Patents Issued in March 7, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190071167
    Abstract: Hand controls for an aircraft, including a single axis hand control which is configured to control movement of an aircraft along a vertical axis where the aircraft includes a plurality of rotors that are attached to the aircraft at a fixed position and the plurality of rotors rotate independently of one another. The hand controls further include a three axis hand control which is configured to control movement of the aircraft within a plane defined by a roll axis and a pitch axis, as well as about a yaw axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander David Selwa, Todd Reichert, Mark Johnson Cutler
  • Publication number: 20190071168
    Abstract: A drive system for rotating a wheel of an aircraft landing gear. The drive system has a drive pinion and a motor operable to rotate the drive pinion via a drive path. A rotary damper is provided in the drive path between the motor and the drive pinion. A driven gear is adapted to be attached to the wheel so as to be capable of rotating the wheel. The drive system has a drive configuration in which the drive pinion is capable of meshing with the driven gear to permit the motor to drive the driven gear via the drive path. One of the drive pinion and the driven gear comprises a roller gear having a series of rollers arranged to form a ring, each roller being rotatable about a roller axis, and the other of the drive pinion and the driven gear comprises a sprocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Arnaud DIDEY, Fraser WILSON
  • Publication number: 20190071169
    Abstract: An active landing gear damping system and method for decelerating a vehicle during a terrain impact event, such as an aircraft landing or crash. The system monitors aircraft state data and terrain information to predict an impact of the vehicle with the terrain. The system can then determine a target damper force for each landing gear of the vehicle and a predicted damper velocity at the time of impact. Each landing gear can include an adjustable damper valve, wherein adjustment of the damper valves varies the damping coefficient of the respective dampers. The system can adjust valves of the respective dampers to provide the target force based on the predicted damper velocity. After an impact begins, the system can continuously monitor and adjust the valve to maintain the target force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Terrence S. BIRCHETTE, Akif O. BOLUKBASI
  • Publication number: 20190071170
    Abstract: A telescopic device having a housing and a rod is slidably mounted within a bore of the housing. First and second bearings provide sliding engagement between the rod and the housing. The first bearing is mounted relatively close to the open end of the bore and the second bearing is mounted relatively far from the open end of the bore relative to the first bearing. The second bearing is annular in shape with a central axis, the bearing has a radially outer mounting surface of arcuate cross-section and a radially inner bearing surface for sliding engagement with an outer surface of the rod and wherein the inner sidewall is provided with an annular groove having a second mounting surface of arcuate cross-section to house and retain the second bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Matthew Hilliard
  • Publication number: 20190071171
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes one or more propeller units operable to provide thrust for takeoff or hover flight and one or more propulsion units operable to provide thrust for forward flight. At least one propeller unit includes a shaft coupled to a motor, and a first propeller blade and a second propeller blade that are both connected to the shaft. The second propeller blade is located substantially opposite the first propeller blade, and the second propeller blade has a surface area substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation that is greater than a corresponding surface area of the first propeller blade. While the aerial vehicle is in forward flight in a first direction and the motor is turned off, the first propeller blade and the second propeller blade are each configured to orient in a second direction that is substantially parallel to the first direction, such that the first propeller blade is oriented substantially upwind of the second propeller blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Parsa Dormiani, James Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20190071172
    Abstract: A multi-rotor aerial vehicle comprises at least two rotors, a controller, a power supply having an output shaft, a shaft-driven hydraulic machine coupled to the output shaft and at least two rotor-driving hydraulic machines coupled to respective rotors. At least one of the hydraulic machines is an electronically commutated hydraulic machine in which displacement of hydraulic fluid through each working chamber is regulated by electronically controllable valves, during each cycle of working chamber volume, in phased relationship to cycles of working chamber volume. The controller controls the electronically controllable valves of the electronically commutated hydraulic machines to independently control the rotation of the rotors. The shaft-driven hydraulic machine may be an electronically commutated machine with a plurality of independent outputs, which independently drive the rotor-driving hydraulic machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Niall James CALDWELL
  • Publication number: 20190071173
