Patents Issued in December 11, 2018
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Patent number: 10151047Abstract: According to one embodiment, an epitaxial growth apparatus includes a processing chamber, an exhaust pipe, and an introducing pipe. The exhaust pipe is communicated with the processing chamber. The introducing pipe is communicated with the exhaust pipe and an alkaline gas is introduced into the exhaust pipe via the introducing pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Miyazaki
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Patent number: 10151048Abstract: A manufacturing method of an epitaxial contact structure in a semiconductor memory device includes the following steps. A recess is formed in a semiconductor substrate by an etching process. An etching defect is formed in the recess by the etching process. An oxidation process is performed after the etching process. An oxide layer is formed in the recess by the oxidation process, and the etching defect is encompassed by the oxide layer. A cleaning process is performed after the oxidation process. The oxide layer and the etching defect encompassed by the oxide layer are removed by the cleaning process. An epitaxial growth process is performed to form an epitaxial contact structure in the recess after the cleaning process.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP., Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wan-Chi Wu, Hui-Ling Chuang, Chih-Chi Cheng, Chiu-Hsien Yeh, Chien-Cheng Tsai, Hung-Jung Yan
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Patent number: 10151049Abstract: Provided are printed patterns and objects including, for example, a film or 3D object, which may include one or more nanorods. According to the subject matter provided, the nanorods may reduce or diminish inter-particle interaction in the pattern or object.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.Inventors: Uri Banin, Shlomo Magdassi, Shai Shemesh, Shira Halivni, Yelena Vinetsky
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Patent number: 10151050Abstract: Provided is a nanofiber production apparatus which is capable of eliminating a need to use high voltage as in the ESD system to ensure high safety, and is free from influence of temperature and humidity at a production site.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: ZETTA NANO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Mitsuhiro Takahashi
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Patent number: 10151051Abstract: The invention is directed to carbon fibers having high tensile strength and modulus of elasticity. The invention also provides a method and apparatus for making the carbon fibers. The method comprises advancing a precursor fiber through an oxidation oven wherein the fiber is subjected to controlled stretching in an oxidizing atmosphere in which tension loads are distributed amongst a plurality of passes through the oxidation oven, which permits higher cumulative stretches to be achieved. The method also includes subjecting the fiber to controlled stretching in two or more of the passes that is sufficient to cause the fiber to undergo one or more transitions in each of the two or more passes. The invention is also directed to an oxidation oven having a plurality of cooperating drive rolls in series that can be driven independently of each other so that the amount of stretch applied to the oven in each of the plurality of passes can be independently controlled.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Hexcel CorporationInventor: Carlos A. León y León
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Patent number: 10151052Abstract: Disclosed is a yarn management device in a yarn treatment line downstream of a crimping box and upstream of a thermofixing means for crimping, said device including a fixed support and at least one axial drum positioned upstream of the thermofixing means. In some cases, the inlet of the crimping box is formed by one or more crimping rollers for feeding at least one yarn into the crimping box. The drum is traversed by a yarn in the crimping box and mounted on the fixed support of the device so as to perform a substantially axial rotation, allowing the generation of at least one false twist on the treated yarns.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Superba S.A.S.Inventor: Philippe Massotte
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Patent number: 10151053Abstract: A process and apparatus for spreading a multiple filament tow by passing the tow through a series of rotating discs having asymmetrical rollers mounted thereon.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: IZUMI INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Ryutaro Izumi, Mark Takahama
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Patent number: 10151054Abstract: A spacer knit fabric if formed with a first two-dimensional knit fabric layer and a second two-dimensional knit fabric layer. The first and the second two-dimensional knit fabric layers are interconnected via knitted spacer threads. The first two-dimensional knit fabric layer has openings formed by a plurality of stitches in each case. Threads of a first thread system, which forms the first two-dimensional knit fabric layer, are connected to each other solely by mutual intertwining. Channels are formed between the first and the second two-dimensional knit fabric layers that are free from spacer threads. The threads of a second thread system, which forms the second two-dimensional knit fabric layer, are connected to one another by intertwining and by at least partial fusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: MUELLER TEXTIL GMBHInventors: Stefan Mueller, Frank Mueller
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Patent number: 10151055Abstract: Disposable article that include fibers formed from compositions comprising thermoplastic polymers and waxes are disclosed, where the wax is dispersed throughout the thermoplastic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William Maxwell Allen, Jr., Eric Bryan Bond, Isao Noda, Ronald Thomas Gorley, Olaf Erik Alexander Isele
