Patents Issued in December 19, 2017
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Patent number: 9844703Abstract: In the process of making a hollow product, especially a deformable toy ball, two halves made from an elastomeric material, a thermoplastic material, rubber, a blend of rubbers, or a thermoplastic elastomer are formed by injection molding with mating edges that engage with each other when the halves are assembled to form the product. The edge of one of the two halves is advantageously formed with a recess centered in the edge, in which a flange formed on the edge of the other of the two halves engages to provide a form-fitting connection between the two halves. The opposing edges are then bonded with each other by fusion or melting or by an adhesive applied to at least one of the edges prior to assembling the halves together. A deformable ball produced by the process is also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventors: Rishi Gupta, Daniel Troiano
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Patent number: 9844704Abstract: An apparatus includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium to direct a processor to: receive signals indicating a made basketball shot or a missed basketball shot of a basketball by a person during a basketball shooting session, receive signals indicating a location from which each made basketball shot is made, and determine and output a user cumulative score for the person for the basketball shooting session, the cumulative score being based upon the location of each made basketball shot.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Wilson Sporting Goods Co.Inventors: Robert T. Thurman, Kevin L. Krysiak, David J. Proeber, Allen G. Wagner
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Patent number: 9844705Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sports ball comprises cutting outer panels and inner padding cut-outs from three different sheet materials. The internal padding layer materials have perforations and are geometrically similar in shape, but smaller than the outer panel cut-outs. A layer of heat-reactive adhesive that expands upon heating is applied in the machine-stitched seam areas before the panels are stitched together. The padding layer is glued to the inside-out ball cover before the cover is turned right-side out. A reinforced bladder is inserted into the cover. The remaining seams are stitched shut utilizing one of various different methods, and then the ball is molded in a heat and pressure mold that causes the seams to be welded as well as stitched, due to the expansion of the heat-reactive adhesive to cover the stitching in the seams. Enhanced performance characteristics of the resulting ball arise from the air spring aspects provided by the combined features.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventor: Zain-ul-Abideen Ahsan
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Patent number: 9844706Abstract: An inflatable game ball includes a cover formed from a plurality of panel segments attached along peripheral edges. Each panel segment an outer panel portion, having a first shape and a first size, and an inner panel portion, having the first shape and a second size, smaller than the first size. The outer panel portion is joined with the inner panel portion, such that peripheral edges of the outer panel portion are aligned, and parallel, with peripheral edges of the inner panel portion. An inflatable bladder is disposed within the cover and movable between deflated and fully-inflated conditions. When the inflatable bladder is deflated, an interior surface of the outer panel portions is separated from a top surface of the inner panel portions by a first distance. When the inflatable bladder is fully-inflated, the interior surface is in contact with the top surface of the inner panel portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: Mark McNamee
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Patent number: 9844707Abstract: A high moment of inertia is enabled in a novel golf putter head in which also infinite adjustment of the lie angle and adjustment of total weight over a very wide range are enabled. The putter can be configured for either right-handed or left-handed players. The putter head has a cylindrical recess partially open through the top of the head and fully open to the rear of the head allowing the insertion of a cylindrical shaft receiver disc. The shaft can be of any allowed length and the lie angle can be from 26 degrees to 10 degrees from vertical. The mass properties of the putter head may be changed and adjusted by addition or removal of weights at the extreme toe and heel ends of the putter head.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: VERITAS GOLF LLCInventor: Steven R. Davis
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Patent number: 9844708Abstract: A golf club and golf club head having a high static loft angle, low forward center of gravity, and enhanced z-axis gear effect via a large roll radius and/or tightly controlled moment of inertia about the CG x-axis, Ixx, associated with upward and downward twisting of the club head.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Brandon H. Woolley
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Patent number: 9844709Abstract: A golf club head, including a striking face having a plurality of grooves formed therein, a center region, a toe region, and a heel region, a plurality of miniature grooves formed therein, the plurality of miniature grooves limited to the central region of the striking face, each of the plurality of miniature grooves extending across the striking face parallel to the grooves, each of the plurality of miniature grooves having a miniature groove width of less than 0.500 mm, wherein the miniature groove width is the distance between an uppermost intersection of each miniature groove and the front surface and a lowermost intersection of each miniature groove and the front surface; a plurality of arcuate grooves limited to the toe region; wherein the grooves, the miniature grooves, and the arcuate grooves do not intersect one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventor: Kevin Tassistro