    Abstract: The present invention includes an anti-torque assembly for a helicopter comprising a plurality of fixed blade pitch motors mounted on one or more pivots on the tail boom of the helicopter, wherein the plurality of fixed blade pitch motors on the one or more pivots are adapted to be oriented substantially in-plane with a tail boom of a helicopter during a first mode of operation that comprises a hover mode and wherein the fixed blade pitch motors are adapted to be oriented substantially off-plane from the tail boom of the helicopter during a second mode of helicopter operation that is different from the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Dewey Parsons, Carlos Alexander Fenny, Erik John Oltheten
  • Publication number: 20190071174
    Abstract: The present invention, in the field of aviation, is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle comprising fuselage, vertical tail, four tilting wings, electric generator which uses liquid fuel, rechargeable electric energy storage devices, sensors comprising air flow sensors and an actuation and feedback control system. The four tilting wings may rotate, independently one from the other and in a controlled way, around two axes parallel to the pitch axis, one of these axis is in front of the center of gravity of the vehicle and the other behind it. All the four wings provide positive lift during forward flight. There is at least one electric motor in each wing which drives at least one thrust generator. The thrust generators wind streams interact with all the vehicle lifting wings during vertical take off and landing to reduce the possibility to stall at low vehicle speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Mario Burigo, MARCO CELSO MATTEONI, GIANNI SANTARELLI
  • Publication number: 20190071175
    Abstract: A kite launch device that includes a kite, a mast, a guide device coupled to the mast, and a winch. The kite includes a canopy, a base structure for at least one device, a plurality of support lines coupled to the canopy and the base structure, a guide line coupled to the canopy, and a tether coupled to the base structure. The guide device is configured to grab the guide line. The winch is coupled to the tether of the kite. The winch is configured to extend and retract the tether. In some implementations, the kite includes a guide element coupled to the base structure and the guide line. In some implementations, the guide device is configured to encircle the guide element in order to grab the guide line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: James Nathaniel Chafe, Kevin Wade Silbert, Paul Charles Seiffert
  • Publication number: 20190071176
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a parasail-assisted system for launching a fixed-wing aircraft into free flight and for retrieving a fixed-wing aircraft from free flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas H. von Flotow, Corydon C. Roeseler
  • Publication number: 20190071177
    Abstract: Provided is a seeder assembly for an aerial vehicle as shown and described. The distribution assembly includes a frame selectively attachable to an aerial vehicle and at least one distribution device attached to the frame. The distribution device having a body defining a cavity to receive a plurality of products and a barrel to discharge the plurality of products. A control device configured to communicate with the aerial vehicle and the distribution device to coordinate the timing that products are discharged and a spacing of a subsequent discharged product relative to the speed of the aerial vehicle. A system, method, and cartridge device associated with the distribution assembly are also contemplated by this disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Stephen Zvara
  • Publication number: 20190071178
    Abstract: The rotary wing drone comprises at least one rotor carried by a drone structure, wherein the drone structure comprises a drone body and at least one group of arms comprising a plurality of arms rotatably mounted on the drone body about the same axis of rotation, between a deployed position for flight and a folded position for transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Christine Caubel
  • Publication number: 20190071179
    Abstract: A motor vehicle system includes a motor vehicle including an aircraft landing portion, and an actively propelled unmanned aircraft configured to be supported on the aircraft landing portion. The vehicle and aircraft are configured such that the vehicle can provide at least one of fuel and electrical energy to the aircraft while the aircraft is supported on the aircraft landing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: William D. Duncan, Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, Stephen L. Malaska, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Robert C. Petroski, Thomas Allan Weaver, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190071180
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle including a main body, a plurality of arms, a propulsion assembly and a battery assembly, where each arm is coupled to the main body and the propulsion assembly is disposed on the each arm. The battery assembly is accommodated in a battery compartment of the main body. The battery assembly includes a shell, a battery body substantially disposed in the shell, a clamp button, and a restorable elastic piece. An end of the clamp button is mounted or connects to the shell, and the other end of the clamp button is detachably coupled to the main body. An end of the restorable elastic piece is disposed on the shell or connect to the shell, and the other end of the restorable elastic piece contacts the clamp button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Longxue QIU, Xingwen WU
