Patents Issued in July 2, 2019
  • Patent number: 10335793
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to a connector for fluid chromatography, such as gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, having a female assembly including a receiving member being designed and configured to receive, and releasably interlock with, a male assembly. The connector is particularly suited for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventors: Nicolai Bache, Christoph Gebhardt, Ole Bjeld Hoerning, Ralph Kikillus, Frank Hirmer, Peter Aagaard Nielsen
  • Patent number: 10335794
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a device, system and method for cooling a reagent compartment. The invention also relates to a use of the device. The device comprises a housing with a first side for attachment to the reagent compartment, a cooling unit with at least one cooling element with a warm upper side and a cold lower side, that is equipped with a cold side heat exchanger comprising at least one first fan, a at least one cold air channel and at least one cold air opening at the first side of the housing for circulating cold air between the at least one cooling element and the reagent compartment in a closed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: STRATEC SE
    Inventors: Stephan Habrich, Martin Trump
  • Patent number: 10335795
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gyratory crusher for comminuting material to be crushed, comprising a crusher housing, in which a crusher shaft is arranged, said shaft being held in the crusher housing so that it can tumble about a vertical axis. To accommodate the crusher shaft, the crusher is provided with a cross member which extends diametrically across the crusher housing and the cross member ends of which are connected to the crusher housing. According to the invention, the connection of the cross member ends to the crusher housing has at least one hydraulic tensioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: David Sudmann, Hans-Jürgen Mecke
  • Patent number: 10335796
    Abstract: A grinder for grinding relatively loose materials includes a reducing unit and a screen arrangement. The arcuate screen defines a plurality of tracks of apertures that extend in a cutting direction of the cutters. In some cases, only one respective cutter passes over each track and each cutter passes over only the respective one of the tracks. The width of a cutter may be greater than a width of the apertures of a track. The apertures of the screen arrangement may form chevron patterns. The screens may be clamped to a frame by coupling members extending through notches in the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Vermeer Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Duane Allen Harthoorn, Greg Williams, Jerry Patterson
  • Patent number: 10335797
    Abstract: A heavy duty drive arrangement (1, 1?) having a first spur gear including a first gear wheel (4; 4?, 4?) meshing with a pinion (3) of a motor (2) and a second spur gear comprising a gear wheel (8; 8?, 8?). A drive pinion (9; 9?, 9?) configured to mesh with a ring gear (10) of the working equipment is coupled to the gear wheel (8; 8?, 8?) of the second spur gear and has an axis of rotation (E) which is essentially parallel to the rotor axis (A). The first spur gear and the second spur gear are coupled by means of a dynamic coupling (5; 5?, 5?), preferably an elastic or a hydrodynamic coupling. A mill (20) may include the heavy duty drive arrangement (1, 1?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FLSmidth A/S
    Inventors: Huseyin Yalin, Stefan Rittler
  • Patent number: 10335798
    Abstract: A cutter assembly is presented for mounting to one or more hammers of a rotor assembly of a grinding machine. The cutter assembly includes a base, a tip mount, at least one cutting edge and a wedge releasably secured to the tip mount, and a fastener securing the base and the tip mount to the hammer. The base includes a truncated pyramid key and the tip mount includes a corresponding truncated pyramid keyway. A wedge edge angle is defined between a wedge top face and side face. A cutting edge angle is defined between a cutting edge knife face and top face. The cutting edge angle can be larger than the wedge edge angle. The cutting edge angle can be in the range of about 30° to about 40° and a wedge edge angle can be in the range of about 40° to about 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Gil Fredsall
  • Patent number: 10335799
    Abstract: A water jet splitting chamber for waste tires has a chamber body, a water jet module, and an actuator. The chamber body has a retaining wall located in the chamber body to divide the chamber body into a splitting space and an actuator space. The water jet module is mounted in the splitting space, and has a slide seat mounted on the chamber body and at least one water jet seat mounted on the slide seat and being capable of linearly moving along a mounting direction of the slide seat. The actuator is mounted in the actuator space, and has a motor and multiple linking rods. The multiple linking rods are driven by the motor and extend into the splitting space, extending directions of the multiple linking rods are along the mounting direction of the slide seat, and the water jet heads face toward the multiple linking rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ecofortune Renewable Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kai-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 10335800
    Abstract: A mineral material processing plant and a method for controlling thereof. The mineral material processing plant includes at least one motor, at least one actuator, a control system, an arrangement for holding the operating speed of the at least one actuator substantially unchanged. The control system is configured to control the processing plant in such a way that a change of amount and/or quality of material arriving to be processed is recognized and in response to the recognized change of amount and/or quality of the material arriving to be processed, the load of a motor is recognized, and in response to the recognized load of the motor, the running speed of the motor or motors of the mineral material processing plant is increased or decreased so that the operating speed of at least one actuator is held substantially unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Metso Minerals, Inc.
