Patents Issued in December 11, 2018
  • Patent number: 10150543
    Abstract: A rigging comprises a mast controllably about a longitudinal axis; a flexible sail comprising a starboard and port flexible sail portions; a plurality of elongated battens which extend a luff and a leach of sail portions; each batten is pivotally connected to a respective outermost part of the respective side of the mast. Rotation of the mast causes the battens connected to one of the sail portions to be compressed along their length and causes the battens connected of the other sail portions to be tensioned along their length so as to change the shape of an aerofoil formed by the sail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory Owen Johnston, Patrick Johnston
  • Patent number: 10150544
    Abstract: A powered watercraft system including a watercraft body, a propulsion system, a sensor configured to measure a value indicative of a manually-generated time-variable first propulsive force resulting from a body motion of the user to move the watercraft body, and a controller configured control the propulsion system to generate a second propulsive force for powering the watercraft body based on the value indicative of the first propulsive force, the generated second propulsive force being at least partially contemporary with the first propulsive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: R&D Sports LLC
    Inventor: Nikolaus Peter Schibli
  • Patent number: 10150545
    Abstract: A wave-powered water vehicle includes a surface float, a submerged swimmer, and a tether which connects the float and the swimmer, so that the swimmer moves up and down as a result of wave motion. The swimmer includes one or more fins which interact with the water as the swimmer moves up and down, and generate forces which propel the vehicle forward. The vehicle, which need not be manned, can carry communication and control equipment so that it can follow a course directed by signals sent to it, and so that it can record or transmit data from sensors on the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LIQUID ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Roger G. Hine, Derek L. Hine, Joseph D. Rizzi, Kurt A. F. Kiesow, III, Robert Burcham, William A. Stutz
  • Patent number: 10150546
    Abstract: This disclosure provides improved nautical craft that can travel and navigate on their own. A hybrid vessel is described that converts wave motion to locomotive thrust by mechanical means, and also converts wave motion to electrical power for storage in a battery. The electrical power can then be tapped to provide locomotive power during periods where wave motion is inadequate and during deployment. The electrical power can also be tapped to even out the undulating thrust that is created when locomotion of the vessel is powered by wave motion alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LIQUID ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Roger G. Hine, Derek L. Hine
  • Patent number: 10150547
    Abstract: There is a transom component having at least one travel slot there through. An upper lift bar is coupled to the transom component. There is a lower lift bar. The upper and lower lift bars have a coupling lifting bolt. The lifting bolt has a threaded shaft, hexagonal head, and an associated locking nut. The lifting bolt couples the upper lift bar and the lower lift bar. There is a motor component which has a pair of bolt holes there through, with associated bolts for coupling the lower lift bar to the motor component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Mark F. Pelini
  • Patent number: 10150548
    Abstract: An outboard motor includes an engine including a plurality of cylinders, a cowling including an internal space, a drive force transmission shaft, and a supercharger driven by the drive force transmission shaft. An upper end of the supercharger is disposed below an upper end of an uppermost one of the plurality of cylinders in the internal space of the cowling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi Ochiai, Toshio Suzuki, Masashi Hirota
  • Patent number: 10150549
    Abstract: A cowling for a marine engine has an outer shell and a supporting structure bonded to an interior surface of the outer shell. The supporting structure has an elongated member that extends along the interior surface and provides rigidity to the outer shell. The supporting structure comprises a plurality of flex joints that are spaced apart along the elongated member and allow the supporting structure to flex transversely to the elongated member and thus follow a contour of the interior surface during bonding to the outer shell. Corresponding methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Amerling, Brad J. VanRuiswyk, Timothy J. Eddy
  • Patent number: 10150550
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes an engine, an electric motor located farther forward than a propeller, a propeller shaft, a first transmission that defines a first transmission path extending from the engine to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the engine to the propeller shaft along the first transmission path, and a second transmission that defines a second transmission path, different from the first transmission path, extending from the electric motor to the propeller shaft to transmit power of the electric motor to the propeller shaft along the second transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10150551
