Patents Issued in January 30, 2018
  • Patent number: 9878312
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to producing zeolite structures with GME topologies using organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) comprising a piperidinium cation, and the compositions and structures resulting from these methods. In some embodiments, the crystalline products have a molar ratio of a molar ratio of Si:Al that is greater than 3.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Michiel J. Dusselier, Mark E. Davis
  • Patent number: 9878313
    Abstract: Process for the direct synthesis of Cu-SSZ-13 from a synthesis mixture comprising water, at least one silicon source, at least one Al source, at least one Cu source, at least one polyamine for complexing with Cu, and a single organic structure directing agent. A Cu containing molecular sieve having the framework structure of SSZ-13, obtainable by the process and use of the Cu containing molecular sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Manuel Moliner Marin, Raquel Martinez Franco, Avelino Corma Canós, Joakim Reimer Thøgersen
  • Patent number: 9878314
    Abstract: A catalyst for producing isoparaffins-rich synthetic oil is a granulated porous composite material comprising a three-dimensional heat-conducting structure of metal aluminum and Raney cobalt, and a binding component comprising an H-form zeolite. The particles of Raney cobalt and zeolite are in mutual direct contact. Fractions of macropores in an open porosity of the catalyst granules and of mesopores of the size of 70-500 ? in an open porosity of the catalyst granules are respectively 55-79% and 7-20%, a fraction of micropores being the rest. A method for preparing the catalyst comprises mixing binding component powders, peptizing the mixture with a nitric acid solution, mixing obtained homogeneous gel with powders of Raney cobalt and metal aluminum and a liquid phase to form a paste, extruding same into granules and calcinating the granules. The catalyst improves reagents mass transfer inside the granules and increases isoparaffine content in the produced oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Infra XTL Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Vladimir Z. Mordkovich, Lilia V. Sineva, Ekaterina Yu Khatkova, Ilia S. Ermolaev
  • Patent number: 9878315
    Abstract: A zeolite has a CHA structure, a SiO2/Al2O3 composition ratio less than 15, and potassium in an amount of about 0.1% by mass to about 1% by mass in terms of K2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohiro Usui, Takunari Murakami, Hirokazu Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9878316
    Abstract: A catalyst washcoat is provided having a molecular sieve with a CHA crystal structure; about 0.5 to about 5.0 mol % phosphorus; and SiO2 and Al2O3 in a mole ratio of about 5 to about 40. The washcoat includes one or more promoters or stabilizers, and may be applied to a monolith substrate to produce a catalytically active article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: John L. Casci, Hai-Ying Chen, Joseph Michael Fedeyko, Jillian Elaine Collier, Raj Rao Rajaram, David Thompsett, Robert P. Hodgkins
  • Patent number: 9878317
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds produced by the reaction of glycidyl ethers and glycidyl esters with ether compounds including N,N,N?-trimethyl-bis-(aminoethyl)ether. N,N,N?-trimethyl-bis-(aminoethyl)ether and its derivatives can be used as polyurethane catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Juan Jesus Burdeniuc, Stephan Hermann Wendel, John William Mitchell
  • Patent number: 9878318
    Abstract: The present invention provides trimerization catalyst compositions and methods to produce a polyisocyanurate/polyurethane foam using such trimerization catalyst compositions. The catalyst composition is the contact product of at least one ?,?-unsaturated carboxylate salt and at least one second carboxylate salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Juan Jesus Burdeniuc, Torsten Panitzsch, John Elton Dewhurst, Gamini Ananda Vedage
  • Patent number: 9878319
    Abstract: A dispersing-type nanocatalyst for catalytic hydrocracking of heavy oil, a method for preparing the same, and the use thereof in catalytic hydrocracking of heavy oil. The present invention is also directed to reducing the operational temperature of catalytic hydrocracking of heavy crude oil, and also increasing the yield of the process by utilizing a lower concentration of said nanocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY (RIPI)
    Inventors: Mahshad Alaei, Alimorad Rashidi, Alireza Mahjoub, Mohsen Ghanami, Amir Hossein Bornaee
  • Patent number: 9878320
    Abstract: Hybrid media formed by combining a metal precursor solution with particulate media to yield a mixture, decanting the mixture to yield a decanted mixture, heating the decanted mixture in via microwave radiation to yield hybrid media, rinsing the hybrid media with water, soaking the rinsed hybrid media in a salt solution, and rinsing the soaked hybrid media with water. The hybrid media includes a metal dioxide derived from the metal precursor, such as TiO2 derived from TiOSO4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Kiril D. Hristovski, Paul K. Westerhoff
  • Patent number: 9878321
    Abstract: Described herein are processes and apparatus for the high purity and high concentration recovery of multivalent products via continuous ion exchange from aqueous solutions for further down-stream purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: INVISTA NORTH AMERICA S.Á.R.L.
