Patents Issued in October 2, 2018
  • Patent number: 10085573
    Abstract: A shelving layout concept which allows selective configuration and reconfiguration of the orientation of certain shelving systems within the central portion of a store to create a PrimeZone area including an assembly of End Caps, Center Caps, Power Sets, Corner Boards, Hot Spots and Banner Boards, the combination of which provides a solution for enabling retailers to re-invigorate their Center Store, increase their vendor promotional revenue, and increase their in-store sales due to more favorable consumer response to greater promotional activity and the continuing change of product venues in key areas of the store layout. The concept also includes novel hardware which enables the reconfiguration of the shelving layout to accommodate vendors' desire to change display schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: STOREXPERTS, INC.
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Brucia
  • Patent number: 10085574
    Abstract: A portable mat which keeps itself clean teaches a combination of nine upper surface panels of hard rubber, EPDM, hard neoprene, a very durable bottom surface/substrate holding the mat panels, which may be the neoprene in unitary body embodiments or a separate material in other embodiments, a formula for placement of the panels upon the substrate, a specific folding sequence, and a tenth mud-flap outside of the regular 3×3 pattern of the other nine panels which completes the folding sequence with every bottom surface covered by another bottom surface and no top panel in contact with any bottom surface. A handhold at one corner and indicia on the top surface assist the user in properly folding, as do the formulaic gaps which allow tight proper folding and prevent improper folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Ralph Kuhlmeier
  • Patent number: 10085575
    Abstract: A transformable, multi-function, detachable, foldable, two piece pillow which allows for comfortable and ergonomically correct prone, supine and seated use is provided. The two piece design is comprised of an upper wedged contour pillow and a lower horseshoe pillow, which may be used together or separately. The two pillow design allows for both pillows to be used together in different configurations, or separately to provide for comfortable and ergonomically correct prone, supine and seated use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Joseph D Vogel
  • Patent number: 10085576
    Abstract: A drinking straw has a display arrangement mounted thereon or attached thereto, where the display arrangement bears a graphic representation, such as an advertisement or an amusing graphic representation. When the drinking straw is disposed within a cup, the display arrangement is adapted to engage an exterior surface of the cup, so that the straw remains upright in the cup adjacent the side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Isreal Juarbe
  • Patent number: 10085577
    Abstract: A pillow including or adapted to retain a fluid delivery system having at least one fluid reservoir configured to deliver an amount of fluid from at least one reservoir contained within the pillow to the mouth of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: H2Pillow L.L.C.
    Inventors: Rebecca Jane Isis, Todd Isis
  • Patent number: 10085578
    Abstract: A garment hanger with particular ease of use advantage when removing or hanging crew neck or turtleneck type shirts or blouses. The hanger provides an easily manipulated and intuitive mechanism for collapsing the garment support portions of the hanger, thus allowing for simple passage through the narrow neck hole of a garment. The hanger further provides an easily manipulated and intuitive mechanism for returning the folded garment support portions to their extended and supportive positions, which can be done with the hanger enveloped within a garment, thus providing an improved means for hanging some shirts or blouses without the need to feed a hanger up through the bottom opening of the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Kyle L. Baltz
  • Patent number: 10085579
    Abstract: As shown in figure (1), an aid for donning a sock has a base (1), a handle (2) joined to and extending upwards from the base, a pair of spreaders (7), and moving means adapted to move the spreaders (7) up and down when desired. The arrangement is such that a human is able to operate the moving means to cause the spreaders (7) to move upwards so as to be accessible from a standing position. From there the user can load a sock to one of the spreaders so that it holds the sock open. The user then operates the moving means to cause the spreader and sock to move downwards to at or adjacent to ground level. Gripping the handle (2, 5) to receive significant stability while standing on one foot, the user is then able to maneuver at least part of their other foot into the sock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Michael John Milligan
  • Patent number: 10085580
    Abstract: A method for joining two carpet segments, each carpet segment having an underside and at least one edge, comprises abutting one edge of one carpet segment with one edge of the other carpet segment, positioning a length of seam tape under the abutting edges, and activating the adhesive to secure the seam tape to the undersides of both carpet segments. The seam tape comprises an elongated base layer being resilient in a transverse direction, an intervening layer applied to the base layer, and an adhesive applied to the intervening layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel Paul Bennett
  • Patent number: 10085581
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a phylactery, the method including providing an initial stage phylactery workpiece formed of animal skin, cutting the initial stage phylactery workpiece to define a second stage phylactery workpiece, the cutting including forming at least outline cut lines, interior cut lines and incised lines, and folding the second stage phylactery workpiece along at least some of the incised lines to define the phylactery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Noah Jeremiah Greenberg
  • Patent number: 10085582
    Abstract: A modular track system for hanging a curtain, the track system consisting of modules or sections with attachments and accessories designed to adjust to varying environments and specifications. Track shape and length are adjusted by specifying various combinations of the specialized components created as part of the system. Complementing the track system is a curtain with integrated loop fasteners which allows the curtain to be attached and removed without removing the track. The system further preferably includes a side support for use in attached the track to a fixed support in the environment, and a guiderail on the side of the track on one or more track sections, the track and curtain all being coordinated to form an efficient and improved curtain hanging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Zahner Design Group, Ltd.