    Abstract: A wind sensor, such as a sonic anemometer, may be utilized to cause a trolling motor to activate to propel a watercraft toward a virtual anchor location, route, or destination, in response to detection of an occurrence or wind. In some instances, the trolling motor may be steered to a direction opposite a wind direction when activated. The trolling motor may also be oriented to a corrective direction based on a comparison of a current location to the virtual anchor location, route, or destination. Propelling the watercraft may also include determining a propulsion correction based on wind speed, wind direction, and/or watercraft characteristics. Depending on the configuration, the wind sensor may be integrated into the housing of the trolling motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: NOVICO HOLDING AS
    Inventors: Lucas Steward, Aaron Burton, Eirik Hovland
  • Patent number: 10150552
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an open-loop cooling system installed on a refrigerated barge for removing heat from an external heat exchanger in communication with a closed-loop internal cooling system. The system includes an open loop with a pump drawing water from the environment and forcing the water across the outer surface of the heat exchanger to augment existing heat removal due to contact with and flow of water across the heat exchanger due to the motion of the barge. Water is forced across the side faces and inner faces of the cooler to increase heat transfer from the barge closed-loop cooling system to the water environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Southern Towing Company, LLC
    Inventor: Edward H. Grimm, III
  • Patent number: 10150553
    Abstract: A device and method for assembling two aircraft fuselage sections each comprising a skin and longitudinal stiffeners, the device comprising fishplates fishing couples of mutually aligned longitudinal stiffeners belonging respectively to said sections, each fishplate comprising two fishplate pieces each comprising at least one longitudinal sole plate intended to be fixed to a longitudinal stiffener, and a transverse support head, and at least one demountable connecting member able to mutually clamp the respective support heads of said fishplate pieces to allow a transmission of longitudinal forces between these fishplate pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (Societe par Actions Simplifiee)
    Inventors: Bruno Cacciaguerra, Alain Depeige, Jean-Claude Lacombe, Hélène Cazeneuve, Marc-Antoine Castanet
  • Patent number: 10150554
    Abstract: An aircraft including a primary-structure connection element for attaching the aircraft skin to the primary structure of the aircraft is provided. The primary-structure connection element is designed as a shearweb, a clip and/or as a frame stabilization element or as a rib stabilization element and is manufactured from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material with the use of injection molding. Likewise, an injection molding method for the manufacture of such a primary-structure connection element is provided, in which method the fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material is injected in its melted state into an injection molding device. The manufactured shearweb etc. is removed from the injection molding device. In this method, in particular, chopped carbon fibers and/or glass fibers in combination with polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and/or polyetherether ketone (PEEK) are used, for example also in pellet form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Matthijs Plokker
  • Patent number: 10150555
    Abstract: Gaskets, including aircraft gaskets, are disclosed, the gaskets having an elastomeric gel body and substantially incompressible skeletons. The bodies may be pliable and deformable and, in one example, may be comprised of a two-part chemically cured polyurethane that sets up as a gel after mixing with the web so that it is fully integral with the web and so that there is substantially no air bubbles or air pockets left in the web. The web may be a regular shaped web and made of nylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: THE PATENT WELL, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Boyd, Jeff Busby, Kent Boomer, Michael Dry
  • Patent number: 10150556
    Abstract: A airborne vehicle comprising a fuselage, a folding wing-like structure which is movable from a stowed position to a deployed position, and a hinge mechanism which couples the folding wing-like structure to the fuselage in a manner so that the folding wing-like structure displaces and rotates during movement from the stowed position to the deployed position. The hinge mechanism is housed within an outer mold line of the fuselage and folding wing-like structure to decrease the signature of the airborne vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel Christopher Stanley, John Hershey Fogarty
  • Patent number: 10150557
    Abstract: A transition piece, which can be mounted in a recess, and which can form a continuous surface from a structural component of an airplane to a control surface, which is connected to the structural component in a pivotable manner is described. The transition piece can be mounted between an edge of the structural component and a lateral edge of the control surface such that the transition piece is fastened in a pivotable manner both to the edge of the structural component and to the lateral edge of the control surface. According to an example, the transition piece has a planar design and can be deformed within said plane, that is, the transition piece can be stretched or compressed within this plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventor: Luiz Da Rocha-Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10150558