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Patent number: 10151056Abstract: A sewing machine that includes a sewing bed on which a plurality of cloth pieces are placed in a manner of being overlaid on each other; a felting needle; a woolen yarn guide provided at a lower end of a safety cover for covering the felting needle; and a device configured to raise and lower the felting needle toward the plurality of overlaid cloth pieces, and the woolen yarn guide is configured to guide a woolen yarn from a bobbin or a woolen yarn ball to a sewing location, and the device is configured to raise and lower the felting needle so that needle felting in which the felting needle is thrusted into the plurality of cloth pieces and the woolen yarn is performed, and thereby the plurality of cloth pieces are sewn together.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: AXE YAMAZAKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Norio Yamazaki
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Patent number: 10151057Abstract: A system and method for forming synthetic/artificial grass or turf products in which a series of tufts of artificial/synthetic grass filaments or yarns are formed in a backing material with various graphic pattern effects being formed therewith. The system generally will include a pair of needle bars each having at least one row of needles mounted along a tufting zone and reciprocated through the backing to a desired penetration depth, and will present a desired set or group of yarns to a series of gauge parts mounted at differing elevations. A first or upstream one of the needle bars will be shifted to an off-gauge position to move the needles thereof into positions so as to not be engaged by their associated gauge parts. The yarns fed to these needles further can be controlled to substantially pull back or otherwise prevent tufts of such yarns from being formed in the backing.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Card-Monroe Corp.Inventor: Wilton Hall
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Patent number: 10151058Abstract: A fabric treating appliance having an agitator assembly comprising a base including at least one vane, and a tower extending upwardly from the base and terminating in an upper end having a recess. The agitator includes a cap having a top and a bottom that is removably mounted to the tower. A scrub brush is carried by the cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Scott E. Carpenter, Orrin P. Lorenz, Joel A. Luckman
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Patent number: 10151059Abstract: Provided is a clothes drier including a drying device, a base, a support rod, and a drying jacket. The base is provided with an air inlet and an air outlet. The drying device is disposed inside the base. The support rod has a first end disposed on the base and a second end extending in a direction away from the base. The support rod can be a telescopic rod. The drying jacket is suspended from the second end of the support rod and further arranged to enclose the base. The drying jacket is used for being sheathed in clothes. According to the clothes drier the drying device is disposed inside the base and the telescopic support rod is fixedly disposed on the base so as to facilitate the drying of the clothes hung on the support rod by the drying device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: KE M.O. HOUSE CO., LTD.Inventor: Mo-Tsan Tsai
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Patent number: 10151060Abstract: A dryer apparatus is disclosed comprising a container having a container inlet and outlet, a pump that is configured to motivate a first air-vapor mixture flow via the container inlet and via the container outlet, a heating device configured to heat the first air-vapor mixture, a selector with at least two states, a compressor that is configured to compress and motivate a part of the first air-vapor mixture flow as a second air-vapor mixture flow, to flow through a first heat exchanger and to flow through a second heat exchanger and a pressure reducing device that is configured to reduce the pressure of said second air-vapor mixture downstream said first heat exchanger. The selector is configured to direct most of the first air-vapor mixture to flow in a closed cycle through the container, or configured to exchange most of the first air-vapor mixture with air located outside the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: WATER-GEN LTDInventors: Sharon Dulberg, Arye Kohavi
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Patent number: 10151061Abstract: A dryer appliance, including methods of operation, is generally provided herein. At least one method may include measuring an ambient temperature of air unheated by the heater; comparing the measured ambient to a baseline ambient temperature; setting an airflow temperature threshold based on the comparison; and directing the heater based on the airflow temperature threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Caleb Farrel, Silvia Prajescu
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Patent number: 10151062Abstract: A disperse dye composition, disperse dye and preparation method and use thereof are described. The disperse dye is suitable for fabrics, particularly for dyeing and printing of dacron and blended fabrics thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: ZHEJIANG RUNTU CO., LTD.Inventors: Guosheng Zhao, Haixing Ruan, Weidi Gu, Bailong Chen, Huaming Ye, Xueping Jing
