Patents Issued in November 7, 2017
  • Patent number: 9808963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an assembly for recycling plastic materials, comprising the following processing steps: a) reprocessing the raw material, wherein the material, if necessary, is comminuted and brought into a fluid-like form and heated and permanently mixed, while preserving the lumpiness and pourability thereof, and optionally the viscosity thereof is increased and/or it is degassed, softened, dried and/or crystallized; b) melting the reprocessed material, at least so much that filtration is possible; c) filtering the melt in order to remove impurities; d) homogenizing the filtered melt; e) degassing the homogenized melt; and f) discharging and/or subsequently processing the melt, such as by granulation, blown film processing, with said processing steps being carried out consecutively in the order listed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: EREMA ENGINEERING RECYCLING MASCHINEN UND ANLAGEN GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Feichtinger, Manfred Hackl, Gerhard Wendelin
  • Patent number: 9808964
    Abstract: A method of forming a porous sol gel, including a dried porous sol gel, is provided comprising forming a sol gel from a sol gel-forming composition comprising a silane solution and a catalyst solution; and non-supercritically drying the sol gel to provide a dried porous sol gel having no springback. The dried porous sol gel can include dried macroporous or mesoporous sol gels or dried hybrid aerogels. The materials may contain open or filled pores. Such materials are useful as thermal insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sakamoto, Ryan Patrick Maloney, Travis Thompson
  • Patent number: 9808965
    Abstract: One example of the present disclosure relates to a form for supporting a volume of a viscous substance encapsulating at least a portion of an object while the viscous substance solidifies to form a seal. The form comprises a non-metallic solidified material; a distal axial opening; a proximal axial opening; and a lateral wall between the distal axial opening and the proximal axial opening. The lateral wall comprises an outwardly facing surface having a surface area, and at least one through lateral opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert Marshall Burgess, Matthew G. Chaney
  • Patent number: 9808966
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for applying a symbol to a molded device which symbol on the molded device is visible as an indentation in the surface of the device. The process involves the step of applying the symbol as an elevation to the mold before using the mold for making the molded device. The process of the invention is characterized in that the elevation on the mold is produced by applying a material to the mold surface which material is liquid when being applied and which material is applied at a temperature higher than the temperature which is at or preferably below the melting point of the material, and which material solidifies at the temperature of the mold. The material applied to the mold and solidified on the mold surface as an elevation needs to remain solid during the process of using the mold for making the molded device. During the molding process the elevation of the symbol on the mold is transferred as an indentation of the symbol to the surface of the molded device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventor: Rene Ochrombel
  • Patent number: 9808967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making polyolefin matrix composites reinforced with continuous carbon fibers. The polymer-fiber composite material comprises a plurality of continuous fibers; and a polyolefin matrix. The present invention also relates to articles of manufacture made substantially from polyolefin matrix composites reinforced with continuous carbon fibers as well as orthopedic implant devices having a wear surface, or bearing comprising a polyolefin matrix composite reinforced with continuous carbon fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TDA Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D Diener
  • Patent number: 9808968
    Abstract: A mold, a molding machine, and a foamed molded body manufacturing method are provided that are capable of more reliably preventing ingress of foamed resin into a gas discharge hole using a gas-impermeable member and capable of adequately discharging gas inside the cavity to the cavity outside through the gas discharge hole during foam molding, and that are also capable of achieving good design characteristics in a foamed molded body. A gas discharge hole 5 is provided at a cavity 4 inner face of a mold 1 and discharges gas inside the cavity 4 to outside the cavity 4. A gas-permeable member 6 is disposed inside the cavity 4 of the mold 1 so as to cover the gas discharge hole 5, and a gas-impermeable member 8 is disposed on the gas discharge hole 5 side of the gas-permeable member 6 so as to face the gas discharge hole 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taisuke Yonezawa, Yoshinori Ohashi
  • Patent number: 9808969
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sheet-form fiber composite components which are obtainable by impregnating fibers with a reactive resin mixture comprising polyisocyanates, polyepoxides, polyols and optionally additives, and to a process for the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG
    Inventors: Stefan Lindner, Klaus Franken, Dirk Passmann, Peter Nordmann
  • Patent number: 9808970
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element on a molded part. The molded part is formed by molding and curing a thermosetting epoxy resin composition comprising (A) the reaction product of a triazine derived epoxy resin with an acid anhydride, (B) an internal parting agent having m.p. 50-90° C., (C) a reflective agent, (D) an inorganic filler, and (E) a curing catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Hayashi, Hiroto Tamaki, Masafumi Kuramoto, Tomohide Miki, Takayuki Sano, Tomohisa Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 9808971
