Patents Issued in September 11, 2018
  • Patent number: PP29649
    Abstract: ‘KORpot075’ is a new and distinct variety of Rosa hybrida which is characterized by the combination of an upright growth habit with a moderately vigorous rate of growth, very good resistance to many rose diseases, and orange double flowers borne in corymbs of 2 to 5 flowers. The new variety propagates successfully by stem cuttings and grafting and has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: W. Kordes Söhne Rosenschulen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tim-Hermann Kordes
  • Patent number: PP29650
    Abstract: A new garden rose plant of the Miniature class which has abundant, light pink flowers and attractive foliage. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: POULSEN ROSER A/S
    Inventor: Mogens Nyegaard Olesen
  • Patent number: PP29651
    Abstract: This invention is a new and distinct grapevine variety denominated ‘IFG Twenty-nine’. The new grapevine is characterized by producing extremely narrow elongated, medium firm, white, seedless fruit with a characteristic pointed tip and pleasant mild flavor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL FRUIT GENETICS, LLC
    Inventor: David Cain
  • Patent number: PP29652
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Thuja occidentalis plant named, ‘Hoogi023’, that is characterized by its compact and columnar plant habit, and its new foliage that is golden yellow in summer turning more yellow-orange in fall and winter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Sebastiaan Hoogenraad
  • Patent number: PP29653
    Abstract: A new Lantana plant named ‘LANZ0015’ having large sized tri-color, yellow, orange and red flowers, excellent floriferousness, and uniform dense spreading habit with medium green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Shifeng Pan
  • Patent number: PP29654
    Abstract: A new Lantana plant named ‘LANZ0014’ particularly distinguished by the large sized bi-color, yellow and white flowers, excellent floriferousness, and uniform dense spreading habit with medium green foliage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Shifeng Pan
  • Patent number: PP29655
    Abstract: A new Lantana plant named ‘LANZ0012’ particularly distinguished by uniform golden yellow flowers, large inflorescences, green foliage, and vigorous trailing but tight branching plant habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Shifeng Pan
  • Patent number: PP29656
    Abstract: A new, distinct Geum plant as shown and described, characterized by semi-double, ruffled gold petals on gold colored flowers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventor: Brent Arpad Horvath
  • Patent number: PP29657
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Erysimum plant named ‘Balcherflora’, characterized by its dark yellow-orange colored flowers, dark green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded-upright growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Scott C. Trees
  • Patent number: PP29658
    Abstract: A new garden type Chrysanthemum plant named ‘CIFZ0050’ particularly distinguished by the medium size plant with round mound plant habit, a medium-small size orange flower and a natural season response in early-mid October.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Mark A. Smith
  • Patent number: PP29659
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Alstroemeria plant named ‘Zaprilisa’, characterized by its compact, upright to outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit; rapid growth rate; numerous bright yellow-colored flowers with red purple-colored stripes on the inner perianth segments; and excellent container and garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Van Zanten Plants B.V.
    Inventor: Henricus Cornelius Maria Jacobs
  • Patent number: PP29660
    Abstract: A new and distinct Vanda cultivar named ‘SPCDW1603’ which is characterized by a small plant size with relatively large flowers, a light violet dorsal sepal and light violet lateral petals which are all heavily dotted purple, cream colored lateral sepals which are densely dotted and blotched purple, a labellum with a dark purple central lobe and cream coloured lateral lobes which are dotted purple, a cream colored column which is lightly suffused with purple, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Suphatchatwong Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thumrong Suphachadiwong
  • Patent number: PP29661
    Abstract: A new and distinct Vanda cultivar named ‘SPCDW1524’ which is characterized by a small plant size, large flowers, yellow lateral petals which are heavily dotted greyed-purple, a yellow dorsal sepal which is heavily dotted greyed-purple, yellow lateral sepals which are heavily dotted and striped greyed-purple, a labellum with yellow lateral lobes and a central lobe which is colored greyed-red and margined greyed-orange, and the stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Suphatchatwong Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thumrong Suphachadiwong
  • Patent number: PP29662
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Dahlia plant named ‘Baldenrek’, characterized by its double-type, dark red-colored inflorescences, medium green-colored foliage, and vigorous, upright-mounded growth habit, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ball Horticultural Company
    Inventor: Jolanda Krassenburg
  • Patent number: PP29663
    Abstract: A new and distinct Petunia plant named ‘BBTUN91601’, characterized by its compact, outwardly spreading and mounding to eventually trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; vigorous growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; white and red purple bi-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Plant 21 LLC
    Inventor: Brent D. Barnes
  • Patent number: PP29664
    Abstract: A new and distinct Petunia plant named ‘USTUN2401M’, characterized by its compact, outwardly spreading and mounding to eventually trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; vigorous growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; hot pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Plant 21 LLC
    Inventor: Jessica Boldt
  • Patent number: PP29665
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Gasteria plant named ‘D Due’ that is characterized by a star-shaped rosette plant form and dark green glossy leaves with yellow-green dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Deltacactus S.L.
