Patents Issued in December 4, 2018
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Patent number: 10144139Abstract: A utility knife including a handle, a blade, a first blade holder, and a spare blade holder. The spare blade holder is pivotal with respect to the handle between an open position where the recess is exposed to allow a spare blade to be removed from the spare blade holder and a closed position where the recess is within a slot of the handle to inhibit removal of the spare blade from the spare blade holder. The spare blade holder further including a cam surface and the cam surface of the spare blade holder engages a cam surface of the handle when the spare blade holder is in the closed position to urge the spare blade holder in a direction from a first longitudinal side of the handle toward a second longitudinal side of the handle to allow the first blade holder to pivot between extended and folded positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Grant T. Squiers, Steven W. Hyma, Christopher S. Hoppe, Michael Stearns, Joseph M. DeBaker
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Patent number: 10144140Abstract: A cutting hand tool with a blade slide and a lower front part of the housing that pivots down providing access to blade securing means if the blade slide is in the extended position with additional pivoting blade securing means connected to the blade slide providing access to the blade for replacement in the horizontal open position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Ritesafety Products Internatioal, LLCInventor: Thomas Jay Landwehr
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Patent number: 10144141Abstract: The present invention is a straight razor used in a barber shop for housing a plurality of blades. The straight razor comprises of a handle having a handle-distal end and a handle-proximal end, wherein the handle comprises of a longitudinal body with a longitudinal slot at a top portion of the longitudinal body; a groove along a wall side of the longitudinal body to navigate a charging-handle to a pathway; a blade holder wherein the blade holder is placed inside the longitudinal slot, the blade holder is pivotally attached to the handle from the handle-proximal end, the blade holder comprises of an elongated body with two clamp members designed at a holder-distal end to grab a blade; and a reloadable cartridge having a cartridge-enclosure with a plurality of springs attached inside the cartridge-enclosure to push a plurality of blades toward a cartridge opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Kevin Harrylal
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Patent number: 10144142Abstract: A razor blade assembly that is capable of creating a stubble-like appearance via a manual, low-cost razor. The assembly includes a spacer that maintains a gap or clearance between a blade edge and a surface to be shaved. This gap or clearance facilitates an effect of a shadow- or stubble-like appearance upon the surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: STUBL LLCInventors: Blake Squires, John D. Osher
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Patent number: 10144143Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for providing for the powered cutting of a workpiece, typically in the form of a planar or sheet material. The apparatus includes a rotatable blade to cut the workpiece and the blade is mountable such as in a first mode of use to be capable of being held in a fixed position in which the workpiece is moved past the blade, and a second mode of use in which the blade is moved with respect to the workpiece to cut the same. The workpiece is mounted on a base and the blade is mounted with respect to the base via one or more slide members (68, 76).Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Power Box AGInventor: Robert Firth
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Patent number: 10144144Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for providing for the powered cutting of a workpiece, typically in the form of a planar or sheet material. The apparatus includes a rotatable blade to cut the workpiece and the blade is mountable such as in a first mode of use to be capable of being held in a fixed position in which the workpiece is moved past the blade, and a second mode of use in which the blade is moved with respect to the workpiece to cut the same. The workpiece is mounted on a base and the blade is mounted with respect to the base via one or more slide members.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Power Box AGInventor: Robert Firth
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Patent number: 10144145Abstract: A positioning system for attachment to a vehicle for operation of a power tool by a ground-based operator sitting in the vehicle provides a telescoping mast attached to the vehicle, a pivot bracket connecting an upper arm to the upper portion of the telescoping mast, mounting means for mounting the power tool on the upper arm; and power means for operating the power tool from the operator's position in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Limbhog, LLCInventor: James E. Capers
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Patent number: 10144146Abstract: The invention relates to a work device with a guide rail (4) on which a chain (5) is driven in a circulating manner. The work device has a clamping device (15) for the chain (5). The clamping device (15) has a clamping element (16) which acts on en the guide rail (4) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The clamping device (15) has a rotatably mounted adjusting element (17) which is connected to the clamping element (16) via a threaded connection (20). A rotation of the adjusting element (17) about its rotational axis (21) causes a movement of the clamping element (16) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The outer circumference of the adjusting element (17) has a threaded portion (22) with at least one turn (23), said threaded portion being provided for engaging with at least one threaded portion (24) of the clamping element (16).Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Benjamin Frey, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl
