Patents Issued in June 18, 2019
  • Patent number: 10322802
    Abstract: Systems and methods for gathering sensor information using on-demand sensors and fixed sensors are described herein. For example, a system may include an on-demand sensor available for selective deployment within a workspace in which a plurality of mobile drive units transport a plurality of inventory holders. The system may also include a computing device that monitors movement of a mobile drive unit based on first sensor information. The computing device may also detect a triggering condition relating to the movement of the mobile drive unit. The computing device may also cause an on-demand sensor to collect second sensor information within the workspace based at least in part on detecting the triggering condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarath Krishnaswamy, Jeremiah David Brazeau
  • Patent number: 10322803
    Abstract: A method includes generating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control signal to fly the UAV over a worksite and capture imagery information at different geographic locations. The imagery information is used to generate a tree inventory metric that indicates a tree inventory at the worksite, or is used to generate a productivity metric that identifies a productivity category for a geographic location at the worksite. The method also generates an action signal based on the tree inventory metric or productivity metric, such as an action signal to deploy machines to different geographic location, or an action signal to update a worksite completion metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Matthew J. Flood, Mark J. Cherney, Andrew W. Kahler, Richard Lawler
  • Patent number: 10322804
    Abstract: A device controls a movement direction of an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted thereon an imaging device that captures an image. The device includes one or more memories and a processor which, in operation, recognizes, as a plurality of markers, a plurality of objects from the image captured by the imaging device, each of the plurality of markers attached to one of the plurality of objects. The processor further calculates an area of a polygon formed by the plurality of markers, and controls the movement direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle such that the area of the polygon is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Hajime Maekawa
  • Patent number: 10322805
    Abstract: The present invention is generally related to video assemblies and more particularly video assemblies for on-board entertainment systems. The video assembly may include a video arm coupled with a video monitor. The video assembly may be manually moveable by a user between a stowed position and a deployed position. The video arm may include a friction torque device. The video arm may provide variable resistance depending on a direction of movement of the video assembly. In some embodiments, the video arm may provide less resistance to a user when the user moves the video assembly toward the deployed position compared to the resistance provided to a user when the user moves the video assembly away from the deployed position. Further, the video arm may provide for a low torque zone where the resistance provided to a user is reduced when the user moves the video assembly through low torque zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventor: Rik Westerink
  • Patent number: 10322806
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a sliding closet. The sliding closet comprises an exterior wall, a first wall, a second wall, a number of openings, a movement system, and a number of cavities. The exterior wall faces into a passenger cabin of a vehicle. The first wall and the second wall are perpendicular to the exterior wall. The number of openings is parallel to the exterior wall. The number of cavities is formed by the exterior wall, the first wall, the second wall, and the number of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Anthony Earl Anderson, Dennis Nantin Mara
  • Patent number: 10322807
    Abstract: A passenger seat tray table mechanism that deploys by way of a controlled sequence of translational and rotational movements. Dependent on tray table mechanism position, the mechanism provides simultaneous unlocking of one motion and locking out of another motion in a predetermined mechanical sequence to avoid passenger entrapment and collisions with surrounding cabinetry of furniture. A wide range of table positions are achievable while all possible paths of table movement can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristopher Charles Moulton, Ian Lawrence Frost
  • Patent number: 10322808
    Abstract: Described is an extendable joint (10,100) for attaching a passenger seat to a cabin floor or support structure. The extendable joint (10,100) exhibits behavior of a rigid mounting during normal usage, such as when carrying or securing passengers or luggage. However, if a force threshold is exceeded, such as with an emergency situation, the extendable joint (10,100) may lengthen to absorb energy applied from the cabin floor through the passenger seat and vice versa. Additional force damping mechanisms may also be incorporated into the joint to further absorb, distribute, or reduce loadings that may otherwise separate the passenger seat from the floor or support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Farhan Alamgir, Robert Trimble
  • Patent number: 10322809
    Abstract: An armrest system may include an inner sidewall panel attached to a vehicle frame. The inner sidewall panel may abut at least two parallel frame members of the vehicle frame. The system may further include a ledge molded into a shape of the inner sidewall panel. The ledge may be positioned horizontally along a front surface of the inner sidewall panel and may be positioned between the at least two parallel frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Thomas Leonard LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 10322810
