Patents Issued in November 7, 2017
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Patent number: 9808913Abstract: A vise includes a groove-shaped vise body; an internally threaded first sliding member in the vise body; an internally threaded second sliding member in the vise body; a fixed jaw secured to the vise body; a first movable jaw on the first sliding member, a second movable jaw on the second sliding member, a rotatable shaft at an end of the vise body, an actuation assembly in the vise body and including a hollow first threaded shaft passing through and secured to the first sliding member, and secured to the fastening device, a hollow second threaded shaft passing through the second sliding member and secured to the second sliding member, a first movable rod in the first threaded shaft and secured to the rotatable shaft, a second movable rod in the second threaded shaft, and a pushing rod engaging the first movable rod, and a force transmitting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Hsi-Shui Lin
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Patent number: 9808914Abstract: A fastener structure for pliers contains: a first connecting arm, a second connecting arm, and a slidable fastener. The first connecting arm is rotatably connected with the second connecting arm to form a griping segment and a working segment and includes a holder which has two guiding rails. The first connecting arm also includes a first notch and a second notch, and the second connecting arm includes a locking seat. The slidable fastener is hollow and retains with the holder, and the slidable fastener includes two guide posts, a positioning plate, and an elastic locker mounted on the positioning plate to alternatively retain with the first notch or the second notch, such that when the elastic locker retains with the first notch, the positioning plate limits the locking seat, and when the elastic locker retains with the second notch, the positioning plate releases the locking seat.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Li-Tu Wu
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Patent number: 9808915Abstract: A system that may include a apertured structure that is configured to support a substrate and a vacuum supply unit that is configured to (i) prevent a supply of vacuum to a first area of the substrate during a first processing period during which the first area is processed and a second area of the substrate is not processed; (ii) provide vacuum to the second area during the first processing period; (iii) prevent the supply of vacuum to the second area during a second processing period during which the second area is processed and the first area is not processed; and (iv) provide vacuum to the first area during the second processing period.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: CAMTEK LTD.Inventor: Yehuda Ben-Abu
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Patent number: 9808916Abstract: A reduced arc box end ratchet wrench or ratchet drive wrench utilizes a multiple pawl ratchet assembly comprised of a body having an insert cavity to enclose critical components of an insert that is secured within the ratchet assembly. The insert is set into the wrench body and includes a plurality of pivoting pawls. Each pawl comprises a lever arm with ratchet engaging teeth. The pawl arms are positioned relative to the ratchet wheel to create “pawl swing arcs” and “reduced ratcheting arcs” to alternately or successively engage a portion of the teeth of a ratchet wheel at all times. This configuration allows smaller degrees between ratchet teeth and a smaller wrench rotation that is otherwise required to apply torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventors: Steven James Gapp, Clinton M. Johnson, J. Reed Felton
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Patent number: 9808917Abstract: A ratchet wrench capable of rotating quickly and driving rotation includes a handle, a rotary head, a positioning mechanism, and a sleeve. The handle includes an arm and a bar body. The bar body includes an accommodating slot; the arm includes a through hole. The rotary head is connected to the arm and includes recess portions. The positioning mechanism includes a positioning element, a resilient body, and a block element. The resilient body receives the positioning element and is received in the through hole, the positioning element is correspondingly disposed in any of the recess portions, and the block element is connected to the positioning element. The sleeve receives the bar body and operably drives the block element to slide in the accommodating slot, so that the positioning element is positioned and selectively engaged with any recess portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: YIH CHENG FACTORY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chih-Hung Chien