    Inventor: Christian Jachertz
  • Patent number: PP29666
    Abstract: ‘REEVA’ is a new and distinctive variety of Dieffenbachia which is characterized by a compact growth habit with numerous freely-branching main shoots, improved plant vigor, a relative abundance of large obovate foliage which is centrally and irregularly blotched light yellow-green, and the stability of all characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Elstgeest Youngplants
    Inventor: Debbie Elstgeest
  • Patent number: PP29667
    Abstract: A new and distinct Calibrachoa plant named ‘USCAL69404’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and mounding to eventually trailing plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and bushy appearance; freely flowering habit; scarlet red-colored petals with radiating yellow-colored stripes that extend to the edge of the petal; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Plant 21 LLC
    Inventor: Ushio Sakazaki
  • Patent number: PP29668
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Canna plant named ‘Longwood Simply Salmon’ characterized by dwarf habit, gray-green foliage, and orange-salmon flowers which are open faced, long-lived, and attractively arranged within the inflorescence, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Longwood Gardens, Inc.
    Inventor: James F. Harbage
  • Patent number: PP29669
    Abstract: ‘Airbrush’ is a new variety of calla lily having inflorescences with a white/purple-colored spathe that produces 4-28 inflorescences per tuber. The inflorescence stems are about 28-57 cm in height, and the leaves are green and have a leathery texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sande. B.V.
    Inventor: Cecilius Jan-Jochem Randag
  • Patent number: RE47032
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: RE47033
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprises a solid adsorbate comprising a drug adsorbed onto a substrate and a lipophilic microphase-forming material. The solid adsorbate may also be co-administered with a lipophilic microphase-forming material to an in vivo use environment. The compositions of the present invention enhance the concentration of drug in a use environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Bend Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter C. Babcock, Dwayne T. Friesen, Ravi M. Shanker, Daniel T. Smithey
  • Patent number: RE47034
    Abstract: Embodiments of topical formulations for administering compound I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof are disclosed. Embodiments of methods for using the topical formulations in the treatment of dermatological disorders such as cutaneous collagen vascular diseases, e.g., cutaneous lupus, also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Sun, Matt Duan
  • Patent number: RE47035
    Abstract: A tension member termination device optimized for terminating flat tension members having compressible outer coatings, the device including a wedge and a socket each having cooperating surfaces positioned at a predetermined angle for clamping the tension member therebetween. The angle reliably secures the tension member while avoiding deleterious pressure and stress upon the tension member. The invention also provides a safety clamp for optional use with the tension member termination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard J. Ericson, Dennis J. Rehmer, Pedro Baranda
  • Patent number: RE47036
    Abstract: An adjustable cable guard for archery bows includes a guard holder and a cable guard held by the guard holder to engage a cable of the bow to maintain the cable a predetermined distance from a drawstring of the bow. The guard holder includes a body having a clamping groove having a length axis and a bifurcating slit that extends from the clamping groove into the body of the holder, and the cable includes a tongue located to be matingly and slidingly received by the clamping groove. The position of the tongue within the clamping groove may be locked against movement by compressing the slit to bear surfaces of the clamping groove against surfaces of the tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Perfect Form Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Batdorf
  • Patent number: RE47037
    Abstract: A method for processing taxpayer source documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving proforma data and an electronic image of a taxpayer source document, determining a type of tax statement for the taxpayer source document from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document and using the proforma data, a database, and business rules to verify the type of the tax statement for the electronic image of the taxpayer source document. This can be done by searching for an identification code within the electronic image of the taxpayer source document to determine whether the identification code matches the proforma data. The method can also include extracting data from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document and determining if the extracted data from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document has an error. Once the data is extracted, the method can also include creating an electronic document that includes the extracted data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SUREPREP, LLC
    Inventor: David A. Wyle
  • Patent number: RE47038