  • Publication number: 20190071181
    Abstract: A passenger seat arrangement for installation in an aircraft comprises at least one seating unit comprising a backrest element and a seat element pivotable relative to the backrest element between a resting position and a position of use. The passenger seat arrangement also has a support frame which bears against the at least one seating unit and which is able to be connected in a load-bearing manner to a structure of the aircraft. The support frame has at least one mechanical interface which, in each case, is assigned to a seating unit and is designed to fasten different mutually exchangeable modular units in a releasable and load-transmitting manner to the support frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Michael DEMARY, Bernd EHLERS, Stefan BEHRENS, David TOTH
  • Publication number: 20190071182
    Abstract: Disclosed is a modular seat for aircraft. The system has a frame that is able to be interconnected with other frames laterally. Since each lateral frame has the same pivot points (when viewed from the side), the linked seats rotate together. The seats also include buckle lugs which enable a particular seat to be used on either side of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Barry John Ward
  • Publication number: 20190071183
    Abstract: Described are seat backs (102) for aircraft passenger seats (100). Such a seat back (102) can include a unitary structural core (112) formed as a single piece that includes a body (138) and a flange (140). The body (138) and the flange (140) can each include carbon fiber composite material. The flange (140) can include portions extending from the rearward-facing side (132) of the body respectively along a left lateral side edge, a top (134) side edge, and a right lateral side edge of the unitary structural core (112). The flange (140) can be non-tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Zodiac Seats US LLC
    Inventors: Donald M. Lasell, Justin K. Murnan, Ali Mohiti Asli, Jeffrey L. Sikorski
  • Publication number: 20190071184
    Abstract: An embodiment vehicle control structure includes a control podium, a control stick mounted on the control podium and having a range of motion, a mounting sleeve affixed to the control podium, and an armrest having a platform structure and an armrest support, wherein a first portion of the armrest support is disposed in the mounting sleeve. The platform structure is adjustably attached to the armrest support a first angle of a plurality of angles relative to the armrest support, and a first angle of the plurality of angles corresponds to the range of motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Chad Richard Haugeberg
  • Publication number: 20190071185
    Abstract: An ice protection system is configured for a rotor blade having a leading edge along at least a portion of a spanwise length extending between a root portion and a tip portion. The system has an electric spanwise anti-ice heater configured for placement on the leading edge of the blade and a first electric spanwise de-ice heater adjacent the anti-ice heater and having varying chordwise dimensions. The de-ice heater is configured for placement on an upper surface of the blade or a lower surface of the blade. Electrical connectors for each heater are configured for connection near the root portion of the blade to a source of electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Mark Paulson, Jeffrey Paul Nissen
  • Publication number: 20190071186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mounting a motor to a receiving device of a UAS are disclosed herein. The motor may include a number of protruding elements, each protruding element including a shank segment having a first diameter and a head segment having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter. The receiving device may include a base configured to couple the receiving device to the UAS, a first sidewall extending upwardly from a first side of the base, and a second sidewall extending upwardly from a second side of the base. Both the first and second sidewalls may include at least one receptacle. The head segment of each protruding element may be configured to interlock with one or more of the receptacles of the first sidewall or the second sidewall when the protruding elements are inserted between the first sidewall and the second sidewall of the receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Raymond Gradwohl
  • Publication number: 20190071187
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided for an expandable energy absorbing fluid bladder. In one example, the fluid bladder includes a primary portion and a secondary portion. The secondary portion can be configured to expand or increase in volume when the fluid bladder is subjected to a pulse greater than a threshold pulse. Expansion of the secondary portion can allow fluid or additional fluid to flow into the secondary portion and thus decrease a peak pulse and, thus, avoid rupture of the fluid bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Kozar, Mark S. Wilenski
  • Publication number: 20190071188
    Abstract: A system for locating the end of a boom and that of a refueling vessel in a mid-flight refueling operation from a tanker that includes means for locating the position of the inlet mouth of the fuel that is inside the vessel of the receiving plane that comprise at least one vision subsystem arranged on the tanker. Also included are means for locating the position of the boom tip comprising light emitters, placed on the boom tip, along with the vision subsystem arranged on the tanker, and processing means constructed to use the images obtained from the locating means to allow their positions and inclinations to be exactly determined with respect to a common coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Alberto ADARVE LOZANO