    Inventors: Sami Permi, Juho Tirranen
  • Patent number: 10335801
    Abstract: A light and air filtration unit with ozone catalytic oxidation includes a main housing and a filter housing detachably mounted to the main housing by a magnet. The filter housing carries a HEPA filter, a catalytic filter, ozone generators. An LED panel is mounted on a lower side of the filter housing. A fan and a main control unit are mounted within the main housing. An outer casing has a top wall disposed above the main housing and formed with air exhaust holes, a side wall surrounding and spaced apart from the filters and the LED panel, and a bottom opening. An annular air channel is formed between the side wall of the outer casing and the filters. The fan draws air into the unit through the bottom opening and out of the unit through the air exhaust holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ASA Innovation & Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Kit Huen, Ngo Suet Mui
  • Patent number: 10335802
    Abstract: A centrifuge (70) is provided with a cup (80) configured to house a blood bag system (10a) and centrifugally separates blood in the blood bag system (10a) by rotating the cup (80). The cup (80) has a segment holding section (86) capable of holding a plurality of segment tubes (44a), aligned in a parallel state by being folded at a sealing portion (44b) of an outlet-side tube (44), along a direction in which a centrifugal force acts during centrifugal processing or a direction inclined with respect to the direction in which the centrifugal force acts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadashi Imai
  • Patent number: 10335803
    Abstract: A modular centrifuge device for separating fluid samples, including a housing having a modular power assembly mechanism for rotating samples with manual or electric power. A manual centrifuge device, including a housing having a power assembly mechanism for rotating samples with manual power, and a speed indicator for indicating if a predetermined speed has been reached and a time indicator for indicating if a predetermined or calculated time has been reached for rotating said samples operatively connected to the device. A method of centrifuging samples, by selecting a manual power mode or electric power mode on a centrifuge, rotating samples at a predetermined speed for a predetermined or calculated time, alerting a user that the predetermined speed and predetermined or calculated time have been achieved, and obtaining separated samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sisu Global Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn Yarina, Alexander Matthew Thinath, Nicholas Cobane, Jenna Boeing, Melissa Sweeney, Kattlynn Chartier, Dominic Calabrese, Nathan Pastuzyn, Hannah Grace Cheriyan, Katherine Kirsch, Naveed Iqball, Swetha Viswanatha
  • Patent number: 10335804
    Abstract: A centrifuge (10), in particular a laboratory centrifuge, comprising a rotor (12) for receiving containers with material to be centrifuged, a drive shaft (14) on which the rotor (12) is supported, a motor (18) which drives the rotor (12) via the drive shaft, a bearing unit (30) with damping elements (36) each having a spring axis (36a), and a support element (54) for fixing the motor (18) in the centrifuge via the bearing unit (30), wherein the spring axes (36a) of the damping elements (36) are placed at an acute angle ? to the rotational axis Y of the motor (18). The invention is characterized in that the bearing unit (30) comprises a plurality of struts (34), preferably 3 to 21, which are connected to the damping elements (36), wherein the struts (34) are placed and arranged so that they are concentrically aligned with the respective spring axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ANDREAS HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus-Guenter Eberle, Erik Rainer Gerlach, Fritz Walter Bernd Fiedler, Christoph Pabst, Marcellus Geiselmann, Armin Brendle
  • Patent number: 10335805
    Abstract: A nozzle arrangement for the preferably fan-like atomization of a fluid, particularly oil, a dispensing head with such a nozzle arrangement, and the use of such a nozzle arrangement for the particularly fan-like atomization of a fluid, particularly of an oil, is proposed, wherein a channel of the nozzle arrangement has a first channel portion and a second channel portion that connects to the first channel portion in the direction of flow of the fluid, wherein the first channel portion converges in the direction of flow of the fluid, wherein the second channel portion is elongate and/or slot-like in cross section and bordered by two elongate side surfaces and two short leg surfaces, wherein the leg surfaces are inclined relative to the direction of flow and/or a longitudinal axis of the channel, and/or wherein the second channel portion is embodied as a trapezoidal prism and the side surfaces are arranged so as to be at least substantially parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: APTAR DORTMUND GMBH
    Inventors: Swen Barenhoff, Detlef Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10335806