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mechanically rotating an aircraft about its center-of-gravity (CG) are disclosed. The system can enable the rear, or main, landing gear to squat, while the nose landing gear raises to generate a positive angle of attack for the aircraft for takeoff or landing. The system can also enable the nose gear and main gear to return to a relatively level fuselage attitude for ground operations. The system can include one or more hydraulically linked hydraulic cylinders to control the overall height of the nose gear and the main gear. Because the hydraulic cylinders are linked, a change on the length of the nose cylinder generates a proportional, and opposite, change in the length of the main cylinder, and vice-versa. A method and control system for monitoring and controlling the relative positions of the nose gear and main gear is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: DZYNE Technologies Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark A. Page
  • Patent number: 10150559
    Abstract: The present invention aims at solving the problem of providing a control device for an unmanned flying object that can elucidate the cause of a fault in the unmanned flying object after the fact and that has a function of desirably preventing a crash before it even happens, and at solving the problem of providing an unmanned flying object that incorporates such a control device. The control device of the present invention is a device for controlling a single rotor blade motor, and includes a calculation device, a storage device, a data output device, and a voltage detection device: the calculation device acquires and outputs information of various types; the storage device accumulates information of various types received from the calculation device; the data output device outputs information from the calculation device to an external control device; and the voltage detection device acquires voltage information from a battery or the like and supplies it to the calculation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Adtex Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroo Sato, Yasumasa Uruta, Tsutomu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10150560
    Abstract: Described embodiments provide a rotor mounting boom assembly for a personal aircraft. The rotor mounting boom assembly includes a rotor mounting boom releasably attachable to a wing of the personal aircraft, one or more vertical lift rotors, and one or more rotor controller assemblies. Controller assemblies for each rotor are positioned on the rotor mounting booms such that downwash from the rotor causes increased airflow across the controller assembly to cool the controller assembly components. A rotor controller enclosure includes an air inlet and an air outlet to allow airflow through the enclosure to cool the controller components. The air inlet is positioned relative to the path of the rotor blades such that the downwash from the rotor that flows into the air inlet is maximized. The structure of the enclosure includes features for increasing the airflow through the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Kitty Hawk Corporation
    Inventors: James Joseph Tighe, Geoffrey Alan Long, Uri Tzarnotzky
  • Patent number: 10150561
    Abstract: An air vehicle includes a flight computer, a fuselage, and two rotors mounted symmetrically with respect to the fuselage. Each of the two rotors includes a servo mechanism to tilt a respective rotor of the two rotors about two axes of the respective rotor. The flight computer is configured to send control parameters to each of the two rotors, the control parameters including a rotational speed, a first tilt angle about a first axis of the two axes of the respective rotor, and a second tilt angle about a second axis of the two axes of the respective rotor. A method for operating the air vehicle is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mahmoud Abdelmagid Elfeky, Moustafa Elshafei Ahmed Elshafei
  • Patent number: 10150562
    Abstract: A hydraulically propelled drone is provided for delivering firefighting fluid to an elevated location. The drone comprises a housing having a primary inlet configured to receive the distal end of a fire hose, a primary outlet configured to receive the inlet end of a primary nozzle, a central passageway configured to conduct fluid from the primary inlet to the primary outlet, and at least one secondary outlet communicating with the central passageway. At least one lift nozzle communicates with the secondary outlet and is configured to direct fluid in a generally downward direction so as to produce an upward thrust on the drone housing, and at least one valve is contained within the housing and configured to control the flow of said fluid through the primary nozzle and the at least one lift nozzle nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Kim F. Hein
  • Patent number: 10150563
    Abstract: An autonomous moving machine system continuously maintaining moving machines thereof at higher reliability is provided. Each moving machine measures a self-location thereof with a sensor thereof, and autonomously moves to a target location by controlling a mover. Operations of the moving machine includes acquiring sensor information, estimating the self-location in accordance with the sensor information, calculating the reliability of the self-location, transmitting the reliability to the other moving machine. Operations of a particular moving machine further includes recording history information that associates the reliability, the self-location, and an identifier identifying each of the moving machines, selecting a moving machine to restore the reliability in accordance with the history information and moving the selected moving machine to a location where the reliability of the selected moving machine increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 10150564