    Abstract: An injection molding apparatus and method of fabricating a molded part are provided. The apparatus may include a barrel, a nozzle enclosing an end of the barrel and defining an opening in fluid communication with an inside of the barrel, and an extrusion screw positioned at least partially inside the barrel and rotatable relative to the barrel. The extrusion screw may include a screw tip. Relative axial movement between the barrel and the extrusion screw may open or close the opening of the nozzle to permit or prevent, respectively, material flow through the opening of the nozzle. The method may include clamping a mold, opening a nozzle, rotating the extrusion screw to pump a molten material into the mold until the mold is filled, closing the nozzle, and unclamping the mold to release a molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: EXTRUDE TO FILL, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Ernest Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 9808972
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a motor bobbin around which a coil is wound, an insulating sheet and a core material are disposed within the cavity of an injection mold, and the motor bobbin is formed by the injection mold into which a resin is injected. The motor bobbin consists of the insulating sheet and a resin molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: DUPONT TEIJIN ADVANCED PAPERS (JAPAN), LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Naruse, Tatsushi Fujimori, Chihiro Kondo, Yasunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9808973
    Abstract: An encapsulated lead frame has a core element with multiple elongated conductor tracks arranged next to one another. The lead frame also has first partial encapsulations formed by a first encapsulation of the core element in first sub-regions and second partial encapsulations formed by a second encapsulation of the core element in second sub-regions. The first and second partial encapsulations enclose the core element as an overall encapsulation. The first partial regions are spaced apart from one another and each of the first partial encapsulations respectively surrounds only one single conductor track. This configuration avoids gaps that may form at interfaces between a first and second partial encapsulation, may extend between two adjacent conductor tracks, and may allow conductive fluid to accumulate therein and form short-circuits between adjacent conductor tracks. The encapsulated frame is used in a transmission control device. A method for producing an encapsulated lead frame is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Gerhaeusser, Giuseppe Barone
  • Patent number: 9808974
    Abstract: A method of making an aluminum alloy-resin composite and an aluminum alloy-resin composite obtained by the same are provided. The method may comprise: S1: anodizing a surface of an aluminum alloy substrate to form an oxide layer on the surface, in which the oxide layer includes nanopores; S2: immersing the resulting aluminum alloy substrate obtained at step S1 in an alkaline solution having a pH of about 10 to about 13, to form corrosion pores on an outer surface of the oxide layer, wherein the alkaline solution is an aqueous solution including at least one selected from a soluble carbonates, a soluble alkali, a soluble phosphate, a soluble sulfate, and a soluble borate; S3: injection molding a resin onto the surface of the resulting aluminum alloy substrate in step S2 in a mold to obtain the aluminum alloy-resin composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: SHENZHEN BYD AUTO R&D COMPANY LIMITED, BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian Sun, Yanqing Wu, Yunxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 9808975
    Abstract: A collapsible core of an injection mold includes relatively movable components arrayed about an imaginary centerline. When in an operational position for molding a new product, the movable components each define a separate segment of the exterior of the core, such as side by side segments of interior features such as a continuous set of threads to be formed in a product being molded. To move between operational and retracted positions, some core components are pivotally connected to a nest of the core, and others are translatably connected to the nest. When a newly molded product is ejected from the mold, ejection movement causes the pivotally connected core components to pivot to disengage the newly formed interior features, and causes the translatably connected components to translate to disengage the newly formed interior features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Richard Chappel
  • Patent number: 9808976
    Abstract: When an injection member such as a screw injecting a molten material into a mold is attached to an injection molding machine, a buffer spacer is provided between the injection member and a power transmission member such as an injection shaft sleeve transmitting forward/backward moving power to the injection member. Then, the buffer spacer is fixed to the power transmission member by a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Asaoka, Satoshi Yano
  • Patent number: 9808977
    Abstract: A cooking apparatus used for filling and decorating of foods, comprising in some embodiments a one-piece, funnel-shaped bag with a soft side wall, having an open first end at the “top” through which food material and coloring agents can be inserted into the bag and a closed second end at the “bottom” end of the funnel, with an integral, malleable, conical shaped, discharge orifice. The orifice may have serrations or ridges extending inwardly from the internal wall of the orifice, running longitudinally or parallel to the cone axis. The orifice may be initially closed or manufactured with a small opening. The orifice may be made of a material capable of being cut to yield an exit opening. The inwardly extending serrations that remain after a cut may insure that the material is “treated” as it is expelled from the bag through the orifice to yield a ribbon candy design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventors: Brenda Marie Grimes, Charles Wilson Grimes