    Inventors: Mariusz Kamionka, Alex Conradie
  • Patent number: 9878322
    Abstract: A pipetting unit and a method of using the pipetting unit for pipetting a volume V1 of test liquid for carrying out an in vitro diagnostic test are presented. The method comprises dipping a nozzle of a pipetting unit into a test liquid and aspirating a volume V4 of the test liquid larger than the volume V1 required for carrying out the test. The method further comprises dipping the pipetting unit into a wash liquid and dispensing a volume V2 equal or smaller than V4 minus V1 of the test liquid into the wash liquid. The method further comprises dipping the pipetting unit into a reaction liquid and dispensing the volume V1 of test liquid required for the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Hutter, Roland Stoeckli
  • Patent number: 9878323
    Abstract: We describe assay modules (e.g., assay plates, cartridges, multi-well assay plates, reaction vessels, etc.), processes for their preparation, and method of their use for conducting assays. Reagents may be present in free form or supported on solid phases including the surfaces of compartments (e.g., chambers, channels, flow cells, wells, etc.) in the assay modules or the surface of colloids, beads, or other particulate supports. In particular, dry reagents can be incorporated into the compartments of these assay modules and reconstituted prior to their use in accordance with the assay methods. A desiccant material may be used to maintain and stabilize these reagents in a dry state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Eli N. Glezer, Bandele Jeffrey-Coker, Jeffery D. Debad, Sudeep M. Kumar, George B. Sigal, Gisbert Spieles, Michael Tsionsky, Michael Warnock
  • Patent number: 9878324
    Abstract: Fluidic devices and methods including those that provide storage and/or facilitate fluid handling of reagents are provided. Fluidic devices described herein may include channel segments positioned on two sides of an article, optionally connected by an intervening channel passing through the article. The channel segments may be used to store reagents in the device prior to first use by an end user. The stored reagents may include fluid plugs positioned in linear order so that during use, as fluids flow to a reaction site, they are delivered in a predetermined sequence. The specific geometries of the channel segments and the positions of the channel segments within the fluidic devices described herein may allow fluid reagents to be stored for extended periods of time without mixing, even during routine handling of the devices such as during shipping of the devices, and when the devices are subjected to physical shock or vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: OPKO Diagnostics, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Taylor, Vincent Linder
  • Patent number: 9878325
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present invention relate to the control and manipulation of fluidic species, for example, in microfluidic systems. In one aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for making droplets of fluid surrounded by a liquid, using, for example, electric fields, mechanical alterations, the addition of an intervening fluid, etc. In some cases, the droplets may each have a substantially uniform number of entities therein. For example, 95% or more of the droplets may each contain the same number of entities of a particular species. In another aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for dividing a fluidic droplet into two droplets, for example, through charge and/or dipole interactions with an electric field. The invention also relates to systems and methods for fusing droplets according to another aspect of the invention, for example, through charge and/or dipole interactions. In some cases, the fusion of the droplets may initiate or determine a reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: David A. Weitz, Darren Roy Link, Galder Cristobal-Azkarate, Zhengdong Cheng, Keunho Ahn
  • Patent number: 9878326