    Abstract: An automated warehousing system for use in a warehouse having a storage racks includes drawers partitioned into multiple compartments to contain different parcels, the drawers being at designated locations of individual cells in the storage racks and adapted to be opened and closed. The system also has a plurality of drones configured to identify a designated one of the drawers at a designated location and a designated one compartment of the designated one drawer. The drones have gripper heads translatable relative to opened drawers to retrieve parcels therefrom. The system further has a communication subsystem communicating with the drones to control their flying and also to control their gripper heads relative to opened drawers and communicating with individual cells for opening and closing drawers as drones approach and depart the selected individual cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Joseph Porat
  • Patent number: 10150565
    Abstract: A load hook substructure for attachment onto or into the cabin structure of a helicopter, having a housing in which a shaft with a hook attachment is mounted, such that a load hook can be connected with the shaft and thereby with the load hook substructure; this improves the flying characteristics of the helicopter in the case of flights with a load carried underneath. This is achieved in that the shaft passes through the interior of the housing in the longitudinal direction between a housing end wall and a housing wall, such that it can move linearly, and a return spring device is arranged between a damping plate arranged on the shaft and the housing end wall, and a damping device is arranged between the damping plate and the lower housing wall. The damping device has at least one flexibly compressible damping element, which develops a damping action in the event of a linear movement of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KOPTER GROUP AG
    Inventors: Martin Stucki, Cosimo Donno
  • Patent number: 10150566
    Abstract: Described are assemblies that include elements for forming at least a part of a core (140) or other interior portion of a tray table (112), such as for an aircraft or other passenger craft. The core (140) of the tray table can include multiple frames (142A, 142B, 142C) that can be connected together via engagement features (158A, 158B, 158C) in different configurations or modes to provide different widths of the core (140). Additionally or alternatively, the table body (114) may be provided with a slider assembly (156, 256) including a shaft (122) slidably received between one or more pairs of projections (244) that extend from a base (230) and curve inwardly to face one another. In some instances, the base (230) or another feature of the slider assembly (156, 256) may be integrally formed into a frame of the core (140) of the tray table (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Zodiac Seats US LLC
    Inventor: Edwin N. Kretzschmar
  • Patent number: 10150567
    Abstract: A rotor system for a rotorcraft includes a first rotor assembly defining a rotation axis, a second rotor assembly offset from the first rotor assembly along the rotation axis, and a drive system connected to the first and second rotor assemblies. The drive system includes a first electric motor disposed along the rotation axis and operably connected to the first rotor assembly, and a second electric motor disposed along the rotation axis and operably connected to the second rotor assembly to rotate the second rotor assembly about the rotation axis independent of rotation of the first rotor assembly about the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Fred Lauder, Patrick Boyle
  • Patent number: 10150568
    Abstract: An arrangement may comprise a spring member. A proximal end and a distal end of a compression rod may contact engagement features via the spring member in a core cowl of a gas turbine engine. The compression rod may transmit loads between halves of the core cowl. The spring member may compress and decompress in response to vibrations or other relative movement between halves of the core cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventor: Jacques Lu
  • Patent number: 10150569
    Abstract: A method of stopping an engine of a rotorcraft in overspeed, the engine comprising a gas generator and a power assembly. When the engine is in operation, a relationship is established giving a limit derivative that varies as a function of the speed of rotation of the power assembly. The speed of rotation, referred to as the “current speed”, reached by the power assembly is measured and the time derivative of the speed of rotation is determined and referred to as the “current derivative”. The engine is stopped automatically when the limit derivative corresponding to the current speed as determined by the relationship is less than or equal to the current derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Helicopters
    Inventor: Bernard Certain
  • Patent number: 10150570
    Abstract: A device for cooling at least one autonomous electric power source of an aircraft, includes: an inlet for air cooling a cooling fluid; the cooling fluid being fed towards at least one autonomous electric power source of the aircraft; a convergent hot air outlet, including moving elements for controlling the air flowrate; and supervision elements of the aircraft, which control the moving elements for controlling the air flowrate depending on the need for cooling of the autonomous electric power source. A method for cooling at least one autonomous electric power source of an aircraft and an aircraft including such a device are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Emmanuel Joubert, Benoit Ferran, Antonin Sanitas
  • Patent number: 10150571