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to an aircraft having an in-flight leveling system for a seat onboard the aircraft that includes a swivel mechanism providing selective rotational movement of the a rear portion of the seat to compensate for an angle of inclination of the aircraft during flight. A locking mechanism is coupled to the swivel mechanism to retain the seat in a first position for use on the ground and a second position for use during flight. An actuator moves the locking mechanism between a locked condition and an unlocked condition permitting the seat to move between the first position to the second position enabling the seat to be substantially level when the aircraft is on the ground and during flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Dale Drew, Patrick Thomas Whalen
  • Patent number: 10322811
    Abstract: A filter assembly including a plurality of filter modules, wherein each filter module in the plurality of filter modules includes a frame, a filtration element coupled within the frame, and at least one mating feature. The at least one mating feature of each filter module is configured for selective engagement with the at least one mating feature of another filter module such that the plurality of filter modules are coupled together in a serial arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Thomas James Breigenzer, Fue Chue Vue
  • Patent number: 10322812
    Abstract: A device providing a signal indicating whether a deployed aircraft evacuation slide is ready for use. A tilt sensor measures tilt angle about a predetermined axis and a tilt sensor measurement signal is provided. An inertial sensor detects acceleration and provides an inertial sensor measurement signal. A slide signal input terminal receives a slide signal indicating deployment of an evacuation slide and of a deployment length. A tilt angle signal output terminal at which a tilt angle signal is provided, and a slide status output terminal and a control unit to determine, based on the detected acceleration, a moment when the device is at rest with respect to earth and to set orientation of the reference plane to a predetermined orientation. The control unit stores data depending on position of a door, and can determine a slide length. A slide status signal is provided at the slide status output terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Knijnenburg, Andreas Harzmeier, Ilja Waigl
  • Patent number: 10322813
    Abstract: A casing structure interposed between the engine and the nacelle of an aircraft, the structure including a shroud surrounding the engine having an engine axis and including a stationary portion and a plurality of sectors; a radial arm providing the connection to the nacelle; fasteners for securing the plurality of shroud sectors to one another or to the radial arm; and the fasteners include two series of holes formed in two parallel side walls of the shroud sectors for the purpose of receiving two respective series of bolts, each passing through a corresponding set of orifices of an adjacent shroud sector or of an adjacent radial arm, a hinge arranged between each of the shroud sectors and the stationary portion of the shroud to enable the shroud sectors to be pivoted in individual manner about a common pivot axis perpendicular to the side walls arranged along the engine axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Ceddric Beljambe, Noel Robin
  • Patent number: 10322814
    Abstract: An aircraft design where the one or multiple numbers of vertical stabilizer each has a lifting propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: AutoflightX International Limited
    Inventor: Yu Tian
  • Patent number: 10322815
    Abstract: A system for providing alternating current (AC) power to an aircraft component includes a ram air turbine (RAT) configured to generate AC power. The system also includes an energy storage device configured to output direct current (DC) power. The system also includes an inverter configured to convert the DC power to the AC power. The system also includes a controller coupled to the RAT and the inverter and configured to cause the inverter to provide the AC power to the aircraft component, and to control the RAT to provide the AC power to the aircraft component in response to determining that the RAT can provide the AC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott J. Marks, William E. Seidel
  • Patent number: 10322816
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting skew in a wing slat of an aircraft are provided. At least one pair of sensors associated with the wing slat is excited via at least one first electronic device. In response to the exciting and at the at least one first electronic device, at least one pair of signals indicative of at least one pair of state-change counts for the at least one pair of sensors is obtained. The at least one pair of state-change counts is transmitted to at least one second electronic device communicatively coupled to the at least one first electronic device. At the at least one second electronic device, a skew level of the wing slat is determined based on the at least one pair of state-change counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Robert Young, Waseem Wahba, Vlad Iliescu
  • Patent number: 10322817
    Abstract: A ballistic parachute associated with an aircraft is deployed where the aircraft includes a first part and a second part, the two parts are detachably coupled to each other when the ballistic parachute is deployed, and the ballistic parachute is coupled to the first part of the aircraft. A landing zone associated with the second part of the aircraft is determined and it is decided whether to decouple the two parts, including by deciding whether the landing zone associated with the second part of the aircraft is inhabited. If it is decided to decouple the two parts from each other, they are decoupled from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Kitty Hawk Corporation
    Inventors: Zachais Vawter, Todd Reichert
  • Patent number: 10322818
