Patents Issued in June 25, 2019
  • Patent number: 10328571
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a servo control system and a robot. The servo control system is applied to a servo and includes a main control module and a communication module including a first communication port, a second communication port, a third communication port, a fourth communication port, a voltage balancing circuit and a balance voltage output terminal. The balance voltage output terminal is coupled to the third communication port and the fourth communication port through the voltage balancing circuit. The main control module sends a first communication signal to the host computer via the first communication port, and receives a second communication signal transmitted from the host computer via the second communication port. The balance voltage output terminal controls a common mode voltage difference between the first communication signal and the second communication signal via the voltage balancing circuit. In the above manner, identification numbers of servos can be reassigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: UBERTECH Robotics Corp.
    Inventors: Dong Liu, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 10328572
    Abstract: A device is provided that includes a plurality of hardware segments. The device also includes a plurality of actuators to actuate the plurality of hardware segments. The device also includes a controller to cause at least one of the plurality of actuators to adjust positions of at least one of the plurality of hardware segments to correspond to a particular arrangement, to determine physical parameters of the device responsive to the adjustment of the positions, and to generate an identification code for the device based on the physical parameters. The physical parameters may include one or more of electrical parameters of the plurality of actuators or mechanical parameters of the plurality of actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Garratt Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10328573
    Abstract: A method and system for a robotic device comprising a propulsion mechanism, an orientation sensor, a stored digital map of a service area, a sensor for sensing objects, a navigation and orientation system, and a processing facility comprising a processor and a memory, the processing facility causing the robotic device to determine and store a pose position of the robotic device at a plurality of sequential locations as the robotic device is guided by a user along a path from a start location to an end location through the service area, and as commanded by the user and utilizing the navigation and orientation system, re-trace the path from the start location to the end location replicating the stored pose position of the robotic device at the plurality of sequential locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Discovery Robotics
    Inventors: Larry J. Williams, Vivek Rajendran, Dharmateja Kadem, Jeffrey Blum, Manomit Bal, Britta Kathleen Ulm, Hardik Shah, Ishit Shah, David Callen, Sujith Vijaya Kumar
  • Patent number: 10328574
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a transfer apparatus fastened to a robotically displaceable transfer arm and comprising a holder for a liquid vessel in an automated analysis machine, by way of measuring a first and second force effect on the holder with the aid of a sensor, wherein, if the measured force effects do not deviate from one another by more than a predetermined amount, the transfer apparatus is sufficiently adjusted in respect of a receiving position, and wherein, if the measured force effects deviate from one another by more than a predetermined amount, an adjustment of the transfer apparatus in respect of the receiving position is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products Gmbh
    Inventors: Klaus Anderle, Matthias Korn
  • Patent number: 10328575
    Abstract: A method to compute a pixel map of probabilities of absence and presence of an obstacle in the environment of an autonomous robot comprising at least one sensor grouped in at least one set of sensors that detect obstacles of similar types and have its own sensor initial map of probability of absence of obstacles is provided. The method comprises the steps of initializing a map around the robot and attached to the robot with a predefined value of probability of absence or presence of an obstacle, acquiring data representative of the absence or presence of an obstacle around the robot from at least one sensing procedure, and concurrently updating values of probabilities using data from sensing procedure and modifying the probabilities of absence or presence of obstacle from previous observations to a value closer to a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SOFTBANK ROBOTICS EUROPE
    Inventors: Nicolas Garcia, Lucas Souchet
  • Patent number: 10328576