    Inventor: David Zahner
  • Patent number: 10085583
    Abstract: A cooking device for cutting a foodstuff into a prescribed shape. The cooking device includes a cutting portion and a handle attached to the cutting portion. The cutting portion includes a cutting blade and a guide; the cutting blade includes a wave-shaped portion in which trough portions, which recede downward in a direction approaching a foodstuff to be cut, and crest portions, which project upward in the opposite direction to the downward direction, appear alternatively; in the cutting blade, crests, which are the tops of the cutting blade crest portions, and troughs, which are the bottoms of the cutting blade trough portions, appear alternatively; and in the guide, at least a portion of a guide surface, which follows the surface of the foodstuff to be cut, is located between the cutting blade crests and cutting blade troughs in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISYA LEBEN HANBAI
    Inventor: Atsushi Takabu
  • Patent number: 10085584
    Abstract: A method of regulating the temperature of a cooking liquid during sous vide cooking in a cooking vessel on a burner of a cooktop includes setting a desired cooking temperature and measuring the temperature of the cooking liquid inside the sous vide cooking vessel at a plurality of predetermined time intervals with a first temperature sensor mounted on an interior surface of a wall of the sous vide cooking vessel. The temperature of the cooking liquid is compared to the desired cooking temperature at each of the predetermined time intervals. The energy output of the burner is controlled based on the difference between the temperature of the cooking liquid and the desired cooking temperature. A cooking vessel and system for sous vide cooking using this method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: James Charles Johncock, Darpan Dinkar Patil
  • Patent number: 10085585
    Abstract: System and method for improving the performance, safety, and energy efficiency of a cooking appliance with one or more heating elements operably connected with a burner controller controlling an amount of energy flowing to the one or more heating elements. First, a user or a system controller establishes one or more reference levels. The system controller is operably associated with one or more sensors, which measures levels of one or more emissions generated in the operation of the cooking appliance. Afterwards, the system controller compares the measured levels of the one or more emissions with the reference levels and in response to the measured levels of the emissions exceeding reference levels, sends an activation control signal to the cooking appliance. Then, an energy control mechanism associated with the burner controller adjusts the amount of energy flowing to the heating elements in response to the activation control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Rain Mountain, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Siegel, Robert Lewandowski
  • Patent number: 10085586
    Abstract: A system for dispensing a nutrient includes a dispensing device having a container, an orifice defined in the container, and a receiver that receives communications from an activity collecting device. The container dispenses the nutrient contained therein through the orifice in response to a communication from the activity collecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Smith, William T. Dalebout, Jared Willardson
  • Patent number: 10085587
    Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a beverage by delivering sanitized liquid within a package containing nutritional ingredients. The apparatus includes a package comprising a product compartment containing nutritional ingredients and a spout arranged for the supply of liquid inside the compartment. The apparatus also includes a machine comprising a control unit and a liquid supply and treatment unit. Methods of production and use thereof are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Nestec S.A.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Flick, Heinz Wyss, Youcef Ait Bouziad, Yann Epars, Philippe Baenninger
  • Patent number: 10085588
    Abstract: The method for adjusting the quantity of coffee comprises the steps of: dispensing a predetermined quantity of coffee powder into an infusion chamber (36); by means of an electric actuator (19), closing said infusion chamber compressing the coffee powder in the infusion chamber. The method also provides for detection of at least one parameter of the electric actuator during at least a part of the step to close the infusion chamber and compress the coffee powder; and setting of the quantity of coffee powder dispensed in a subsequent dispensing cycle as a function of said parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Gianni Remo, Ciro Adelmo Pilone, Riccardo Ziani
  • Patent number: 10085589
    Abstract: A beverage preparation machine includes a main housing, a brew head having an outlet for discharging a prepared beverage, a water reservoir, and a water path for conveying water from the water reservoir to the brew head. The water reservoir is movable with respect to the main housing between a storage configuration and a beverage dispensing configuration. The water reservoir may be non-removable from the main housing. The water reservoir may include a dual-purpose lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventor: Tony Saunders
  • Patent number: 10085590
    Abstract: An apparatus for preparing hot beverages includes a heater and a latent heat storage provision (LHSP) that is in thermal contact with the heater. The LHSP contains, or is configured to contain, a phase-change material. The apparatus further includes an electric circuit for powering the heater. The electric circuit includes a switch assembly that is configured cut power to the heater when a temperature of the LHSP fulfills a predetermined auto-power-down condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bart-Jan Zwart, Klaas Kooijker, Theodoor Stolk, Joldert Maria Boersma
  • Patent number: 10085591
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes an upper housing having a first heating surface, a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing, the lower housing having a second heating surface, and a splash guard having a plurality of peripheral sidewalls. The splash guard is nestable within the lower housing and extendable therefrom to a position wherein the splash guard substantially surrounds the second heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Patent number: 10085592
    Abstract: Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking instrument can draw an alternating current (AC) power and generate a maximum available power for a heating system of the cooking instrument via a power component that converts the drawn AC power. The cooking instrument can then directionally heat each of different zones in a cooking chamber of the cooking instrument in sequence using one or more heating elements of the heating system on at least one side of the cooking chamber such that each step in the sequence utilizes the maximum available power for the heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: BRAVA HOME, INC.
    Inventor: Shih-yu Cheng
  • Patent number: 10085594
    Abstract: A barbeque stove having a firebox, a firebox hood forming smoke chamber incorporating at least one flip down vent providing means for vary the stove cooking temperature during a stove cooking session and a cleaning plate movable from a stove housing storage receptacle into the flip down vent overlaying the stove grill that will sufficiently concentrate the stove heat about the barbeque grill to incinerate food residue thereon with the firebox and/or hood providing flanges for supporting the grill cleaning sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Jack J. Britvan
  • Patent number: 10085595
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a grill accessory for use with a kamado-style grill to enable a user to control the flow of heat throughout the grill and maintain temperature of the cooking chamber. The grill accessory may enable a user to control the flow of heat throughout the grill, providing the user with greater customization of cooking options. The grill accessory may further enable a user to visually inspect a cooking food item while reducing the amount of heat loss from the grill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Camander, Inc.