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Patent number: 10144147Abstract: Provided is a system and method of making a door having first and second door skins and an internal frame. The top and bottom surfaces of the frame are coated with an adhesive and the frame is placed on a first door skin. The second door skin is then placed on the opposite surface of the frame. The assembled components are then pressed to bond the first and second door skins to the frame with a press having upper and lower dies configured to impart a larger compression force toward a central area of the door skins. Wear resistant belts or membranes are provided to protect the door skins from being marred by the upper and lower dies during the pressing process.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Masonite CorporationInventors: Bei-Hong Liang, George Cucchi
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Patent number: 10144148Abstract: A method of detecting kickback during operation of a saw includes identifying with a controller in a saw a measured rotational speed of a rotating blade in the saw with reference to signals from a rotational rate sensor, identifying with the controller an estimated rotational speed of the rotating blade in the saw with reference to the measured rotational speed, at least one previously measured rotational speed, and a measurement of a previous change in rotational speed of the rotating blade, identifying with the controller an estimated torque force for a drive shaft of a motor in the saw that rotates the blade with reference to the measured rotational speed, and activating with the controller a blade arrest mechanism in response to a difference between the measured rotational speed and the estimated rotational speed exceeding a first threshold and the estimated torque force exceeding a second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gaurav Pradip Laghate, Bharadwaja Maharshi Ramaswamy, Sandeep Bairampalli
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Patent number: 10144149Abstract: A self-supporting composite body comprising a substrate of discrete particles and a network of interconnected mycelia cells extending through and around the discrete particles and bonding the discrete particles together is characterized in being stiff and in having a density of greater than 18 pounds per cubic foot (pcf). The method of making the composite body includes compressing a mass of biocomposite material comprised of discrete particles and a network of interconnected mycelia cells in the presence of moisture into a compressed body having a density in excess of 18 pcf. Compression may take place batch wise in a press or continuously between a pair of movable endless conveyors.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Ecovative Design LLCInventors: Gavin R. McIntyre, Greg Tudryn, Jeff Betts, Jacob Winiski
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Patent number: 10144150Abstract: A Hatschek process for the production of profiled fiber cement plates is provided. The process comprises the steps of: (i) providing an endless fiber cement multilayered slab stacking at least one monolayer of a first type having a first width and at least one monolayer of a second type of monolayers having a second width, the at least one monolayer of a second type of monolayers extending in transverse direction beyond the at least one monolayer of a first type of monolayer: (ii) accumulating at least one layer of the endless fiber cement multilayered slab on a profiled accumulator roll having a recess along at least part of its circumference whereby the at least first monolayer is provided within the recess; (iii) removing the accumulated slab from the accumulator roll; and (iv) curing the uncured fiber cement plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Redco NVInventor: Bertrand Van Acoleyen
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Patent number: 10144151Abstract: A frame integrated vacuum hot press comprises a frame chamber including a vacuum space having an opened side; a door installed to the frame chamber to open or close the opened side of the vacuum space; a heating chamber including a heating space and a heater heating an object to be formed which is loaded in the heating space; and a cylinder which is connected to the frame chamber to apply pressure to the object to be formed which is loaded in the heating space of the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ENERGYN INC.Inventors: Ihn Kee Hwang, Jin Suk Jang
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Patent number: 10144152Abstract: Feedstocks for additive manufacturing are provided. The feedstock may include a matrix material, and one or more capsules disposed in the matrix material, wherein the one or more capsules are configured to be removable from a surface portion when the matrix material is solidified to form one or more cavities in the surface portion. Methods of depositing the feedstocks and objects formed from the feedstocks are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Christopher J. Rothfuss
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Patent number: 10144153Abstract: The invention relates to a prepreg comprising a structural layer of conductive fibres comprising thermosetting resin in the interstices, and a first outer layer of resin comprising thermosetting resin, and comprising a population of conductive free filaments located at the interface between the structural layer and the outer resin layer which, when cured under elevated temperature, produces a cured composite material comprising a cured structural layer of packed conductive fibres and a first outer layer of cured resin, the outer layer of cured resin, comprising a proportion of the population of conductive free filaments dispersed therein, and to a process for manufacturing prepregs wherein the electrically conductive fibres pass a fibre disrupting means to cause a proportion of the fibres on an external face of the sheet to become free filaments.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HEXCEL COMPOSITES LIMITEDInventors: Emilie Fisset, John Ellis