  • Publication number: 20190071189
    Abstract: The present invention relates broadly to a process and apparatus in field of thin-walled structures possessing high strength-to-weight ratio, and particularly to mirror structures utilizing corrugated, or similarly structured, predominantly hollow-core panel structures; and, even more particularly, heat collector structures utilized for concentration of radiant heat. The disclosed invention relates to an optical element utilized for concentrating radiation, and more particularly, high-concentration, reflective concentrators that are constructed from discrete conical concentrators utilizing flexible high-reflectance layers that are produced by roll-to-roll manufacturing. In its first preferred embodiment, the disclosed optical element preferably comprises a quasi-parabolic, multi-frustum, concentration optic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Donald Bennett Hilliard
  • Publication number: 20190071190
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated ground support system for an aircraft is described herein, the system including a frame on which the system is arranged as a singular assembly. An engine, drive train, alternator, bleed air unit, one or more electrical components, and air cycle machine are mounted on the frame. The engine operates at a first operational state associated with a first rotational speed that is independent of a frequency associated with electrical power, if only the electrical power is to be used by the aircraft, and the engine operates at a second operational state associated with a second rotational speed, different from the first rotational speed, that is a function of a pressure associated with bleed air or the conditioned air, if the electrical power and one of the bleed air or the conditioned air are to be used simultaneously by the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: John Bean Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven U. Nestel, Brent Andrew Carlson, Kirk Rodney Nelson
  • Publication number: 20190071191
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for extendible membranes, such as solar arrays. Some embodiments include an extendible membrane system that may include: an extendible central column; one or more membranes; and/or one or more foldable membrane supports configured to support the one or more membranes. Each of the one or more foldable membrane supports may be configured to extend from the extendible central column. In some embodiments, one or more of the one or more foldable membrane supports includes two or more segments that may be configured to couple with each other. Some embodiments include a method of deploying one or more membranes that may include unfolding one or more foldable membrane supports from a folded configuration to a linear configuration. Some embodiments include an extendible membrane device with one or more membranes and one or more foldable membrane supports configured to support the one or more membranes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: William H. Francis, Mark S. Lake
  • Publication number: 20190071192
    Abstract: A controller arrangement includes a controller, an actuator, and a measuring element. The measuring element captures a control variable with a predetermined sampling rate in consecutive sampling cycles and transmits it to the controller. The controller compares the control variable with a predetermined reference variable and determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable. The controller, in a first cycle, starts with a predetermined regulating variable and outputs it to the actuator, and subsequently determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable; in a second cycle, the controller varies the regulating variable based on the difference of the control variable from the reference variable in the first cycle, and outputs it to the actuator, and subsequently determines how the control variable differs from the reference variable; in a third cycle, the controller varies the regulating variable and outputs it to the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Karl Georg Friederich
  • Publication number: 20190071193
    Abstract: Inner panels including at least one built-in heat pipe connected in a circumferential direction are provided. In a heat pipe panel including the built-in heat pipe, apparatuses are mounted on the outer side of the plural inner panels connected in the circumferential direction to diffuse generated heat of the apparatuses to the circumferential direction of the inner panels. Webbed panels including a built-in heat pipe horizontally arranged and having heat radiation surfaces are radially arranged at corners of the inner panels as well as a heat pipe is horizontally built in and heat radiation surfaces are arranged also on outer panels facing the inner panels to thermally connect the heat pipes to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki IZU, Yuichi OGURA, Takehide NOMURA, Kengo HAYASHI, Shintaro YAMASHITA, Shiro SAKATA, Testsuya KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190071194