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Patent number: 10151063Abstract: The invention is related to a method for the preparation of kraft pulp with increased pulping yield from lignin-containing cellulosic material using polysulfide cooking liquor. In order to obtain a cost efficient system both in aspects of investment costs but also in aspects of heat economy of operating the process is most of the total charge of alkali charged as heated polysulfide liquor to an first atmospheric vessel, wherein the hot polysulfide liquor flashes off steam providing most if not all of the necessary steaming effect for the cellulose material. The polysulfide liquor is then allowed to impregnate the cellulose material at a temperature closer to cooking temperature but still so low that essentially no delignification occurs in impregnation vessel, as the H-factor in impregnation vessel is kept within 1-20.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Valmet ABInventors: Stefan Antonsson, Krister Olsson
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Patent number: 10151064Abstract: A bleached softwood kraft pulp fiber with high ?-cellulose content and a low CED viscosity is provided, A surfactant treated fiber useful in the production of chemical derivatives is also described. Methods for making the kraft pulp fiber and products made from it are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: GP Cellulose GmbHInventors: Arthur J. Nonni, Charles E. Courchene, Philip Reed Campbell, Steven Chad Dowdle, Joel Mark Engle, Blair Roderick Carter, Christopher M. Slone
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Patent number: 10151065Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel combination of slip stick coefficient of friction and compressibility properties and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
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Patent number: 10151066Abstract: The present invention relates to a rack change system for changing of roller racks of a rolling block with a rail system along which change carriages can be moved, wherein the rail system includes a first track and a second track, which extend in different directions and are connected to one another via a switch, wherein the first track runs parallel to the rolling line of the rolling block, wherein a roller rack can be moved from the rolling block to the change carriage or a roller rack can be moved from the change carriage to the rolling block when the change carriage is standing on the first track and/or on the switch.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: KOCKS Technik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Ali Bindernagel, Ralf Dedeken
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Patent number: 10151067Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an improved tamping operation where a rail tamping machine advances at different speeds during different stages of tamping and workhead assembly operation. The workhead assembly is also capable of moving longitudinally relative to the rail tamping machine frame when it is detected that the rail tamping machine is at an appropriate distance from a reference point. Related methods of tamping are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: HARSCO TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: Peter Robert Maurice
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Patent number: 10151068Abstract: A hand-held tamper for underfilling ballast of a track. The tamper has a drive motor for the rotation of an unbalance and a tamping shovel fastened to a lower end of a shaft which is joined to the drive motor and has a longitudinal axis. The shovel consists of two shovel halves each joined to the shaft. Each shovel half has an upper shovel part nearer to the drive motor and a lower shovel part positioned at a first angle <180° in relation thereto. Both shovel halves are disposed at a second angle <180° relative to one another when viewed in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Robel Bahnbaumaschinen GmbHInventor: Otto Widlroither
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Patent number: 10151069Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for constructing a continuously reinforced concrete pavement using foam shotcrete by: positioning continuous reinforcement bars on a base layer where a concrete pavement is constructed; producing normal concrete having a compressive strength of 21-30 MPa from a batch plant and transporting same to a construction site; and shooting a normal strength concrete, which has been produced by mixing, with a mixing part, fly ash or fine slag powder or a low-grade mixed material produced by mixing the fly and the fine slag powder in a state in which fluidity has been increased by mixing in 20-40% of air bubbles with respect to volume, or shooting a high-performance concrete, which has been produced by mixing, with the mixing part, one or a mixture of two or more of silica fume, meta-kaolin, latex, polymers, and a coloring material.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Kangwon National University University-Industry Cooperation FoundationInventor: Kyong Ku Yun
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Patent number: 10151070Abstract: An apparatus for inserting artificial grass strands into the ground may be used, for example, to prepare an artificial grass surface for a sporting field. The apparatus may comprise a frame, a plurality of spools having artificial grass strands wound thereon, a rotary device having a plurality of clamps configured to hold the grass strands, a cutting device configured to cut the artificial grass strands, and an insertion device configured to insert the artificial grass strands into the ground.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Sisgrass B.V.Inventors: Thomas Schuurman, George Mullan