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for social behavior of a telepresence robot are disclosed herein. A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an object detection system, and a social behaviors component. The drive system is configured to move the telepresence robot. The control system is configured to control the drive system to drive the telepresence robot around a work area. The object detection system is configured to detect a human in proximity to the telepresence robot. The social behaviors component is configured to provide instructions to the control system to cause the telepresence robot to operate according to a first set of rules when a presence of one or more humans is not detected and operate according to a second set of rules when the presence of one or more humans is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: InTouch Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Pinter, Fuji Lai, Daniel Steven Sanchez, James Ballantyne, David Bjorn Roe, Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Orjeta Taka, Cheuk Wah Wong
  • Patent number: 10328577
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present disclosure is an automatic floor preparation or maintenance system. The system uses a laser rangefinder to map a workspace, while a path planning module uses the map to determine a path for the concrete polishing vehicle to travel. A propulsion system moves the vehicle along the determined path. A user interface allows an operator to remotely monitor the autonomous operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaoyu Arasive Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lawrence, Penglai Guo, Patrick Rowe, Parag Batavia
  • Patent number: 10328578
    Abstract: Example implementations may relate methods and systems for detecting, recognizing, and localizing pallets. For instance, a computing system may receive sensor data representing aspects of an environment, and identify a set of edge points in the sensor data. The computing system may further determine a set of line segments from the set of edge points where each line segment may fit to a subset of the set of edge points. Additionally, the computing system may also filter the set of line segments to exclude line segments that have a length outside a height range and a width range associated with dimensions of a pallet template, and identify, from the filtered set of line segments, a subset of line segments that align with the pallet template. Based on the identified subset of line segments, the computing system may determine a pose of a pallet in the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventor: Dirk Holz
  • Patent number: 10328579
    Abstract: A unit for cutting thin films of synthetic material has a worktable and a cutting head. The cutting head has a shoe with a smooth bearing surface and a cutting member that can project from the smooth bearing surface. The smooth bearing surface is intended to be applied against the thin film of synthetic material, while the shoe is moved substantially parallel to the worktable so that it can cut the thin film of synthetic material. The worktable has a non-slip coating with a static coefficient of friction in relation to the synthetic material, while the smooth bearing surface has a dynamic coefficient of friction in relation to the synthetic material. The dynamic coefficient of friction is lower than the static coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CENTRE TECHNIQUE DES INDUSTRIES MECANIQUES
    Inventors: Clément Callens, Franck Bordellier, Elise Dreano
  • Patent number: 10328580
    Abstract: An apparatus has a vacuum transport chamber having first and second isolation valves coupled to first and second substrate processing locations, and third and fourth isolation valves coupled to a load lock. First and substrate transport vacuum robots are provided. The load lock is between the first and second substrate transport vacuum robots, and has an atmospheric isolation valve. The atmospheric isolation valve, the third and the fourth isolation valves are arranged in a spaced triangular relationship. The first substrate transport vacuum robot transports a processed substrate from the first processing location to the load lock and transports an unprocessed substrate from the load lock to the first processing location substantially simultaneously as the second substrate transport vacuum robot transports a different processed substrate from the second processing location to the load lock and transports a different unprocessed substrate from the load lock to the second processing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Persimmon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Hofmeister, Martin Hosek
  • Patent number: 10328581
    Abstract: A device for robotic direct lead-through teaching includes a robot, a replacing member and a lead-through teaching member. The robot has an operation member coupled with the replacing member. The lead-through teaching member mounted replaceably at the replacing member has a force sensor. The force sensor has six-axis load information. A path teaching is executed manually upon the operation member of the robot so as to store coordinate information. In additional, a method for robotic direct lead-through teaching is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wei-Der Chung, Chun-Chieh Wang, Ping-Cheng Hsieh, Xiao Hu
  • Patent number: 10328582
    Abstract: A process system includes a detection device that detects a rotation angle of a workpiece when a robot grips the workpiece. The control device includes a storage unit that stores a reference rotation angle serving as a criterion for the rotation angle of the workpiece, and an error calculation unit that calculates a rotation error relative to the reference rotation angle in the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device. The control device corrects the rotation angle of the fixture based on the rotation error so as to correspond to the rotation angle of the workpiece detected by the detection device when the robot transfers the workpiece to the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Itou, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 10328583