    Abstract: The direct integration of light and optical control into microfluidic systems presents a significant hurdle to the development of portable optical trapping-based devices. A simple, inexpensive fiber-based approach is provided that allows for easy implementation of diode-bars for optical particle separations within flowing microfluidic systems. Models have also been developed that demonstrate the advantages of manipulating particles within flow using linear geometries as opposed to individually focused point traps as traditionally employed in optical-trapping micromanipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Colorado School of Mines
    Inventors: Jeff Squier, David W. M. Marr, Robert Applegate, Tor Vestad
  • Patent number: 9878327
    Abstract: This disclosure describes microfluidic devices that include one or more magnets, each magnet being operable to emit a magnetic field; and a magnetizable layer adjacent to the one or more magnets, in which the magnetizable layer is configured to induce a gradient in the magnetic field of at least one of the magnets. For example, the gradient can be at least 103 T/m at a position that is at least 20 ?m away from a surface of the magnetizable layer. The magnetizable layer includes a first high magnetic permeability material and a low magnetic permeability material arranged adjacent to the high magnetic permeability material. The devices also include a microfluidic channel arranged on a surface of the magnetizable layer, wherein a central longitudinal axis of the microfluidic channel is arranged at an angle to or laterally offset from an interface between the high magnetic permeability material and the low magnetic permeability material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle C. Smith, Ramin Haghgooie, Thomas Alan Barber, Ismail Emre Ozkumur, Ravi Kapur, Mehmet Toner
  • Patent number: 9878328
    Abstract: This describes an apparatus comprising a plate with a number of elements having a hydrophilic surface arranged in an array with an overlay having a hydrophobic surface. A height of the overlay is between about 5% and 100% of the diameter of the elements. The application also discloses a wall circumferential to the plate; and a removable grid insertable into the apparatus, said grid comprising dividers enclosing a number of through-holes, said through-holes spaced in the grid to allow alignment of the through-holes of the grid over the elements in the plate when said grid is inserted into the apparatus, said dividers of the grid inserted into the apparatus form sides of wells bottomed by the plate and at least one element on said plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Curiox Biosystems Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Namyong Kim, Siah Chong Cheong, Melvin Han Wen Lye, Mark Siew Peng Phong, Li Li, Teow Soon Seah
  • Patent number: 9878329
    Abstract: A self-contained sample processing cartridge, is disclosed. The sample processing cartridge includes a first member that includes a receiver to receive a sample specimen slide. The cartridge may also include a second member that closes on the first member to form a chamber inside the cartridge. The sample specimen slide forms a surface of the chamber. Placing the slide in the cartridge effectively completes the chamber of the cartridge. In one embodiment, the receiver of the first member includes an open region adjacent which the specimen slide is received. The second member includes a plurality of fluid inputs and at least one fluid output. The plurality of fluid inputs couples to the chamber by a plurality of channels respectively therebetween. In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of channels may include a reagent reservoir and at least one of the plurality of channels includes a dissolvable blocking reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SYFR, Inc.
    Inventors: Shazi S Iqbal, Michael Mayo, Paul Parks, Alexander Greis
  • Patent number: 9878330
    Abstract: Provided herein are anti-static pipette trays that reduce the amount of static charge accumulated on or in pipette tips and allow for discharge of any accumulated static charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BIOTIX, INC.