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Patent number: 9808918Abstract: A system, and a method of using a system, for controlled tool operation. The method includes providing a tool used in a force application such as a such torque application. The tool communicates with a controller which can communicate with the tool, and to a display in communication with the tool and the controller. The controller can be programmed with operational information about a tool operation. Information related to the operational information is displayed to a user during use. Service information including at least information about an amount of force applied during use is recorded and stored in the controller. Also disclosed is a computerized system for controlled tool operation which sends operational instructions to the tool before use and retrieves service information from the tool after use.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Chris Lawton, Jie Li, De L San, Nathan Lee
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Patent number: 9808919Abstract: A handheld screwing apparatus having a torque clutch provided to restrict a torque that is maximally able to be transmitted to an inserted tool. The handheld screwing apparatus includes at least one monitoring unit, which is set up to ascertain a characteristic rotational offset quantity that describes a rotational offset of the torque clutch.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Dietmar Saur
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Patent number: 9808920Abstract: A wheel hub removal tool is provided that allows a single technician to readily remove the hub using the vehicle steering. The tool is a generally U-shaped bracket that is seated on the ball-joint to support a pair of arms on opposite sides of the U-joint assembly. The arms carry corresponding blocks that are sized to seat between the drive axle housing and a component of the U-joint that is coupled to the wheel hub. The tool maintains a block on either side of the U-joint assembly so that pressure may be applied alternatively between the blocks to gradually dislodge the wheel hub from the axle. The tool is adjustable to accommodate different axle hub and bearing assembly configurations for different vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions Inc., Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Kevin Rich, Robert Kochie, Robert Jensen, Dennis Hanson
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Patent number: 9808921Abstract: A tool has a biased piston, a plunger, and a base contained in a tool body. The plunger is positioned between the biased piston and the base and in contact with the base. A tool head is fixed to the base and extends outside of the tool body. The tool body is configured to be movable along a longitudinal axis relative to the base and plunger to move the plunger to load the piston when a load is applied to the tool body along a first load path. The tool body, the base, and the biased piston are configured to align the plunger with the longitudinal axis only when the load applied along the first load path is at least a first predetermined load, and thereby release stored energy of the piston as a dynamic load applied to the tool head along a second load path.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Brian D. Christoff, Travis S. Larson
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Patent number: 9808922Abstract: The device comprises an anchoring plate configured for anchoring the device to a machine casing. The device further comprises a terminal plate connected to the anchoring plate at a distance there from, and a slide arranged for movement between the anchoring plate and the terminal plate. The device further includes a connecting arrangement configured for connecting the slide to a valve and cage assembly to be removed from the machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Nuove Pignone SrLInventors: Tommaso Breschi, Andrea Tenze, Filippo Erbaggio Bracciali, Elena Gallina
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Patent number: 9808923Abstract: A nail machine with effort-saving mechanism is provided, including: a shell body; an operating mechanism, disposed on the shell body and including a pressing lever, a driving rod and a linkage, the operating mechanism provided for being operated to move between a first position and a second position; an actuating member, two ends thereof having a sliding portion and an engaging portion respectively; a striking force accumulating mechanism, including a striking board and a force accumulating member, the striking board being movable between an initial position and a releasing position; wherein when the operating mechanism moves toward the second position, the engaging portion is engaged with the striking board, and the striking board moves toward the releasing position; when the operating mechanism is in the second position, the engaging portion is detached from the striking board, and the striking board moves toward the initial position.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Apex MFG Co., Ltd.Inventor: Po-Hung Hu