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Patent number: 9844710Abstract: Embodiments of golf clubs and methods to manufacture golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club may include a golf club head having an interior cavity and a shaft attached to the golf club head. At least a portion of the shaft may be filled with an elastic polymer material, and the interior cavity may be at least partially filled with an elastic polymer material. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLCInventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
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Patent number: 9844711Abstract: The disclosure describes a flexible tubular grip for a golf club, particularly a putter, having the tubular portion formed of relatively soft elastomer with a closure or end cap molded therewith or pre-cured and attached over the end of the tubular portion. The end cap has a raised ridge extending about a portion of the end cap periphery and may have a raised discrete central portion, both of which absorb impact when the club is dropped into a golf bag.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: EATON CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen James Davis, LingYu Hsu, Rita Chang, Jack Kao
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Patent number: 9844712Abstract: A ball toss and retrieval toy provides for entertainment and exercise by children. The toy takes the form of a bat and has an open end for tossing the ball from the toy. The toy also has a cord and reel mechanism that attaches the ball to the bat, allowing for retrieval of the ball from a fixed position. The reel mechanism includes a release mechanism that allows the cord to play out as the toy is operated in a toss operation similar to a fishing casting operation. The ball can then be reeled in by the reel mechanism, which may include a mechanical crank or may be motorized.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventor: Ronald Dale Carter, Sr.
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Patent number: 9844713Abstract: A sound absorbing rebounding device provides a way for a person to practice dribbling a basketball while minimizing sounds and vibrations emanating from the basketball and the device during such practice. The device has a frame, a rebounding surface that mimics or replaces the hard surface on which a user would normally dribble to cause a rebounding effect, and a base to separate or space the rebounding surface from the floor, so that sounds and vibrations during bouncing of the basketball are not transferred to the surface on which the device is resting. The frame shape allows the user to practice dribbling in all different directions around the user's body placed relative to the user's legs, such as a T, an H, or the number 8. The device may be collapsible via hinges placed within its frame that allow the device to be collapsed in varying degrees of compactness.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Dream Dribble, LLCInventors: Dylan S. Kaufmann, Eric A. Braunstein
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Patent number: 9844714Abstract: A horse-riding training device comprises a base, a body portion for supporting a rider, the body portion being displaceably mounted on the base, a neck portion pivotally connected to the base and a resilient element which resists displacement of the body portion and the neck portion with respect to the base, which provides a realistic simulation of riding a horse.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventor: William Ronald Greenwood
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Patent number: 9844715Abstract: An optimal bicycle frame size based on operational characteristics provided by a rider when riding a dynamic fit unit is determined. A best-fit bicycle frame size that is a closest match to the optimal frame size is determined. At least one of the optimal X,Y location of the bicycle's handlebar relative to the bottom bracket, and the optimal X,Y location of the bicycle's seat relative to the bottom bracket, is determined. A stem and spacer from a list of available stems and spacers that will best fit between the head tube of the best-fit frame and the optimal X,Y location of the handlebar is determined. A seat post from a list of available seat posts that will best fit between the seat tube of the best-fit frame and the optimal X,Y location of the seat is determined. A list of the best-fit frame, the best fit stem and spacer, and the best fit seat post, is produced.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Cycling Sports Group, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Kautz, Scott Alan Rice, Jean-Paul Racine, Jason Andrew Clark, Antonio Giannascoli
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Patent number: 9844716Abstract: An adjustable golf club putter head is disclosed herein. The putter head includes a removable alignment feature that can be swapped with a different alignment feature to change the alignment pattern, and a removable divider piece that contrasts with the alignment feature and can be swapped with different divider pieces to affect the cosmetics of the putter head and also adjust the putter head's mass properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventor: Philip G. Foster
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Patent number: 9844717Abstract: A portable pitching mound that offers the strength and durability of a traditional dirt mound that is compatible with turf fields and will not create an edge lip on a baseball field.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Porta-Pro Mounds Inc.Inventors: William S. Lee, Richard A. Sauget