    Inventors: Arta Motadel, Scott Edward Curry
  • Patent number: 9878331
    Abstract: An under-sink disposal unit includes a motor, a disposal chamber, and a disposal throat. The disposal throat extends from the disposal chamber to an opening in a top of the disposal unit and defines a passageway through which objects pass into the disposal chamber for grinding. The disposal unit further includes a coil assembly including an arrangement of coils. The arrangement of coils is used to detect the passing of a metallic object in the passageway through the disposal throat. Furthermore, the arrangement of coils includes at least one coil having a loop that is oriented with respect to an axis of the passageway through the disposal throat such that objects passing through the disposal throat into the disposal chamber pass by and proximate to, but do not pass through, such loop. Preferably DC injection braking is used to stop the motor upon detection of a metallic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SAMELIN INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Starkey, Raeshon Lamont McNeil, Juan Carlos Perez, Lloyd S. Riggs, Aubrey N. Beal
  • Patent number: 9878332
    Abstract: A method of producing powder product includes the steps of: Feeding a precursor powder material into a jet mill; feeding a gas into the jet mill to initiate a jet milling operation to produce size-reduced particles; and coating size-reduced particles with oil so that newly exposed surfaces of size-reduced particles are coated with oil, wherein the coating step includes one or more of a post-milling oil injection process and a pre-milling oil injection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Climax Molybdenum Company
    Inventors: Gregory Rue Logue, Larry Giannotti, Gary G. de Gala, James A. Cole, David L. Cottrell
  • Patent number: 9878333
    Abstract: Weld balls disposed in solutions in full immersion tanks of a phosphate system are collected by magnets attached to at least some of the hangers that carry skids through stages of the phosphate system. The magnet attached to a hanger is immersed in the solutions when the hanger is immersed in the solutions and magnetically attracts the weld balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventor: Lloyd M Seery
  • Patent number: 9878334
    Abstract: A spray nozzle apparatus for spraying a spray jet which contains a coating material in one spray direction S for coating of a surface which is located in the spray direction S opposite the spray nozzle apparatus transversely to the spray direction S with a spray nozzle for spraying the spray jet from a spray nozzle outlet of the spray nozzle and at least one control nozzle with a control nozzle outlet which is aligned or can be aligned to the spray jet transversely to the spray direction S for acting on the spray jet and deflecting it by means of a control flow which is emerging from the control nozzle outlet, characterized in that there is one control apparatus for control of the control flow with a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH
    Inventor: Felix Massa
  • Patent number: 9878335
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spray mixer for mixing and spraying at least two flowable components. The spray mixer (22) is provided with a tubular outer mixer housing (23) which extends in the direction of a mixer longitudinal axis (24) from a mixer start (25) to a distal mixer end (26). A mixer inner housing (29) which accommodates a mixer element (33) is arranged in the mixer outer housing (23). A mixer compressed air inlet (31) is arranged at the mixer start (25). The mixer compressed air inlet (31) is connected by means of a mixer compressed air channel (30) to an annular mixer compressed air outlet (32) which encloses a mixer outlet opening (35). In the operation of the spray mixer (22), compressed air is supplied via the mixer compressed air inlet (31), flows through the mixer compressed air channel (30) to the mixer compressed air outlet (32) and atomizes and sprays the material emerging from the mixer outlet opening (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SULZER MIXPAC AG
    Inventors: Jörg Müller, Richard Lavelanet
  • Patent number: 9878336
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid reservoir for a paint spray gun with a container (1) and a cover (2) that is attachable on this container and has a connection part (3) to enable attaching the fluid reservoir on the paint spray gun or on an adapter, wherein the container (1) has a ventilation opening (6) that can be closed by a valve (5). In a fluid reservoir known from the state of the art, the valve is constructed in the form of a sliding valve. Here, there is the risk that the ventilation opening is not completely closed if the slide of the sliding valve has not been pushed completely into the valve housing. In order to provide a fluid reservoir with a valve that can be easily actuated manually and that can be closed reliably, it is provided for the fluid reservoir according to the invention that the valve (5) has a closing element (8) that can pivot like a rocker about a pivot axis (7) for closing the ventilation opening (6) in a fluid-tight way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SATA GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Ralf Gehrung
  • Patent number: 9878337