  • Patent number: 9808978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to screw elements with novel, tightly intermeshing, self-cleaning, co-rotating screw profiles for multishaft screw machines with pairs of co-rotating and fully abrading screw shafts, to the use of these screw elements in multishaft screw machines and to a method of generating these screw elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG
    Inventors: Michael Bierdel, Thomas König, Ulrich Liesenfelder
  • Patent number: 9808979
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making granules from strands of a melt of a thermoplastic polymer material having the steps of creating and providing the melt of the material, discharging the material in multiple strands from a perforated plate, impinging the strands with an impinging flow fluid from an impinging flow nozzle, cooling the strands and dividing the strands into individual granules, wherein the strands are impinged by the impinging flow fluid only during discharge from the perforated plate, and wherein, as it is discharged from the impinging flow nozzle, the impinging flow fluid has a temperature above the melting temperature of the material and has a discharge velocity in the range from 50 m/sec to 300 m/sec; the invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method with an impinging flow device that can be pivoted by means of a pivoting joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Maag Automatik GmbH
    Inventor: Jochen Scheurich
  • Patent number: 9808980
    Abstract: The invention provides a coextrusion feedblock having a flow adjuster, a viscosity compensation device, an actuator, a central extrusion conduit, and a coextrusion conduit. The invention also provides a coextrusion profiling insert assembly constructed to be mounted in a coextrusion feedblock. The insert assembly has a flow adjuster, a viscosity compensation device, and an actuator. The insert assembly when mounted in the feedblock has a coextrusion conduit extending between the flow adjuster and the viscosity compensation device. The actuator is adjustable to apply force to bend the viscosity compensation device and thereby adjust a gap height of the coextrusion conduit. Also provided is a method of operating a feedblock having a viscosity compensation device comprising a flex region, a central extrusion conduit, and a coextrusion conduit. Force is applied to bend the flex region of the viscosity compensation device and thereby adjust a gap height of the coextrusion conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Michael K. Truscott
  • Patent number: 9808981
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fuel tank includes: passing a hollow molten resin projection, that projects-out in a wall-thickness direction and is formed at a molten resin sheet that becomes a tank structural member structuring a tank main body, through a mounting hole of a part-to-be-mounted that is placed on the molten resin sheet; and pressurizing the molten resin projection from an inner side, and causing at least a portion of the molten resin projection to jut-out to a peripheral portion of the mounting hole of the part-to-be-mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSH KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miki Kimura, Shingo Ogata
  • Patent number: 9808982
    Abstract: A polymeric stent has an inner surface with an inner diameter that tapers continuously in size. A method for manufacturing a stent includes blow molding a polymeric tube within a mold having a tapered, cylindrical cavity such that the polymeric tube attains a corresponding tapered shape. The tapered tube is used as a substrate from which a laser cuts interconnecting stent struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Kleine, David C. Gale
  • Patent number: 9808983
    Abstract: A vessel is configured to hold a product in an interior region formed in the vessel. The vessel includes an inner layer arranged to define the interior region and an outer layer. The vessel is formed using a blow-molding process in which a multiple layer parison is blow molded to form the vessel. The multiple layer parison is formed in an extrusion process in which a number of extruders are arranged to co-extrude associated inner and outer parisons to establish the multiple layer parison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: David Dezhou Sun
  • Patent number: 9808984
    Abstract: The objects of this invention are to set a predetermined height position for the portion of parison or preform that is the first to come in contact with body molding planes of a split mold and to prevent air from being trapped between in-mold labels and the container which is blow molded from the parison or the preform. In-mold labels are fixed to the entire outer surface of body of main container. An annular thinnest wall portion is formed in the wall of the body so that the thinnest wall portion is the first to come in contact with the body molding planes of a split mold. Under this construction, no bulge of air is formed between the body and the in-mold labels fixed to the entire surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Motegi, Shinichi Ishiyama, Takao Kurosawa, Yasuyuki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9808985
    Abstract: A roller-type depressing device, an imprint device and an imprint method utilizing the same which can depress an object like a die or a molding target by controlling the depressing force of a roller is provided. A roller-type depressing device to depress the object with a roller includes a pressure adjusting plate provided with the roller, a roller moving unit moving the roller relative to the object, a pressure adjusting unit holding the pressure adjusting plate in such a way that force produced by a pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate acts on the roller, a pressure receiving stage receiving the pressure of the roller via the object, and a pressure adjuster adjusting the pressure difference in fluid applied to both faces of the pressure adjusting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SCIVAX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirosuke Kawaguchi, Yutaka Taniguchi, Satoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9808986