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Patent number: 10144154Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tool used to producing anatomical phantoms. The tool includes an inner flexible mold which sits inside a rigid, thermally conductive outer shell. The rigid shell may be made out of aluminum. The silicone mold and thermally conductive shell both include at least two interlocking components. The shell is held together by a locking mechanism which can expand upon internal pressure. An anatomical phantom is produced from polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel by freezing and thawing a PVA liquid precursor in the silicone mold and demolding it.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC.Inventors: Joshua Richmond, Fergal Kerins, Sheryl Thingvold
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Patent number: 10144155Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method for a glassy carbon mold, and, more specifically, relates to a production method for a glassy carbon mold including the steps of: placing a mixture having a thermosetting resin, a curing agent, and a viscosity adjusting solvent between a thermosetting resin substrate and a master pattern formed by a micro-nano process; pressing either the master pattern or the thermosetting resin substrate and applying heat to form a cured thermosetting resin pattern part on the substrate; and removing the master pattern, and subjecting the substrate and the cured thermosetting resin pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Seok Min Kim, Jong Won Seok, Tae Hyoung Kim, Jong Hyun Ju
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Patent number: 10144156Abstract: An imprint apparatus for transferring a pattern to an imprint material using a mold includes a substrate holding mechanism and a control unit. The substrate holding mechanism is configured to be divided into a plurality of areas, capable of varying an attracting force for attracting the substrate in each of the areas and to hold the substrate. The control unit is configured to, when a plurality of shots is formed on the substrate, control an imprint operation of transferring the pattern to the plurality of shots which are not adjacent to one another, makes the attracting force in the area of the substrate holding mechanism corresponding to the shot to which the pattern is transferred among the plurality of areas smaller than the attracting force at the time of the imprint operation and suck the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideki Matsumoto, Fumio Sakai
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Patent number: 10144157Abstract: Described are in-mold coated products such as vehicular components, in-mold coating methods, and in-mold coating compositions, involving the use of aqueous acrylic copolymer dispersions, desirably self-crosslinking.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co., Inc.Inventor: Kyle Shane
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Patent number: 10144158Abstract: The following invention is used to recycle broken pieces of crayons, A crayon package comprises a portion of the box which can be placed in an oven, said portion of the box being detachable from the package, said portion of the box is designed as a crayon recycling cartridge, the crayon recycling cartridge comprises slots, the edges of the slots are provided with guide slopes, the bottom of the guide slope is connected to the edge of the slot and the slot is expanded outward, which increases the volume of the slot. The used crayons will be placed into the slots, melted and re-casted into new crayons. And if too much used crayons are placed above the edge of the slots, when the crayon melts, the guide slope will catch the melted crayons, sending it back down into the slots, fitting to the volume of the slots.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Ruicheng Wang Wang
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Patent number: 10144159Abstract: A method for manufacturing an insulating bar made from a thermoplastic plastics material whereof the base body has a corrugated structure comprises shaping the insulating bar as a blank having a substantially planar structure of the base body without raised portions and recesses but with the connection strips, cooling the blank to a temperature corresponding to the maximum long-term service temperature of the plastics material or lower, heating the base body to a forming temperature which, for crystalline plastics materials, is approximately 30° C. below the crystallite melting point of the plastics material or higher, and for amorphous plastics materials, is approximately 30° C. above the softening point or higher, forming the base body by a tool to produce the alternating raised portions and recesses, while retaining the geometry of the connection strips, and cooling the insulating bar to a temperature corresponding to the maximum long-term service temperature or lower.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: ENSINGER GMBHInventors: Bernhard Koenigsberger, Wolfgang Paulus, Hartmut Leimbrink, Mario Schneider, Lena Stiehl, Guido Lange, Josef Bertele
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Patent number: 10144160Abstract: A method for manufacturing a watertight zipper includes forming a waterproof tape by extruding a polymeric material in a melted state wrapping around a cloth tape, cutting a side of the waterproof tape that is covered by the thick waterproof layer to form a side surface of the thick waterproof layer as an abutting surface, forming a plurality of apertures in the waterproof tape that extends through the cloth tape and the thick waterproof layer, and forming a plurality of scoops spaced from the thin waterproof layer and corresponding to the apertures. The waterproof tape includes a thick waterproof layer and a thin waterproof layer both formed by the polymeric material. The thick waterproof layer covers an upper surface, a lower surface and an edge of the cloth tape. The thin waterproof layer connects with the thick waterproof layer. An end of each scoop extends beyond the abutting surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Unitech Zipper & Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jung-Yuan Cheng