    Inventor: Cortlandt Minnich
  • Patent number: 10085596
    Abstract: A portable and modular cooking oil cleaning system includes a wheeled carriage module, a filtering module rested on the wheeled carriage module, and a pump module removably coupled to the wheeled carriage module. The pump module includes a cooking oil return outlet coupled in fluid communication to a cleaned cooking oil inlet configured to be removably coupled in fluid communication to the cleaned cooking oil outlet of the filtering module so as to form a cooking oil flow pathway through the filtering and pump modules from the filtering module to the cooking oil return outlet of the pump module, and a pump. The pump generates a flow of used cooking oil through the cooking oil flow pathway, and the filter system of the cooking oil filtering module entraps contaminants from the flow of used cooking oil in the cooking oil flow pathway through the cooking oil filtering module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Conrad D. Canter
  • Patent number: 10085597
    Abstract: A double-walled vessel (1) is disclosed, which has a pressure equalization opening (24). Said opening is closed by a stopper (4), which has at least one gas passage channel (41). Said channel is configured such that it allows air to pass, while it prevents the penetration of water into the intermediate space. The stopper is preferably made from a silicone-based plastic and fastened to the vessel by means of an adhesive based on acetoxy silicone. For fastening purposes, it may comprise a disk-like fastening flange (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: PI-DESIGN AG
    Inventor: Jorgen Bodum
  • Patent number: 10085598
    Abstract: A dining plate unit includes a visual stimulating component to provide light emanating from the dining plate unit, means for sensing various conditions related to the dining plate, and/or means for wirelessly communicating the sensed data, means for wirelessly transferring power, or means for generating sound. The dining plate unit can be a single component where the device and related circuitry are all contained in the unit, or it can be at least two components: an upper translucent dining plate, and a mating underplate including the devices and circuitry for directing light through the upper translucent dining plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: James F. Kramer
  • Patent number: 10085599
    Abstract: A cooking and processing appliance includes a container having a lid and a stirring mechanism for rotating at least one processing attachment of a plurality of processing attachments, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the container and having a motor in communication with the stirring mechanism, a heating structure disposed within the housing and a wall of the container, a heating activation system included within the housing and the container, wherein the heating structure defines a heating-active state when the container is received within the receptacle, a mixing activation system, wherein the motor defines a mixing active state when the container is received within the receptacle and the lid is in a closed position and a control in communication with the heating structure and the stirring mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Kaitlyn M. Benoit, Michael P. Conti, Wan Liang, Jeffrey Loebig
  • Patent number: 10085600
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing the secondary paper roll for the tissue paper products including: a multi-ply forming step (51) of multi-ply forming single-sheets S11 and S12 from primary paper rolls, reeled out from the plural primary paper rolls JR in the continuous direction so as to form a multi-ply continuous sheet S2, a chemicals applying step (53) of applying chemicals to the multi-ply continuous sheet S2, a slitting step (55) of slitting the multi-ply continuous sheet S2 into each product width of the tissue paper products or several fold widths thereof, and a winding step (56) of coaxially winding the respective slit multi-ply continuous sheets S2 so as to form plural secondary paper rolls R of each product width of the tissue paper products or several fold widths thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Shiinoki, Takuya Okuoka
  • Patent number: 10085601
    Abstract: A hand dryer includes a box body that includes a hand drying chamber whose upper portion and side portion are open, an airflow generating device that generates an airflow, a nozzle that is provided in the hand drying chamber and ejects an airflow generated in the airflow generating device, a first sensor provided in the hand drying chamber, a second sensor that is provided in the hand drying chamber and is provided at a position that is below the first sensor and is more outward than the first sensor in a horizontal direction, and a control unit that controls an operation of the airflow generating device in accordance with a signal from the first sensor or the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Fukano