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Patent number: 10151071Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-slab height control system and related method for regulating the elevational position of an anti-slab mounted to a cold planer configured for milling a roadway. The cold planer includes a milling drum. The system comprises an anti-slab, a position sensor, a controller and an actuator. The controller is configured to determine an actuator adjustment based on a predetermined height, position data and a cutting depth of the milling drum. The position data is indicative of a current elevational position of the anti-slab. The actuator is configured to move the anti-slab based on the actuator adjustment from the current elevational position to a first elevational position, wherein the bottom side of the anti-slab is disposed at the predetermined height above the roadway when the anti-slab is in the first elevational position.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.Inventors: Jason R. Bjorge, Sean Laclef
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Patent number: 10151072Abstract: A structural panel and method of fabricating and manufacturing same comprises a top panel and a bottom panel separated by and attached to at least one, but preferably a plurality, of structural composite preforms which may be fabricated by a continuous manufacturing process and may be saturated by resin using a continuous wetting process. The composite preforms may take any cross sectional shape but are preferably trapezoidal. The top and bottom panels may be fabricated from a plurality of layers of woven fabric layers and non-woven fabric layers which are saturated with a resin that is subsequently cured using cure processes known in the art. The composite structural panel of the invention is usable as a flat structural member for use as bridge decking, ramps, trestles, and any application requiring a structural panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: COMPOSITES INTELLECTUAL HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Scott Lewit, Ronnal P. Reichard
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Patent number: 10151073Abstract: A snow removal device features a pushing element and handle. The pushing element has a main portion defining an upright plane with opposing front and rear surfaces and a bottom edge along the front surface. Laterally opposing end portions of the pushing element extend forwardly from the upright plane and have bottom edges. The bottom edges of the end portions adjacent the front surface are acute relative thereto so that the main portion is pivotal about its bottom edge from a normal working orientation in which the upright plane is substantially perpendicular to a flat surface along which the pushing element slides to a forward inclined orientation which is pivotally further forward of the normal working orientation without lifting the bottom edge of the main portion. The device further features a scraping flange extending rearwardly and downwardly from the rear surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: David Lorne Stoddart
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Patent number: 10151074Abstract: A seismic, water, or acoustic wave damping structure can include a structural arrangement of at least two elements, each with an inner volume and containing a medium resistant to passage of an anticipated wave. Example elements can be earth boreholes or water pylons. The structural arrangement can taper from an upper aperture to a lower aperture, the structural arrangement defining a protection zone at the upper aperture. The structural arrangement can be configured to attenuate power from the anticipated wave within the protection zone relative to power from the anticipated wave external to the protection zone. A grouping may include elements that form acute or obtuse angles with a direction of a wave to attenuate wave power. High-value buildings or other structure in a protection zone on land or in water can be substantially shielded from seismic or water waves.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Robert W. Haupt, Mordechai Rothschild, Vladimir Liberman, Charles G. Doll, Jr., Shaun R. Berry
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Concrete mounting systems, apparatuses, and methods for fences and other concrete mounted structures
Patent number: 10151075Abstract: Concrete mounting apparatuses, concrete connector installation assemblies, and methods of installing a concrete mounting apparatus are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods may include positioning a plurality of connectors at a predetermined distance below a top surface of concrete in a concrete form during curing of the concrete, and forming one or more channels from the top surface to the plurality of connectors during curing of the concrete. The methods may additionally include attaching a concrete mounting apparatus to one or more of the plurality of connectors through the one or more formed channels of the cured concrete. The concrete mounting apparatus may be configured to support one or more rails of a fence.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: Stanley George Wallulis -
Patent number: 10151076Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out bi-directional load testing of close ended driven piles and injection piles utilizing a hydraulic jack, comprising an enclosure for housing the hydraulic jack (13). The enclosure (1) includes a first hollow body (10) a second hollow body (15). The first hollow body (10) had a covered upper end (10a) and an open lower end (10b), with the upper end being capped by an attached top plate (11) having an external surface (11a) which the lower end (81b) of a first pile (81) may be axially attached to, and an internal surface (11b). The open lower end (10b) has a cut-out (12) originating on the edge of the open end (10b) of the first hollow body for receiving a hydraulic connection (14) for the jack (13). The second hollow body (15) is capable of housing the hydraulic jack (13), has an open upper end (15a) and a lower end (15b).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: WILL N WELL PROPERTY SDN BHDInventor: Yee Kong Wai