    Abstract: The fluid-ejection device (100) comprised a first member (110) having an inlet suitable for being connected to a source of fluid (120); a second member (130) that can be moved relative to the first member (110); and a control member (150) arranged to be at least in a first condition, in which the control member (150) is at least substantially inside the second member (130) preventing the flow of fluid through the second member (130) to define a first stroke (S1) of the second member (130) where no discharge of fluid is allowed out of the device (100); and a second condition, in which the control member (150) is at least substantially outside the second member (130) allowing the flow of fluid through the second member (130) to define a second stroke (S2) of the second member (130) along which discharge of fluid is allowed out of the device (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FICO TRANSPAR, S.A.
    Inventors: Miguel Mota López, Olallo Alcaide Hernández
  • Patent number: 10335807
    Abstract: A shower head comprising has a shower base body (2?) and a jet disk structure (3) disposed on the shower base body. The jet disk structure (3) includes plural jet disk elements (4) that are individually and detachably fixable to the shower base body (2) and each forms a partial jet disk surface (5) of a total jet disk surface. Furthermore, the shower base body has a distinct fluid supply (7) for each of the jet disk elements. The structure can be embodied, for example, as a shower-bath shower head, in particular for an overhead, hand-held and/or side shower, for providing a water jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach
  • Patent number: 10335808
    Abstract: A flow control device includes a body having an inner and an outer surface that oppose each other. The body may have a first opening and a second opening spaced from the first opening along a first axis. The inner surface may define a passage that extends from the first opening to the second opening along the first axis. The body may also include an inlet port between the first opening and the second opening, and a constriction in the passage between the first opening and the second opening. The flow control device may also comprise a nozzle disposed at least partially in the inlet port and extend at least partially across the passage along a second axis that is angularly offset with respect to the first axis. The nozzle may define an exit port in the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Elliptic Works, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Walsh, John Bouvier
  • Patent number: 10335809
    Abstract: Rotating projector for a coating product including a spraying device having a circular spraying edge, driving means for driving the spraying device around a rotational axis, a body including primary openings arranged on a primary contour for ejecting primary air jets in a primary direction. The air jets having an axial component and an orthoradial component which are nonzero. The primary direction has a nonzero radial component, which is centrifugal relative to the rotation axis. Each primary jet extends along the rotational axis at a distance from the rotational axis than the radius of the spraying edge. The body includes secondary openings arranged on a secondary contour for ejecting the secondary air jets in a secondary direction having axial and centripetal radial components. The secondary jets hit an external surface of the spraying device. The contours coincide with a circle centered about the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAMES KREMLIN
    Inventors: Eric Prus, Sylvain Perinet, David Vincent, Olivier Gourbat
  • Patent number: 10335810
    Abstract: A mixing module includes two inlets, an integrator, and a valve member. The integrator has two chambers each having a near end and a far end, and the valve member is movable between two positions. One of the inlets is connected to the near end of one of the chambers and the other inlet is connected to the near end of the other chamber when the valve is in one position. When the valve is in the other position, one of the inlets is disconnected from the chambers and the near ends of the chambers are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Ingebrand, Stanley G. Karwoski
  • Patent number: 10335811
    Abstract: A two-phase flow nozzle, having limited dimensions of main parts relating to size of atomized particle and having practical means to assure the important dimension is provided. The nozzle is composed with the first liquid passage, the liquid nozzle with a liquid splaying exit, a concave located at an end of the liquid nozzle where said liquid exit is located lower than said end of liquid nozzle, a gas nozzle having a gap to supply compressed gas for atomizing from the outer periphery of said liquid nozzle to the liquid injected from said liquid exit, and a gas nozzle having a gas exit, wherein said gap is formed by sticking the minute extrusion composed integrally on said liquid nozzle with said gas nozzle or sticking the minute extrusion composed integrally on said gas nozzle with said liquid nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: MORIZANE TRANSPORTATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kimihide Morizane