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Patent number: 9808924Abstract: A nail gun of the present invention includes an adjusting portion which has elasticity. The elasticity of the adjusting portion is able to offset a thrust force of a nail pusher pushed by a magazine, so that a nail slot receives a nail only. The nail gun ensures not to shoot two sticks of nails simultaneously. The nail squeezes one side of the adjusting portion in a firing process so that the nail gun can provide sufficient space. Thereby when the nail is thicker, it can be shot by the nail gun. The present invention need not adjust by hand anymore for shooting different thickness of nails. The nail gun can not shoot two sticks of nails simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Apex Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chu Wu
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Patent number: 9808925Abstract: An impact tool includes a casing (13) supporting a tip tool (12), a piston (41) provided in the casing (13), an electric motor (11) provided in the casing (13), a motion converting mechanism (45) provided in the casing (13), and a vibration reducing mechanism (47) provided in the casing (13). The vibration reducing mechanism (47) has a supporting member, which is swingable with using a fixing position (J) as a supporting point and a weight (49) attached to a free end side of the supporting member. In a plane including a center line (C), the gravity center (H) of the weight (49) and the gravity center (G) of the casing (13) are disposed at mutually different locations, and the fixing position (J) is disposed on the side of the gravity center (G) relative to the center line (C).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideki Yamada, Takahiro Ookubo, Satoshi Abe
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Patent number: 9808926Abstract: A hand tool for servicing a power tool or other host tool is adapted to be readily mountable to and dismountable from the host tool via magnetic coupling. The hand tool includes a handle body, and a nut driver supported on the handle body. The handle body may define a bifurcated support, and the tool may include a pivot pin extending through the bifurcated support and the nut driver to support the nut driver on the tool. The nut driver defines at least one socket region dimensioned to receive a nut, and further is magnetized for magnetic coupling with a nut positioned within the socket region. In one embodiment, the nut driver houses a discrete magnet for this purpose. A second magnet may be supported on the handle body toward its central portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Kurt Ott
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Patent number: 9808927Abstract: An electric tool is disclosed. The tool includes an electric motor, a battery, a monitoring device for monitoring a monitoring operation-value limit, where the monitoring operation-value limit lies above an operation-value limit of the battery, an adjustable resistor component, and an operation-value controller for setting at least one operation-value of the electric motor by a pulse width modulation (PWM) duty cycle. The PWM duty cycle is a first value that is derivable from a current setting of the adjustable resistor component or a second value that corresponds to a PWM duty cycle last used for setting the at least one operation-value plus an offset value. A lower of the first value or the second value is selected for the PWM duty cycle, if an operation-value of the battery lies above the monitoring operation-value limit.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Benedikt Beckert, Thomas Mueller
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Patent number: 9808928Abstract: A tool, such as a pneumatic tool, having a first and second housing portions coupled together. The first housing portion including an upper portion adapted to receive power and transmission components and a handle portion including a recess adapted to receive a trigger assembly. A reinforcement member is disposed in the recess with a first side facing in a first direction away from the recess and towards the second housing portion, and a protrusion extending from the first side in the first direction. The protrusion engages the second housing portion and strengthens the handle portion to allow the handle portion to withstand forces resulting from the tool being dropped on a hard surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Snap-on IncorporatedInventors: Richard D. Bothmann, Paul W Griffin, Dennis A Nowak, Benjamin E Kohls
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Patent number: 9808929Abstract: A tool holder comprises a cage assembly having a pair of axially spaced hollow members with axially aligned through openings sized for axial extension of tool handles of different sizes and shapes through both of the aligned openings. A cradle member is transversely movable in opposite directions between the hollow members toward and away from respective inwardly facing wall surfaces of the hollow members for releasably clamping tool handles extending through both aligned openings against the inwardly facing wall surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: The Wooster Brush CompanyInventors: Richard K. Bukovitz, John L. Scott, Sr.