    Abstract: An LED light system for an aircraft may comprise a first LED lamp having a first LED array. The first LED array may include at least a first LED and a second LED. A first optical element may be configured to direct light emitted from the first LED in a first beam centered around a first angle and to direct light emitted from the second LED in a second beam centered around a second angle. The LED light system may further comprise a second LED lamp having a second LED array. The second LED array may include at least a third LED and a fourth LED. A second optical element may be configured to direct light emitted from the third LED in a third beam centered around the first angle and to direct light emitted from the fourth LED in a fourth beam centered around the second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Philippe Lapujade
  • Patent number: 10322819
    Abstract: The displacements of the drone are defined by piloting commands to take moving images of a target carrying the ground station. The system comprises means for adjusting the sight angle of the camera during the displacements of the drone and of the target, so that the images are centerd to the target, and means for generating flying instructions so that the distance between drone and target fulfills determined rules, these means being based on a determination of the GPS geographical position of the target with respect to the GPS geographical position of the drone, and of the angular position of the target with respect to a main axis of the drone. These means are also based on the analysis of a non-geographical signal produced by the target and received by the drone. The system allows freeing from the uncertainty of the GPS systems equipping this type of device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PARROT DRONES
    Inventors: Laure Chevalley, Edouard Leurent
  • Patent number: 10322820
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system comprises a hangar structure configurable to mount on a host platform. The hangar structure comprises electrical circuits comprising a charging circuit and a communications circuit. The UAV system further comprises a plurality of stackable UAVs. The plurality of stackable UAVs comprise respective batteries and control circuits. The plurality of stackable UAVs are configured to cooperate with the charging circuit to charge the batteries and to cooperate with the communications circuit to communicate with the control circuits while the plurality of stackable UAVs are in a stacked configuration within the hangar structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SparkCognition, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Mohammad Amir Husain, John Rutherford Allen
  • Patent number: 10322821
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a fluid system that may include a fluid conduit (30) that may be configured for connection with a fluid source (20) and a fluid destination (80). The system may include a fluid regulator (40) that may be configured to regulate fluid flow between said fluid source (20) and said fluid destination (80). The system may include a nozzle (66) that may be connected to the fluid conduit and may configured to connect the fluid conduit with said fluid destination. The system may include a first sensor (70.1) that may be connected to the fluid conduit, and a second sensor (70.4) that may be configured to acquire information from which a height of the nozzle can be determined. The system may include a controller (50) that may be configured to control operation of the fluid regulator according to (i) an output of the first sensor and (ii) the information acquired by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Matthew M. Kuhns, Robert L. Sbonek
  • Patent number: 10322822
    Abstract: An airport terminal, having mobile terminal gates which are maneuverable to enable a controlling entity to configure the arrangement of terminal gate by quantity, type and/or spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Jasenka Rakas
  • Patent number: 10322823
    Abstract: A climate control system is intended to be temporarily connected externally to an aircraft when the aircraft is on the ground. The system directs air through flexible conduits from an external independent air handling unit to the aircraft. The system may include a transfer device with which the air handling device may be moved in relation to the aircraft. The transfer device may be an element of a telescopic boarding bridge. The system includes systems for conveying heated or cooled fluid from a distant source to the air handling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Anders Tengman
  • Patent number: 10322824
    Abstract: This disclosure describes at least embodiments of an aircraft monitoring system for an electric or hybrid airplane. The aircraft monitoring system can be constructed to enable the electric or hybrid aircraft to pass certification requirements relating to a safety risk analysis. The aircraft monitoring system can have different subsystems for monitoring and alerting of failures of components, such as a power source for powering an electric motor, of the electric or hybrid aircraft. The failures that pose a greater safety risk may be monitored and indicated by one or more subsystems without use of programmable components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: H55 SA
    Inventors: Sébastien Demont, Bastian Dani
  • Patent number: 10322825
    Abstract: Provided is a testbed for conducting an experiment on a substance in a cryogenic liquid state in a microgravity environment. Such a testbed includes a frame with rectangular nominal dimensions, and a source section supported by the frame for supplying the substance to be evaluated in the cryogenic liquid form. An experiment supported by the frame includes an experiment vessel in fluid communication with the storage tank to receive and condense the substance into the cryogenic liquid state. A sensor senses a property of the cryogenic liquid in the experiment vessel as part of the experiment, and a bus section includes a controller configured to control delivery of the substance to the experiment vessel, and receives property data indicative of the property sensed by the sensor for subsequent evaluation on Earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SIERRA LOBO, INC.