    Abstract: Lifting equipment for lifting a waffle slab used in a construction includes a main body bracket, a sliding member and a plurality of clamping mechanisms for clamping the waffle slab. The main body bracket has a through hole in a center thereof. The sliding member is slidably disposed in the through hole of the main body bracket. The sliding member includes an engagement member located at the top of the sliding member, a shaft portion connected to the bottom of the engagement member and slidably disposed in the through hole of the main body bracket, a sleeve fitted to an outer circumference of the shaft portion, and a flange fixed to the bottom of the shaft portion for preventing the sleeve from moving downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: RUENTEX ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTON, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Samuel Yin, Tzu-Liang Wu
  • Patent number: 10328584
    Abstract: A segment of a holding arm for positioning a medical instrument or a medical appliance including several node structures, and a strut that rigidly connects two of the several node structures to each other. The strut includes flat structures that are joined to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Schrader, Marco Schulze, Torsten Siedel
  • Patent number: 10328585
    Abstract: A robot control device provided correspondingly to each of a plurality of robots, individually, includes an input interface unit, a control unit, an output interface unit, and a safety circuit unit. The input interface unit receives a signal from an outside of the robot control device. The control unit stops an operation of the corresponding robot when determining that a safety signal is not input to the input interface unit. The output interface unit outputs a signal to the outside of the robot control device. The safety circuit unit has a function of monitoring whether a failure occurs in the safety circuit unit. The safety circuit unit outputs a signal same as the safety signal to the output interface unit when determining that no failure occurs in the safety circuit unit, and determining that the safety signal is input to the input interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Endo
  • Patent number: 10328586
    Abstract: A multifunctional electric groomer including a casing in which a driving module is provided, at least two blade sets, each of which is equipped with a support, one end of the support fixing the blade set and the other end of the support being hinged on the casing, with the hinge points of the supports successively arranged along the direction of the output shaft of the driving module. Each of the blade sets has a housed position and an operating position to dynamically couple with the driving module. A clutch coupling is provided between the output shaft of the driving module and the input shaft of the blade set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG JINDA MOTORS AND ELECTRIC APPLIANCES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huilong Chen, Xingyuan Tian, Zhenjian Feng
  • Patent number: 10328587
    Abstract: Replaceable shaving assemblies are disclosed that include a blade unit, an interface element configured to removeably connect the blade unit to a handle, on which the blade unit is pivotably mounted, and a return element disposed on the interface element. Shaving systems including such shaving assemblies are also disclosed, as are methods of using such shaving systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SHAVELOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: John W. Griffin, Craig A. Provost, William E. Tucker
  • Patent number: 10328588
    Abstract: A stem removing tool for cutting the stems from vegetables, herbs, and the like. The stem removing tool includes a pair of elongated arms pivotally secured to one another at a common pivot point. Each arm includes a handle disposed on a first end thereof and a rotary blade disposed on a second end thereof, wherein the pair of blades are parallel to one another. The blades are able to rotate along a surface and over an object, such as the rib of a lettuce leaf, thereby removing the rib therefrom with a single use. A spring is secured between the pair of elongated arms on the second ends thereof so as to allow the blades to compress together when the handles are compressed together and spread apart when the handles are released from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Necho Goins
  • Patent number: 10328589
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward blades having serrations, and methods for forming the serrations. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, laser light is scanned across a surface of a knife blade in which the laser light is intersected with an edge thereof. The laser light is used to serrate the edge of the knife blade by generating heat in the knife blade while the laser light is scanned, melting portions of the knife blade at serration regions at the edge, and removing the melted portions. This approach may be carried out without registering an accurate location of the knife edge, and while also melting portions of the knife blade away from the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Justin D. Morrow, Frank E. Pfefferkorn