  • Patent number: 10335812
    Abstract: A mixing and dispensing apparatus having first and second containers. The first container has a main body portion which retains a first substance. A separate compartment is located in the first container and an internal passageway is formed between the main body portion and the compartment. The second container is configured to retain a second substance, and is compressible. The second container has a top end and a closed spout, wherein the closed spout is located in the compartment with the spout extending through the internal passageway into the main body portion of said first container. A release mechanism is formed by a plunger extending within the second container. The plunger has a first end in communication with the top end of the second container, and a second end aligned with the closed spout. The second end opens the closed spout when the second container is compressed to release the second substance into the main body portion of the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Veltek Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur L. Vellutato, Jr., Walter A. Baker
  • Patent number: 10335813
    Abstract: A push-type nozzle assembly includes a cylinder, a check valve, a plunger, a piston, a spring, a rotating member, a locking member, an upper push rod, a suction valve and a push head. When pushing the push head downward, and the outer chamber contact the locking member, the liquid in the cylinder is pushed out. When releasing the push head, the piston moves back by the spring to create a vacuum suction force to suck the liquid left in the nozzle back. When the outer chamber locks with the locking member, the bottom end of the piston rod seals the plunger to seal the cylinder so as to prevent leakage. When the outer chamber is separated from the locking member, the upper push rod seals the suction valve to avoid liquid from leakage. The inlet valve avoids the liquid from being accumulated in the cylinder and the top of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Derjin (Jiangsu) Plastic Packaging Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Ya-Tsan Wang
  • Patent number: 10335814
    Abstract: A container includes a reservoir holding a non-pressurized product. A metering device and valve assembly are within the reservoir. The valve assembly includes a product intake conduit and a spring biased valve stem. The valve stem is at least one of an upwardly extending conduit or reciprocating conduit, which is in fluid communication with the product intake conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: S.C. JOHNSON & SON, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher F. Lang, James R. Crapser, Thomas A. Helf, Jeffrey L. Crull, Evan A. Sparks, Cunjiang Cheng
  • Patent number: 10335815
    Abstract: An applicator head for a dispenser for cosmetic or pharmaceutical liquids and foodstuffs, having a pump device with a pump chamber, an inlet valve arranged between a suction intake and the pump chamber, an outlet valve arranged between the pump chamber and an applicator opening, and an actuating arrangement with the aid of which an inner volume of the pump chamber is changed. At least two of the three components from the group including the outlet valve, the inlet valve, and the actuating arrangement each include at least one elastic section formed from an elastically deformable material, the elastic sections of the at least two components are integral parts of an interlinked elastic component section of a uniform elastic material having a connection area between the at least two components, and the connection area, in the installed state of the application head, is in an elastically deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Bruder
  • Patent number: 10335816
    Abstract: A water resistant hand pump fabricated entirely from plastic components is provided. The pump comprises a pump housing, actuator, piston, chaplet, stem and a pump spring where the pump spring is in the form of an elastic dome made from an elastomeric polymer. The all plastic hand pump is suitable for dispensing liquids and creams from a dispenser bottle. Used pumps do not require disassembly to be recycled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Armin Arminak
  • Patent number: 10335817
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a method for directing the use of a sprayer includes the step of directing a user to affix a sprayer to a neck of a water bottle (114) via an attachment mechanism (112). The method further includes the step of directing the user to adjust the attachment mechanism (112) to change the internal geometry thereof and attach the sprayer to the neck of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Bellante, Mark J. Van Handel, Matthew M. Petkus, Hua Han, Bradley J. Barron, Kimberly L. Smolko, Jacob Palmborg, Charles Paradise, Philip Randolph Hartley, Evan M. Allen, Ayca Cakmakli, Richard Whitehall
  • Patent number: 10335818