  • Patent number: 10085602
    Abstract: A portable toilet facility generally includes an enclosure comprising a floor, a ceiling, at least one side wall, and at least one door positioned within the at least one side wall, a holding tank disposed inside the enclosure for the storage of waste, and at least one toilet structure disposed inside the enclosure, the at least one toilet structure being in fluid communication with the holding tank. The portable toilet facility further includes at least one lock disposed within the enclosure, the at least one lock preventing and allowing selective access to the toilet structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Inventor: Brad McDonald
  • Patent number: 10085603
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vacuum cleaner including a first cleaning module to perform a cleaning of a floor and a second cleaning module detachably coupled to the first cleaning module and configured to perform a cleaning in a handheld manner while detached from the first cleaning module, wherein the second cleaning module includes a connecting pipe to deliver inlet force to an inlet of the first cleaning module while connected to the first cleaning module, a handle connected to one side of the connecting pipe, having an inside space, and provided in a shape in which a rear surface thereof is open, a connecting hose connecting the connecting pipe to a dust collector, and a connector having a hose support provided to support the connecting hose, and to connect the connecting pipe to the connecting hose, and the hose support is disposed to support the connecting hose rounded along an inner side of the handle in a state that the connector is coupled to an inside space of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tak Soo Kim, Joo Seok Jeong, Oh Kyu Kwon, Dong Houn Yang, Dong Hun Yoo, Sang-Woo Lee, Yun Won Jung
  • Patent number: 10085604
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner with a vertically extending flat filter is provided. A hand vacuum cleaner with a suction motor forward of the pre-motor filer is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Andre D. Brown, Wayne Conrad, Nina Conrad, Lee M. Cottrell, Dave Petersen, Jason B. Thorne, Adam Udy
  • Patent number: 10085605
    Abstract: A vacuum attachment comprises a base having an upper face and a lower face, and an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface defines a first flow passage between the upper face and the lower face. The lower face provides a smooth contact surface. A single orifice extends through the base from the outer surface to the inner surface. The orifice is spaced apart from the lower face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ryan C. Lucas, Daniel J. Perron, Alan G. Burg, Jeffrey H. Olberg
  • Patent number: 10085606
    Abstract: Applicants have created vacuum systems and apparatuses for cooling a vacuum device. The apparatus can include a cooling device adapted to couple with a vacuum device, at least one cooling device air inlet, and a cooling device outlet. The air flows from the air inlets to the air outlet and combines with air disposed within the vacuum device. The system can include the cooling device, a vacuum housing, and a vacuum interface such that air flowing from the air inlets to the outlet flows from the vacuum interface to the vacuum housing biased with a negative pressure area. As a result, the air originating from the air inlets cools the air disposed within the vacuum housing upon mixing and the vacuum device cools, thus increasing the vacuum device's performance. Furthermore, heat transfer from the vacuum device to an operator reduces, thus improving the productivity and comfort of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventor: Matthew A. Williams
  • Patent number: 10085607
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a power supply apparatus, and an electric apparatus and a vacuum cleaner having the power supply apparatus. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the power supply apparatus includes: a first power converter configured to convert a first Alternating Current (AC) voltage into a Direct Current (DC) voltage; a second power converter configured to drop the DC voltage output from the first power converter and transfer the dropped DC voltage to a power storage unit, and to boost a DC voltage of the power storage unit and output the boosted DC voltage; and a third power converter configured to convert a DC voltage among the DC voltage output from the first power converter and the boosted DC voltage output from the second power converter, into a second AC voltage, and to transfer the second AC voltage to a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Jae Park, Min Jung Kim, Dong-Myoung Joo, Min Jae Kim, Hyo Won Sin, Dong-Hyun Lee, Byoung-Kuk Lee
  • Patent number: 10085608