  • Patent number: 10328590
    Abstract: A device for treating substrates has a separation system, with which processed substrates can be separated into one or more waste parts and at least one blank. The device for treating substrates offers improved flexibility. The separation system comprises a transport cylinder and a stripping cylinder associated therewith. The transport cylinder is able to secure replaceable packing, along with first and second openings which, when the packing is secured, are covered at least partially by perforations that may be formed in the packing. A first air supply supplies air to the first openings and a second air supply supplies air to the second openings independently of the supply of the air to the first openings. The first and the second air supply are switchable between a suction air supply and a blower air supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AG
    Inventors: Gunar Bormann, Johannes Naumann
  • Patent number: 10328591
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for separating a touch screen and a display screen, the apparatus comprises: a working base station configured to hold the touch screen and the display screen jointed together by a sealant; a heater mounted inside of the working base station and configured to heat and soften the sealant between the touch screen and the display screen; a saw wire arranged to contact a contact boundary between the touch screen and the display screen and to reciprocate at least in a tangent direction of the contact boundary so as to preliminarily separate the touch screen and the display screen; a first adsorption device configured to adsorb the display screen and remove the display screen from the touch screen; and a mutual moving mechanism configured to enable the saw wire to contact the contact boundary between the touch screen and the display screen and to move relative to the touch screen and display screen in a normal direction of the contact boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenming Wu, Fangfang Wu, Lin Lin
  • Patent number: 10328592
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for cutting a coreless rolled paper product. The method includes defining a core offset value for a cut, the cut having a starting point and an ending point, setting a plunge speed for a saw to a first plunge speed, and changing the plunge speed to a second plunge speed when the saw reaches the core offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Daniel James Woosencraft, Nicholas Tod Sanders
  • Patent number: 10328593
    Abstract: Provided is a method for internal splitting in the cross-section of the end of a metal plate or a metal rod. The method permits free-adjustment of the width and length of incision of the internal split and gives smooth and even surfaces to the cut face of the internal split for an accurate internal splitting in the cross-section of the end of a metal plate or a metal rod only at the desired position. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing a metal container and a metal pipe by that splitting method and a method for joining metal components. The present invention includes the steps of: a process to form a crevice by abutting a splitting punch or a cleaving punch on the cross-section of the end of the metal plate or the metal rod using a means for determining the width of the internal split; and a process to advance the internal splitting further by repeating the press-splitting on the crevice multiple times using a splitting punch or a cleaving punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Seki Press Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakatsu Seki
  • Patent number: 10328594
    Abstract: A muntin bar fabrication system can be used to efficiency produce a wide variety of different types of muntin bars, allowing the fabrication of both standard and custom muntin bar assemblies for doors, windows, and other fenestration products. In some examples, the fabrication system includes a muntin bar stock storage assembly that holds multiple different types of muntin bar stock. The system also includes a muntin bar stock extraction device that extracts one of the different types of muntin bar stock from the storage assembly and conveys the extracted muntin bar stock to a feed device. The feed device feeds the extracted piece of muntin bar stock into a cutting system that includes a multi-axis cutter. The cutting system that performs one or more cutting operations on the extracted muntin bar stock so as to fabricate one or more individual muntin bars from the extracted muntin bar stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Cardinal IG Company
    Inventors: Grant Michael Knoble, Joshua Hanzel, Kent Zehner
  • Patent number: 10328595
    Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a storing unit in which plural recording media are stored for performing post-processing, and a pushing member that latches onto and pushes trailing ends of the recording media stored in the storing unit toward an ejection port. When the number of the recording media stacked on the storing unit is small, the pushing member latches onto and pushes the trailing ends of the recording media at a position different from a position at which the pushing member latches onto and pushes the trailing ends of the recording media when the number of the recording media stacked on the storing unit is large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeman Shin, Dukhyun Ko, Woong Lee