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Patent number: 10144161Abstract: Methods and systems for co-extruding multiple polymeric material flow streams into a mold having a plurality of cavities to produce a plurality of multi-layer polymeric articles each having a consistent coverage of an interior core layer are disclosed herein. In an example method, a flow rate of a first skin material into a cavity is individually controlled for each cavity before initiation of co-injection of a second core material into the cavity, which may address inconsistent interior core layer coverage for articles from different cavities.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MILACRON LLCInventors: John Duffy, Scott Hickey
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Patent number: 10144162Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cable with resin molded body, wherein the cable with resin molded body includes a cable and a resin molded body formed by resin molding, wherein the resin molded body includes a main body to cover the tip portion of the cable and a flange integrally molded with the main body, and wherein the flange includes a bolt hole through which a bolt is inserted so as to fix the flange to the attachment object. The method includes molding the resin molded body by injecting a resin into a mold, the mold including a main body-molding portion for molding the main body, a flange-molding portion for molding the flange and an outlet formed behind the flange-molding portion in relation to the main body-molding portion, and draining the resin through the outlet during the molding of the resin molded body.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Yuta Kataoka, Yukio Ikeda, Takashi Onimoto
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Patent number: 10144163Abstract: An aspect of the invention is directed to a method for producing a connector using injection-molding by providing at least one conductor and at least one contact pin which are electrically connected at a contact point, producing a thermoset premold from a thermoset using injection-molding, wherein the thermoset is injection-molded around at least a first section of the at least one conductor and/or around at least a second section of the at least one contact pin, and injection-molding of a thermoplast on the thermoset premold, wherein the step of injection-molding takes place before the thermoset premold has obtained a degree of curing of 90%. Another aspect of the invention is a connector comprising at least one conductor and at least one contact pin is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PROTECH GmbHInventors: Juergen Mentzel, Benjamin Rudin
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Patent number: 10144164Abstract: An insert of a die for molding a speaker grille includes a forming portion. The forming portion defines a forming surface, from which a plurality of pins extend for forming apertures in a speaker grille. The forming surface defines a plurality of apertures disposed at spaced locations between the pins. The apertures are interconnected with a plurality vent channels interconnecting the apertures with the vent channels for venting air disposed in a die when melted polymer used to form the speaker grille is injected into a die cavity defined by the die. The forming member and the vent channels are formed as a monolithic construction.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HI-TECH MOLD & ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Steve Killoran, Anthony Debenedictis, David Geschke, Kevin Taverner
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Patent number: 10144165Abstract: A molding method for the production of articles molded by injecting plastic material into a mold cavity by a plurality of injectors electrically sequentially actuated under an electronic control according to a cycle providing for a step for filling the mold cavity, followed by a step for packing the plastic material in the mold cavity. Each injector, regardless of both its position with respect to the mold cavity and its opening speed, is controlled in at least one of the following control modes: i) partially closing the injector from a maximum open condition to a less opened condition in the filling step, ii) setting the injector in a partially open condition and then opening the injector to a more opened condition, in the packing step.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: INGLASS S.p.A.Inventors: Andrea Zigante, Enzo De Seta
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Patent number: 10144166Abstract: This sheet manufacturing apparatus is provided with: a nozzle for extruding a heated resin sheet; a main roll with a surface on which microstructures are formed; a follower roll disposed at a distance from the main roll; and an electricity-supplying mechanism. The electricity-supplying mechanism heats an electrically conductive section of the main roll by supplying electricity to the electrically conductive section from both edges of the main roll.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., MGC FILSHEET CO., LTD.Inventor: Reiki Akita
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Patent number: 10144167Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring method for monitoring the energy requirement of an extrusion installation (10), comprising the following steps: Setting of a balancing limit (20), in whose balancing space (22) the extrusion installation (10) is assembled, Monitoring of at least one energy flow (30) into the balancing space (22), Monitoring of a feed flow (40) of granules in the extrusion installation (10), Determining the relation between the at least one energy flow (30) and the feed flow (40).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KGInventors: Martin Backmann, Gerhard Middelberg, Markus Bussmann, Jens Minnerup