    Abstract: A printing head assembly including a fixing member, two nozzle heads, two driving units, two position-limiting members, and two position-restoring members is provided. Each nozzle head has a filament connection tube and a material extrusion port respectively penetrating through the fixing member, wherein the filament connection tube has a position-limiting portion. The driving units drive the corresponding filaments to feed into the corresponding nozzle heads. The position-limiting members are respectively disposed between the corresponding driving unit and the fixing member, and are connected to the corresponding filament connection tubes. The position-restoring members are respectively disposed between the corresponding position-limiting member and the fixing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: ZYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc., Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company Limited
    Inventors: Wei-De Toh, Yi-Chin Tang
  • Patent number: 9808987
    Abstract: A surrogate multilayered material and manufacturing method thereof includes a first fiber reinforced layer, the first reinforced layer including a crosslinked polymer and fibers, and a second fiber reinforced layer, the second reinforced layer including the crosslinked polymer and the fibers. A foam layer is disposed between the first and second fiber reinforced layers. Opposite faces of the foam layer are in direct contact with the first fiber reinforced layer and the second fiber reinforced layer. The foam layer has a compressive strength of about 3.5 to about 4.5 MPa, when measured as per ASTM-D-1621-73, and a shear strength of 1.50 to about 2.15 MPa, when measured as per ASTM-C-273.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Andrew C. Merkle, Jack C. Roberts, Catherine M. Carneal, Jeffrey M. Paulson, Matthew S. Johannes, Liming M. Voo
  • Patent number: 9808988
    Abstract: A stringer and corresponding method is provided having a runout design that softens the stringer. According to one aspect, the stringer includes a base flange, a web, and a noodle. The noodle includes a unidirectional fiber top portion and a stacked laminate bottom portion coupled to the top portion. The bottom portion includes a number of stacks, each stack including three plies having three corresponding fiber orientations within an acreage region of the stringer. In a transition region of the stringer, the stacked laminate bottom portion includes a number of stacks, each stack including the first and third plies of the acreage region. According to another aspect, the base flange is softened by dropping plies within the transition region. Yet another aspect includes trimming the web down to the noodle, while trimming through the noodle according to a trim radius to a height proximate the base flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Hyukbong Kwon, Douglas A. Frisch, Arman Rowhani
  • Patent number: 9808989
    Abstract: A machine converts a web of preformed pouches, which are defined by transverse seals extending from a remote edge, into inflated dunnage units. A sealing arrangement is positioned to provide a longitudinal seal intersecting the transverse seals to close the preformed pouches and form a dunnage unit. The sealing arrangement has at least two sealing belts. Each belt is positioned so that respective first sides engage a surface of the web and pull the web through sealing elements positioned on either side of the web. A heating element is on a second side of the first belt not engaging the web. A compliant material is on a second side of the second belt not engaging the web. As the web passes between the heating element and compliant material, imperfections in the web are smoothed by the compliant material and the layers of the web are sealed by the heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOMATED PACKAGING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Corbin, Donald P. Shook, Robert L. Ferrante, Michael J. Riccardi, Rick Steven Wehrmann
  • Patent number: 9808991
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for additive manufacturing and three-dimensional printing, and specifically for extruding tubular objects. A print head extrudes a curable material into a tubular object, while simultaneously curing the tubular object and utilizing the interior of the cured portion of the tubular object for stabilizing and propelling the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: CC3D LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Tyler
  • Patent number: 9808992
    Abstract: An example three-dimensional printer system includes (a) a resin container, (b) a base plate, (c) a light source arranged below the resin container, where the light source is operable to emit electromagnetic radiation that causes resin in the resin container to cure, (d) a robotic device having the base plate attached thereto, wherein the robotic device positions the base plate above the resin container and is operable to move the base plate with at least two degrees of freedom, such that a build volume of the three-dimensional printer system extends beyond the edges of the resin container, and (e) a control system that is operable to (i) receive data specifying a three-dimensional structure and (ii) generate control signals that coordinate movement of the base plate by the robotic device and operation of the light source to form the three-dimensional structure from layers of resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Linnell, Jonathan Proto, Brandon Kruysman
  • Patent number: 9808993
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using 3D printing. A layer of prepolymer is deposited on a build plate to form a powder bed. The deposited powder bed is heated to about 50° C. to about 170° C. Then, a solution of activating agent is printed on the powder bed in a predetermined pattern, and a stimulus is applied converting the prepolymer to the final polymer. After a predetermined period of time, sequential layers are printed to provide the three-dimensional article. The three-dimensional object can be cured to produce the three-dimensional article composed of the final polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: Ricoh Co., Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Mark Ganter, Duane Storti, Adam Edward Goetz, Mete Yurtoglu, Michael Byrnes Larsen, Gregory Isaac Peterson
