately discharge the soil washed and introduced through the remediating unit and the process water for washing contained in the soil.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HYUNDAI ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.Inventors: Jungyo Jung, Wan Hyup Kang, Heehun Chae, Junghee Chang
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Patent number: 9718105Abstract: An indirect thermal desorption device with two-section screw conveyors, includes: an upper skid and a lower skid below the upper skid. An upper layer thermal desorption chamber, a feeding hopper, an feed airlock, an air pre-heater, a blower; a first quench spray tower, a second quench spray tower, a demister and an induced draft fan are provided in the upper skid. A lower layer thermal desorption chamber, an activated carbon filter tank, a combustion chamber, a discharge hopper and an discharge airlock are provided inside the lower skid. A first screw conveyor is provided in the upper layer thermal desorption chamber, and an upper layer fume jacket is covered on the upper layer thermal desorption chamber. A second screw conveyor is provided in the lower layer thermal desorption chamber, and a lower layer fume jacket is covered on the lower layer thermal desorption chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Xiaojiang Shen
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Patent number: 9718106Abstract: A centrifugally cast, hot-rolling composite roll comprising an outer layer formed by a centrifugal casting method, and an inner layer made of ductile cast iron and integrally fused to the outer layer; the outer layer having a chemical composition comprising by mass 1-3% of C, 0.4-3% of Si, 0.3-3% of Mn, 1-5% of Ni, 2-7% of Cr, 3-8% of Mo, 3-7% of V, and 0.01-0.12% of B, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and meeting the relation expressed by Cr/(Mo+0.5W)<?2/3[C?0.2(V+1.19Nb)]+11/6, wherein W=0, and Nb=0, when W and Nb are not contained; and containing by area 1-15% of MC carbide, 0.5-20% of carboboride, and 0.5-20% of Mo-based carbide.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Toshiyuki Hattori, Nozomu Oda, Yasunori Nozaki
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Patent number: 9718107Abstract: A belt replacement device may include: a base portion having a belt placed thereon, the belt being wound in a roll shape; a rotating portion mounted on the base portion, and rotating the belt wound in a roll shape; a transporting portion holding and transporting the belt passed through the rotating portion; a guide portion guiding the belt discharged through the transporting portion; and a loading portion to which the belt dropped from the guide portion is loaded, and the belt replacement device can improve winding workability for the belt.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Steel CompanyInventors: Sung K. Kim, Jong G. Do, Sang B. Lee, Suck Y. Lee
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Patent number: 9718108Abstract: A powered bending tool comprises a portable drive housing including a handle and having a powered drive gear. A bracket is secured to the housing defining a pivot connection spaced from the drive gear. A driven gear is pivotally connected to the bracket at the pivot connection and operatively engages the drive gear. A center guide is connected to the bracket at the pivot connection. A support is operatively connected to the bracket at one side of and spaced from the pivot connection. An arm has a near end pivotally connected to the bracket at the pivot connection and a distal end having an arm guide at another side of the pivot connection relative to the guide. The arm is selectively engeagable by the driven gear to be rotated therewith. In use, a rod is positioned below the center guide and above the arm guide and a support, and the drive gear drives the driven gear to pivot the arm so that the arm guide deforms the rod as it engages the center guide at a bend point.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Huskie Tools, Inc.Inventor: Joseph S. Latoria
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Patent number: 9718109Abstract: A punch tip design configured to be universal in its application with wide varieties of punch assemblies, and various punch body designs from which universal application of the punch tip is exemplified. In some cases, ancillary components used with the various punch body designs enhance ease by which the operator can selectively manipulate the same for alternately securing or releasing the punch tip.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: WILSON TOOL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: John H Morehead, Brian J Lee, Kevin A Johnston, Richard L Timp
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Patent number: 9718110Abstract: A conversion system wherein a crankshaft drives the motion of the tooling assemblies within a number of lanes is provided. The crankshaft is structured to move the tooling assemblies associated with less than the total number of lanes. That is, for example, a four-lane conversion system could include two crankshafts each actuating the tooling assemblies of two lanes. In an exemplary embodiment, each lane has a single associated crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Gregory H. Butcher, Aaron E. Carstens, Patrick K. McCarty, Jason A. Davidson, Neil A. Zumberger, Kenneth E. Carper, Russell Bauer
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Patent number: 9718111Abstract: A fintube includes a body having a first fin, a second fin and a tube section. A first overlap fold is provided between the first fin and the tube section. The first overlap fold includes an open groove. A second overlap fold is provided between the second fin and the tube section. A seam includes a second overlap fold received and held in the groove of the first overlap fold. Methods for making a fintube are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Douglas W. Eaton