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Patent number: 9808930Abstract: A tool cabinet includes a cabinet body, a hanging board having a plurality of hanging portions, two slide rail units, and at least one counterweight device. Each of the slide rail units is connected between the cabinet body and the hanging board and extends in an up-down direction, such that the hanging board is movable in the up-down direction relative to the cabinet body between a lifted position and a lowered position. The counterweight device includes a constant force spring having free and fixed ends that are respectively connected to the hanging board and the cabinet body, and providing a resilient force against the weight of the hanging board during movement between the lifted and lowered positions.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Chia-Ming Liu
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Patent number: 9808931Abstract: An inexpensive, portable, durable and convenient organizer, storage and carry system for cleco type and long and short-nosed spring clamp fasteners and pliers that provides enhanced tool accountability in the aerospace industry while working with sheet materials. The present invention also creates workflow efficiencies by allowing for the transportation of multiple sizes and variations of the aforementioned tools in an organized and secure state.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventors: Louis Belman Vasquez, III, Louis Belman Vasquez, II
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Patent number: 9808932Abstract: A control device is provided which is operable to change the position of a distal end side link hub by driving each of arms, which are proximal end side links of a plurality of link mechanisms by means of an actuator. When in a series of operations, the position change of the distal end side link hub is mad by an angle greater than a predetermined angle, a relay position setting unit is provided for setting a relay point between a starting point and a terminating point of each of the arms so that the interference of the three axis arms may be relieved. A position change control unit performs a position control so as to pass simultaneously through the relay point so set.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Nishio, Hiroshi Isobe, Hiroyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 9808933Abstract: A robotic system includes a robot, an end-effector assembly disposed at a distal end of a main boom, rotatable parallel frame rails, and tool support branches. Tool modules are connected to a tool support branch and rotatable/translatable with respect to a respective branch axis. A configuration tool has a control block engaged by a wrist of the robot and a work tool. A controller commands the robot to automatically configure the end-effector assembly by adjusting the frame rails and/or tool support branches or tool modules using the work tool, doing so in response to an identified work task. Engagement of the wrist with the tool changer is commanded and the identified work task is executed using the end-effector assembly. A configuration stand may automatically flip the end-effector assembly to a configuration location, command engagement of the wrist with the tool changer, and configure the end-effector assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.Inventors: Yhu-Tin Lin, Joerg Pohlers, Ken Dellach, Maurice Perlman
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Patent number: 9808934Abstract: A robot control apparatus includes a stop command unit which stops a robot. A first external force judgement value smaller than a stop judgement value and a second external force judgement value smaller than the first external force judgement value are previously determined. The stop command unit inhibits a restart of execution of an operation program when, in a state where the execution of the operation program is temporarily stopped, an external force is continuously equal to or less than the first external force judgement value during a period of a first time length, and additionally, the external force continuously exceeds the second external force judgement value during a period of a second time length.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Takumi Oyama, Tomoyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9808935Abstract: A robot includes a base; a first arm that is provided on the base so as to be able to turn around a first turning axis as the center of turning; a second arm that is provided on the first arm so as to be able to turn around a second turning axis as the center of turning, the direction of which is different from the direction of the first turning axis; and a first member that has a first angular speed detector. When seen from the direction of the second turning axis, at least a part of the first member is provided in a region in which the first arm and the second arm overlap with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Kotaro Sekine
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Patent number: 9808936Abstract: Two-phase gripper. The gripper reorients and grasps an object while being picked up. The gripper includes a parallel jaw gripper including a pair of opposed, two-phase fingers, each finger including a cavity covered by an elastic strip wherein the elastic strip includes a point contact. Closure of the jaws of the gripper on an object at a first relatively lower force results in contact with lower friction between the point contact on the elastic strip on the fingers and the object allowing the object to rotate under gravity as the gripper is raised. Thereafter, closure of the jaws of the gripper on the object at a second relatively higher force causes the elastic strip to receded into the cavity resulting in multi-point contact with higher friction between the fingers and the object to securely grasp the object. In a preferred embodiment, the cavity is a Y-shaped groove and the object is cylindrical or prismatic.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Nikhil Narsingh Chavan Dafle, Alberto Rodriguez Garcia, Matthew T. Mason