    Abstract: A sprayer includes a body which has a neck, of which an inner sectional area becomes gradually smaller as it goes towards a front side, on a front side of the blower module assembly, a chemical container that includes a chemical container top which has a check valve in the interior thereof, and a chemical discharge hole that is formed at a lower portion thereof, a blower module that is installed in the blower module assembly such that exterior air passes through the neck, a feeding pump that is connected to the chemical discharge hole by a connection pipe, an ejection nozzle assembly that connected to the feeding pump by a connection pipe, and a tube-shaped fixing cap are separated from and coupled to an end of the neck of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SMBURE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi Sool Hong
  • Patent number: 9878338
    Abstract: A backpack sprayer has a carrying arrangement, on which a container for spraying agent is arranged. The container has a filling opening which can be closed by way of a lid. The carrying arrangement has a set-down position, in which the carrying arrangement is set down on a planar, horizontal set-down surface. The spraying agent region of the container is the region which is provided for spraying agent and extends as far as a maximum permissible filling height (max). The spraying agent region has a greatest horizontal inner cross-sectional area (A) in the set-down position. In order to allow simple filling of spraying agent and simple cleaning of the container, it is provided that the container can be opened at the filling opening over at least 60% of its greatest inner cross-sectional area (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaas Maximilian Heide, Hans-Georg Wiedmann, Klaus Langhans
  • Patent number: 9878339
    Abstract: An applicator head for discharging a pasty medium from a container, including a metering chamber, a first housing part bounding the metering chamber in sections, with an actuating element, and a second housing part. The first housing part and the second housing part form a constructional unit connectable to a container storing the medium and closing the container. By actuating the actuating element, the medium is conveyed out of the container into the metering chamber and/or is discharged from the metering chamber. A sealing element of a plastically or elastically deformable plastic is provided, and is arranged such that the container is closable in a sealing manner by the constructional unit. The sealing element is manufactured as a common component with at least one further element of the applicator head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Tobias Baumann
  • Patent number: 9878340
    Abstract: A color application system and method provide improved results of the color application and the operation of the color application system, for example color application errors due to varying pressure are reduced or eliminated, by using a color application system having one or more receivers for wireless data transfer between components of the color application system, wherein one of the components is a color sprayer having a detecting unit for detecting operating parameters of the color sprayer and/or environmental parameters, and a transmitter for wirelessly transferring the operating parameters and/or environmental parameters to the receiver. In a method for operating such a color application system, the operating parameters of spray air pressure and/or optionally the pressure of the medium to be sprayed is detected in or at the color sprayer, and then the detected pressure or pressures are wirelessly transferred to one or more components of the color application system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SATA GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewald Schmon, Peter Dettlaff
  • Patent number: 9878341
    Abstract: A water spraying system includes an engine, a pump driven by the engine, the pump including a pump inlet configured to be fluidly coupled to a water source and a pump outlet providing water at an increased water pressure, a sprayer fluidly coupled to the pump outlet, the sprayer including a flow restriction valve, a trigger for operating the flow restriction valve, and a wireless transmitter configured to transmit a wireless start signal indicating release of the flow restriction valve, a wireless receiver, and a controller coupled to the wireless receiver, wherein the wireless receiver receives the wireless start signal from the wireless transmitter and in response the controller activates the pump by starting the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
    Inventor: Richard J. Gilpatrick
  • Patent number: 9878342
    Abstract: An improved mobile paint booth system and method for applying paint to a vehicle is herein disclosed. An improved mobile paint booth can comprise a plurality of vertical supports, a base support, a first upper beam, and a second upper beam. The plurality of vertical supports can comprise a corner support at each corner, and a middle support along a first wall. The base support can be substantially in the shape of a “U” that can connect each of the vertical supports. The base of the “U” can be along the bottom of the first wall. The first upper beam that can connect a first set of the corner support and the middle support. The second upper beam that can connect a second set of the corner support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Wiliams