    Abstract: A transport and feed unit for preforms, in particular for PET bottles, in which the transport and feed unit can be charged with preforms at its upstream end and supplies the preforms to a conveyor unit arranged at the downstream end of the transport and feed unit. The transport and feed unit has a first conveyor and a second conveyor, in which at the downstream end of the first conveyor a funnel-like device is provided through which the preforms reach the second conveyor which supplies the preforms to the conveyor unit arranged at its downstream end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: M. Tanner Ag
    Inventor: MARCEL TANNER
  • Publication number: 20190071195
    Abstract: A layered food packaging system including a conveyor that conveys a first layered food and a second layered food, a lamination device that laminates the first layered food onto the second layered food on the conveyor such that a layered food laminate is made, a carrier device that holds the layered food laminate and carries the layered food laminate from the conveyor, and a package device that prepares a bag for the layered food laminate carried by the carrier device and places the layered food laminate into the bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Tomoya HYODO, Haruhiko KOIKE, Teruhisa KITAGAWA, Koichi KIRIHARA, Motohiro HAMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190071196
    Abstract: Provided is a boxing device to restrain productivity decreases and cost increases. A boxing device has a stocking section to form a stocking space in which a plurality of cardboard boxes made from a box-making sheet can be stocked, a packing section in which the cardboard boxes sent from the stocking space are placed, a boxing section, and a controller. The boxing section performs a boxing action of packing a plurality of products discharged from a bag-making and packaging machine into the cardboard boxes placed in the packing section. The controller, on the basis of weighing machine information and user-set information, executes a stocking number deciding process to decide a numerical quantity (stocking number) of cardboard boxes stocked in the stocking space. The weighing machine information is information relating to an operating condition of the packaging machine (packaging-machine-related information). The user-set information is information set by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: ISHIDA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kousuke WATANABE, Norio KAWANISHI
  • Publication number: 20190071197
    Abstract: A device for supplying lids to a can seamer includes a destacking screw for conveying lids that are fed in via a lid feed, for transferring the correctly separated lids to a downstream transport and/or treatment device, and for interrupting the supply of the lids to the downstream transport and/or treatment device in the event of an interruption of production. Methods for supplying lids to a can seamer are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Sebastian LANGWIESER, Michael TRUMMET
  • Publication number: 20190071198
    Abstract: A machine to manufacture cartridges for electronic cigarettes comprising a casing made of plastic material; the manufacturing machine comprises a drum rotating at a predetermined pitch around its own vertical rotation axis, which receives an orderly mass of empty casings from a feeding conveyor, in correspondence to a collecting station, and feeds them through a succession of processing stations; in which, the first drum is provided with a plurality of peripheral seats, each designed to receive a respective casing and which are divided into groups comprising the same number of seats arranged substantially in line so as to form, in plan view, a polygon on the surface of the first drum; in which the casings of the seats of a same group are simultaneously subjected to the processes in correspondence to the succession of processing stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Roberto Claudio Franco Ghiotti, Stefano Negrini
  • Publication number: 20190071199
    Abstract: There is described a machine for packaging products in tubular wrappings of thermoplastic material obtained from continuous film unwound from a reel, equipped with a double transverse heat-sealing and intermediate cutting assembly that, with a horizontal translation movement, accompanies the pack that the assembly is closing the trailing end of to be unloaded while it is simultaneously closing the leading end of the tubular wrapper of the future pack that the heat-sealing and cutting assembly, also due to the presence thereon of pressers and counter-pressers, extracts from a tube-forming and longitudinal heat-sealing mandrel and that, by the same assembly, is separated from the pack upstream with a transverse cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stefano Cassoli, Marco Cassoli, Paolo Cassoli
  • Publication number: 20190071200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a layered packaging film for fresh produce. The film provides a water vapour transmission rate of at least 30 g m?2 per day, and includes a polymer layer with a sealing temperature of 205° C. or less. The present invention also provides a comprising fresh produce enclosed by a packaging film, wherein the packaging film is sealed by an elongate seal extending along the underside of the package, and wherein the elongate seal has a sealing strength such that when the packaging film is lifted from the upper side of the fresh produce package the seal breaks permitting the packaging film to be removed from the fresh produce in a single lifting action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Alexey GOIHMAN, Gary WARD, Ivo TUNCHEL
  • Publication number: 20190071201
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of preparing an individually portioned, shelf-stable, very moist, soft cake by a three-stage process. Such a prepared cake can be readily stored and/or transported within the jar/container for consumption at a later time and/or remote location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Alla Levin