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Patent number: 9808937Abstract: A film suction mechanism is provided which can prevent a film-like member from warping or sagging for reliable suction, handing over, or the like of the film-like member. A film suction mechanism of the present invention is a film suction mechanism for processing or transferring a flexible film-like member. The film suction mechanism includes a suction unit having a function of attaching the film-like member thereto by suction and an air nozzle having a function of blowing pressurized air onto a first surface of the film-like member. The suction unit includes a plurality of suction pads. The suction unit is capable of attaching a second surface of the film-like member thereto by suction while the pressurized air is blown onto the first surface of the film-like member.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kayo Kumakura, Satoru Idojiri, Masakatsu Ohno, Koichi Takeshima, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Kohei Yokoyama
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Patent number: 9808938Abstract: The invention concerns a lifting tube as well as a vacuum lifting device with such a lifting tube. The lifting tube has a tube wall extending about a lengthwise axis and enclosing a tube interior, while the lifting tube can be reversibly deformed along its lengthwise axis into an elongated configuration and, with reduction of the tube interior, a contracted configuration. The tube wall has a plurality of outer crease lines, along which the tube wall can buckle to produce the contracted configuration, while the outer crease lines run obliquely to each other so that, when deformed into the contracted configuration, the tube wall experiences a torsion about the lengthwise axis in some sections.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: J. Schmalz GmbHInventors: Jonas Mast, Jonathan Kohler
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Patent number: 9808939Abstract: An asymmetrical cutting tool has a partially cord-wrapped handle with a first handle panel, a second handle panel, and an intercheangeable overlay. The cutting tool further includes a folding blade, pivotably attached to the cord-wrapped/overlaid handle, and having a partially concave edge and a punch tip. The folding blade is operable to transition between a locked state and an unlocked state. Lock wear is compensated by dual eccentric thumb studs which act as a camshaft lobe to alter the position of the blade with respect to the lock while in the locked state. The partially cord-wrapped handle is configured to receive the folding blade when the blade transitions from the locked state into the unlocked state.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventors: Santiago Gutiérrez, John David Broadwell
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Patent number: 9808940Abstract: A folding knife includes a handle having a pivot axis, a blade attached to the handle, a movable member that moves about the pivot axis, an urging spring, and a switching mechanism. The movable member has an engaging claw. When the blade is in a folded position, the switching mechanism holds the movable member in a disengaged state, in which the engaging claw is disengaged from an engaging portion of the blade. When the blade moves from the folded position to the switching position, the switching mechanism switches the movable member from the disengaged state to an engaged state, in which the engaging claw is engaged with the engaging portion, thereby moving the movable member in the open direction by the urging spring to move the blade from the switching position toward the open position by the movable member.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: GERBER SAKAI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kimiyuki Sakai
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Patent number: 9808941Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a safety utility knife including a blade carrier that is repositionable between a safety orientation, an intermediate orientation and a cutting orientation via an actuator that is interconnected with the blade carrier via a hingable link. Once the blade carrier is repositioned to the cutting orientation, the blade carrier is automatically returned to the safety orientation anytime a cutting action is discontinued.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventors: Matthew J. Jacobs, Randolph Scott Presley, Gary Edward Holt
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Patent number: 9808942Abstract: The present invention publishes a knife with a replaceable blade, comprising a housing, a cover arranged on the housing and a blade carrier arranged between the housing and the cover, characterized in that, a blade which can move between an extended position and a retracted position is installed on the blade carrier, and a blade cartridge carrier is arrange around the periphery of a position adjacent to the retracted position of the blade, the blade cartridge carrier is provided with an internal space of a blade shape to place spare blades. Wherein, the cover can be connected with the housing in an open type to fix the blade carrier between the cover and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: HANGZHOU GREAT STAR TOOLS CO., LTD., HANGZHOU GREAT STAR INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Weiyi Wang