  • Patent number: 10328596
    Abstract: Machines and methods capable of producing diced products from a variety of materials. A stripper plate for such machines and methods has one or more slots sized to accommodate one or more circular knives of a circular cutter. The stripper plate has a base and an oppositely-disposed second surface. The slots are defined in the second surface and extend from the second surface to the base so as to define individual openings in the base. The slots are defined by multi-tiered walls so that the slots are wider at the openings thereof than in another portion of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Alan Klockow
  • Patent number: 10328597
    Abstract: A cutting mat includes two baseboards, at least one foldable sheet connecting the two baseboards and multiple back antiskid units. Each baseboard has a cutting surface formed on a front thereof and a back, wherein the two baseboards are adjacent to each other and the foldable sheet is attached to the back of each of the two baseboards for connecting the two adjacent baseboards. The foldable sheet has a pre-folding line formed thereon along an abutment between the two adjacent baseboards such that the foldable sheet is folded along the pre-folding line to make the two baseboards completely abutting each other. The multiple back antiskid units are formed by printed antiskid layers that are distributed on the back of each of the two baseboards and a back of the foldable sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Chi-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 10328598
    Abstract: Methods and equipment suitable for slicing products into lattice-type slices or chips. The methods and equipment utilize a knife assembly that includes a corrugated knife having oppositely-disposed surfaces that terminate at a cutting edge. The knife assembly further includes a knife holder having a registration surface and an oppositely-disposed knife seat configured to mated with a first surface of the corrugated knife, and means for securing the knife to the knife seat of the knife holder. The knife seat comprises a pattern of peaks and valleys complementary to a pattern of peaks and valleys in the first surface of the corrugated knife. The securing means cooperates with the knife holder to inhibit accumulation of solids of products along at least one of the first and second surfaces of the corrugated knife, and/or stabilizes the knife by reducing a cantilevered beam length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Wade King
  • Patent number: 10328599
    Abstract: Method and an arrangement within a motor saw, having a guide bar, a drive motor unit including with its chassis a drive motor, whose rotatable shaft supports a drive disc, around which a portion of an endless saw chain runs, the saw chain also being adapted with its remaining portions to run along and form the guide bar arrangement with its guide bar and along tracks allotted to side edges directed away from each other. An anchored support plate, a displaceable clamping plate and with an interrelated arrangement in an inactivated position, the end area of the guide bar within a first mode displaces the end area in a direction perpendicular from the plane and from the support plate, and within a second mode displacing the end area and its guide bar in a direction along the plane allotted to the guide bar and out of the inactivated interrelated arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: JPS TEKNIK AB
    Inventors: John Peter Sorell, Kurt Gunnar Falk
  • Patent number: 10328600
    Abstract: An electric chainsaw includes a first handle having a grip portion that is provided with a trigger switch for activating an electric motor. The electric chainsaw includes a second handle having a laterally extending grip portion provided forward of the grip portion of the first handle. The electric chainsaw includes an indicator lamp for indicating a remaining charge amount of a battery pack, and a push-button type indicator switch for causing the indicator lamp to indicate the remaining charge amount. The indicator switch is provided at a position where the worker can operate the indicator switch by a finger of the other hand gripping the grip portion of the second handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Kachi, Yasuyuki Kawabata, Koji Haneda
  • Patent number: 10328601
    Abstract: A mitre cutting guide tool (1) comprises a first body section (2a) having a substantially planar outer face with an outer edge configured to rest against the face of a skirting board or coving to guide a cutting tool in use; a second body section (2b) rotationally connected to the first body section (2a) via a connecting means (5); a sensing means (9) configured to measure the angle between the first and second body sections (2a, 2b); a locking means (5) configured to connect the first and second body sections (2a, 2b) so that the angle can be altered and to lock the first and second body sections (2a, 2b) in position to set a given angle; the second body section (2b) supporting the first body section (2a) at the set angle against the length of skirting board or coving; the connecting means and/or locking means (5) configured so that the space between the first and second body sections (2a, 2b) is substantially unobstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Daniel Soanes-Brown