  • Patent number: 9808994
    Abstract: System for controlling fabrication of three-dimensional objects, layer by layer are disclosed. The system includes a printing assembly having an irradiation unit and a printing head, the printing assembly is movable between a printing area and a service area. The system further includes a light sensor positioned at the service area to measure the output radiation power of the irradiation unit and a controller to receive information from the sensor and to automatically adjust the electrical power supplied to the irradiation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: STRATASYS LTD.
    Inventors: Eliahu M. Kritchman, Alexander Libinson, Moshe Levi, Guy Menchik
  • Patent number: 9808995
    Abstract: A method for reinforcing a substrate or textile of a core structure of a component with the following method steps: a continuous semi-finished product is fed, via a feed means, into a cartridge of a conveying means which comprises a plurality of cartridges; the continuous semi-finished product is cut to length using a cutting means in order to produce a cut, reinforcing semi-finished product which is received in the cartridge; the cartridge is conveyed to a machining means; the cut, reinforcing semi-finished product is sharpened using the machining means; the cartridge is conveyed to a textile or substrate to be reinforced of a core structure; and the sharpened semi-finished product is shot into the textile or substrate of a core structure by a stud-shooting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Christian Endres, Hans-Jurgen Weber
  • Patent number: 9808996
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a method of fabricating a thermoplastic torque box assembly. The method includes providing a plurality of braided thermoplastic tubular spar caps, connecting one or more connector elements to one or more of the braided thermoplastic tubular spar caps, and laying up an inner thermoplastic facesheet in a continuous manner around the one or more braided thermoplastic tubular spar caps. The method further includes attaching a plurality of skin panel stabilization elements to the inner thermoplastic facesheet to define four torque box side portions, laying up and attaching an outer thermoplastic facesheet in a continuous manner around the plurality of skin panel stabilization elements, and heating at an effective temperature and an effective pressure the thermoplastic torque box assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Jeffery L. Marcoe
  • Patent number: 9808997
    Abstract: Methods and tools for forming contoured composite structures are disclosed. Methods include positioning a sheet of composite material relative to a structure of shape memory alloy, heating the structure of shape memory alloy to deform the structure of shape memory alloy to a deformed conformation and thereby conform the sheet of composite material to a desired contour corresponding to the deformed conformation of the structure of shape memory alloy. Tools include a structure of shape memory alloy and a heat source for heating the structure of shape memory alloy to conform a sheet of composite material to a desired contour corresponding to the deformed conformation of the structure of shape memory alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel M. Rotter, Paul E. Nelson
  • Patent number: 9808998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to production method of a composite material wherein the composite material is tensioned and cured to produce a composite material with a single cord or cord fabric reinforced with another component, comprising the steps of adhering at least two layers of compound material, attaching the adhered compound materials inside a hollow frame, placing said frame into a pre-tensioning device, wrapping the cords around the frame with the desired pre-tension, removing the frame together with the compound material and the cords from the pre-tensioning device, placing at least one layer of compound material on the curing tray, placing the coated frame removed from the pre-tensioning device onto the compound material layers, placing at least one more layer of compound material on the coated frame, closing the lid over the curing tray, curing the material and cutting the composite material into strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KORDSA GLOBAL ENDUSTRIYEL IPLIK VE KORD BEZI SANAYI VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventors: Saim Oz, Elif Erdogan, M. Huseyin Ates
  • Patent number: 9808999
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a sidewall unit (1) of a casting mold for concrete products, which sidewall unit comprises a support structure (2, 32, 42) and a mold surface plate (3, 3?, 33, 43) fixed to the support structure, and which sidewall unit is fixed on a casting bed (8), wherein the mold surface plate comprises at least two portions (3, 3?) extending along the length of the sidewall unit and connected to the support structure (2) and the vertical position of at least one of the portions (3), defined by orientation of the sidewall unit (1) fixed on a casting bed (8), is adjusted to form a gap (9) extending along the length of the sidewall unit between the portions. The invention also relates to such a sidewall unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Elematic Oyj
    Inventors: Leena Raukola, Lassi Järvinen
  • Patent number: 9809000
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a binding processing apparatus that prevents easy unbinding regardless of thickness of a sheet bundle to be bound and that lessens influence of damage on sheets. In the present sheet binding processing apparatus, a pair of pressurizing faces for pressure-nipping a sheet bundle are formed to have tooth forms each having a convex shape and a concave shape, the tooth forms being engaged with each other along a predetermined tooth width, and the tooth forms are shaped so that an engagement depth between a tooth top and a tooth root is varied along a tooth width direction toward a sheet end edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.