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Patent number: 9808943Abstract: Head (30) of electric shaver (1) includes blade unit (40), head case (31) supporting blade unit (40), and rotary member (80) rotatably supported by head case (31). Blade unit (40) includes outer blades (51 and 61) that contact with a target area and inner blades (52 and 62) provided corresponding to outer blades (51 and 61) and configured to make a reciprocating move relative to outer blades (51 and 61). Blade unit (40) and rotary member (80) are coupled so as to move together relative to head case (31) in a height direction of head case (31). This embodiment enables the head of the electric shaver to move smoothly on the skin.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshio Ikuta
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Patent number: 9808944Abstract: Methods are provided for the manufacture of razor blades from silicon material. In some implementations, the method includes aligning a mono-crystalline silicon wafer comprising a {100} surface at an angle where {111} planes intersect the {100} surface parallel and perpendicular to the wafer; etching the mono-crystalline silicon wafer to expose an {111} plane and a second plane to provide a blade edge having between about a 20 degree included blade angle and about a 35 degree included blade angle; applying a hard coating on the blade edge; providing a radius of curvature of the blade edge between about 20 nanometers and about 100 nanometers after deposition of the hard coating; applying a soft coating on the blade edge; and removing the razor blade from the mono-crystalline silicon wafer.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Graham John Simms, Peter Johannus Leussink, Neville Sonnenberg
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Patent number: 9808945Abstract: A shaving device comprising a head assembly having a support member and a blade cartridge. The support member is configured to be detachably coupled to a handle. The blade cartridge has a first and a second face wherein at least one of the first or second faces comprises at least one razor blade. The blade cartridge is configured to be rotatably coupled to the support member about a pivot axis such that the blade cartridge is pivotable by a user to select one of the first or second faces.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Ruairidh Robertson
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Patent number: 9808946Abstract: A specialized wood splitting tool and chopping block, used together, enable cutting kindling from ordinary firewood in an effective and safe manner. The splitting tool uses leverage in addition to downward momentum of the cutting head to split wood. The metal handle and metal cutting head are preferably formed from a single piece of steel, in a perpendicular configuration similar to an adz. A splitting wedge blade within the handle exerts transverse shear forces to enhance splitting, and flat upper surfaces of the cutting head and the handle near the joint provide a striking surface. A complimentary chopping block for bracing logs of various diameters in a steady upright position has a V-shaped recess that is open on one end. The chopping block provides resistance to the unique leverage of the splitting tool during the splitting action.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Dana Stone Clarke
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Patent number: 9808947Abstract: A roofing system including shingles with different shingle patterns. The roofing system may include a plurality of first shingles having a first two-tab shingle pattern and a plurality of second shingles having a second two-tab shingle pattern. The first shingles including a first tab having a first width and a second tab having a second width, wherein the first width and the second width are substantially equal. The second shingles including a third tab having a third width and a fourth tab having a fourth width, wherein the third width is substantially equal to the first width and the fourth width is about double the second width. The plurality of first shingles and the plurality of second shingles can be formed from a rectangular shingle blank in an interwoven pattern with substantially no scrap or waste material.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Carmen A. LaTorre, Bert W. Elliott, Christopher C. Freidner
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Patent number: 9808948Abstract: A food chopper includes a housing and a chopping blade assembly disposed therein. The chopping blade assembly is held and guided in a guide of the housing so as to be movable to-and-fro along an operating direction counter to a force of a return spring in such a manner that the chopping blade assembly, during movement along the operating direction, is forcibly rotated and held in the upper rest position by the return spring and, in order to chop the food, is movable from the upper rest position downward against a counter-bearing face. A scraper element is rotationally driven by rotational movement of the chopping blade assembly and has a scraper edge having an elastic lip which is configured, during the rotational movement of the scraper element, to bear on an inner side of a side wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: LEIFHEIT AGInventors: Klaus-Juergen Fischer, Markus Klotz