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Patent number: 10144168Abstract: The outer circumferential surface of a bottom 4 of a preform 1 and a lower site 3a of a trunk 3 continuous with the bottom 4 is mechanically brought into intimate contact with a cooling pot 16 to undergo reliable cooling. The trunk 3, excluding the lower site 3a of the trunk 3 continuous with the bottom 4, is heated to a predetermined temperature by a heating block 17. When blow-molded, the so treated preform 1 can provide a container having a bottom of a desired thickness and having a uniformly stretched thin-walled trunk.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsushi Nakahara
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Patent number: 10144169Abstract: The present application relates to a thermoforming device. According to an embodiment, the thermoforming device includes a gaseous medium damper for damping a relative movement of the lower mold and the upper mold and/or a gaseous medium damper for damping a relative movement of the lower mold and the ejector plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: BOSCH SPRANG B.V.Inventor: Antoni Bosch
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Patent number: 10144170Abstract: A device for shaping a semi-finished fiber product for manufacturing a C-shaped or I-shaped former, and including clamping mechanisms and a forming tool. Each clamping mechanism has a first and a second clamping element and together they hold a semi-finished fiber product along two longitudinal and opposite edges. The clamping elements and forming tool move in a coupled manner between starting and end positions. During this movement, the longitudinal edges of the semi-finished fiber product are transformed into a curved shape, wherein a length of one of the longitudinal edges of the semi-finished fiber product does not change and a length of the other longitudinal edge becomes greater. During the movement, the forming tool is transformed into a curved shape and guided relative to the clamping elements against the semi-finished fiber product such that the semi-finished fiber product is deep drawn over the forming tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Julian Kupski, Thomas Hoffmeister
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Patent number: 10144171Abstract: Method for manufacturing a continuous composite tube comprising translating a tube liner through a manufacturing station wherein the manufacturing station comprises a winding station and a consolidation station located at a distance downstream of the winding station; winding a composite tape on the tube liner at the winding station for forming a tape layer; consolidating the composite tape on the tube liner at a consolidation zone of the consolidation station by pressing and heating to the tape.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: AO & G Hollding B.V.Inventor: Marcus Antonius Ivonne Kremers
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Patent number: 10144172Abstract: The range of stretch-tunability of sinusoidal wrinkled surfaces that are obtained by compression of supported thin films is limited by the emergence of a period-doubled mode at high compressive strains. This disclosure presents a method to suppress the emergence of the period-doubled mode at high strains. This is achieved by compressing pre-patterned supported thin films, wherein the pre-patterns are substantially similar to the natural pattern of the supported thin film system. As compared to flat thin film systems, pre-patterned thin film systems exhibit period doubling behavior at a higher compressive strain. The onset strain for emergence of period-doubling is tuned by altering the amplitude of the pre-patterns.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Inventor: Sourabh Kumar Saha
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Patent number: 10144173Abstract: Collapsible tunnel systems or segmented tubular structures may be printed on or otherwise attached to base layers on articles of apparel, articles of footwear, or other articles of manufacture. The collapsible tunnel systems have two or more tubular structures attached to the base layer, with tunnels extending through the tubular structures. A tensile strand may be laced through the tunnels in the tubular structure such that when tension is applied to the tensile strand, the tunnels may collapse into a structure with a continuous tunnel through two or more tubular structures. In some embodiments, two or more segmented tubular structures each have two spaced-apart tubular structures joined by a connecting portion, and a tensile strand extending through tunnels in the tubular structures.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Stefan E. Guest, Matthew J. Holmes, Yoav Sterman
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Patent number: 10144174Abstract: A three dimensional printing apparatus and a printing head module are provided. The three dimensional printing apparatus includes a base, a printing head module and a controller. The base has a carrying surface. The printing head module includes a printing head, a fan and a nozzle guiding cover. The printing head includes a heating element, a feeding channel and a nozzle. The feeding channel connects the nozzle. The nozzle guiding cover is disposed correspondingly to the fan and extended to the nozzle. The nozzle guiding cover includes a nozzle outlet located between the nozzle and the carrying surface. The controller is coupled to the printing head module to control a hot-melt material transmitting to the nozzle, and the heating element is configured to heat the nozzle so the hot-melt material is melted and dispensed on the carrying surface to form a three dimensional object.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: XYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Chia-Hung Huang, Yang-Teh Lee