    Abstract: The present invention provides a robot cleaner comprising: a main body which forms an outer appearance; a driving unit for moving the main body; a cleaning unit, installed at the lower portion of the main body, for sucking filth or dust on a floor surface or in the air; light emitting units which are installed at the lower portion of the main body and configured to externally emit light according the driving condition of the driving unit; and a controller for controlling the plurality of light emitting units so that the light emitting units emit light in forms different from each other according to each of a first driving condition where the main body is stopped, a second driving condition where the main body moves, and a third driving condition where the main body rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kihyung Kim, Seunghyun Woo, Kichu Hong, Seonghak Moon
  • Patent number: 10085609
    Abstract: A hand-held apparatus employing a non-liquid cleaning composition for cleaning touch screen is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a hand-held cleaning instrument and a cap. The hand-held cleaning instrument comprises a handle and a replaceable cleaning pad. The cleaning pad comprises an engagement mechanism for removably coupling the cleaning pad to the handle. When not in use, the cleaning pad may be folded and received in the cap in a stowed configuration. When in use, the cap is removed and the cleaning pad is deployed in an extended position. The cleaning composition on the cleaning pad comprises a combination of carbon black and a hemihydrate of calcium sulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Parkside Optical Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Meurrens
  • Patent number: 10085610
    Abstract: A steam mop includes a housing comprising a foot assembly movable along a surface to be cleaned and a handle assembly coupled to the foot assembly, a supply tank for storing a supply of fluid, a steam generator fluidly coupled with the supply tank for producing steam from the fluid, and a light source selectively illuminating the supply tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: BISSELL Homecare, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Perry, Adam Luedke, Kan Yuk Yiu, Jian Yun Pi
  • Patent number: 10085611
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes: a control section that acquires information relating to a ratio of a light amount value for light with second wavelength band to a light amount value for light with first wavelength band, obtains a light amount value for the light with the first wavelength band so that an observation image has a predetermined brightness, and, from the information relating to the ratio, determines a light amount value for the light with the second wavelength band, and generates light adjustment information for making first and second semiconductor light sources emit light with the light amount value for the light with the first wavelength band and the light amount value for the light with the second wavelength band; and a drive section that, based on the light adjustment information generated by the control section, drives the first and second semiconductor light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yabe, Tomoya Takahashi, Kotaro Ogasawara, Satoshi Tanaka, Aiko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10085612
    Abstract: A manipulator and manipulator system in which a dynamic surplus is rapidly removed and a moving part actuates rapidly in association with the operation of an operating part. The manipulator includes an operating part operated by an operator, a moving part operated by the operating part, a transmitting part for coupling the operating part to the moving part to transmit driving force of the operating part to the moving part, a transmission compensating part for making up for a dynamic surplus occurring in the transmitting part in association with the operation of the operating part, an input part for acquiring a state of at least one of the operating, moving and transmitting part, and a control unit for controlling the transmission compensating part depending on the state acquired by the input part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Hatakeyama, Takumi Isoda, Masatoshi Iida, Sadahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10085613
    Abstract: An endoscope includes: an insertion portion that includes a distal end portion in which an image sensor and a laser diode are disposed, a bending portion, and a flexible portion, the image sensor outputting an image pickup signal, the laser diode converting the image pickup signal into an optical signal; an operation portion; an universal cord; a connector; an optical fiber that is inserted through the insertion portion and transmits the optical signal; and a stress relief portion that changes an effective length L1 of the optical fiber in accordance with a stress applied to the optical fiber, the effective length being a length of the optical fiber along an insertion direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideharu Miyahara, Hiroyuki Motohara
  • Patent number: 10085614