    Abstract: A dual dispenser having two pumps and an outlet channel that is fed with the fluids coming from both pumps. The two pumps include respective actuator rods that are movable axially over strokes of different lengths, namely a first actuator rod having a long stroke, and a second actuator rod having a short stroke. The common dispenser head includes a pivot member that forms two bearing elements that are constrained to move together, so as to move both actuator rods simultaneously over an axial height that corresponds to the short stroke, with one bearing element then continuing its movement so as to terminate its long stroke by pivoting and turning the pivot member about the bearing element that is blocked in position as a result of the second actuator rod already being fully depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Yannick Pointel, Alex Milian
  • Patent number: 10335819
    Abstract: Examples of an apparatus and method are disclosed herein. In an example of the method, the performance of an ejection device that dispenses a composition is measured, information representative of the measured performance of the ejection device is generated, and the information representative of the measured performance of the ejection device is recorded so that the information is visually perceptible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: James Michael Gardner, Eric T Martin
  • Patent number: 10335820
    Abstract: After completion of a preceding painting in a preceding painting area, by an action of a preceding painting robot, a painting object (object to be painted) is caused to be held together with a holder by a transfer section near two painting areas. In succession, with maintaining connection between the painting object and the holder, connection between an arm leading end portion of the preceding painting robot and the holder is released. Thereafter, by an action of a subsequent painting robot, an arm leading end portion of the subsequent painting robot with keeping its connection to the painting object is connected to the holder held to the transfer section. With this, in the course of transfer of the painting object between the painting robots for displacing the painting object relative to a spraying means, a relative positional relation between the arm leading portions of the painting robots and the painting object can be maintained same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Taikisha Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Manabe, Takaaki Tagomori
  • Patent number: 10335821
    Abstract: An accessible housing device (FIGS. 1 and 1A—200) of one embodiment that provides a housing body (FIG. 2—60) for housing a pop-up sprinkler assembly FIG. 1—140, and the immediate connectors FIGS. 1 and 1A—93, —95, and —96, and a plurality of cutouts (FIG. 2—69) in a bottom section (FIG. 2—62) for permitting an entrance to multiple incoming water feed lines simultaneously, a housing cover (FIG. 3—18) comprising a plurality of fingers (FIG. 3—16), for enclosing and positioning various pop-up sprinkler assemblies having individually sized outer diameters, and additionally comprising a retaining lip (FIG. 3—35) for housing a safety cover (FIG. 4—97), for diminishing liability concerns and recognition purposes, an offset insert (FIG. 5—100) comprising a plurality of offset fingers (FIG. 5—103), for enclosing and positioning a flexible riser pipe when an offset of the housing body (—60) is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Gary Nicholas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10335822
    Abstract: A showerhead directional control assembly for enabling physically challenged persons to easily adjust the direction of water spray emitted from a showerhead while seated on a chair in a shower or tub installation including a handle section which is pivotably secured to a mounting section connected to a showerhead assembly, the handle being securable in an extended use position in close proximity to the user, and in an embodiment having an internal construction for locking the handle section to the mounting section in an extended position, and which arm may be pivoted to an non-use position which does not obstruct use of the shower by non-disabled persons, the apparatus further including an adjustable bracket for supporting the handle assembly on a water supply pipe and enabling more precise adjustment of the location of the handle in an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: David P. Shoemaker, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10335823
    Abstract: An applicator, for applying a glutinous substance to a seam between a first part and a second part, comprises a roller, comprising a circumferential surface, and a housing, comprising a delivery port, a scraper, and a shaper. The roller is coupled to the housing and is rotatable relative to the housing about an axis. The circumferential surface of the roller is communicatively coupled with the delivery port. The intersection of the circumferential surface and a virtual plane, passing through the axis, is a non-linear segment. The scraper is geometrically complementary at least with the non-linear segment. The shaper is communicatively coupled with the scraper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: John W. Pringle, IV, Martin Guirguis