    Inventor: Mamoru Kubo
  • Patent number: 9809001
    Abstract: Flexural digital materials are discrete parts that can be assembled into a lattice structure to produce an actuatable structure capable of coordinated reversible spatially-distributed deformation. The structure comprises a set of discrete flexural digital material units assembled according to a lattice geometry, with a majority of the discrete units being connected, or adapted to be connected, to at least two other units according to the geometry. In response to certain types of loading of the structure, a coordinated reversible spatially-distributed deformation of at least part of the structure occurs. The deformation of the structure is due to the shape or material composition of the discrete units, the configuration of connections between the units, and/or the configuration of the lattice geometry. Exemplary types of such actuatable structures include airplane wing sections and robotic leg structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kenneth C. Cheung, Samuel Eli Calisch, Neil A. Gershenfeld
  • Patent number: 9809002
    Abstract: A three-dimensional lattice architecture with a thickness hierarchy includes a first surface and a second surface separated from each other with a distance therebetween defining a thickness of the three-dimensional lattice architecture; a plurality of angled struts extending along a plurality of directions between the first surface and the second surface; a plurality of nodes connecting the plurality of angled struts with one another forming a plurality of unit cells. At least a portion of the plurality of angled struts are internally terminated along the thickness direction of the lattice structure and providing a plurality of internal degrees of freedom towards the first or second surface of the lattice architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob M. Hundley, Tobias A. Schaedler, Sophia S. Yang, Alan J. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 9809003
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing do-it-yourself protection from environmental forces to at least a portion of a structure are provided. The device can include a woven fabric having at least one edge with opposing first and second sides and a reinforcing fabric having a first portion and a second portion, at least the first portion being attached to a portion of the woven fabric at the at least one edge to form at least one reinforced portion, the device being afixable to the structure by at least one anchor extending through the reinforced portion into the structure, the at least one reinforced portion providing tear-resistance at the location of the anchor extending therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TARGUS INTERNATIONAL COMPANY
    Inventor: Teddy Gower
  • Patent number: 9809004
    Abstract: A laminated structure containing a microporous film bonded in a face to face relationship with a plexifilamentary nonwoven web with an adhesive layer situated in contact with a least a portion of both the microporous film and the nonwoven web. The adhesive may contain reactive tracers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephane Nowak, Serge Rebouillat
  • Patent number: 9809005
    Abstract: Anti-ballistic systems and methods for making same are described. The anti-ballistic systems may be formed from various materials arranged in a structure, such as a wall structure. For example, an anti-ballistic system may be formed from a metal material, a polymer material, and a stone material. In some embodiments, the metal material may include aluminum (for example, an aluminum composite panel), the polymer material may include ethylene vinyl acetate, and the stone material may include granite. The anti-ballistic wall systems may be configured to be resistant to ballistics, blasts, and/or forced entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Antiballistic Security and Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Grieves, Gilbert Meyer, Leif Lundkvist
  • Patent number: 9809006
    Abstract: A polymer interlayer comprising a layer comprising a poly(vinyl acetal) resin having a residual hydroxyl content and a residual acetate content, and a plasticizer, wherein the residual hydroxyl content, the residual acetate content and the plasticizer are selected such that the polymer interlayer has at least one glass transition temperature less than about 20° C. and a peak tan delta of greater than 1.33, and a glass panel having a configuration of 2.3-mm glass//interlayer//2.3-mm glass and at 20° C. has a transmission loss, TLw, of greater than 42 decibels as measured by weighted average sound transmission loss at 2000 to 8000 Hz, and a transmission loss, TLc, of greater than 38 decibels at the coincident frequency is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Solutia Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Wenjie Chen