    Inventor: Philip Travis Putman
  • Patent number: 10322826
    Abstract: A spacecraft propulsion system operated in the presence of an ambient flux of cosmic rays is provided, wherein the cosmic rays interact with deuterium-containing nuclear micro-fusion fuel material to generate products having useful kinetic energy. The propulsion system comprises a supply of the deuterium-containing particle fuel material, along with means (such as a gun) for projecting the material (e.g. as successive packages in the form of shell projectiles) outward from a spacecraft. The spacecraft has means (such as a pusher mechanism) for receiving at least some portion of the generated kinetic-energy-containing products to produce thrust upon the spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Jerome Drexler
  • Patent number: 10322827
    Abstract: A high frequency gravitational wave generator including a gas filled shell with an outer shell surface, microwave emitters, sound generators, and acoustic vibration resonant gas-filled cavities. The outer shell surface is electrically charged and vibrated by the microwave emitters to generate a first electromagnetic field. The acoustic vibration resonant gas-filled cavities each have a cavity surface that can be electrically charged and vibrated by acoustic energy from the sound generators such that a second electromagnetic field is generated. The two acoustic vibration resonant gas-filled cavities are able to counter spin relative to each other to provide stability, and propagating gravitational field fluctuations are generated when the second electromagnetic field propagates through the first electromagnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Salvatore Cezar Pais
  • Patent number: 10322828
    Abstract: A bottom-gusseted package comprises a package body, and a bottom gusset positioned transversely of a longitudinal axis of the package body. Formation of the bottom-gusseted package is effected by positioning individual sleeves transversely of the longitudinal axis of a flexible web which forms the package body. During package formation, the flexible web is cut to form individual packages, with each individual sleeve positioned to form a bottom gusset in a respective package. Cooperating heat-sealing jaws, including cooperating U-shaped sealing surfaces, act to integrate and seal each individual sleeve with the flexible web to form the bottom gusset of each package, with the heat-sealing jaws preferably configured to include cooperating top sealing surfaces for simultaneously forming a top seal in an adjacent one of the packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Innoflex Incorporated
    Inventors: James W. Yeager, John F. Hogan
  • Patent number: 10322829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for processing at least one packaging container, in particular for stretching out at least one stretching element of the packaging container, comprising at least one pivoting-arm pair, which comprises a first pivoting arm and a second pivoting arm, which is arranged in a mirror-symmetric manner in relation to the first pivoting arm with respect to an axis of symmetry perpendicular to the at least one linear axis, wherein the first pivoting arm is supported in such a way that the first pivoting arm can be rotated about a first pivoting-arm axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of symmetry in a first rotational motion and can be displaced in the direction of the at least one linear axis in a first displacement motion and the second pivoting arm is supported in such a way that the second pivoting arm can be rotated about a second pivoting-arm axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of symmetry in a second rotational motion and can be displaced in the direction of the at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Scholl
  • Patent number: 10322830
    Abstract: A strapping machine configured for and method for actuating the belt drive mechanism of a strapping machine during a loss of band carrying out the following steps of polling the detector as to a proper shooting of the strapping band in the shooting direction up until the end of the shooting trajectory, and for an improper shooting of the strapping band, activating the shooting and retrieval unit to retrieve the strapping band with a definite retrieval speed for a defined retrieval time so that the strapping band emerges from the shooting and retrieval unit opposite the shooting direction, and actuating the drive of the back-tensioning unit so that the back-tensioning unit transports the strapping band back into the shooting and retrieval unit in the shooting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SMB SCHWEDE MASCHINEBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Höhn, Jochen Witzgall, Jürgen Schödel