  • Patent number: 10335824
    Abstract: A glue application roller for use in a gluing assembly equipped with at least one scooping roller includes a glue roller body that is provided with a central hole to receive a drive shaft. The glue roller body has at least two parts including a base and an outer ring. The base is operatively connected to the drive shaft by a non-positive fit. The outer ring is configured with at least one cavity. The base and the outer ring are coupled to each other non-positively via at least one first means. On at least one side of the glue roller body, there are second means that ensure that compressed air and/or another gaseous or liquid medium is fed into or discharged from the cavity so as to effectuate a change in a circumferential contour of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: MUELLER MARTINI HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Hans Mueller
  • Patent number: 10335825
    Abstract: A paint roller sleeve assembly and a method for washing it for reuse. The sleeve assembly includes a core of a size to fit a conventional paint roller handle. The core is compressible by hand radially, to allow a tubular flexible outer cover including a backing layer and a layer of paint-carrying fiber pile to be removed for washing and thereafter be replaced on the core for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Scott Utterback
  • Patent number: 10335826
    Abstract: According to one example, a method may include determining a desired pattern of fluid to be applied to a substrate, controlling a first array of fluid applicators to apply fluid to the substrate to form a first portion of the pattern, in which an applicator of the first array of fluid applicators spans a section of the substrate that includes portions of the substrate both in and out of the pattern. The method may also include controlling the first array of fluid applicators to cause the applicator to not apply fluid to the section of the substrate and controlling a second fluid applicator to apply fluid to the section of the substrate, the second fluid applicator being separately movable from the first array of fluid applicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HP SCITEX LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Veis, Alex Davidson
  • Patent number: 10335827
    Abstract: A Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) device includes at least one CMUT cell including a first substrate having a top side including a patterned dielectric layer thereon including a thick and a thin dielectric region. A membrane layer is bonded on the thick dielectric region and over the thin dielectric region to provide a movable membrane over a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) cavity. A through-substrate via (TSV) includes a dielectric liner which extends from a bottom side of the first substrate to a top surface of the membrane layer. A top side metal layer includes a first portion over the TSV, over the movable membrane, and coupling the TSV to the movable membrane. A patterned metal layer is on the bottom side surface of the first substrate including a first patterned layer portion contacting the bottom side of the first substrate lateral to the TSV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Peter B. Johnson, Ira Oaktree Wygant
  • Patent number: 10335828
    Abstract: A vibration motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibration motor includes a shell providing an accommodating space, and a vibrating system elastically suspended and accommodated in the accommodating space. The vibrating system includes a magnet assembly and a coil assembly arranged opposite to each other. The coil assembly includes a coil unit with a lead wire, and a first circuit board connected to the lead wire. The vibrating system further includes a second circuit board fixed to the shell, and a twist line unit connected between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Lubin Mao, Fei Hou, Hongxing Wang
  • Patent number: 10335829
    Abstract: There is disclosed a mechanical-vibration-generating-device for generating a mechanical vibration, the mechanical vibration having a vibration direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Andrey Leonidovich Kuznetsov
  • Patent number: 10335830
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes piezoelectric elements, a flexible printed circuit, and one of an air gap layer and a resin layer. The piezoelectric elements transmit and receive ultrasonic waves. The flexible printed circuit located on a rear surface side of the piezoelectric elements and electrically connected to the piezoelectric elements. The air gap layer locates on a rear surface side of the flexible printed circuit and has air gaps. The resin layer is obtained by filling the air gap layer with a resin and locates on the rear surface side of the flexible printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shikata, Takeshi Miyagi, Kengo Okada, Fumiyasu Sakaguchi, Satoru Tezuka, Takashi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Ona