    Abstract: A multichannel electrical power amplifying system constructed and arranged to distribute electrical power of amount P to a total load coupled thereto. The system includes a plurality n of power amplifier channels, coupling the power amplifying system to a portion of the electrical load. Each of the amplifier channels distributes a portion of the electrical power P to a portion of the electrical load. Each power amplifier channel has a power distribution capacity, at least one of the power amplifier channels having a power distribution capacity significantly greater than P n . The sum of the capacities of the plurality of amplifier channels is significantly greater than P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Scott Pearce
  • Patent number: RE47039
    Abstract: The present invention provided a method and apparatus for reporting a channel quality in a wireless communication system. A terminal receives an uplink grant from a base station via one of a plurality of downlink component carriers (CCs). The uplink grant includes a channel quality indicator (CQI) request for instructing uplink allocation and CQI reporting. The terminal reports the CQI of the downlink CC being linked to the base station. The downlink CC being linked is one of the plurality of downlink CCs, which is linked to the uplink CC for which the uplink allocation is scheduled. A method and an apparatus for reporting channel quality are discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dong Youn Seo, Min Gyu Kim, Suck Chel Yang, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Patent number: 10070571
    Abstract: Devices, implements, tools and methods for cleaning undesirable growth and debris from crevices, cracks and spaces in sidewalks, walkways, driveways, and wood decks with a grippable handle having a bent nail type metal rod at one end with a socket having interior threads at an opposite end that can be directly manipulated in one's hand or as an attachment to the end of an elongated handle having a threaded end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: RLR Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Rodney L. Brown
  • Patent number: 10070572
    Abstract: A mobile soil-working device, having a machine frame, a drive for at least one insertion tool that can be moved up and down and inserted into the ground and pulled out again, the insertion tool being in a starting position at a predefined insertion angle before insertion into the ground and when in the ground executing a pivoting movement, which is superposed on the up and down movement, about a first pivot axis in the direction of a first pivot direction owing to the movement of the machine frame in the direction of travel, and having a returning means, which is coupled to the insertion tool and moves the insertion tool back into the starting position after its exit from the ground by pivoting the insertion tool in a second pivoting direction opposite to the first pivoting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: REDEXIM HANDEL—EN EXPLOITATIE MAATSCHAPPIJ B.V.
    Inventor: Cornelius Hermanus Maria De Bree
  • Patent number: 10070573
    Abstract: An agricultural machine (2) comprises an operating unit (6) and a carrier assembly (8) for the operating unit. The carrier assembly (8) includes a carrier arm (12) and a suspension system (16) by which the operating unit (6) is suspended from the carrier arm (12). The suspension system (16) including two pairs of connecting rods, comprising a pair of upper connecting rods (28) and a pair of lower connecting rods (30), each said connecting rod being attached via joints (32) to the operating unit (6) and the carrier arm (12). A first pair (30) of said upper and lower connecting rods diverge in a working direction of the operating unit and a second pair (28) and of said upper and lower connecting rods converge in a working direction of the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Kverneland Group Kerteminde A/S
    Inventor: Rasmus Elmelund Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10070574
    Abstract: An agricultural tillage implement with a hydraulic system having a left wing hydraulic subsystem supplying hydraulic pressure and flow to an outer left wing hydraulic circuit for actuating the actuator of an outer left wing wheel assembly, and a right hydraulic subsystem supplying hydraulic pressure and flow to an outer right wing hydraulic circuit for actuating an actuator of an outer right wing wheel assembly; the hydraulic system additionally having at least one hydraulic flow divider dividing hydraulic flow and pressure between the outer left wing hydraulic circuit and the outer right wing hydraulic circuit, the at least one hydraulic flow divider being configured to coordinate the motion of the outer left wing and the outer right wing wheel assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Mark J. Wileniec, Kena Shah, James W. Henry
  • Patent number: 10070575
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester includes a chassis and a header carried by the chassis. The header includes: a center section supporting at least one center cutter and having a pair of lateral ends; a wing section linked to one of the lateral ends of the center section and supporting at least one wing cutter, the wing section being vertically moveable relative to the center section between a harvesting position and a transport position, the wing section being pivotable about a generally vertical pivot axis in the transport position and substantially prevented from pivoting about the pivot axis in the harvesting position; and an actuator linked to the wing section and configured to vertically move the wing section from the harvesting position to the transport position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bradley J. Wenger, Zachary Long, Craig D. Roberts, Andrew V. Lauwers, Blaine R. Noll, James F. Rayfield, John J. Conroy