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes: a first transmission unit; a second transmission unit having transmission lines each having a proximal end at which a transmitting-side connecting portion is provided; and a first switch for selecting a transmission line from the second transmission unit, to connect the selected transmission line to the first transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Kinouchi
  • Patent number: 10085615
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes an observation optical system, a solid-state imaging element, a memory section, and an image processing section, wherein the memory section stores the information therein for specifying the image cutting-out region for the process of cutting out the image for display, which corresponds to an overlapping region in which a displayable pixel area of the solid-state imaging element and an imaging area of the optical image to be formed on the solid-state imaging element by the observation optical system overlap one another, and overlap one another when the center of the imaging area is matched with the center of the display area, as the image cutting-out information, and the image processing section expands the image for display to an image size of the display area, when an image size of the cut-out image for display becomes smaller than the image size of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Mai Hikita
  • Patent number: 10085616
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an insertion part inserted into a body; an observation part provided at the insertion part and observing an inside of a viewing range defined in the front thereof; an arm part manipulated to be bent, a proximal end portion of which is provided at the insertion part, and which has an opening of a channel, through which a treatment tool is inserted, provided at a distal end side thereof; a first detection part detecting an out-of-viewing-range state where a center axis line in the opening of the channel does not pass through the viewing range; a second detection part detecting that the treatment tool has been inserted through the channel; and an alert part alerting a user when the second detection part detects that the treatment tool has been inserted through the channel and the first detection part detects the out-of-viewing-range state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shotaro Takemoto, Kazuo Banju
  • Patent number: 10085617
    Abstract: A blocked end portion of a cylinder is provided closer to a distal end side in a direction of insertion of the piston into the cylinder than a minimum diameter portion. The blocked end portion includes a minimum diameter uniform portion which has the same inside diameter as the minimum diameter portion and a partial diameter increased portion which has an inside diameter that is increased as compared to the inside diameter of the minimum diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko Nakade
  • Patent number: 10085618
    Abstract: Provided is a treatment tool exchanging device that switches and holds a plurality of treatment tools for treating a target to be treated. The treatment tool exchanging device includes a flexible insertion part into which the plurality of treatment tools are inserted and in which a plurality of treatment tool channels for defining insertion paths for the treatment tools are formed, a driving part that advances each of the plurality of treatment tools, a manipulating part that manipulates the plurality of treatment tools to perform treatment, and a control unit that controls the amount of protrusion, from the treatment tool channel of the treatment tool, which has protruded from a distal end of the treatment tool channel, among the plurality of treatment tools. The insertion part has a switching part that changes the insertion path of the treatment tool to be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Komuro
  • Patent number: 10085619
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for processing and recognizing non-contact types of human input to prevent contamination are generally described herein. In example embodiments, human input is captured, recognized, and used to provide active input for control or data entry into a user interface. The human input may be provided in variety of forms detectable by recognition techniques such as speech recognition, gesture recognition, identification recognition, and facial recognition. In one example, the human input recognition techniques are used in connection with a device cleaning workflow used to obtain data and human input during cleaning procedures while minimizing cross-contamination between the contaminated device or person and other objects or persons. In another example, the human input recognition techniques are used in connection with a device tracking workflow used to obtain data and human input while tracking interactions with and locations of the contaminated or uncontaminated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Medivators Inc.