    Abstract: An on-board aircraft inert gas system includes a source of hydrocarbon, a source of gas comprising oxygen, and a first fluid flow path between the source of gas comprising oxygen and an inert gas output. A reactor is disposed along the first fluid flow path that reacts oxygen and hydrocarbon from the fuel tank gas space to produce an oxygen-depleted gas. A heat exchanger condenser removes some water from the oxygen-depleted gas. A water-permeable gas membrane separator receives the oxygen-depleted gas from the heat exchanger and outputs dried oxygen-depleted gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haralambos Cordatos, Jonathan Rheaume
  • Patent number: 10150572
    Abstract: The present general inventive concept relates to a system of method having an electronic flight display that meets the FAR 23.1311(b) regulatory requirement for redundant backup instruments in the cockpit. The present general inventive concept also provides a system and method to detect failures, obstructions, or improper operation of the aircraft pitot pressure sensing system using a combination of dissimilar sensor data that is independent from each other, e.g., allocated from different sources and employed for different purposes on different displays, and displays information on an avionics display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Aspen Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lyons, Jeffrey D. Bethel
  • Patent number: 10150573
    Abstract: A method for presenting flight control system data onboard an aircraft is provided. The method detects a current operating mode of an automatic flight control system; determines a current aircraft operation, based on the current operating mode; identifies, based on the current aircraft operation, potential aircraft operations associated with a plurality of operating modes of the automatic flight control system, and wherein the plurality of operating modes comprises the current operating mode; presents, via a display device onboard the aircraft, a first plain-text description of the current operating mode and the current aircraft operation; and presents, via the display device, a plurality of plain-text descriptions, wherein each of the plain-text descriptions is associated with a respective one of the potential aircraft operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Matthew Wong, Justin Ryan, Dave Gribble, Stephen Daniel Kropp
  • Patent number: 10150574
    Abstract: Landing gear lights having multiple degrees of rotation are described herein. One disclosed example apparatus includes an aircraft landing gear light fixture having a first spherical portion, and a light assembly coupled to the light fixture, where the light assembly includes a second spherical portion adjacent the first spherical portion. The disclosed example apparatus also includes first and second pivots to allow the light assembly to rotate relative to the light fixture about two axes, where the rotation of the light assembly relative to the light fixture occurs by the first and second spherical portions moving relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Frank Nogales, Khiem Nguyen Pham
  • Patent number: 10150575
    Abstract: A light source includes a circular light element having a light source diameter, and a reflector disposed at least partially within the circular light element, the reflector having a first end with a first diameter and a second end with a second diameter, wherein the first diameter is less than the light source diameter and the second diameter is larger than the light source diameter, the second end having a plurality of slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: David Franich
  • Patent number: 10150576
    Abstract: A gimbal sleeve for connecting to a camera gimbal may float between a floor surface and a ceiling surface of an aerial vehicle chassis such that the gimbal sleeve has freedom of motion in yaw, pitch, and roll directions relative to the vehicle chassis. The gimbal sleeve may comprise a pair of connection points to the lower dampers on a floor surface of the vehicle chassis and a pair of connection points to upper dampers on a ceiling surface of the vehicle chassis. The connection points include spring forces that enable the gimbal sleeve to return to an equilibrium position in response to external vibrations and reduce the magnitude of vibrations transferred from the aerial vehicle to the gimbal and camera systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki Saika, Christopher Bramley Fruhauf, Daniel Francis Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10150578
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lighting apparatus of a helicopter deck, which is meant especially while being installed in connection with an identification marking, such as an H, triangle, cross figure or the like, and/or a touchdown and positioning mark ring on a landing and takeoff area of the helicopter deck for illuminating the safety marking/markings in question in order to make more efficient observing thereof from the air. The lighting apparatus includes of light units formed of one or more lamps and being operable by power supply transmitted from a power source in connection with the helicopter deck, wherein the light units are coupled essentially immovably in connection with an upper surface of the helicopter deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: FRICTAPE NET OY
    Inventors: Jaakko Uotila, Marko Törrönen
  • Patent number: 10150579