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Patent number: 9844718Abstract: A snowboard binding includes a baseplate configured to secure to an upper surface of a snowboard a high back and straps secure to the baseplate. A drive plate is secured to the upper surface of the baseplate and has a stiffness effective to change ride properties of the snowboard. The drive plate may include a laminate structure including one or more composite layers such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, aluminum, or titanium. A carriage may mount the drive plate to the snowboard and may define a recess for receiving the drive plate. Tabs may extend from the lower surface of the carriage and engage corresponding apertures in the baseplate. The tabs may have hooked end portions to secure the carriage to the baseplate.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Mervin Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Paul Ferrel, Dain Engebretsen, Steven Cobb, Ryan Smith
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Patent number: 9844719Abstract: An electric skateboard with a hinge mechanism includes a first load plate, a second load plate, a hinge mechanism and an electric wire. A first wheel set is installed in the first load plate, and the first load plate includes a first accommodating space. A second wheel set is installed in the second load plate, and the second load plate includes a second accommodating space. A hinge mechanism includes a bridge base and two shaft sleeves pivotally connected at two sides of the bridge base. The bridge base and the two shaft sleeves together form a wiring slot. The two shaft sleeves are fixed to the first load plate and the second load plate respectively, so that the first load plate and the second load plate are foldable toward each other. The electric wire is inserted through the wiring slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: KINPO ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventor: Cheng-Hong Huang
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Patent number: 9844720Abstract: A braking device is provided for an in-line skate where the braking device selectively alters the motion of the in-line skate depending upon the angulation of the in-line skate relative to a surface. As a user angulates or tilts the in-line skate, the braking device increasingly engages the surface to provide a braking force to alter the motion of the in-line skate.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: BATMANN CONSULTING, INC.Inventor: Richard M. Batenburg
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Patent number: 9844721Abstract: A games table features a unique corner assembly in which upper and lower corner members respectively embrace about upper and lower edges of an elongated perimeter frame member of the table and are clamped together to secure the frame member in place. Matable male and female features on the corner assemblies also enable stacking of two table top units to enable convenient switching of a games table between two modes of game play.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventors: Mark Pavey, Leung Cheong Shing, Anthony Fiscella, Mak Siu Fung
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Patent number: 9844722Abstract: A game system includes a game device used by first and second users and a controller. The game device includes: an association section associating the controller with the first user using the controller; a first process executing section executing a process of a general-purpose function in accordance with first operating information acquired from the controller when the general-purpose function, not associated with the users, executes; and a second process executing section executing a process of a first user function in accordance with second operating information acquired from the controller when the first user function, associated with the first user, executes.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Syunsuke Bamba, Yoshihiko Suwa
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Patent number: 9844723Abstract: A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein to render one or more graphical objects on multiple types of browsers despite the browsers providing support for different graphical capabilities. A Rendering Engine receives source data associated with a graphical object. The Rendering Engine receives an identification of a program for rendering the graphical object in a first browser that supports a graphical capability. The Rendering Engine infers an intended first graphical result of the program. The Rendering Engine identifies a function for rendering a second graphical result in a second browser that does not support the graphical capability. The second graphical result is similar to the intended first graphical result of the program. The Rendering Engine generates target data based on the source data. The Rendering Engine calls the function according to the target data.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: James Peter Gregory, Icer Addis, II
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Patent number: 9844724Abstract: The present invention describes a system and method of high speed calculation of magnetic forces and collision detection between coin clusters in the graphical simulation of magnetic carom game, which has facilities of high speed calculation of magnetic forces, collision and dynamics in between the coins and coin clusters. Therefore, our invention is an interactive game simulation, which solves the problem of collision detection involving aggregates in an efficient manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventors: Saranya H V, Prasanna Gorur Narayana Srinivasa, Pratheek Kolagunda Ananthmurthy
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Patent number: 9844725Abstract: Functionality is disclosed herein for changing a user experience using application events. Events that occur while an application is executing are provided to an application service. The events may be stored on the computing device executing the application before the events are provided to the application service. The application service uses the events to generate a plan that includes data identifying one or more actions for the application to perform. The events used to generate the plan may include events received from other users who also interact with the application. The plan is used by an application to select one or more actions to perform to move the user interacting with the application closer to a goal state. The plan may be periodically updated.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Newcomb Durkin, Timothy Jason Berger, Jean-Yves Pip Courbois, Ian Christopher Suttle