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Patent number: 10144175Abstract: An additive manufacturing system and process for printing a three-dimensional part, which includes one or more electrophotography engines configured to develop layers of the three-dimensional part, a printing assembly configured to print the three-dimensional part from the developed layers, and a planarizer configured to conduct solvent-assisted planarizations on intermediate build surfaces of the three-dimensional part after one or more of the developed layers are printed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Evolve Additive Solutions, Inc.Inventor: J. Samuel Batchelder
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Patent number: 10144176Abstract: The present disclosure describes three-dimensional (3D) printing apparatuses, processes, software, and systems for producing high quality 3D objects. Described herein are printing apparatuses that facilitate control of energy beam characteristics using an optical mask during one or more printing operations.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: VELO3D, INC.Inventors: Benyamin Buller, Zachary Ryan Murphree
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Patent number: 10144177Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a laser beam for manufacturing three-dimensional objects by stacked layers, including, for each layer, a step for using a laser beam to solidify a zone corresponding to a two-dimensional object to be manufactured, such a two-dimensional section having a geometric contour. The method includes, for at least one the two-dimensional section, a step of acquiring (50) the geometric contour of the two-dimensional section, a step of determining (52) a reference path from the geometric contour of the section, the reference path having a shape correlated to the shape of the geometric contour, a step of determining (54) a set of paths based on the reference path, and a step of controlling (58) the laser beam to travel all of the determined paths using a travel strategy defining a travel order of the paths and a starting point for each path.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PHENIX SYSTEMSInventor: Patrick Teulet
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Patent number: 10144178Abstract: A uniquely featured addition to previous three dimensional prototyping machinery without any traversing X and Y coordinate moving parts, thus saving time by focusing on only an incrementally regular Z stage and the rapidity of chemical deposition via electrically localized reaction nodes through a porous/channeled plane called the build/extrusion platen. Processes for making objects using such machine and platen are also disclosed as well as features and further indexing of extrusion location inventions. Other features including chemistry, curing material, and curing control as well as activation methods and machines are also disclosed in combination with the feature of a simultaneous two-dimensional layer-wise deposition machine and process for “growing” the object in the Z direction using the displaceable platen or object supporting stage in a rapid manner. Further due to the rapid growth and deposition manner, additional benefits to the object creation and curable material, e.g. a monomer can be realized.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Voxel LLCInventors: Milton Dale Meisner, Robin Wynne Nack Meisner
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Patent number: 10144179Abstract: An automated sealing process (100) for sealing a casing, the casing comprising a first casing portion (107) having a first sealing surface (115), and a second casing portion having a second sealing surface configured to engage the first sealing surface (115), the first casing portion (107) being assembled from at least two components such that the first sealing surface (115) comprises a joint (100) between the components, the process (100) comprising: applying a surface treatment to the joint (117) of the first sealing surface (115) using an automated treatment apparatus (101); and applying a sealant to at least one of the first sealing surface (115) and the second sealing surface prior to bringing the first and second sealing surfaces into engagement.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Tsunou Chang, Jonathan Richard Bishop
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Patent number: 10144180Abstract: A system for welding an elongate element along a longitudinal direction to a component including a support element comprising a support surface, a magnetic field generating arrangement generating a predefined magnetic field, a carriage comprising contacts supporting an elongate element against movement along the surface of the component in directions perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a superconducting element being fixedly connected to the carriage, an element cooling device for cooling the superconducting element below its transition temperature, a mover operable to linearly move the carriage, and a welding device for welding the elongate element to the component. The predefined magnetic field defines a linear path along the support surface for the superconducting element when the superconducting element has a temperature below its transition temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventor: Peter Linde
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Patent number: 10144181Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object, comprises providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid; irradiating the build region through the optically transparent member to form a solid polymer from the polymerizable liquid while concurrently advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form the three-dimensional object from the solid polymer, while also concurrently: (i) continuously maintaining a dead zone of polymerizable liquid in contact with the build surface, and (ii) continuously maintaining a gradient of polymerization zone between the dead zone and the solid polymer and in contact with each thereof, the gradient of polymerization zone comprising the polymerizable liquid in partially cured form. Apparatus for carrying out the method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventors: Joseph M. DeSimone, Alexander Ermoshkin, Nikita Ermoshkin, Edward T. Samulski