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Patent number: 10151077Abstract: A method of operating a loader having a clamshell bucket operationally connected thereto, wherein the clamshell bucket has a first clamshell portion pivotably connected to a second clamshell portion, including positioning the first clamshell portion in contact with the ground, and automatically adjusting the angular relationship between the first clamshell portion and the second clamshell portion as the second clamshell portion is moved through the ground to maintain a predetermined grade.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: Phillip Paull
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Patent number: 10151078Abstract: A method of controlling a blade of an earthmoving system is disclosed. The method includes enabling independent blade control so that the blade is controllable independent of the terrain contour design while a cutting edge of the blade is beneath the terrain contour design, and receiving first sensor signals from one or more first sensors of the earthmoving system, where the sensor signals indicate that the cutting edge of the blade is within a threshold distance from the terrain contour design. In response to receiving the first sensor signals, the method automatically controls the cutting edge of the blade to the terrain contour design, where the movement of the blade is dependent on the terrain contour design.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignees: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC, Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Tony R. Metzger, Bruce J. Wiewel, Robert L. Powers, Richard R. Evenson
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Patent number: 10151079Abstract: The present invention provides an improved pipeline burying apparatus that uses specially configured jetting nozzles that intake sea water surrounding the nozzle. The apparatus provides a frame supporting spaced apart left and right inclined pipe sections that are configured to be placed on opposing sides of the pipeline to be buried. Each inclined pipe section is fitted with a plurality of jetting nozzles that are positioned on one of the inclined pipe sections, in vertically spaced apart positions and in horizontally spaced apart positions. In one embodiment, the main central longitudinal channel has an inlet section with an inlet section diameter, a discharge section having an outlet section diameter and a connecting section that is in between the inlet section and the outlet section.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: BISSO MARINE, LLCInventors: Richard Allen Anderson, William A. Bisso, IV
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Patent number: 10151080Abstract: A hydraulic control for an attachment on a work vehicle. The attachment is mounted on the chassis of the work vehicle and movable between a first position and a second position. A hydraulic cylinder is operable to power movement of the attachment. A fluid circuit communicates with the hydraulic cylinder and is configured to carry hydraulic fluid. A fluid reservoir is in communication with the fluid circuit. Accumulators that are in communication with the fluid circuit automatically store and release hydraulic fluid in response to movement of the attachment. A valve assembly controls fluid communication between the fluid reservoir and the fluid circuit in response to movement of the attachment to its second position.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: The Charles Machine Works, Inc.Inventor: Cody L. Sewell
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Patent number: 10151081Abstract: Disclosed is a work vehicle adapted to mount a front work implement operated under a forward facing posture and a rear work implement operated under a reverse facing posture. A forward/reverse operational unit includes a first operational tool operable by one hand of a driver under the reverse facing posture and a second operational tool operable by the one hand engaged in operation of the first operational tool.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Kubota CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Kuroshita, Masahiro Sugioka, Daisuke Hashimoto
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Patent number: 10151082Abstract: An excavation tooth lock assembly to lock a first tooth member to a second tooth member, the first tooth member having a body that incorporates a socket which is configured to receive a nose portion of the second tooth member, a locking space provided when the second tooth member is received in the first tooth member, wherein the lock assembly comprises: a lock comprising a body which is configured to be inserted into the locking space including by rotating the body into an operative position to lock the first tooth member to the second tooth member and interengaging elements disposed on the lock and one or both of the first and second tooth members, the elements configured to releaseably retain the lock within the locking space in its operative position.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Bradken Resources Pty LimitedInventor: Chris Edmonds
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Patent number: 10151083Abstract: Individual honeycomb shaped modules used in an assembly for underground storage of storm water and other fluid storage needs. Modules are assembled into a resultant honeycomb shape for maximized structural strength and material use efficiency. Internal hexagonal or square shaped modules are assembled and encased by external hexagonal or square shaped modules. Internal adjacent modules are in direct fluid communications with one another through a channel-less chamber. Internal hexagonal or square shaped modules drain into external hexagonal or square shaped modules chamber where fluid is either stored or drained. Assemblies include various top and side pieces along with access ports for entry into said assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Bio Clean Environmental Services, Inc.Inventors: Zachariha J. Kent, John Scott