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Patent number: 9844726Abstract: A system for allowing intervention in a video game. The system is adapted to: receive a plurality of event data structures from on-line video games at certain pre-determined points during real time play, each event data structure including an event identification indicative of a pre-defined event, and a user identification uniquely associated with the user; analyze the event data structures to determine event based user information associated with each user; for each user, store the event based user information in a user database; receive requests from video games, each request being associated with a specific point in a specific game and a specific user; analyze information in the user database for each user from which each request originated to determine whether a response should be sent, if a response is needed, determine the response to be sent, and send the determined response to the specific game and specific user that requested it.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: deltaDNA LimitedInventors: Christopher Brian Wright, Geoff Ballinger, Laurie McCulloch, James Prior
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Patent number: 9844727Abstract: A management server issues a token associated with friend network identification information identifying a user of a game provided by an application server, to the application server; receives the token passed from the game to another game on the basis of an operation of the user in a terminal apparatus where the game and the other game are available, from an application server that provides the other game; and manages, in association with each other, the friend network identification information related to the game and friend network identification information related to the other game for which the issued token matches the received token.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Taniguchi, Yuji Osato, Takaaki Kotera
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Patent number: 9844728Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing social network content in an online game is disclosed herein. Content is obtained from a social network site and is displayed within the game. The game also provides a mechanism for the user of the game to generate content to the posted within the social network from within the game. Such generated content is automatically posted in the social network for a recipient specified by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: Jinming Cao, Lin Hou, Chao Guo, Xingguang Yu, Huiqiang Liu, Kerry Yang, Lin Lin
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Patent number: 9844729Abstract: Methods for managing video game title and user play metrics for video game titles executed on a game cloud system includes determining that the video game title has been obtained from an online retailer, by a user. The method further includes enabling execution of game play of the video game title on the game cloud system. Game play metrics for the video game title during execution of game play, is monitored. Selected game play metrics for the video game title are identified. The selected game play metrics are communicated to the online retailer to enable classification of the user that obtained the video game title from the online retailer.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLCInventor: David Perry
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Patent number: 9844730Abstract: One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and apparatus for providing various dance movements as input to a dancing video game. The method and apparatus may detect the hand and arm movements of a video game player and interpret those movements as inputs to the video game. The video game may then compare the dancing movements of the user to expected dance movements to determine if the correct dance movement was performed by the user. The video game may also display a video game environment that instructs and interacts with the user to perform several dance movements of the video game. In this manner, the method and apparatus may provide a more realistic and dynamic dancing video game experience than previous dancing video games that only allowed the player to press buttons as inputs to the game.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2008Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: C. Matthew Dawson, Emily Tyndall, Kristin Mae Yee, David Neil Christenson, Edward Gilmore Martin, James Patrick Rowe, Casey Shane Nelson, Jamison R. Titera, Paul Mombourquette, Rich Reagan
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Patent number: 9844731Abstract: A game system includes a game processing section that performs a game process, a lottery processing section that sets a lottery range that specifies a range of items among a plurality of items used during the game process that are subjected to a lottery process, and selects an item from the items that belong to the lottery range by performing the lottery process, and an item acquisition processing section that performs a process that allows a player to acquire the selected item. Information about the plurality of items has a data structure in which the plurality of items are linked to have a parent-child relationship. The lottery processing section sets the lottery range so that a child item is included within the lottery range when a parent item has been set to an acquired state or an acquirable state, and changes the set lottery range based on given information.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Jun Tamaoki, Makoto Yonezawa, Ryota Mihashi
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Patent number: 9844732Abstract: A vehicle for conveying a rider within a tubular track comprises a support portion for supporting the rider and a retaining body adapted to retain the support portion against an interior wall of the tubular track. The retaining body has a sliding surface for slidable engagement with the wall of the tubular track. The support portion and the retaining body have a vehicle axis of movement about which the vehicle may rotate within the tubular track. An apparatus for transporting a rider comprises a tubular track having an interior wall and at least one vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Skyturtle Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Lance Fisher