    Inventors: Ward Sly, Stacy Lemmer, Terry Mistalski, Michael Petersen
  • Patent number: 10085620
    Abstract: A method of controlling an endoscopic device includes a first field-of-view-moving process of causing an imaging unit to move with respect to a distal end rigid section to a first side with respect to an axis of an insertion unit, an insertion-unit-moving process of bending a bending section to cause the distal end rigid section to move to the first side with respect to the axis of the insertion unit, and a second field-of-view-moving process of causing the imaging unit to move with respect to the distal end rigid section to a second side in an opposite direction of the first side with respect to the axis of the insertion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Ogawa, Kosuke Kishi
  • Patent number: 10085621
    Abstract: A sideways viewing endoscope including: a proximal handle, an endoscope shaft having outer and inner tubes, and first and second optical component assemblies arranged in a distal region of the endoscope shaft, the optical components assemblies can be rotated with respect to one another about a longitudinal axis of the endoscope shaft and are mounted against each other by an axial bearing that is disposed between the optical component assemblies and pretensioned by a pretensioning device; wherein the first optical component assembly is distally connected to the outer tube and comprises optical windows, prisms and/or lenses having a sideways viewing direction and the second optical component assembly is distally connected to the inner tube and comprises an image sensor having a straight-ahead viewing direction oriented in the direction of the longitudinal axis; and the pretensioning device is disposed in the distal region of the endoscope shaft at the axial bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Wieters
  • Patent number: 10085622
    Abstract: A medical system is provided comprising a medical device including a handle and a mechanism for moving a distal end of the medical device; an auxiliary medical device comprising a basket retrieval device including a basket sheath disposed over a basket wire and received into a working channel of the medical device; a knob assembly in communication with the basket retrieval device, the knob assembly rotatable so that the basket sheath, wire, or both move within the working channel; and a base removably connecting the auxiliary medical device to the handle wherein the handle and the base are configured to be simultaneously gripped with a hand, and wherein the mechanism is configured to be moved with a first finger to move the distal end of the medical device and the knob assembly is configured to be rotated with a second finger to move the basket sheath wire, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: GYRUS ACMI, INC.
    Inventors: Judy L. Walish, Kurt Shelton, Allison B. Dianis
  • Patent number: 10085623
    Abstract: A brake adjustment body is disposed in a direction orthogonal to turning shafts between a bending drive shaft and a lock operation shaft. The brake adjustment body is configured by including an intermediate member that abuts a cam portion of the lock operation shaft, and a brake member that applies to the bending drive shaft a pressure according to displacement of the intermediate member. The intermediate member has a shaft body portion and a cylindrical sliding portion screwed together, and by rotating the sliding portion in a state where the shaft body portion and the sliding portion are screwed together, the distance between a proximal end portion and a distal end portion of the intermediate member may be adjusted, and when fixing force on the bending drive shaft is reduced, the distance may be re-adjusted to restore the fixing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Itaru Osaki