  • Patent number: 10328602
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for finishing a wood board with an upper face and a lower face. A layer of liquid synthetic resin is first applied at least onto the upper face or the lower face, and at least one paper ply soaked with a synthetic resin is then applied. The structure is then pressed in a press under high pressure and at a high temperature, wherein the synthetic resin melts and is connected to the upper face or the lower face of the wood board. The invention is characterized in that the upper face and/or the lower face is provided while still having a press skin and in an ungrounded state, and the layer is applied so thinly that the liquid synthetic resin is completely drawn into the press skin, the layer is not actively dried, and the paper ply is positioned on the press skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Ingo Lehnhoff, Frank Oldorff
  • Patent number: 10328603
    Abstract: In one aspect, inks for use with a three-dimensional printing system are described herein. In some embodiments, an ink described herein comprises a thiol monomer component and an ene monomer component. Moreover, in some cases, an ink described herein further comprises an additional (meth)acrylate monomer component differing from the ene monomer component. In some such cases, the additional (meth)acrylate monomer component can be polymerized separately from the thiol and ene monomers of the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: 3D Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: John Fong, Pingyong Xu
  • Patent number: 10328604
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a part out of composite material, includes forming a fiber texture from refractory fibers; placing the texture in a mold having an impregnation chamber including in its bottom portion a part made of porous material, the impregnation chamber being closed in its top portion by a deformable impermeable diaphragm separating the impregnation chamber from a compacting chamber; injecting a slip containing a powder of refractory particles into the impregnation chamber; injecting a compression fluid into the compacting chamber, to force the slip to pass through the texture; draining the liquid of the slip via the porous material part, while retaining the powder of refractory particles inside the texture so as to obtain a fiber preform filled with refractory particles; drying the fiber preform; unmolding the preform; and sintering the refractory particles present in the preform in order to form a refractory matrix in the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Michael Podgorski, Catherine Billotte Cabre, Bruno Jacques Gérard Dambrine, Ludovic Edmond Camille Molliex, Edu Ruiz, Sylvain Turenne
  • Patent number: 10328605
    Abstract: Methods for improved ceramics component casting. One such method may include vacuuming a ceramic-based slurry mixture and/or vacuuming a component mold. The vacuuming of the ceramic-based slurry mixture and the component mold may be to remove air bubbles from the respective elements. More specifically, the vacuuming may remove air bubbles from the ceramic-based slurry mixture and from a cavity of the component mold, respectively. The method may also include disposing the ceramic-based slurry mixture into the cavity of the component mold, and continuously vacuuming the cavity of the component mold including the ceramic-based slurry mixture for a predetermined time to remove any additional air bubbles included in the ceramic-based slurry mixture. Finally, the method may include forming a ceramic component within the continuously vacuumed cavity of the component mold over the duration of the predetermined time. The ceramic component formed from the ceramic-based slurry mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Weber, Naoto Matsuyuki
  • Patent number: 10328606
    Abstract: A controller of a cutting apparatus includes: a storage section configured to preliminarily store as a threshold an arbitrary value based on a load current value of a motor detected when a cutting blade is rotated at a predetermined rotational speed while supplying a predetermined quantity of cutting water in a state in which a cutting water supply nozzle is positioned in an appropriate position; and a judgment section configured to judge normality or abnormality according to the result of comparison between a load current value detected when the cutting blade is rotated at the predetermined rotational speed while supplying the predetermined quantity of cutting water and the threshold stored in the storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Disco Corporation
    Inventor: Fumio Uchida
  • Patent number: 10328607
    Abstract: A machine (12) for cutting slabs, comprises a workpiece support bench (14) adapted to support at least one slab, and cutting means for automated cutting of the slab on the bench. The cutting means comprise two lateral support structures (16, 18). A first beam (20) is adapted to move along said lateral support structures (16, 18). The first beam (20) is adapted to slide on the lateral support structures (16, 18) via its ends (22, 24) and guiding means (25, 26) provided on the lateral support structures (16, 18). The first beam (20) is provided with a first carriage (28) adapted to be moved along the first beam (20). A first sleeve (30) adapted to be moved towards or away from the workpiece support bench (14) is provided on the first carriage (28). A first machining head (32) comprising a first cutting spindle (34) is provided on the first sleeve (30). A second beam (201) is adapted to move along the lateral support structures (16, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Luca Toncelli