    Abstract: Exemplary drone power pack housing/assembly embodiments and drone power pack embodiments disclosed herein are standardized, common form factor, devices. Exemplary power packs and power pack housings may be modular in nature such that components thereof may be shared. Exemplary power packs and power pack housings may be used on a multitude of drones to facilitate repowering and servicing. Exemplary power packs and power pack housings may be designed to also facilitate installation to and removal from a drone by automated means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Droneovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd A. James, Michael W. Westerfield, Bryan C. James
  • Patent number: 10150580
    Abstract: Flame deflectors for rocket launchpads have historically been constructed on-site by spraying on a layer of refractory cement material, resulting in large monolithic structures which lack durability and are vulnerable to degradation by ambient weather. By assembling together a plurality of metal modules and refractory material modules, one obtains a flame deflector structure whose set of modules is matched to an expected heat distribution pattern of the exhaust from the rocket to be launched. Further, modules can be prefabricated at another location, under controlled conditions, and subsequently installed. In case of damage during a launch, any damaged modules can be swapped out and replaced by new modules, thereby minimizing cost and downtime before a subsequent launch event. The modules can be made more weather-resistant by applying an epoxy sealant to their rocket-facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Peter Nicholas Renzi
  • Patent number: 10150581
    Abstract: A system for loading items into a container-defining sheet. The system includes a support for receiving the container-defining sheet, the support having a top surface provided with a number of apertures equal to the number of cavities embossed in the container-defining sheet. A support illumination board is positioned on a back portion of the support. The illumination board includes a plurality of evenly-spaced-apart support light indicators, each support light indicator being positioned substantially centrally with respect to a corresponding aperture of the support and adapted to back-illuminate one of the containers of the container-defining sheet upon placement of the container-defining sheet into the support. An illumination board controller controls operation of the support light indicators to indicate into which container of the container-defining sheet each item is to be loaded. The system may also include an enclosure with drawers holding items to be put into the container-defining sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: 9155-0020 QUÉBEC INC.
    Inventor: Etienne Bouthiette
  • Patent number: 10150582
    Abstract: A method of making a personal care composition by providing a first layer and a second layer which each are fluid at elevated temperature; solid at ambient temperature; and visually distinctive from each other; providing the first and second layers in fluid state at an elevated temperature in isolated vessels; separately dispensing the first layer by a first nozzle and the second layer by a second nozzle, while maintaining the elevated temperature, into a same package having a circle plan view shape, wherein the positions of the nozzles, relative to the center of the package, are maintained during dispensing, and wherein the middle point of the nozzles do not coincide with the Z axis running vertically through the center of the package; and cooling the dispensed composition for solidifying in the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Noxell Corporation
    Inventors: Kosaku Yamada, Toshiya Taniguchi, Takashi Yoshida, Kazunori Ogami
  • Patent number: 10150583
    Abstract: A liquid pour tray provides a plurality of liquid retaining receptacles each having a proximal portion and a distal portion defining an open end, the distal portion having a width narrowing in a direction opposite the proximal portion toward the open end. A plurality of partitions are interposed between the plurality of liquid retaining receptacles and an overflow reservoir is in fluid communication with the plurality of liquid retaining receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Beyond Zero, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason S. Sherman, D. Paul Haviland, Steven Wiseman
  • Patent number: 10150584
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for introducing a modified atmosphere into a package and sealing that package with a film are disclosed. Cooperating upper and lower bell members having internal volumes in fluid communication with one another via a duct configured to cause sequential pressure differentials between the volumes permit the sealing film to be controllably retracted from and applied to outflow holes so as to allow evacuation of ambient air using a single constant vacuum source, rather than requiring precision timing controls and/or multiple vacuum sources. Another dedicate circuit introduces the modified atmosphere into the package, and a sealing unit such as a heat welder subsequently seals the film against the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: GRUPPO FABBRI VIGNOLA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Schiavina
  • Patent number: 10150585
    Abstract: A bottle may have varying depth ribs to achieve a balance of strength and rigidity while maintaining hoop strength. The varying depth ribs may smoothly transition around the circumference of the bottle from a flattened and/or shallow depth rib portion to a deep rib portion. A collection of flattened and/or shallow depth ribs act as recessed columns in the body of the bottle to resist bending, leaning, crumbling, and/or stretching. The deep rib portions provide hoop strength and make the bottle body more rigid and/or stiffer when gripped by a user. A balance may be achieved between of flattened and/or shallow depth ribs and deep ribs to attain a desired resistance to bending, leaning, and/or stretching while maintaining stiffness in a lightweight bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Niagara Bottling, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Dimitri Peykoff, Jay Clarke Hanan