  • Patent number: 9878343
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to construction tools. The present invention includes tools used for applying mastic or mud to a work surface, for example, a flat box mastic applicator tool, blade assembly, and/or blade adjustment system, that have many improvements too numerous to mention all in the Abstract. The flat box mastic applicator may include unique walls. The blade assembly may have a non-uniform cross section, e.g., a blade holder with thinner areas and/or material removed at various locations along its lateral length. The blade holder may have a larger size outer end(s) to withstand bending or braking. The blade holder may have and arched shape, ribs or bumps for holding a blade more firmly, and a ridge or bump at its outer edge to act as a dam. The blade adjustment system may include symmetrical pins or posts and a tapered leaf spring. See further improvements herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: David B. Jalbert
  • Patent number: 9878344
    Abstract: A coating machine has a receiving box, a releasing device, a length measuring device, a driving roller device and a coating device. The releasing device, the length measuring device, the driving roller device, and the coating device are assembled inside the receiving box. The coating device has a coating pole and a releasing set. The coating pole is arranged below the releasing set. The releasing set has a receptacle to contain an activator. The receptacle has at least one releasing hole to release the activator. The coating machine adopts the coating device with a simplified structure and has a merit of coating the activator evenly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: YUNG HUNG PRECISION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tai-An Chen
  • Patent number: 9878345
    Abstract: A squeeze-out dispenser for a container containing compounds is disclosed. In an embodiment, the squeeze-out dispenser features two plungers which are provided with a profile along their longitudinal extensions and a drive unit for the plungers with a drive meshing with the profile of the plungers. The profile of the plungers is formed by several through-holes spaced apart from one another at a uniform interval and passing through the plungers, into which through-holes engagements of the drive engage for advancing the plungers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Hefele, Hans Peter Lederle, Franz Heiberger
  • Patent number: 9878346
    Abstract: Subsequently, the medical implant coated with the liquid punctures the membrane 14 which, until then, protected the powder 18 situated below it from external influences. The medical implant is then immersed in the powder 18. The liquid film on the surface of the medical implant causes the powder 18 to adhere well to the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Heraeus Medical GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Vogt, Hubert Büchner
  • Patent number: 9878347
    Abstract: A refurbishment process for a volumetric screw compressor of the ‘oil-free’ type, which comprises a male rotor and a female rotor, is described. The process comprises visually checking the wear condition of the rotors, treating their surface for removing the previous coating, and applying a new coating on the surface. The composition of the coating applied on the surface of the rotors consists of the following materials: Material Amount (g) Polytetrafluoroethylene 750 ÷ 850 (954G 303 C Teflon, DuPont) Amorphous graphite powder 300 ÷ 400 Thinner for spray cleaning apparatuses 200 ÷ 270 (8595 thinner, DuPont) Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) 170 ÷ 220 Cellosolve acetate coating additive 200 ÷ 300 (Syn Fac 800 resin).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: RIEM SERVICE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fabio Russo
  • Patent number: 9878348
    Abstract: A double-layer coating composition having improved sparkling effect, and a method of coating the same are provided. The composition includes a first coating, which reinforces the sparkling effect and contains a greater amount of Al particle; and a second coating, which reinforces chromaticity and contains a less amount of Al particle. The method includes applying a first coating on an article and applying a second coating thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Sang G. Kim
  • Patent number: 9878349
    Abstract: The postal sorting machine comprises a sorting conveyor suitable for transporting postal articles in series past sorting outlets and a postal article feed unit having a magazine for loosely storing postal articles to be sorted and a separator that has a robotized arm and a vision sensor and that is suitable for picking up the postal articles to be sorted one-by-one from the magazine and for putting them on the sorting conveyor while placing them in series at constant pitch. The sorting conveyor has a flat conveyor that slopes sideways to form a jogging edge against which the postal articles are jogged by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SOLYSTIC
    Inventors: Karine Crest, Pierre Campagnolle, Jacques Petit
  • Patent number: 9878350