  • Patent number: 10322831
    Abstract: A sealing tool for forming a joint in a seal positioned on overlying courses of strap includes a body, a motor and drive train housed, at least in part, in the body, a power supply and a sealing assembly mounted to the body. The sealing assembly is operably coupled to the motor. The sealing assembly includes at least one jaw having a pair of opposing jaw elements. Each jaw element has two edges for cutting into the seal and the courses of strap and forming a bent tab. The jaw element edges are configured to cut into the seal and the courses of strap material at different distances into a width of the seal and strap material. A method for forming seal and a seal formed by the tool and method are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNODE INDUSTRIAL GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Jason R. Nasiatka, Janusz Figiel
  • Patent number: 10322832
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing solid carbon and water by reducing carbon oxides with a reducing agent in the presence of a catalyst includes a reactor configured to receive reaction gas comprising at least one carbon oxide, at least one reducing agent, and water. The apparatus includes at least one mixing means configured to mix the reagents to form a combined feed, a first heat exchanger configured to heat the combined feed, at least one heater configured to further heat the combined feed, and a reaction vessel configured to receive the combined feed. The reaction vessel is configured to contain a catalyst, to maintain predetermined reaction conditions of temperature and pressure, and has an output configured to deliver a tail gas to the first heat exchanger. The system also includes a product separator, a water separation unit, and a product packaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SEERSTONE, LLC
    Inventor: Dallas B. Noyes
  • Patent number: 10322833
    Abstract: The method of the present invention removes at least a plurality of articles (02) arriving consecutively in a transport direction (FR) from an infeed (03), and subsequently, arranging and grouping the articles (02), while simultaneously lifting and collectively transferring the article (02) from the infeed (03) to a staging surface (04). At the staging area are one or more outer packagings (05), and into which the articles (02) are placed. Individually or groupwise, as seen in a direction in parallel to the transport direction (FR), the individual distances between the articles (02) corresponding to a defined arrangement (20) are increased and/or decreased, and finally, the articles (02) are simultaneously lowered and released into the one or a plurality of outer packagings (05). The apparatus of the present invention comprises an infeed (03) of articles (02) being transported, at least one staging surface (04) arranged next to the infeed (03).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Krones Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alban Hutter, Wolfgang Fechter, Roland Hofstetter
  • Patent number: 10322834
    Abstract: A positioning device (1) for grasping and modifying the position, within a support structure (2) that includes, a set of products (3) for an industrial line that chain-handles these products (3), a device including, for at least one product (3) to move in the support structure (2), a maneuvering unit (4) including a movable block (5) interacting with the at least one product (3), and an actuator (6) defining the position of the block (5). This at least one maneuvering unit (4) also includes a pair of adjustment stops (7) between which the block (5) shuttles, under the action of the actuator (6), in such a way as to move the at least one product (3). A gripping device, a positioning process, and a transfer process are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: C.E.R.M.E.X. CONSTRUCTIONS ETUDES ET RECHERCHES DE MATERIELS POUR L'EMBALLAGE D'EXPEDITION
    Inventors: Sebastien Guelaud, Arnaud Duvergey
  • Patent number: 10322835
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variety of methods and compositions useful for making, sterilizing, and preserving tissues. The disclosure also features the acellular tissue matrices made by the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: LifeCell Corporation
    Inventors: Wendell Sun, Jerome Connor, Qing-Qing Qiu, Rick T. Owens
  • Patent number: 10322836
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pry tools for removing the dispensing insert from a bottle. More specifically, the present invention relates to a lightweight, portable, multi-use hand tool capable of removing the vial-top dispensing inserts in common use for essential oils, perfumes, medicinal liquids, and other liquids. The pry tool can also be used to insert a dispensing insert (such as a rollerball, dropper, or aperture-reducer) into bottles of varying sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventors: Diana Catlin, James B. Catlin, III