  • Patent number: 10070576
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for entraining seed into a plurality of seed supply lines. Some embodiments enable selective prevention of seeds from entering a subset of seed supply lines. Some embodiments enable improved flow of seed through an entrainer by angled surfaces provided on blocking members disposed to selectively block seed from entering seed supply lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventor: Todd Swanson
  • Patent number: 10070577
    Abstract: A method of using an unmanned agricultural robot to generate an anticipatory geospatial data map of the positions of annual crop rows planted within a perimeter of an agricultural field, the method including the step of creating a geospatial data map of an agricultural field by plotting actual annual crop row positions in a portion of the geospatial data map that corresponds to a starting point observation window, and filling in a remainder of the geospatial data map with anticipated annual crop row positions corresponding to the annual crop rows outside of the starting point observation window, and refining the geospatial data map by replacing the anticipated annual crop row positions with measured actual annual crop row positions when an unexpected obstacle is encountered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: RowBot Systems LLC
    Inventor: Kent Cavender-Bares
  • Patent number: 10070578
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a drive source for driving a cutter blade, flaps, a grass clippings container, a grass clippings container weight detection unit, a travel distance detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit determines a change amount of weight of the grass clippings container detected by the grass clippings container weight detection unit over the elapsed time period from the time when detection of travel distance of the lawn mower is started by the travel distance detection unit to the time when travel of predetermined distance is completed, and implements control in a manner that the rotation speed of the drive source and the flap angle of the flaps are adjusted in accordance with the change amount of the weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10070579
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a housing having an opened bottom, a drive source for driving the cutter blade in the housing, a flap provided for the cutter blade in a manner that the flap has a changeable flap angle, a grass clippings container storing cut lawn grass, a grass clippings container weight detection unit for detecting weight of the grass clippings container, and a control unit. The control unit controls at least one of the rotational speed of the drive source and the flap angle of the flap in correspondence with the weight detected by the grass clippings container weight detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10070580
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a drive source for driving a cutter blade through a rotation shaft, a flap provided for the cutter blade in a manner that the flaps have a flap angle changeable along a horizontal line which is perpendicular to the rotation shaft, an actuator for controlling the flap angle of the flaps, a control unit for controlling the actuator, and a blade switching unit for switching the cutter blade between an operation state and a stop state. When the control unit determines that a stop switch signal has been received from the blade switching unit, the control unit controls the actuator to increase the flap angle of the flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10070581
    Abstract: A control unit of a lawn mower performs switching control for switching operation between a first control mode and a second mode. In the first control mode, during rotation of an engine at a first reference rotation speed, in the case where a change amount of rotation speed of the engine per unit time has exceeded a reference speed change amount, the rotation speed is maintained at a second reference rotation speed, and an flap angle is increased. In the second control mode, during rotation of the engine at a second reference rotation speed, in the case where an opening angle of a throttle valve has fallen below a reference opening angle, the rotation speed is maintained at the first reference rotation speed, and the flap angle is decreased. The second reference rotation speed is higher than the first reference rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10070582
    Abstract: A trimmer head may include a housing rotatable about an axis; and a line holder supported by the housing. The line holder defines a first receptacle, a second receptacle separated from the first receptacle and an opening communicating with the first receptacle and the second receptacle. A line is supportable by the line holder, the line having a first end and an opposite second end, the line being folded to provide a first line section from the first end toward a folded portion and a second line section from the second end toward the folded portion, the folded portion being insertable into the opening, the first line section being received in the first receptacle, the second line section being received in the second receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Eric Nolin, Benjamin H. Cogan, Robert L. Morrison, Steve Coghill