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Patent number: 9844733Abstract: An interactive toy bin includes a receptacle having an open top end, a middle section and a closed bottom end defining a generally hollow cavity for receiving toys. A motion sensor is positioned along the periphery of the open top end, and a plurality of lights are disposed along the outside portion of the receptacle. A stylized main body character having a speaker, a control system and a rotational actuator is positioned along the outside portion of the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventor: Bianca Veira
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Patent number: 9844734Abstract: The shooting toy (1) includes a shooter (5) and a projectile (4) to be ejected from the shooter. A trigger element (6) is movably mounted in a shooter body (7) and has a pusher part (10) adapted to push the projectile (4) away from its loaded position. The shooter (5) is adapted to eject the projectile (4) along a centre axis of a cylindrical surface of the projectile (4). A pinching element (8) is adapted to prevent ejection in said direction of the projectile (4) in its loaded position in the shooter body (7) by means of frictional force acting between a pinching surface of the pinching element (8) and the cylindrical surface of the projectile (4). The pinching surface is adapted to guide the cylindrical surface of the projectile (4) in the ejection direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: LEGO A/SInventor: Aske Klejnstrup Garling
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Patent number: 9844735Abstract: A loading and launching device for toy vehicles is disclosed that is actuated with a single pull of an actuator to both load and launch a toy vehicle, such as onto a toy vehicle track set. The device includes a horizontal toy vehicle loader and a toy vehicle launcher that are coupled to one another, such that as the launcher moves rearward, the loader moves from a vehicle receiving and loading position (in which the loading and launching device may receive a toy vehicle returning from the toy track set) to a launch position that pushes a toy vehicle into position directly in front of the launcher. When the launcher is released, it contacts and launches the toy vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Ken Tao, Gerry Cody
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Patent number: 9844736Abstract: The present invention provides for a protective enclosure comprising a base comprising a first continuous mating surface and at least one conveyance aperture, a cover comprising a second continuous mating surface, wherein the second continuous mating surface is configured to form a seal with the first continuous mating surface, and a clamp, wherein at least a portion of the clamp is coupleable to the base, wherein a mouth of the clamp is configured to be offset from the aperture when the clamp is coupled to the base, wherein the clamp comprises a first sealing layer, and wherein the clamp is configured to seal the aperture against contaminants. The protective enclosure may be configured for use in a remotely controllable model vehicle to protect a control module.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: TRAXXAS LPInventors: Timothy E. Roberts, Jon Kenneth Lampert, Otto Karl Allmendinger
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Patent number: 9844737Abstract: A self-sealing balloon comprising a tubular balloon neck segment extending from an opening of a balloon gas retaining expansion cavity. A bead of moldable adhesive material is applied in a ring about an interior circumference of a neck portion of the balloon forming a dispensed adhesive roll. The dispensed adhesive roll is at least partially encapsulated within an adhesive staging segment. The adhesive staging segment is encased within a rolled lip bead by any suitable process. The rolling process aids in forming the ring-shaped adhesive. In use, the balloon would be inflated. The lip bead would be unrolled, exposing the adhesive ring. The moldable adhesive would be compressed forming a seal, entrapping pressurized air within the balloon gas retaining expansion cavity. This provides a low cost, simple self-sealing solution for a balloon.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventors: Wesley Warner, Troy Stark
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Patent number: 9844738Abstract: A tray assembly for improved gas/liquid contact in a chemical process tower includes a tray deck and a downcomer. A mixer is provided in the top of the downcomer and a distributor is attached to a floor of the downcomer. The mixer includes at least one mixing baffle parallel to an outlet weir on the tray. The distributor includes a plurality of spaced apart flow directing plates extending downwardly toward and spaced apart from the floor of the downcomer. In combination, the mixer and distributor effect even liquid flow across the surface of a subjacent tray deck.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: AMT International Inc.Inventors: Adam T. Lee, Pai-Yu Polly Chiang, Xie Runxing, Wang Changzhi
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Patent number: 9844739Abstract: The vertical pipe structure for water and energy harvesting is an artificial structure formed from concentric sets or rings of pipes having sufficient height such that atmospheric water vapor will condense on upper ends thereof. Water vapor condensing on external faces of the pipes flows downward, under the force of gravity, for collection in at least one reservoir. Water vapor condensing on internal faces of the pipes also flows downward within the concentric sets or rings of pipes for collection in an underground chamber. At least one hydrodynamic generator or the like is provided on the exterior of the artificial structure, such that water flowing thereover may be used for the generation of power.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Inventor: Nidhal Saad Al-Ghamdi