  • Patent number: 10322837
    Abstract: A hot fill plastic container has a dome portion with a convex outer surface that defines a maximum outer diameter of the container so as to extend outwardly beyond a main body portion of the container. The generally egg-shaped dome portion enhances the crush resistance of the dome and provides a point of contact between containers when they are placed adjacent to one another. A circumferential stiffening groove may be provided near a lower end of the dome portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott E. Bysick, Paul V. Kelley
  • Patent number: 10322838
    Abstract: A crate for storing containers includes a plurality of walls and a base connected to the plurality of walls. The base includes a plurality of recessed areas each having a first container contact surface spaced from a second container contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Suzanne Whitfield Clark
  • Patent number: 10322839
    Abstract: The flanged container for a dairy product or similar food composition is provided with a hollow body and a generally planar annular flange connected to the top of the body, the flange having outer straight side edges and an inner edge defining a circular upper opening of the container. The body has a planar bottom and a lower portion tapering from a generally cylindrical upper portion toward the bottom in a curved manner. The lower portion has a height h1 in some embodiments not less than 14 mm and the ratio h1/H is less than 2:5 where H is the height of the container. The side wall of the body has a thickness profile such that the average thickness of the lower portion is more than the average thickness of the upper portion. Several identical containers can be grouped in a pack with breakable junctions at the outer straight side edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Compagnie Gervais Danone
    Inventor: Vincent Ferry
  • Patent number: 10322840
    Abstract: A carton for storing products therein includes top, bottom, and side panels defining an interior configured to store products therein and an access opening configured to permit the products to be removed from the carton when the carton is in an open configuration. The top panels include a first top panel hingedly attached to one of the side panels and a second top panel hingedly connected to another of the side panels. The second top panel includes a handle surrounding an opening and a closure tab extending into the opening. The first top panel includes a slot configured to receive one or more locking projections of the closure tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Hector Angulo, Edward Barnes, Pat Klinger, Michael Simonetti
  • Patent number: 10322841
    Abstract: A carton with dual, separate, and independent, but adjoining chambers is described; wherein each separate, independent, and adjoining chamber has its own respective spout and removably coupled lid to provide removable closure and access to the given chamber. Such cartons may be used in methods for removably housing (and/or dispensing) a first liquid edible item from a first-chamber and for removably housing (and/or dispensing) a second liquid edible item from a second-chamber. Together the first-chamber and the second-chamber may form the carton. External dimensions of such a carton may be standard. In some embodiments, the first liquid edible item and/or the second liquid edible item may be selected from one or more of: different types of beverages; different types of milks (1%, 2%, skim, whole, non-fat, chocolate, strawberry, and the like); different types of juices, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Giyora Dahan
  • Patent number: 10322842
    Abstract: A device for securely transporting multiple objects having a base, wherein the device comprises a foundation comprising multiple pieces wherein each piece has at least one adjustable opening that allows the base of an object to sit securely within the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventors: Steve Kohn, Amy Rigazio
  • Patent number: 10322843
    Abstract: Collapsible insulating container liners and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. The container liner is formed as one unitary, foldable body that includes, in one example, beveled edges that form top panel(s), bottom panel(s), and side panel(s) that facilitate folding of the body to form the resulting liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Drew Foam Companies Inc.