  • Publication number: 20190071202
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sealing device for securing a packaging material. The sealing device for securing the packaging material comprises: a tape supply reel for supplying a sealing tape to which an RFID tag has been coupled; and a sealing part for sealing, with the sealing tape, an opening of a plastic packaging material holding a product, wherein the sealing part adheres the RFID tag, which is coupled to one end of the sealing tape having the length for one use, to an adhesive positioned on the other end portion of the sealing tape having the length for one use, wherein the RFID tag is broken by the adhesive strength with respect to the other end portion when the sealing tape sealing the plastic packaging material is torn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Kyeong Keun Song
  • Publication number: 20190071203
    Abstract: A rotary machine for the treatment of containers is described. This rotary machine comprises a stationary underframe, a rotatable container table for receiving the containers, a motor designed as an internal rotor for direct drive of the container table, a bearing for supporting the container table and/or a non-rotatably connected supporting structure on the underframe radially outside the motor, and a rotary encoder for determining the rotational position of the container table. By positioning the rotary encoder radially outside the motor, the accuracy of the rotary position determination can be improved, especially for rotary machines with comparatively large pitch diameters and the accessibility of the rotary encoder for maintenance measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: August PEUTL, Johannes Strauss, Veronika Bauer
  • Publication number: 20190071204
    Abstract: A method for moving to a reference feed position of a label tape with respect to a dispensing edge of a container labeller and a corresponding device is described. The label tape may be first pulled back beyond the reference feed position by rewinding to its supply roller and then conveyed in the normal feed direction to the reference feed position prevents unwanted detachment of labels at the dispensing edge as a result of the label tape unwinding from the supply roller as well as the use of pusher roller systems upstream of the dispensing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Bernhard HÖGL
  • Publication number: 20190071205
    Abstract: A labelling method includes receiving an occupied signal from a conveyor indicating that the next spot on the conveyor is occupied with an object to be labeled and instructing a turret motor to rotate a turret continuously from one application position to another application position to apply a second label to the second object. The method then includes determining the absence of an occupied signal within a time threshold, and instructing the turret motor to rotate the turret to an intermediate position and to slow the turret at the intermediate position. The intermediate position is between two consecutive application positions. The method then includes receiving another occupied signal indicating that the next spot on the conveyor is occupied, and instructing the turret motor to rotate the turret to the next application position to apply a third label to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Sumier Sleiman
  • Publication number: 20190071206
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed for a labeling machine for labeling containers, such as bottles in the beverage-processing industry. In one example, a labeling machine includes at least one machine unit which in operation can treat containers (e.g., label the containers), and a movable protective element which separates at least part of the machine unit from an associated environment. The protective element comprises a handle for moving the protective element, and the handle comprises a pushbutton for locking and/or unlocking. The pushbutton, when actuated, selectively releases and/or blocks the movement of the protective element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Oliver POTEMPA, Andreas KRAUS, Stefan SCHERL
  • Publication number: 20190071207
    Abstract: A container (140) having a mouth (142), a bottom (144) and a self-supporting display foil (100). The foil may include a protrusion (162) at a first end (160) and a second end (180). The first end is positioned within the mouth of the container, and the second end is positioned at the bottom of the container. The foil being sufficiently flexible so as to be reversibly deformed, wherein the deformed foil may be placed into or removed from the container through the mouth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kristian Noraas Asbjoernsen, Joakim Noraas Asbjoernsen, Aleksander Noraas Asbjoernsen, Orjan Tunge Asbjornsen
  • Publication number: 20190071208
    Abstract: Beverage container packaging assemblies including a bottom tray, center support, and top tray are disclosed. The bottom tray includes a plurality of cup-shaped elements. The cup-shaped elements are configured to accommodate a bottom portion of a beverage container. The center support is disposed between and in contact with the bottom tray and a top tray of a molded paper pulp. The center support includes a plurality of center support posts, a plurality of recessed elements, and a plurality of beverage container support cavities that are bounded by at least one of the center support posts. The support cavities are configured to surround at least a portion of the beverage container. The top tray includes a plurality of vertical members comprising at least one deformable element and a plurality of bottle neck accommodating spaces each bounded by the at least one deformable element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Acorn West LLC