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Patent number: 9844740Abstract: Extraction devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. Example devices have a solvent chamber, a plant material chamber, a collection chamber, and a solvent return that create an active, passive, or combination extraction and/or solvent purification process. Any extractable plant material can be used in the disclosed devices, methods, and systems although in some examples some form of the cannabis plant is used.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: CONNOISSEUR HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Andrew Jones
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Patent number: 9844741Abstract: A liquid chromatography column, utilizing horizontal or radial flow of sample material passing there through, includes a housing defining a chamber therein, at least one removable screw lid, and first and second longitudinally extending porous frits positioned within the chamber. A bed or packing of particulate, chromatographic separation material is positioned within the chamber and intermediate the porous frits, the first of the porous frits being adjacent the housing and an inlet channel, the second of the porous frits being positioned adjacent a core member and an outlet channel. A distributor is operatively connected to the inlet channel, and a collector is connected to the outlet channel. The distributor and the inlet channel are constructed to direct associated material to be separated in the bed evenly across a longitudinal length of the bed in a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: JEMP HOLDING BVInventor: Marcellus Johannes Hubertus Raedts
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Patent number: 9844742Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for liquid degassing by means of swirling or centrifugal force coupled with a pressure gradient. This device comprises a cavity. The cavity is furnished with an inlet for liquid-gas mixture, a gas outlet and a liquid outlet. The gas outlet is inserted into the cavity through the top end of the cavity and positioned around 0.1-3 times the maximum diameter of the cavity from the top of the cavity. Specifically, an overflow pipe with the diameter gradually increasing from the bottom to the top was used as the gas outlet. The overflow pipe is further furnished with a bell mouth at the bottom part.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: East China University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Qiang Yang, Xiao Xu, Hao Lu, Chaoyang Wang
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Patent number: 9844743Abstract: An oil deterioration prevention device is provided that can prevent an increase in pressure loss by reducing oilflow resistance. The oil deterioration prevention device may include a filtering unit including a filter element that filters oil, and a deterioration prevention unit including a powdery deterioration prevention agent that prevents deterioration of oil, wherein the deterioration prevention unit includes a passage wall that retains the deterioration prevention agent and forms an oil passage.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Saito, Hideto Morishita, Ippei Fukutomi, Motoichi Murakami, Katsuichi Miyasaka, Masatoshi Hiyoshi, Koji Morita
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Patent number: 9844744Abstract: A filter element having a longitudinal center axis for a fresh air system of an internal combustion engine may include a first plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material and a separate second plate filter body composed of a pleated filter material. The filter element may include first wall body and a second wall body, and a first end body and a second end body. The first wall body, the second wall body, the first end body and the second end body may be connected to the first plate body and the second plate filter body to define an inner space. At least one of the first plate filter body and the second plate filter body may include a curvature projecting to the interior space in a profile extending transversely to a longitudinal direction with respect to the longitudinal center axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH, BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AGInventors: Harry Gensler, Stefan Kaiser, Samuel Kohler, Hans Waibel, Dirk Depiereux
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Patent number: 9844745Abstract: An air filtering system and method for self-cleaning the same is provided. The system has a plurality of air filters including a first filter and at least one neighboring filter. A blower fan pulls air through the filters. A plurality of compressed air injectors are provided adjacent the filters including a first injector and at least one neighboring injector. Self-cleaning is achieved while the blower fan is running by preforming several steps including activating the first injector to force compressed air into the first filter and discharge particulate from the first filter followed by deactivating the first injector. The steps further provide reactivating the first injector and simultaneously activating the neighboring injector while the discharged particulate is airborne to provide an air shield about the first filter and force the discharged particulate away from the first filter and the neighboring filter. These steps are repeated for each filter.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: ROBOVENT PRODUCTS GROUP, INC.Inventor: John Reid