    Abstract: A wristband fluid application device for applying a fluid to a surface and removing the same as necessary. The device may generally comprise a fluid applicator and a textile base member for sanitizing gym equipment, wiping windows, applying sunscreen, and the like. The fluid applicator may comprise a spray applicator. In one embodiment, the present invention may be used by gym patrons to sanitized gym equipment before and/or after use. The present invention may also be used to clean other surfaces including but not limited to household windows, vehicle windows, and the like. Additional embodiments of the present invention may also be used either to apply sunscreen on a user or as a fishing towel to clean hands and remove odor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: James Landy
  • Patent number: 9878351
    Abstract: An escalator step cleaner for cleaning escalator steps having a plurality of parallel tread ridges separated by tread grooves has a cleaning pad assembly configured to extend generally perpendicular to the direction of motion of the escalator steps and clean the escalator steps while the escalator is in motion. The cleaning pad assembly has a rigid upper plate and a flexible disposable bottom pad having a cleaning contact surface. The contact surface carries a plurality of spaced parallel pad ridges separated by pad grooves that matingly engage between the tread ridges of the escalator steps and cause dislodgement of the accumulated debris. The cleaning pad assembly can be secured on a hand-held cleaning tool or on a motorized cleaning tool with rotating brushes and a vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: RENAELC, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick C. Gehm, Michael S. Knight
  • Patent number: 9878352
    Abstract: A high pressure surface cleaner includes a housing having an open end, a high pressure coupling in fluid communication with the housing and having a first end and a second end, the first end configured to receive a high pressure water source, and a supply conduit rotatably secured to the second end of the high pressure coupling and configured to rotate about the high pressure coupling defining a horizontal plane within the housing. The cleaner also includes first and second nozzles having a vertical axis therethrough and secured proximate to the first and opposing second ends of the supply conduit, respectively, the vertical axis of the first and second nozzles approximately normal to the first horizontal plane, and a directional nozzle coupled to the supply conduit and having a directional outlet orientated to cause the supply conduit with the first and second nozzles to rotate when discharging water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Don M. Buckner
  • Patent number: 9878353
    Abstract: A stocker includes cells including a purge function and cells not including the purge function. A cell not including the purge function is easily changed to a cell that includes the purge function. The stocker includes a frame to which multiple cell supports not including a cleaning gas supplying nozzle are configured to be attached along the vertical direction or the horizontal direction, and the base of a stocker unit is attached to the frame. The stocker unit includes a pipe configured to supply cleaning gas that is provided along the base, and multiple cell supports including the purge function that are attached to the base and are aligned along the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. Each cell support preferably is configured to support a container and includes a nozzle configured to supply cleaning gas from the pipe to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD
    Inventors: Masanao Murata, Takashi Yamaji
  • Patent number: 9878354
    Abstract: Cleaning reamer devices and methods for cleaning the interior of a valve guide are described. One cleaning reamer includes a straight shank, a body, and a piloted portion. The piloted portion is dimensionally sized and shaped to be substantially equivalent to the valve stem that is positioned within the valve guide to be cleared of deposits. The body of the cleaning reamer is fluted or straight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Horizon, LLC
    Inventor: David A. McFarlane
  • Patent number: 9878355
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of fragmenting a discrete waste product item or a combination of discrete waste product items involving introducing the discrete waste product item or combination of discrete waste product items into a pressure vessel, subjecting the item or items to an atmosphere of superheated steam in the vessel of at least 0.5 bar above atmospheric pressure, subsequently decompressing the vessel to achieve a pressure reduction of at least 0.5 bar in at most 5 seconds, and repeating the steps to effect fragmentation of the waste product item or combination of waste product items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: B&M Longworth (Edgeworth) Limited
    Inventors: John Norris, Peter Norris, Alan Reid, Mark Talbot
  • Patent number: 9878356
    Abstract: The invention relates to composite adsorbent materials, and in particular, to highly porous carbon-based composite materials for the adsorption and stabilization of inorganic substances. The composite adsorbent material comprises a porous carbon carrier matrix and an adsorbent species, wherein the adsorbent species is precipitated within the pores of the carrier matrix. The invention extends to various uses of such adsorbent materials, for example in water purification, recovery of metals from waste streams and remediation applications, and where the adsorbant material is amended into soil, waste etc. for the purpose of breaking pollutant-receptor linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignees: The University of Surrey, The Forestry Commission