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Patent number: 9808949Abstract: An edge portion of a bound material is provided with first and second lines. The first and second lines are spaced at a small interval and arranged in parallel to each other. The first line is arranged outside of the second line of the bound material. A control unit controls first and second drive mechanisms in such a manner that the edge portion of the bound material is cut at the first line by a trim cutter, then the trim cutter or the table is moved at the small interval in a moving direction toward the second line, and then the edge portion of the bound material is cut at the second line by the trim cutter.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Takakazu Hori, Kazuo Miyagawa, Tomonori Yachi
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Patent number: 9808950Abstract: An assembly for producing cabinet doors including a CNC machine provided with a porous worktable, means for positioning workpieces thereon, means for applying a vacuum to such porous worktable for adhering such workpieces thereto and means for machining such workpieces adhered to such worktable; and means for thermally deforming a thermally pliable foil to laminate such workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Thermwood CorporationInventor: Kenneth J. Susnjara
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Patent number: 9808951Abstract: A scrap winder is provided as part of a slitting line that creates a ribbon of scrap. The scrap winder has a moveable mandrel that exposes a grabbing portion that rotates. The grabbing portion extends outward to reveal a puller cable reel. The puller cable reel contains a retrieving cable that attaches to the start of the scrap ribbon. As the grabbing portion rotates, the scrap is brought to the grabbing portion, where the scrap is attached directly to it. The mandrel is then moved into position and the scrap can be wound around the mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Braner USA, Inc.Inventor: Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: 9808952Abstract: A cutting apparatus and an associated method for slitting a tobacco sheet material into cut pieces used to form smoking articles are provided. The cutting apparatus includes a rotatable cutter assembly having a drum member configured to rotate about an axis defined thereby. The cutter assembly includes a plurality of knife members disposed about the periphery of the drum member and extending radially therefrom. A fixed counter-knife assembly is disposed adjacent to the periphery of the drum member and is configured to interact with the rotatable cutter assembly during rotation thereof about the axis. The counter-knife assembly includes a ledger member having a plurality of cutting insert members removably engaged therewith. The cutting insert members are configured to interact with the knife members during rotation of the cutter assembly with respect to the counter-knife assembly so as to slit the tobacco sheet material received therebetween into cut pieces.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Timothy Franklin Tilley, James Phillip Hollandsworth, Terry Leonard Bullins, Mark Allen Vernon
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Patent number: 9808953Abstract: A saw buck has a template for cutting lumber into various desired length pieces. The saw buck uses a pair of front legs each attached to a respective one of a pair of back legs in A-framed configuration with a plate attached to each back leg. The plate has one or more notches and has two or more cradles attached thereto, either between and end of the plate and a notch or between notches. At least some of the log cradles are of different lengths relative to one another and at least some may move laterally relative to one another. A rope if provided for lumber securement.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Francis A Sagorski
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Patent number: 9808954Abstract: This invention relates to a composition, a process for producing a composition, a timber formulation, a process for producing a timber formulation, a construction comprising the timber formulation and a use of the construction comprising the timber formulation are herein disclosed. The composition can include a Cu-salt, a first cyclic organic compound comprising a B heteroatom and at least one further B-free cyclic organic compound. The composition and timber formulation herein disclosed are designed as wood preservatives and may be used as part of a timber preserving treatment.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Rutgers Organics GmbHInventors: Volker Beez, Helmut Härtner, Stefan Schmitt
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Patent number: 9808955Abstract: Provided is a wood treatment composition comprising a reaction product produced by reacting a mixture, which includes creosote and a fatty ester component, in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst. The reaction mixture may optionally include bunker oil and/or a borate ester. The mixture may comprise i) at least about 85 wt % creosote; and ii) at least about 1 wt % of an ester component containing one or more C8-C50 fatty esters. Also provided are wood treated with the composition and methods for using the composition to treat wood.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Stella-Jones Inc.Inventor: Gordon Murray