  • Patent number: 10328608
    Abstract: A system and a method are provided for producing rubber mixtures. The system includes installations for performing a monopassage process and a multipassage process to produce a rubber mixture, and a transport system that transports the rubber mixture to one or more of the installations according to a selected recipe. The installations include a mixing and cooling installation that performs a mixing and cooling procedure in which the rubber mixture is formed into a sheet, the sheet is sprayed with water using at least one nozzle provided with water at a predetermined water flow rate and air at a predetermined air pressure, and evaporated water from the spraying of the sheet is evacuated at a predetermined air flow rate. The mixing and cooling procedure causes the rubber mixture of the sheet to reach target temperature and water-content values before a complementary mixing procedure is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Stephane Bornes, Lionel Le Bars, Stephan Otto, Christian Signoret
  • Patent number: 10328609
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing impregnated fiber bundle includes: a step of feeding material including feeding at least one fiber bundle to a feeding wheel assembly; a step of resin molding including feeding resin to the fiber bundle in a high pressure manner to make the resin infiltrate the fiber bundle and to form an outer resin layer on the outer surface of the fiber bundle, so as to make the fiber bundle become a resin impregnated fiber bundle; a step of semi-cured molding including semi curing the resin inside and outside the resin impregnated fiber bundle by controlling temperature and pressure; and a step of reeling including reeling up the resin impregnated fiber bundle which is to be woven into a fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Ching-Long Ong
    Inventor: Ching-Long Ong
  • Patent number: 10328610
    Abstract: The method of recycling carbon fiber prepreg waste includes collecting uncured carbon fiber prepreg waste, where the carbon fiber prepreg waste still includes the backing film associated with the carbon fiber prepreg (typically in the form of a colored polyethylene layer). The uncured carbon fiber prepreg waste is then shredded and inserted into either an open or a closed mold. The mold is then inserted into a hot press, where the shredded carbon fiber prepreg waste is cured under selected temperature and pressure for a selected period of time, dependent upon the particular volume of waste and the desired recycled product. Alternatively, the shredded carbon fiber prepreg waste may be rolled in a hot metallic roller or extruded in a hot melt extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: United Arab Emirates University
    Inventors: Waleed K. Ahmed, Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi, Aamna Salem Saeed Almazrouei, Lamia Aziz Alh Mohamed Almarzooqi, Dina Al Jamal, Farah Ashraf Ahmed Genena
  • Patent number: 10328611
    Abstract: Example mechanical supports or mandrels are described for composite part curing. In one example, a mandrel includes a housing, and components within the housing and positioned to create a central opening. An expander is also positioned in the central opening, and the expander has a width that increases along a length of the expander. A narrow end of the expander is positioned in the central opening. An actuator is provided to move the expander into the central opening causing the components to expand the housing, and to retract the expander from the central opening causing the components to collapse the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Justin Register
  • Patent number: 10328612
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a molding surface (51) of a reusable lens mold (5), in particular of a reusable lens mold (5) for molding ophthalmic lenses such as soft contact lenses, comprising the steps of: generating a jet (3) of deionized water, exposing the molding surface (51) of the reusable lens mold (5) to the jet (3) of deionized water, wherein the jet (3) of deionized water has a circular full cone spray pattern and impinges on the molding surface (51) of the reusable lens mold (5), and wherein the circular full cone spray pattern has a uniform distribution of the volume flow of deionized water over the base of the cone of the circular full cone spray pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NOVARTIS AG
    Inventor: Halina Heidrich
  • Patent number: 10328613
    Abstract: A film-stretching apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a stretching furnace which is divided into a plurality of air amount control zones. In a case where the number of the plurality of air amount control zones is seven, a total amount of air to be discharged from, out of the plurality of air amount control zones, three air amount control zones which are located on an entrance side of the stretching furnace is controlled so as to be larger than a total amount of air to be discharged from, out of the plurality of air amount control zones, three air amount control zones which are located on an exit side of the stretching furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakazawa, Daizaburo Yashiki