    Inventors: Franciscus Antonius Anna Maria De Leij, James Stratford, Helen Sneath, Tony Hutchings
  • Patent number: 9878357
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flexible roll forming device including: bases respectively disposed on opposite sides with respect to a process direction center line in a left/right direction, each having an opening formed in an upper side thereof connected to an inside thereof, and rails configured thereon on opposite sides of the opening in a lateral direction of the process; forward/backward moving cyclinder having a slide plate provided to be movable along the rails on the base; turning reducer rotatably provided to the slide plate; and upper and lower forming rolls provided on the turning cylinder for subjecting a material fed thereto to flexible roll forming by using the upper and lower forming rolls while varying positions in the lateral direction of processing with the forward/backward moving cylinder, and angles from a process direction with the turning reducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SUNGWOO HITECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mun Yong Lee, Jin Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 9878358
    Abstract: A cooling section for a flat rolled material (1) has a frame structure (2), in which a plurality of transport rollers (3) for the flat rolled material (1) are arranged one after another transversely to a transport direction (x) and spaced apart (a). Each transport roller (3) mounted in the frame structure (2) rotates about a respective roller axis (4). The roller axes (4) run orthogonally to the transport direction (x) and horizontally, so that the transport rollers (4) form a pass line (5) for the flat rolled material (1). At least one lower spray bar (6) arranged beneath the pass line (5) has a base block (7) beneath the transport rollers (3) for a liquid coolant (8). Guide sections (9) project upwards from the base block (7) into spaces between the transport rollers (3). Each guide section (9) has an upper terminating element (10) on which spray nozzles (11) are arranged, which feed the coolant (8), which had been fed into the base block (7), to be sprayed onto the flat rolled material (1) from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Sieglinde Ehgartner, Reinhard Karl, Erich Opitz, Florian Poeschl, Alois Seilinger, Thomas Trickl
  • Patent number: 9878359
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a bending device with a novel structure capable of efficiently bending a metallic plate without scratching or denting the plate. [Solution] A device (10) for bending a metallic plate (W) mounted on a pair of movable plates (35, 35) by applying pressing force to the metallic plate by an upper die (20) along a central axis (X), wherein against the biasing force of a coil spring (45), the movable plates move with the extension of the metallic plate during bending, and therefore the metallic plate is not scratched. The upper surface of each of the movable plates is a perfect flat surface, and therefore does not dent the metallic plate being subjected to the pressing force by the upper die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TOKYO SEIMITSU HATSUJO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Maeda
  • Patent number: 9878360
    Abstract: A roll forming apparatus for roll forming for producing from a sheet material a shaped steel which varies in cross-sectional shape in a longitudinal direction comprises a first rolling die which has an annular ridge part which varies in cross-sectional shape in a circumferential direction; a second rolling die which has an annular groove part which varies in cross-sectional shape in a circumferential direction; and a drive device for the first rolling die and the second rolling die. At least transition parts of the side surfaces of the annular ridge part of the first rolling die are provided with relief so that the gap with respect to the side surfaces of the annular groove part of the second rolling die becomes broader inward in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masaaki Mizumura, Seiichi Daimaru
  • Patent number: 9878361
    Abstract: A die and counter-die type bending machine for right- and left-hand bending an elongated piece (P) has a roller-shaped die (1) provided with a partial circumferential groove (2) that is interrupted at its two ends, the die (1) being driven by the shaft (0) of a motor, and a pair of counter-dies (25, 26) being carried by respective counter-die support members (19, 20) pivoted on a turret (11) that is rotatable mounted on a slide (8) in a given arc of rotation about its axis perpendicular to the slide (8) by a lever (12). The die (1) has an elongated piece retaining element (3, 4) at each of two ends of its partial circumferential groove (2). The first or the second counter-die is selectable to co-operate with the die in bending the elongated piece depending on the required curvature to right hand or left hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CML INTERNATIONAL S.P.A.
    Inventor: Alessandro Caporusso