    Inventors: John GILLIGAN, Rick GANT, David WEISSBERG, Ron VALTIERRA, Gord HEYTING, Chris RUSSELL
  • Publication number: 20190071209
    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: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Niagara Bottling, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Dimitri Peykoff, Jay Clarke Hanan
  • Publication number: 20190071210
    Abstract: A carton for holding at least one article includes a base, a lid, and a shoulder attached to the base. The base includes a first plurality of panels and the lid includes a second plurality of panels. The lid is foldably connected to the base such that the base and the lid at least partially surround an interior of the carton. The shoulder includes at least one holder for holding at least one accessory for the at least one article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald E. Hajek
  • Publication number: 20190071211
    Abstract: A container 10 comprises a body 12 that defines a containment area; and an attachment arrangement 14 to facilitate attaching the container to an extended pull-out handle 16 of a luggage item 18; wherein the container 10 is a fold-together container, and the body 12 comprises a plurality of fold segments 34 and fold creases 36, to facilitate assembling the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Roger Lacayo
  • Publication number: 20190071212
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a chemical container and a method for manufacturing the same. The chemical container comprises a head portion having a top wall and a head sidewall extending from an edge of the top wall, as well as a body portion jointed with the head portion and defining a chamber together with the head portion. The top wall has a mouth structure configured for one or more pipelines to pass through and connect with the chamber. The manufacturing method is simple and of low cost, and the resulted chemical container is able to withstand a greater internal pressure and is configured to collect any leaking liquid chemicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Sophia Wen
  • Publication number: 20190071213
    Abstract: The invention involves a childproof box that suitable for medicinal items such as tablets, medication or other consumables that may be desirably restricted from children. The childproof mechanism that restricts access to the contents of the box may employ a base shell that slides in and out of a cover shell, which respectively conceals and exposes a storage cavity. Both shells have corresponding tracks and corresponding protrusions configured to engage with each other in a manner so that the base shell may only be accessed (or slid open) when a user presses and pushes on a top surface of the cover shell. The structural elements of each of the shells are such that a user may operate the childproof box with a single hand. In exemplary embodiments, the childproof box comprises of flat surfaces that form a generally rectangular box, which is easy to carry, manipulate and store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: David Aryanpanah
  • Publication number: 20190071214
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a maintainable pallet is provided with interchangeable support structures and sensors for identifying any damage that the interchangeable support structures may experience. The maintainable pallet may include two side supports, two end supports coupled to the two side supports end-to-end to form a rectangle, a central support position between the two side supports, a plurality of top transverse support fastened onto the two side supports to form a top loading surface and the central support with two-part releasable fasteners, and two bottom transverse supports fastened to the ends of the two side supports to form a bottom surface with two-part releasable fasteners. Sensors, in some embodiments, may be embedded in the two side supports to measure, for example, acceleration, location, or other logistic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Lane Segerstrom
  • Publication number: 20190071215
    Abstract: A beverage container comprising of an inner casing for holding a beverage, the inner casing comprising of a spout for accessing the beverage, the spout comprising of a neck and a cap, an outer casing surrounding the inner casing, the outer casing comprising at least one placement surface for allowing the beverage container to sit stably on a flat surface, the at least one placement surface comprising of a rigid ring surrounding a flexible material wherein the flexible material can be manipulated using pressure into a concave shape thereby creating a horizontal plane for allowing the beverage container to sit stably on a flat surface, and an opening in the outer casing for accessing the spout of the inner casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Autrige Dennis, Oniel J Castro
  • Publication number: 20190071216
    Abstract: A method of mounting a bottle involves attaching, to a support body, an interface body attached to a portion of the bottle, such that at least a portion of the interface body and the portion of the bottle are positioned within an aperture defined by the support body. Bottle mounting systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: William B. CARPENTER