    Inventor: William C. Givens, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10322844
    Abstract: A carton for holding an article. The carton can comprise a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels can comprise a first panel and a second panel. An insert can comprise a central panel, an inner side panel foldably connected to the central panel, and an inner flap foldably connected to the inner side panel. The first panel can at least partially overlap the central panel, the inner side panel can be spaced apart from the second panel, and at least a portion of the inner flap can extend from the inner side panel to the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Harmen Boersma, Rene Knijpstra, Jouke Hilarides
  • Patent number: 10322845
    Abstract: A carton for holding an article. The carton can comprise a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels can comprise a first panel and a second panel. An insert can comprise a central panel, an inner end panel disposed generally opposite to the central panel, an inner side panel foldably connected to the central panel, and an inner flap foldably connected to the inner side panel. The central panel can extend generally parallel to the first panel, the inner side panel can extend generally parallel to the second panel, and the inner end panel can at least partially overlap the inner flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Harmen Boersma, Rene Knijpstra, Jouke Hilarides, Robert Ackroyd
  • Patent number: 10322846
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices used for material handling, such as specifically, pallets and skids. More specifically, the present invention is directed toward a folded corrugated pallet. The folded corrugated pallet includes a body defined by a single sheet of corrugated cardboard. The sheet includes a plurality of scored lines extending parallel with respect to each other. The sheet is folded along the scored lines to define a plurality of legs extending in the direction of the scored lines. The sheet further includes at least one base wall extending between each of the legs, and a pair of wings. Each of the wings defines terminal edges that extend parallel to the scored lines and lie adjacent to each other when the wings are folded over the base wall. A planar interior panel of corrugated cardboard is disposed between the wings and the base wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Preferred Packaging Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Van Riper, Daniel Hoppe, II
  • Patent number: 10322847
    Abstract: A pallet includes a base layer, a cargo layer and spaced apart support elements positioned between the base layer and the cargo layer and forming a gap therebetween for receiving a lifting member. The cargo layer includes a pair of spaced apart connector boards and a pair of spaced apart end deck boards orthogonal to the pair of connector boards. Each support element extends in length between the pair of spaced apart end deck boards and is configured as a one-piece skid, and includes an open recessed channel therein to receive a respective connector board from the cargo layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CHEP Technology Pty Limited
    Inventor: Sanjiv Takyar
  • Patent number: 10322848
    Abstract: A customizable pallet is disclosed that includes a plurality of length members, and a plurality of width members that are connected through a plurality of connecting members. Each length member includes a plurality of circular projections having a first circular holder positioned therein. Each first circular holder has a circular groove defined therein. Each width member includes a plurality of circular grooves having a second circular holder positioned therein. The second circular holder has a circular projection defined therein. The connecting members facilitate connection between the circular projections of the width members and the circular grooves of the length members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Asheer Kapoor
  • Patent number: 10322849
    Abstract: A tray includes a base and a pair of opposed side walls extending upward from the base. Each of the side walls includes a plurality of feet providing multiple stacking heights with an identical tray. Each side wall including a recess on an inner, upper edge. A rear wall extends upward from a rear the base between the side walls. A front wall extends upward from a front of the base between the side walls, the front wall including a portion lower than the side walls. A dolly that can be used with the tray includes a deck having a pair of contiguous support surfaces. A reinforcement rod supports the pair of support surfaces. A caster includes a caster plate secured to the deck, the reinforcement rod between the caster plate and the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventor: Jon P. Hassell
  • Patent number: 10322850
    Abstract: A bakery tray includes a base and a pair of opposed side walls extending upward from side edges of the base. Front and rear walls extend upward from front and rear edges of the base. A plurality of recesses for receiving bakery items therein are formed in the base. This increases the number of bakery items that can be received in the tray and/or permits a decrease in the stacking height of the trays, thereby permitting another tray to be received on the stack. In one embodiment, the recesses are a plurality of parallel troughs formed in an upper surface of the base. In another embodiment, the plurality of recesses are formed in the ribs in the base, such that the bakery items are received in the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Gerald R. Koefelda, Alan J. Cook
  • Patent number: 10322851
    Abstract: A plastic bag is provided. The bag may include a rectangular bottom with first, second, third, and fourth edges. It may include a first side extending from a first edge of the bottom, a second side extending from a second edge of the bottom, a third side extending from a third edge of the bottom, and a fourth side extending from a fourth edge of the bottom. The first side may have a first vertical seam and a first flap set. The third side may have a second vertical seam and a second flap set. The bottom, the first side, the second side, the third side, and fourth side are integrally formed from a single sheet of a plastic material. The first vertical seam may extend from a top of the first side to at least the first flap set. The second vertical seam may extend from a top of the third side to at least the second flap set. A method of manufacture thereof is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Inventor: Ah Moi Tan