  • Patent number: 10335831
    Abstract: Sieve cleaners (1) for cleaning a sieve surface (2) of a sieve box (3), which sieve box contains a sieve surface (2) and bottom (4). The sieve cleaners (1) contain a wobble foot (5), which extends along a main axis (A) of the sieve cleaner (1) and is designed such that the wobble foot can be placed onto the sieve bottom (4) and the sieve cleaner (1) can be tipped about the wobble foot (5). At least one cleaning element (6) has a cleaning region (7), and each cleaning region (7) has a plurality of cleaning surfaces (8) for cleaning the sieve surface (2). The cleaning surfaces (8) are each designed for at least linear contact with the sieve surface (2) and are separated from one another by slots (9) formed in the cleaning region (7). Sieve units and methods for upgrading or converting a sieve box are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BÜHLER AG
    Inventors: Simon Künzle, Nicolas Egger
  • Patent number: 10335832
    Abstract: Granular polysilicon is fed into a screening plant, divided into two or more fractions by means of one or more screen surfaces, and thereby classified and dedusted wherein a throwing motion of the granular polysilicon in the screening plant removes adhering dust particles from the granular polysilicon, the removed dust particles are taken off from the screening plant by means of a gas flow supplied to the screening plant, and the screening plant is of gas-tight design and supply and takeoff of the gas flow are effected such that the screening plant is at a positive pressure compared to the surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Michael Fricke, Martin Brixel, Robert Enggruber, Rainer Hauswirth
  • Patent number: 10335833
    Abstract: A singulation conveyor for conveying and separating piece goods, in particular packages and/or consignments, along at least one transport track bearing the piece goods items is described, wherein in the transport track, in some sections, finger elements adjustable between a lower setting and an upper setting are provided, and wherein the free ends of the finger elements in the upper setting are arranged in an upper position above an adjoining region of the transport track in such a way as to manipulate the motional direction and/or the motional speed of respectively individual piece goods items independently of other piece goods items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Deutsche Post AG
    Inventors: Bernd Hartmann, Wolfram Grafe
  • Patent number: 10335834
    Abstract: A waste storage device and corresponding waste sorting method. The waste storage device may include compartments for storing waste; an acquisition unit that acquires at least one characteristic of a piece of waste that is to be stored in the waste storage device; a processor unit that obtains data identifying the waste from the characteristic; a communications unit that sends the identifying data to a remote server and that receives data in response; and an advice supply unit that delivers sorting advice to a user. The sorting advice may come from the data that was received in response and it may identify at least one of the compartments of the waste storage device into which the piece of waste should be stored or placed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: UZER
    Inventor: Clément Castelli
  • Patent number: 10335835
    Abstract: In a method for cleaning a fastening surface (2) for a balancing element on an inner face (3) of a rim (4) of a vehicle wheel (5), the vehicle wheel (5) is positioned in a holding apparatus (13) such that a cleaning apparatus (9) can be moved, by means of a handling apparatus (6), to the fastening surface (2) on the inner face of the rim (4) of the positioned vehicle wheel (5). The cleaning apparatus (9) is arranged at a free end of the handling apparatus (6). The cleaning apparatus (9) is then moved by the handling apparatus (6) to a wetting device (15) filled with a cleaning agent (11) and is wetted with cleaning agent (11) in the wetting device (15). The cleaning apparatus (9) wetted with cleaning agent (11) is then moved by the handling apparatus (6) into the wheel rim (4), where it is moved such that the cleaning apparatus (9) cleans at least one fastening surface (2) on the inner face (3) of the wheel rim (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Schenck RoTec GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Peinelt, Jonas Zech
  • Patent number: 10335836
    Abstract: A method for treating a substrate with a treatment liquid is disclosed, wherein the substrate is treated while a location at which the treatment liquid is supplied onto the substrate that is rotated is moved in an outward direction from a central area of the substrate towards a peripheral area of the substrate and in an inward direction from a peripheral area of the substrate towards a central area of the substrate a plurality of times, and wherein the movement distances of some of the plurality of movements are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taekyoub Lee
  • Patent number: 10335837