  • Patent number: 10070583
    Abstract: A cutting blade for use on trimmer rotary head assemblies configured to cut unwanted vegetation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventor: Orlando Jerez
  • Patent number: 10070584
    Abstract: A lawn mower includes a housing with an opened bottom, a hollow shaft extending in a vertical direction of the housing and including a lower end positioned within the housing, a cutter blade, flaps provided for at least part of the cutter blade in a manner that the flaps have a flap angle changeable along a horizontal line, an actuator for outputting an output to control the flap angle of the flap, and a transmission mechanism accommodated in the hollow shaft for transmitting the output of the actuator to the flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kuriyagawa, Hajime Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10070585
    Abstract: An air system (50) for an agricultural harvester (10) includes an air flow splitter component (52) configured to be coupled to the agricultural harvester (10). The air flow splitter component (52) has an inlet (56) configured to receive air and a plurality of air outlets (58) configured to distribute the air. The air system also includes a plurality of air flow paths (60). Each air flow path of the plurality of air flow paths extends from a respective one of the plurality of air outlets and is configured to extend to a corresponding drum (12) of the agricultural harvester. Additionally, each air flow path includes a discharge outlet (80) that is configured to be disposed between a bottom surface (81) of the corresponding drum (12) and a bottom disc (85) of a doffer (42) of the corresponding drum (12) while the air system (50) is coupled to the agricultural harvester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Minnich, Robert D. Crandall, Timothy Alan Meeks, Arlan Davis, Jeffrey Mark Norton
  • Patent number: 10070586
    Abstract: A sugarcane feed roller structure comprises a sugarcane feed roller, a motor, a coupling, and a seal. The coupling interconnects the motor and the sugarcane feed roller, and comprises a splined joint. The seal protects the splined joint. An associated method is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Guy Burch, Mark S. Louviere, Blake C. Gettig
  • Patent number: 10070587
    Abstract: A chain and slat conveyor with first and second continuous chains and a plurality of slats. Each slat is connected to the first chain by a keyhole connection and to the second chain by a bolt or rivet which passes through a hole in the slat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: AGCO DO BRASIL SOLUÇÕES AGRICOLAS LTDA, AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Saraiva, Glen Suffolk
  • Patent number: 10070588
    Abstract: A gardening tool, such as a mower, includes a main body and a handle rotatably connected to the main body. The main body includes a motor. The handle includes a plurality of telescopic members slidably connected to each other. The mower further includes a operation assembly for being operated by a user to activate the motor and a control device for sending a control signal to enable or disable the operation of motor by the operation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Toshinari Yamaoka, Fangjie Nie, Haishen Xu
  • Patent number: 10070589
    Abstract: A bale trailer has two parallel bale cradles that are adjustable to accommodate different shapes and sizes of bales. Each cradle is balanced toward an unloading position and each is automatically returned to the carry position after unloading by the action of a spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventor: Abraham B. Kuhns
  • Patent number: 10070590
    Abstract: A cleaning assembly for a harvester has a fan assembly with a fan and a first fan outlet and a second fan outlet, a first sieve assembly with at least one reciprocable sieve, an upstream end of the first sieve assembly near the first fan outlet such that air from the first fan outlet flows along the first sieve assembly and a direction of crop flow; and a second sieve assembly has at least one reciprocable sieve, an upstream stream end of the second sieve assembly near the second fan outlet such that the air from the second fan outlet flows along the second sieve assembly and the direction of crop flow, the second sieve assembly has a clean grain auger for receiving cleaned grain, and the first sieve assembly has a further clean grain auger arranged for receiving cleaned grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M. A. Missotten, Frank R. G. Duquesne, Tom N. N. Somers
  • Patent number: 10070591
    Abstract: A bale wrapping device is described for a round baler. The bale wrapping device may include a supply reel for the wrapping material and a pressing device wherein the pressing device in an engagement position stands in engagement with the supply reel and for a standby position can be pivoted away from the supply reel, wherein the pressing device is connected at a contact point positioned on the pressing device to power means which generate via the contact point a controlling torque which acts on the pressing device. In order to facilitate the replacement of the supply reel and more particularly the pivoting of the pressing device out from an engagement position into a standby position, an adjusting means may be provided through which the contact point can be shifted and thus the controlling torque can be altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Pascal Gresset