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Patent number: 9808956Abstract: The present invention relates to an extension recycling method by the technology of bar embedment with glue for wood columns and an apparatus thereof, the method comprising: classification of short wood, sawing of short wood, drying of short wood, assembling and sorting of short wood, connection in series of short wood under pressure, processing of short wood, and marking of stand columns. The apparatus is a short wood connection machine comprising a main body, rotating rollers, pressing cylinders, pressing plates and a planing frame. By using the present method, short wood can be connected into a strut, so that the abandoned short wood can be recycled to save natural resources. Due to the apparatus and the connecting member of the present invention, the process of connecting short wood into a strut can be completed conveniently, which have the advantages of simple structure, convenient processing and easy manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BAMBOO AND RATTANInventors: Zhengjun Sun, Zhijia Liu, Yan Yan, Huanrong Liu, Weifeng Guo, Yujing Nie, Xiubiao Zhang
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Patent number: 9808957Abstract: A method of filling a mold with a settable material, such as a cementitious mixture, is disclosed. The mold includes a plurality of cavities that open to a top face of the mold, and is suitable for forming building elements, such as pavers, for covering surfaces. The method includes providing an additional volume per unit area of settable material to at least part of selected ones of the cavities, and compacting the settable material in at least part of all of the cavities, including the additional volume per unit area of settable material provided to the selected ones of the cavities, to substantially the same thickness. A mold and a scraper suitable for use in the method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Oldcastle Architectural, Inc.Inventors: Ronald J. Scherer, Leonard Browning, Robert J. Lundell, Steven E. Hinde
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Patent number: 9808958Abstract: A post molding system includes a box. Concrete is poured into the box such that the concrete is formed in the shape of the box. A cage is provided and the cage is positioned in the box. The cage reinforces the concrete when the concrete dries in the box. A pair of molds is provided. Each of the molds is positioned on the box when the concrete is poured into the box. Thus, each of the molds forms an aperture extending through the concrete.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Jean Leon Cuburu
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Patent number: 9808959Abstract: A method for fabricating a concrete slab upon a surface, the concrete slab having a final thickness and having, upon drying, a maximum dry density, the method including steps of providing a body of no-slump concrete, the no-slump concrete including a combination of aggregate and paste; dispensing the no-slump concrete upon the surface in an even depth layer which has an upper surface and includes an air volume, a portion of the paste residing at an upper surface of the even depth layer; removing a portion of the air volume from the no-slump concrete layer by compaction; trowel mulching the paste which resides at the upper surface; and trowel transporting the mulched paste horizontally over the upper surface to form a smooth concrete paste upper slab surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventors: Peter Molitor, Richard Raphael Mfuko
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Patent number: 9808960Abstract: One example of correlating energy to mix well cement slurry under laboratory conditions to field conditions can be implemented as a method to determine energy to mix cement slurry. Electrical power supplied to an electric mixer in mixing a specified well cement slurry is measured. An energy to mix the specified well cement slurry is determined from the measuring. The determined energy to mix the specified well cement slurry and specifications of field equipment for use in mixing the specified well cement slurry at a well site are compared. The field equipment is a different configuration than the electric mixer. Based on the comparing, it is determined whether the well cement slurry needs redesigning according to capabilities of the field equipment.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Singh Sodhi, Pauline Akinyi Otieno, Vivek S. Goel, Benjamin John Iverson
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Patent number: 9808961Abstract: Various cutting systems using a handheld electrically powered rotary cutting tool are described. The systems include a wheeled base having provisions for receiving and removably engaging an electric cutting tool. The systems also include an upwardly extending handle and provisions for collecting dust and debris during a cutting operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Tim Jenkins
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Patent number: 9808962Abstract: A tile cutter having a base frame with a base plate and a guide which is disposed above the base plate and along which a slide carrying a cutting tool is displaceable in order to produce a score on the surface of a tile resting on the base plate, and having a breaker jaw device which is gear-coupled to the slide and is lowered onto the surface of the tile in the end phase of the displacement of the slide in order to break the tile along the score. The breaker jaw device and the slide interact with one another via a control flank arrangement in order to lower the breaker jaw device.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: WOLFCRAFT GMBHInventors: Christopher Moog, Hans-Peter Radermacher