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Patent number: 9718112Abstract: A drive plate of an electromagnetic-fan clutch comprises: a body of the drive plate provided with magnetic-insulation air holes, connection ribs, and magnetic conductive layers. The magnetic-insulation air holes and the magnetic conductive layers are arranged alternatively along a radial direction of the body of the drive plate. A friction-increasing groove is opened on the magnetic conductive layer. The thickness of the magnetic insulation air holes and the thickness of the connection ribs are less than the thickness of the magnetic conductive layers. Six connection ribs are distributed uniformly between the magnetic conductive layers, and the connection ribs at two sides of the magnetic conductive layer are distributed along the radial direction of the body of the drive plate at an interval of 30 degrees. A drive plate through hole is opened in the body of the drive plate, and accommodation walls are disposed on the magnetic conductive layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventors: Zhaoyu Wang, Shouwei Lv, Xiaoxia Li
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Patent number: 9718113Abstract: A press-formed product includes a body having a transverse cross section including a bottom portion and a shoulder portion contiguous to the bottom portion through an R end. In the transverse cross section, a first region from the R end to a position a distance away in a bottom portion extending direction, and a second region which is part of the bottom portion and is contiguous to the first region have a work-hardening distribution introduced by press-forming. The work-hardening distribution has an average hardness Hv1 of an area of the first region from a steel sheet surface to a depth obtained by multiplying a steel sheet thickness by 0.2 and an average hardness Hv2 of an area of the second region from the steel sheet surface to a position obtained by multiplying the steel sheet thickness by 0.2 to satisfy a relationship of Hv1>1.05×Hv2.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Nakata, Toshiya Suzuki, Tomokichi Tokuda, Masanobu Ichikawa, Nobuyuki Ichimaru
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Patent number: 9718114Abstract: A wire forming apparatus which feeds out a wire to a formation space at a distal end of a wire guide (333) and works the wire into a desired shape by using radially arranged tools (T1-T4) includes a wire feeder (30) which supports the wire guide (333) and feeds out the wire to the wire guide (333), tool rotating means (230), from which the tool (T1-T4) is detachable, for changing a position of the tool (T1-T4) relative to the wire guide (333) by rotation, tool driving means (240), rotatably supported by the tool rotating means (230), for applying a driving force to the tool (T1-T4) attached to the tool rotating means (230), a table (210, 220) which supports the tool rotating means (230) and the tool driving means (240) and is configured to move in a two-dimensional direction, and control means (701) for controlling operations of the wire feeder (30), the tool rotating means (230), the tool driving means (240), and the table (210, 220) to work the wire into a desired shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA ITAYA SEISAKU SHOInventor: Ichiro Itaya
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Patent number: 9718115Abstract: The production method according to the invention for creating a thread in an elongated semi-finished product comprises the following steps: shaping, especially lengthwise rolling, of at least two lengthwise grooves into a blank and lengthwise rolling of a thread into the areas circumferentially delimited by the grooves. The distance from the beds of the grooves to the axis of the blank is smaller than the distance from the root of the thread to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Selb, Matthias Wissling, Armin Kueper
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Patent number: 9718116Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of hot-finished, particularly hot-rolled, seamless pipes having optimized fatigue properties in the welded state, having an outside diameter of up to 711 mm and a nominal wall thickness of up to 100 mm, made of metal, in particular steel. After hot or finish rolling, a defined pipe cross-section is produced on at least one pipe end across a predetermined length, having tight tolerances for inside and outside diameters, wherein the cross-section can then be welded to the pipe end of another pipe. According to the invention, in a region a wall thickness is created in a first step at the pipe end in question, the thickness being bigger than on the remaining pipe body, wherein the outside diameter is increased and/or the inside diameter is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: VALLOUREC DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Markus Ring, Gerd Kloster, Oliver Sommerkamp, Caroline Rott, Marion Erdelen-Peppler
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Patent number: 9718117Abstract: A forging method is set in a shaping hole of a die body, and the forging material is pressed with a punch to perform plastic shaping of the forging material. Ultrasonic vibration having a vibration frequency is applied to the die body with a vibration applying apparatus during the plastic shaping of the forging material. The vibration frequency is converged to a resonance frequency of the die body when the vibration frequency is within a tracking range of the vibration applying apparatus during the plastic shaping of the forging material. When the tracking range is shifted in accordance with a discontinuous change of the resonance frequency during the plastic shaping of the forging material to deviate from the vibration frequency, the reference frequency is changed so as to fall within a shifted tracking range.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventor: Ichitami Miyashita
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Patent number: 9718118Abstract: A forging apparatus and method is disclosed in which an extrusion punch is held between an upper press and a lower press and propelled towards a billet by a ram to form an extruded shaped component. The extrusion punch has a striking face in which a recess is formed. During the extrusion process, material from the billet enters the recess so as to lock the extrusion punch and the shaped component together. Accordingly the shaped component is not lifted up with the upper press when it is separated from the lower press and so the position of the shaped component after the forging extrusion operation is known accurately and reliably.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: John McBain