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Patent number: 10151084Abstract: A fluid treatment and disposal system includes a sink, having a basin, a sink drain inlet, and a sink drain trap. An open cavity is disposed behind a rearward wall of the sink basin, between a top portion of the sink and the sink drain trap. A curved transition surface receives fluid entering the sink. Embodiments of the drain are shaped to promote the evacuation of fluid from the basin while limiting turbulence. An exhaust port fluidly coupled with the open cavity evacuates the open cavity and surrounding environment. Embodiments optionally associate one or more of the following with the open cavity: Ultra-Violet (UV) Germicidal Lights, and Ozone water, copper-silver ionization, and/or sanitizing agent injection systems.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: SAFE HEALTH SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Gregory Scott Koll, James R. Stark, Thomas S. Hicks, Lorie Margaret Koll
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Patent number: 10151085Abstract: A sink includes a basin body having a generally concave shape that forms at least one sink basin, a top flange integrally formed with the basin body, the top flange extending around a rim of the at least one sink basin, the top flange having an underside that is generally flat, an apron connected onto a front portion of the underside of the top flange, and an adhesive disposed between the apron and the underside of the top flange to secure the apron to the basin body.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Elkay Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Jonathan Chee Yeen Chong, Robert Zudic, Erik Lynch, Christopher Waas
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Patent number: 10151086Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to flexible drainage trap assemblies and methods for constructing and installing such drainage traps. In one exemplary embodiment, a flexible drainage trap assembly includes a plumbing fixture connector, a discharge joint, and a trap portion connecting the plumbing fixture connector and discharge joint. The trap portion is shaped in such a way that it is operable to retain a pool of water inside the trap portion. The disclosed flexible drainage assemblies include a flexible portion that has a substantially smooth inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Coflex S.A. de C.V.Inventors: Eduardo Coronado, Mauricio Coronado, Jorge Sada, Humberto Flores-Villarreal, Javier Canales
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Patent number: 10151087Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a water dispenser comprising a sewer tube, a connecting pole, a connecting seat having a sewer outlet, and a sewer lid to close or open the sewer outlet. The connecting seat is connected to the sewer tube. The connecting pole is inside the sewer tube. The sewer lid is connected to an upper end of the connecting pole. The sewer tube comprises a fixing seat on a side wall. The fixing seat comprises a driving component to drive the connecting pole. The driving component comprises a swing component, a swing component mounting seat, a connecting steel wire and a handle. The swing component is hinged to the swing component mounting seat to enable the swing component to swing with a hinge shaft as a center.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: ZHEJIANG DELIFU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Guofei Wang
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Patent number: 10151088Abstract: A device used to conceal at least a portion of a wastewater strainer associated with a bathtub. More specifically, a plate having an opening therethrough is used to overlap a flange of the wastewater strainer wherein the opening in the plate generally coincides with an opening in the wastewater strainer so that the bathtub drain is unobstructed. The plate may include a downwardly extending lip to help facilitate orientation onto the flange of the wastewater strainer. The plate conceals the wastewater strainer, thereby facilitating reconfiguration of a bathtub as the existing wastewater strainer need not be removed and the plumbing system retested.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: WCM Industries, Inc.Inventor: William T. Ball
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Patent number: 10151089Abstract: A flush valve for a toilet, the flush valve including a main valve unit for causing a main valve body to reciprocate between a closed position and an open position in response to pressure inside a back pressure chamber communicating with a primary side flow path thereby opening and closing a flow path between the primary side flow path and the secondary side flow path. The flush valve further including a sub-valve unit having a sub-valve body for opening and closing a bypass flow path connecting the back pressure chamber and the secondary side flow path. The flush valve further including a generating unit disposed on the downstream side of the main valve unit and serving as flow path resistance on the secondary side flow path. Wherein the bypass flow path is connected to the secondary side flow path downstream of the generating unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Toto Ltd.Inventor: Hodaka Saruwatari
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Patent number: 10151090Abstract: A flush actuator for engaging a flush valve. The flush actuator provides a mechanism assembly for automatically flushing the flush valve. A sensor provides a presence detection to trigger the automatic flushing. Redundant manual activation is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: SLOAN VALVE COMPANYInventors: John Wilson, Kay Herbert, Xiaoxiong Mo, Alfred J. Costa, Joshua D. Anthony, Klaus H. Renner, Matthew T. Kowalczyk, Joshua P. Kinsley