  • Patent number: 10150586
    Abstract: A blank for forming a carton includes a unitary substrate layer defining a primary axis and a secondary axis transverse to the primary axis. The substrate layer includes: a main panel having a side edge extending substantially parallel to the primary axis and an end edge substantially parallel to the secondary axis; an end outer panel connected to the end edge by a first fold line extending substantially parallel to the secondary axis; an end inner panel connected to the end outer panel by a second fold line extending substantially parallel to the secondary axis; a side outer panel connected to the side edge by a third fold line extending substantially parallel to the primary axis; a side inner panel connected to the side outer panel by a fourth fold line extending substantially parallel to the primary axis; a notch defined in a side edge of the end inner panel; and an integral tab extending from an end edge of the side inner panel adjacent the side edge of the end inner panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: 1540 Innovatus, LLC, Quinstar, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin B. Carden, James F. Royall, Steven Lee Worm
  • Patent number: 10150587
    Abstract: A hinge assembly is disclosed between two walls sections of a container which are pivotable relative to one another, with a hinge pin provided at a first wall section and a hinge pin attachment provided at a second wall section, the hinge pin fitting positively in the hinge pin attachment and being rotationally and translationally movable in such a way as to allow a parallel shift of the rotational axis of the hinge pin. A pair of guide contours are provided on the wall sections, in contact with one another and formed separately from the hinge pin and hinge pin attachment to define a simultaneous rotational and translational movement of the hinge pin in the hinge pin attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SCHOELLER ALLIBERT GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Berling, Steve Loftus
  • Patent number: 10150588
    Abstract: A panel for a container includes an outer edge to be connected to the container and a tab connected to the panel. The tab has a rear tab part for gripping by a user and a front tab part for engagement with the panel and forming an opening in the panel. The panel is provided with deformation means which structurally deform upon a transition of the panel into a convex shape and which locked in the deformed state urge the panel to a substantially flat or concave shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ardagh MP Group Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Fabrice Leboucher
  • Patent number: 10150589
    Abstract: A pull-tab sealing member for a container containing an upper laminate forming a pull-tab bonded to a lower laminate capable of being heat sealed to a container's mouth or opening. The upper laminate defines the pull tab wholly within a perimeter or circumference of the seal. The sealing member further includes a sub tab layer or member under the gripping tab for concentric structural support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Selig Sealing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert William Thorstensen-Woll
  • Patent number: 10150590
    Abstract: A pull-tab sealing member for a container containing an upper laminate forming a pull-tab bonded to a lower laminate capable of being heat sealed to a container's mouth or opening. The upper laminate defines the pull tab wholly within a perimeter or circumference of the seal. The sealing member further includes a sub tab layer or member under the gripping tab for concentric structural support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Selig Sealing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert William Thorstensen-Woll
  • Patent number: 10150591
    Abstract: Disclosed is a packaging device for a liquid crystal panel, including a first main body having a bottom and a plurality of sidewalls connected to sides of bottom. The sidewalls define at least one opening. At least one second main body has a bottom and sidewalls connected to the bottom and define an opening that is movably received in the at least one opening of the first main body such that the packaging device is expandable by moving the second main body in a direction away from the first main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chong Huang
  • Patent number: 10150592
    Abstract: A flexible container that can be affixed to a vertical surface such as a shower wall is provided. The container comprises a wall and a substrate affixed to the wall. The substrate may define a plurality of integrally formed recesses that can create a suction fit with the vertical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Sonoco Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Huntington Hartley
  • Patent number: 10150593
    Abstract: A food station decoration is provided on or over sidewalls of a pan, tray or chafing dish. The food station decoration is heat resistant and flame resistant or flame retardant. The food station decoration may be a pattern printed on a band, wrap, roll, tape or sticker or a coated surface of aluminum. The pattern has different colors distributed throughout the pattern. The ink or other substance used to provide color to the pattern as well as any adhesive or coating needs to be heat resistant and flame resistant or flame retardant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Lorraine Girard