  • Patent number: 9809007
    Abstract: A hybrid composite panel suitable for forming a container includes a wood layer and a fiber-reinforced polymer composite layer having a sensor system embedded therein. The wood layer is laminated plywood that includes at least one of hard and soft wood, solid-sawn tongue-and-groove hardwood planks, and partially laminated solid-sawn hardwood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: University of Maine System Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Habib J. Dagher, Eric D. Cassidy, Anthony M. Viselli, Bruce Segee
  • Patent number: 9809008
    Abstract: A laminate of a rubber layer (A) and a fluororesin layer (B) on the rubber layer (A), wherein the rubber layer (A) is a layer made of a rubber composition for vulcanization, the rubber composition for vulcanization contains an unvulcanized rubber (a1); at least one compound (a2) selected from the group consisting of a 1,8-diazabicyclo(5.4.0)undec-7-ene salt, a 1,5-diazabicyclo(4.3.0)-non-5-ene salt, 1,8-diazabicyclo(5.4.0)undec-7-ene, and 1,5-diazabicyclo(4.3.0)-non-5-ene; magnesium oxide (a3); and silica (a4), the amount of the compound (a2) is larger than 1.0 part by mass and not larger than 5.0 parts by mass, for each 100 parts by mass of the unvulcanized rubber (a1), the fluororesin layer (B) is a layer made of a fluoropolymer composition, and the fluoropolymer composition contains a fluoropolymer (b1) having a copolymer unit derived from chlorotrifluoroethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Masui, Tomihiko Yanagiguchi, Mayuko Taeda, Takeshi Inaba
  • Patent number: 9809009
    Abstract: Multilayered interlayers having good acoustic properties comprising a stiff skin layer(s) and a soft core layer(s) are disclosed. The multilayered interlayers comprise: a first polymer layer (skin layer) comprising plasticized poly(vinyl acetal) resin; a second polymer layer (core layer) comprising plasticized poly(vinyl acetal) resin; wherein at least one plasticizer is a high refractive index plasticizer. The multilayered interlayers have low mottle and resist mottle formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Solutia Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Wenjie Chen, Curtis Schilling, III, John D'Errico, Weihong Cui, Zhou Li, Jeffrey B. Hurlbut
  • Patent number: 9809010
    Abstract: A polymer interlayer having improved sound insulation is disclosed. The polymer interlayer comprises: at least one soft layer wherein the soft layer comprises a poly(vinyl butyral) resin composition having a dispersity in composition of at least 0.40 and a plasticizer; and a stiff layer comprising a poly(vinyl butyral) resin composition and a plasticizer; wherein the polymer interlayer has a damping loss factor (?) (as measured by Mechanical Impedance Measurement according to ISO 16940) of at least about 0.15 measured at two or more different temperatures selected from 10° C., 20° C. and 30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Solutia Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Lu, Wenjie Chen
  • Patent number: 9809011
    Abstract: A planar article in the form of a thin strip is shown. The article, comprising a fabric and a polymer, can be formed into a variety of shapes. A hollow profile made from the article by forming a seam using opposing edges of the strip to enclose a volume. A thermoplastic extrusion formed composite structural member and method for making is disclosed. In one embodiment, the composite structural member includes a first web made from a first material and a first resin, a second web made from a second material different from the first material, a third web made from a third material and a third resin, and a fourth web made from a fourth material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Giuseppe Puppin
  • Patent number: 9809012
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes: a display panel to generate an image; and a window member on the display panel, the window member including: a base film; and a polymer layer including a first part and a plurality of second parts having lower hardness than that of the first part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Xie
  • Patent number: 9809013
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an abrasion-resistant surface material for the coating of melamine resin laminates and to a laminate comprising the surface material used in accordance with the invention, and to a method for producing the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SURTECO DECOR, GMBH
    Inventors: Heinz Haller, Guido Schweizer