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Patent number: 10151091Abstract: A toilet apparatus according to an embodiment includes a wall-mounted-type toilet body, a sanitary washing device, a switching part, and a fixation member. The toilet body includes a skirt part that forms an outline of a toilet bowl. The sanitary washing device is disposed on a top face of the toilet body and washes a private part of a user. The switching part can execute at least one of a first operation and a second operation, wherein the first operation is to switch a supply and a stop of water to the sanitary washing device, and the second operation is to switch a supply and a stop of electric power to the sanitary washing device, and wherein the first operation and the second operation are executed manually. The fixation member fixes the switching part at a manually operable position inside the skirt part, wherein the switching part is manually operable at the position.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Masateru Shiraishi, Satoshi Yamazaki, Tomohiro Noguchi, Koji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10151092Abstract: The present invention is a flush toilet apparatus (1) having a flush toilet main body (2) and a sanitary washing apparatus (18), with a bent supply pipe (28) extending so as to bend from the connecting base end portion (24) of a toilet seat rear portion to supply wash water to a sanitary washing apparatus, a wash water supply pipe (2) connected to this bent supply pipe, and an affixing member (14) for affixing the toilet seat to the flush toilet main body; whereby affixing holes (12) and a pipe opening (16) are provided on the top surface, and the pipe opening is formed outer side of the affixing holes, while the center point of the pipe opening is positioned on the front side of the affixing holes, and the pipe opening center point is positioned on the inside of the connecting base end portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Hashimoto, Masateru Shiraishi
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Patent number: 10151093Abstract: A toilet modified for disposal of dialysis waste includes a base, a bowl, a water supply port, and a dialysis drain port. In the dialysis drain port is an air gap device that establishes a gap between ends of first and second drain tubes of a dialysis machine and a fluid level in the air gap. RO water and effluent from the dialysis machine enter the chamber of the air gap and mix, before being passed along a path from the dialysis drain port to the bowl of the toilet, where it can be dispelled in a sanitary manner in compliant with all pertinent codes and regulations.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventors: Gene Quesada, Roger Golightly
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Patent number: 10151094Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl having a waste-receiving surface and a rim; the bowl comprises a front region on the front side of a center line extending in the left-right direction and equally dividing the bowl in the front-rear direction, and a rear region on the rear side thereof; whereby on either the left or right side in the front area of the bowl, on the rim, a rim water passageway is formed for passing flush water supplied from a conduit, and a rim spout port is formed, and the rim water passageway comprises: an outside passageway extending from the inlet thereof through the rim interior toward the front; a bent passageway bending inward from the downstream end of this outside passageway; and an inside passageway extending from this bent passageway toward the rear, up to the rim spout port.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: TOTO LTD.Inventors: Shu Kashirajima, Yuki Shimokawa, Masaki Kitamura, Yuuki Shinohara, Masaaki Momoe
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Patent number: 10151095Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improved water closet flanges and methods for installing such water closet flanges. In one exemplary embodiment, an improved water closet flange apparatus includes an outer flange and a flexible conduit portion (i.e. sleeve) extending downwardly therefrom. The flexible sleeve has a sufficient degree of flexibility to accommodate connection between offset, misaligned, angled, or otherwise incongruous plumbing fixture discharges and waste drain pipe outlets. In one embodiment, the flexible sleeve includes at least one corrugated portion to aid the desired flexibility. An upper portion of the flexible sleeve may include an inwardly extending lip portion to accommodate the desired seal between the plumbing fixture discharge and the flange apparatus. Related methods for installing the disclosed flange apparatus between plumbing fixture discharges and waste drainpipes are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Coflex S.A. de C.V.Inventors: Eduardo Coronado, Jorge Sada
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Patent number: 10151096Abstract: Individual square shaped modules used in an assembly for underground storage of storm water and other fluid storage needs. Modules are assembled into a resultant square tilling shape for maximized structural strength and material use efficiency. Internal square shaped modules are assembled and encased by external square shaped modules. Internal adjacent modules are in direct fluid communications with one another through a channel-less chamber. Internal square shaped modules drain into square shaped modules chamber where fluid is either stored or drained. Assemblies include various top and side pieces along with access ports for entry into said assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Bio Clean Environmental Services, Inc.Inventors: Zachariha J. Kent, John Scott