    Abstract: A technique for reducing the amount of particles adhering to a substrate with a simple structure is provided. A substrate processing apparatus is an apparatus for processing a substrate by ejecting a processing liquid from a nozzle. The substrate processing apparatus includes supply piping and an air-bubble capturing part. One end of the supply piping is connected via a first filter for removing particles to a tank of a processing-liquid supply part that supplies the processing liquid, and the other end of the supply piping is connected to the nozzle. The air-bubble capturing part is inserted at a position between the first filter and the nozzle in the supply piping, and captures air bubbles contained in the processing liquid. Pressure loss caused by the air-bubble capturing part is approximately equal to or smaller than pressure loss caused by the first filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Ishii, Koichi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10335838
    Abstract: A system for the detection of foreign object debris material on a surface of a composite part being manufactured. A platform is configured to move over the surface. A thermal excitation source is fixed to the platform and configured to direct infrared radiation across the surface. An infrared camera is also fixed to the platform and configured to scan the surface as the platform moves over the surface to detect and output a signal proportional to infrared radiation emitted by the surface and/or by any foreign object debris material on the surface in response to the infrared radiation from the excitation source. A controller is coupled to the excitation source and to the infrared camera and is configured to compare the signal from the infrared camera with a first predetermined threshold signal to detect if any foreign object debris material is located on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Morteza Safai, Jeffrey G. Thompson
  • Patent number: 10335839
    Abstract: A system includes a body having a front end and a back end, a channel within the body that is configured to hold at least a portion of a service unit, a guiderail extending along a portion of the channel and configured to couple with a pushrod, and an adapter configured to couple with a portion of the service unit and a portion of the body. The channel also includes a front opening positioned proximate to the front end of the body, wherein the front opening is configured to allow at least a portion of the service unit, or at least a portion of a connector, to pass through the front opening, and a back opening positioned proximate to the back end of the body, wherein the back opening is configured to allow at least a portion of the pushrod to pass through the back opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Vincent Wozniak, Ling Zhang Larson, Floyd A. Fazi, Jr., Jeffrey Allen Lucas, Stephen R. Wood
  • Patent number: 10335840
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to production lines and methods for hot rolling steel strips. Example production lines may include a hot rolling line that comprises a plurality of rolling stands through which a steel strip passes in a conveying direction. The production line may also include a cooling section for intensively cooling the steel strip as the steel strip exits a final rolling stand of the rolling line. The steel strips may be deformed so as to have a thickness of more than 15 mm and to comply with the most stringent requirements with respect to, for example, toughness. Further, at least a portion of the cooling section may overlap with a portion of the hot rolling line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG
    Inventors: Heribert Fischer, Caspar Schmitt, Andreas Zaum
  • Patent number: 10335841
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of forming an AlMg alloy armor plate product, and comprising the steps of: (i) providing a plate product having a gauge of at least 10 mm and a chemical composition, in wt. %: Mg 2.5% to 6%, Mn 0 to 1.2%, Sc 0 to 1%, Ag 0 to 0.5%, Zn 0 to 2%, Cu 0 to 2%, Li 0 to 3%, optionally at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of (Zr 0.03% to 0.4%, Cr 0.03% to 0.4%, and Ti 0.005% to 0.3%), Fe 0 to 0.4%, Si 0 to 0.25%, inevitable impurities and balance aluminum, and (ii) shaping said alloy plate at a temperature in a range of 200° C. to 400° C. to obtain a predetermined two- or three-dimensional formed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ALERIS ROLLED PRODUCTS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Philippe Meyer, Achim Bürger
  • Patent number: 10335842
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding data on a work piece. The method includes engraving a plurality of first features (e.g., circular features) on the work piece, wherein the plurality of first features are arranged in a first pattern. The method also includes engraving a plurality of second features (e.g., rings) on the work piece within a selected one of the plurality of first features. The plurality of second features are arranged in a second pattern according to a data encoding schema such as binary code or code 39.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Larry J. Costa