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Patent number: 9844746Abstract: A receiver for separating and collecting contaminants, such as lint produced by a textile machine, from an airstream. The receiver includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet. The receiver includes a dumping mechanism to selectively dump the collected contaminants from the bottom of the housing. The housing contains a perforated filter support positioned in a flow path of the airstream from the inlet to the outlet. A tubular mesh screen is attached under tension to the perforated filter support. The tubular mesh screen is positioned in the flow path of the airstream from the inlet to the outlet so that the screen can separate the contaminants from the airstream. An annular bracket ring is attached to a lower portion of the screen to position and facilitate replacement of the screen. Pressure sensors are provided to activate the dumping mechanism based on a predetermined pressure differential.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Industrial Air, Inc.Inventor: Gary D. Jansen
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Patent number: 9844747Abstract: A filter core has a wavy filtering sheet and a flat filtering sheet. The filtering sheets are for filtering suspended pollutants and respectively have multiple corrugations axially arranged apart from each other. Therefore, channels formed between the filtering sheets also have corrugations formed on inner walls of the channels after the filtering sheets are adhered. The corrugations on the inner walls of the channels are also axially arranged apart from each other and form concave and convex portions. As a result, when fluid, such as air, axially moves in the channels, the suspended pollutants on the fluid may hit, gather and accumulate on the corrugations, thereby slowing the fluid flow and providing one more filtering process. In addition, the corrugations on the filtering sheets also increase a filtering area. To sum up, the filter core can enhance the filtering effect.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Pro-Pure Inc.Inventor: Hsiang-Chi Lin
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Patent number: 9844748Abstract: A method to condense and recover CO2 from CO2 containing streams. A first step involve providing at more than one heat exchanger, with each heat exchanger having a first flow path for passage of a first fluid and a second flow path for passage of a second fluid. A second step involves passing a stream of very cold natural gas sequentially along the second flow path of each heat exchanger until it is heated for distribution and concurrently passing a CO2 containing stream sequentially along the first flow path of each heat exchanger, allowing the water vapor portion of the CO2 containing stream to condense and precipitate on the condensing heat exchangers. A third step involves passing a water vapor free CO2 containing stream to a cryogenic heat exchanger to condense, precipitate and recover CO2.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: 1304338 Alberta Ltd, 1304342 Alberta LtdInventors: Jose Lourenco, MacKenzie Millar
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Patent number: 9844749Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption apparatus for the removal of one or more components such as oxygen from a mixture of gases such as air is disclosed. The apparatus includes pairs of columns (14, 16) for receiving a stream of compressed air with one column operating in a working mode whilst the other said column operates in a purging mode. The columns contain carbon molecular sieve material (26) for adsorbing oxygen and a desiccant material formed into a plurality of tubes (28).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: NORGREN LIMITEDInventor: Colin Billiet
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Patent number: 9844750Abstract: The invention relates to a cyclical method for producing a nitrogen fraction, the purity of which is greater than or equal to 95 mol %, and a hydrocarbon-enriched fraction from a filler containing nitrogen and a hydrocarbon, said method using a specific class of porous hybrid solids as an adsorbent in a pressure-swing adsorption (PSA) process. The invention also relates to equipment for implementing said method.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS FRANCE, UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO. (UPORTO) FACULDADE DE ENGENHARIA, KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Francis Luck, Catherine Leroi, Alvaro Fernandez, Ana Mafalda Almeida Peixoto Ribeiro, Joao Carlos Godinho De Faria Dos Santos, Alirio Egidio Rodrigues, Jong-San Chang, U-Hwang Lee, Young Kyu Hwang, Jean-Patrick Bonne
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Patent number: 9844751Abstract: The invention relates to a method for removing absorbable gases from pressurized industrial gases contaminated with absorbable gases, without supplying cooling energy. The method includes an industrial gas that is to be purified is purified by an absorbent solvent, the absorbable gases situated therein being removed by the solvent, and the loaded solvent is passed to a stripping stage in which the absorbed gas is desorbed again, and the desorbed gas is compressed, in such a manner that it is heated by the compression, whereupon it is cooled to standard temperature by means of cooling water or cooling air, then expanded, in such a manner that it cools and this cooled desorption gas is again returned to the industrial gas, in such a manner that said industrial gas is also cooled by the admixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AGInventor: Johannes Menzel
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Patent number: 9844752Abstract: A system, a use of such a system and a multi system for cleaning exhaust gas from a combustion engine. The system comprises a first exhaust gas scrubber to communicate with a scrubber water circulation tank. A first outlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is connectable to a first inlet of the scrubber water circulation tank, and a first inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is connectable to a first outlet of the scrubber water circulation tank, to enable circulation of scrubber water between the scrubber water circulation tank and the first exhaust gas scrubber. An air supply device feeds air into the first exhaust gas scrubber to aerate the scrubber water during its passage through the first exhaust gas scrubber. Accordingly, a second inlet of the first exhaust gas scrubber is arranged to be connected to an outlet of the air supply device.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE ABInventor: Soren Molgaard