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Patent number: 10144182Abstract: A printing head module including a body, a feeding roller assembly and a feeding sensor is provided. The body includes a material-supplying channel and a nozzle connected to the material-supplying channel. The feeding roller assembly is disposed at the material-supplying channel to transmit the modeling material to the nozzle. The feeding sensor is disposed at the feeding roller assembly to detect whether the feeding roller assembly rotates. The feeding sensor is coupled to a control unit, such that the control unit generates a notice according to a detection result of the feeding sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignees: XYZprinting, Inc., Kinpo Electronics, Inc., Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company LimitedInventors: Kwan Ho, Yu-Chuan Chang
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Patent number: 10144183Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for verifying the placement of tows by a robot. One embodiment includes a robot that includes an end effector that lays up tows, actuators that reposition the end effector, a memory storing a Numerical Control (NC) program, and a robot controller that directs the actuators to reposition the end effector based on the NC program, and instructs the end effector to lay up tows based on the NC program. The system also includes a sensor system comprising an imaging device that acquires images of the tows as the tows are laid-up, a measuring device that generates input as tows are laid-up by the end effector, and a sensor controller that receives images from the imaging device and the input from the measuring device, and updates stored data to correlate the images with instructions in the NC program, based on the input.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Anthony W Baker, Steven A Dorris, Christopher P Bellavia, Hugh L Taylor, Luke C Ingram, Kenny P Bowers
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Patent number: 10144184Abstract: Provided is a flat fiber-reinforced plastic strand which is produced by curing a twisted resin-impregnated strand and has no disturbed fiber orientation, and a flat fiber-reinforced plastic strand sheet which is produced by using said flat fiber-reinforced plastic strands. According to a method of manufacturing the flat fiber-reinforced plastic strand 2, (a) a twisted resin-impregnated strand f2 in an uncured state, the strand including a plurality of reinforcing fibers f, is fed in a state of tension between a pair of heated steel belts 41A and 41B facing each other and making rotation movements; and (b) the resin-impregnated strand f2 is sandwiched and heated by the steel belts 41A and 41B, and pressurized from both sides of the strand f2 to form a cross section of the strand into a flat shape, and, with the shape being kept, a resin is cured and cooled.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makiji Miyao, Akira Kobayashi, Masaki Arazoe, Akihiro Tateishi
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Patent number: 10144185Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are disclosed for making and post-processing a 3-D printed object for laminate-forming tooling, and components made using post-processed 3-D printed laminate-forming tooling.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Benjamin J. Stephenson, Scott K Frankenbery, William H Ingram, Jr., William S. Hollensteiner
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Patent number: 10144186Abstract: Zippers components such as a traditional pin and box assembly may be affixed to zipper stringer tapes by a simple injection molding process. When a non-traditional magnetic alignment assembly is used in place of a traditional pin and box assembly, other means are needed to adequately affix the components of the magnetic alignment assembly to the zipper stringer tapes in order to provide a durable finished zipper.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: IDEAL Fastener CorporationInventors: Gary Davis, William Mayo
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Patent number: 10144187Abstract: The multistep injection molding device is for manufacturing thick lenses for use with an illumination apparatus. The injection molding device includes two sets of mold core inserts forming mold cavities when the injection molding device is in a closed position. The lens core part is formed in a first injection shot station. The molded lens core part is then moved to a post-molding cooling station in which it is further cooled inside a corresponding mold cavity. Two outer lens parts are formed sequentially over the lens core part in second and third injection shot stations. A method of manufacturing a thick lens is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: DBM REFLEX ENTERPRISES INC.Inventors: George Iatan, Jean-Francois Rioux
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Patent number: 10144188Abstract: Provided is a tire vulcanizing mold which includes: a molding surface 18 for forming a tire surface; a recessed groove 22a indented from the molding surface 18; a plug mounting hole 20 disposed in a portion of the mold where the recessed groove 22a is formed and allowing the inside of the mold and the outside of the mold communicate with each other; and a vent plug 30 fitted in the plug mounting hole 20, wherein the vent plug 30 includes a housing 40 having a cylindrical shape and having a ventilation hole extending from the inside of the recessed groove 22a to the outside of the mold on an inner diameter side, and a stem 50 which is inserted into the inner diameter side of the housing 40 and opens/closes the ventilation hole, wherein a mold interior end surface 42 of the housing 40 is disposed more to a mold exterior than the molding surface 18.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro Ando