  • Patent number: 10328614
    Abstract: A column or other elongate molded part is molded using an elongate tubular mold having a closed end, an open end and a flexible sidewall. After the column or other molded part is formed, it is extracted from the mold by pulling the column or other molded part axially through the open end of the mold. The column may be extracted using an expandable plug or gripper that is inserted into the interior of the column or other molded part through the open end of the mold. The expandable plug or gripper is expanded to engage an inner surface of the elongate molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Digger Specialties, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Douglas Koren
  • Patent number: 10328615
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a molding equipment of a composite material includes a vessel, a decompression system and a heating medium supply system. The vessel houses a molding target sealed by a sealing object. The decompression system performs bending forming of the molding target and pressurization on the molding target after the bending forming by decompressing a region surrounded by the sealing object in the vessel. The heating medium supply system supplies a heating medium into the vessel. The heating medium is supplied for the bending forming, and heating and curing of the molding target under the pressurization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: SUBARU CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA ASHIDA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yumi Ito, Masanori Nakajima, Takeshi Ashida
  • Patent number: 10328616
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided. A composite charge is positioned onto lower plates of a plurality of placement end effectors. Upper plates of the plurality of placement end effectors are rotated along a first axis to cover the composite charge. The composite charge is contoured to a tool using the plurality of placement end effectors to form a contoured composite charge. The contoured composite charge is compacted using a roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Michael R. Chapman
  • Patent number: 10328617
    Abstract: A method for producing a plastic product including a support (30) having protruding stem parts (36) having at their free ends head parts (38) with a wider diameter compared with the stem parts (36). The stem parts and the head parts are formed in cavities (16) of a moulding screen (12) that are formed, on their sides facing away from the support (30) in a shaping zone of the moulding screen (12). The shaping zone is sealed off from the environment by a counter-face (20) such that a predefinable amount of air enclosed in the shaping zone exerts a counter-pressure on the plastic material introduced into the respective cavity (16) of the shaping zone to support the shaping process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GOTTLIED BINDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Jan Tuma
  • Patent number: 10328618
    Abstract: A three-dimensional netted structure having an upper surface, a lower surface, two side surfaces a left end surface, and a right end surface, including at least a plurality of filaments helically and randomly entangled and thermally bonded together, wherein the filaments are formed out of a thermoplastic resin by extrusion molding followed by cooling with a liquid; and the netted structure is four-surface molded, the upper surface, the lower surface and the two side surfaces being molded. An apparatus and a method for manufacturing the three-dimensional netted structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: C-ENG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Takaoka
  • Patent number: 10328619
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a protection film includes performing a first foaming of a first part of a base material on a substrate to form a bumper layer having first bubbles foamed with a first foaming ratio, and performing a second foaming of a second part of the base material to form a light blocking layer having second bubbles foamed with a second foaming ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang-Yong Lee, HwanJin Kim
  • Patent number: 10328620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a component part having a wall thickness of at most 3 mm on at least one part of the component part, comprising the method step of injection molding by means of an injection mold in an injection molding machine using a polymer/boron nitride compound, wherein the polymer/boron nitride compound comprises a thermoplastically processable polymer material and a heat-conducting filler, wherein the filler comprises platelet-shaped hexagonal boron nitride particles and wherein the injection rate during injection-molding is at most 200 mm/s. The invention further relates to a component part produced using such a method and a polymer/boron nitride compound for producing such a component part. The invention further relates to the use of such a component part for heat dissipation of component parts and assemblies to be cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Krishna B. Uibel, Robert Schädel