Patents Issued in September 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10414615Abstract: A sheet stacker includes a sheet conveyor arrangement and a stacker platform. The sheets are fed in a sheet feeding direction on the stacker platform, to form stacks of sheets thereon. The stacker platform supports a stack conveyor configured and controlled to move in a conveyor direction to move the stack under formation such that sequentially piled up jobs are placed in an approximately centered position one with respect to the other according to the sheet feeding direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Fosber S.p.A.Inventor: Mauro Adami
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Patent number: 10414616Abstract: A post-processing apparatus includes a tray receiving an ejected recording medium, a moving mechanism vertically moving the tray, a driving source driving the moving mechanism, a member pressing, from vertically above, a recording medium ejected to the tray, a rotational-driving mechanism driving the member so that the member rotates in a first direction away from an apparatus body when the tray is moved upward by the moving mechanism and that the member rotates in a second direction toward the apparatus body when the tray is moved downward by the moving mechanism, a rotation-angle limiting unit limiting a rotation angle of the member when the member is driven to rotate in the first direction and to rotate in the second direction, and a rotational-force limiting mechanism idling when a rotational force not lower than a predetermined force is applied to the rotational-driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeman Shin, Soonyoung Kwon, Kyungyeul Ryu
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Patent number: 10414617Abstract: An upright cutter for packing materials includes a base, a support device, and a cutting device. The base includes an upright post. The support device has a shaft. The shaft is vertically fixed to the upright post. The cutting device includes a pole. The pole is pivotally connected to the upright post. The pole is connected with a transverse rod. The transverse rod is parallel to the shaft. The transverse rod is provided with a cutting member which is movable axially along the transversely rod. Two sides of the cutting member are provided with blades, respectively. The pole can be pivoted, so that the transverse rod is adjusted to the most appropriate position. By using the blades at the two sides of the cutting member, the cutting member can be moved back and forth on the transverse rod for cutting to improve the cutting efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Hsiu-Man Yu Chen
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Patent number: 10414618Abstract: A film transfer tool has a case main body, a supply bobbin drive shaft driving a supply bobbin holding an unused transfer tape therearound, a take-up bobbin drive shaft driving a take-up bobbin taking up a used portion of the transfer tape therearound, a rotational coupling mechanism coupling the supply bobbin drive shaft and the take-up bobbin drive shaft together rotationally, and a reverse rotation preventive mechanism preventing a reverse rotation of the rotational coupling mechanism. The reverse rotation preventive mechanism has a rolling gear coupled to a rotational system made up of the supply bobbin drive shaft, the take-up bobbin drive shaft and the rotational coupling mechanism, moving gears moving over a predetermined range around the rolling gear and meshing with the rolling gear, and locking projections disposed to confront a reverse rotating direction of the rolling gear to lock the moving gears.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Plus CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10414619Abstract: A printing apparatus has a first binding unit for performing a binding process at any one of plural positions and a second binding unit for performing a binding process at a single position and prints images based on image data on sheets. If the binding process is performed using the first binding unit, the printing apparatus prints images on sheets according to the input order of the image data. If the binding process is performed using the second binding unit, the printing apparatus prints images on sheets according to the input order of the image data, or prints the images according to an order reversed from the input order of the image data, based on the orientation of the images of the image data, the single position and the orientation of the sheets used for printing.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiro Tachibana
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Patent number: 10414620Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveying portion, a first stack portion on which sheets conveyed are stacked, a first regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle in a crossing direction crossing to the sheet transport direction, a second regulating portion which regulates a position of a sheet bundle in the conveying direction, a first binding portion binding a corner portion of the sheet bundle by a staple, a second binding portion which binds a corner portion of a sheet bundle without a staple, a second stack portion which stacks a sheet bundle discharged from the first stack portion, and a lifting-lowering motor which lifts and lowers the second stack portion. The lifting-lowering motor is located at a downstream, in the conveying direction, of a first binding position where the first binding portion binds a sheet bundle.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventors: Yusuke Obuchi, Masaya Takahashi, Seiji Nishizawa
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Patent number: 10414621Abstract: An interleaving unit, comprising a pair of rolls (1, 2) set alongside one another and counter-rotating and provided with respective first and second folding tools (3, 4; 5, 6) set at a distance from one another along the circumferential development of the respective peripheral surfaces so as to operate in a common point of tangency (Z) on a succession of sheets (7a, 7b) fed between the two rolls, said tools (3, 4; 5, 6) being set on respective mobile cylinder sectors (8, 9, 10, 11) to enable positioning thereof at an adjustable distance apart along the circumferential development of a corresponding roll (1, 2), said interleaving unit comprising means (M1, M2, U) for independently adjusting the speed of rotation of one or more of said sectors according to their angular position in order to reduce or increase the peripheral speed of said sectors with respect to a speed of feed (Vm) of said sheets.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: UNITED CONVERTING S.R.L.Inventors: Giuseppe Lupi, Gianluca Giometti, Angelo Torri
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Patent number: 10414622Abstract: Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to a cable packaging arrangement (e.g., reel-in-box package) including a plurality of tabs appending to the top and bottom portions of the arrangement which are individually shaped to be easily assembled together, respectively, so that the top and bottom portions of the cable packaging arrangement will be closed.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: Kimberly L. Ellis, Daniel J. Parke
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Patent number: 10414623Abstract: A method is provided for operating a textile machine, with a multiple number of adjacent work stations having a respective spinning unit with a spinning device and/or one winding device and handling elements for piecing a thread or for connecting two thread ends. If production is interrupted, a thread end on the bobbin side is provided to a defined receiving position at the work station. For piecing the thread or for connecting the thread ends, the thread end on the bobbin is cut to length by the work station work elements, received from the receiving position, prepared for piecing or for connecting and pieced up or connected. A thread end wound on the bobbin is sought out by means of a thread seeking device deliverable to multiple work stations of the textile machine, and the thread end is subsequently moved into the receiving position at the work station, from which it is received by the work station work element of the work station, in particular by a handling element of its own work station.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Rieter Ingolstadt GmbHInventors: Romeo Pohn, Adalbert Stephan, Gerd Stahlecker, Gernot Schaeffler
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Patent number: 10414624Abstract: A motorized flat web winder has a revolving work holder and a source of drive for turning the revolving work holder. The revolving work holder presents a generally planar support surface. The source of drive turns the revolving work holder about a turning axis. The generally planar support surface cuts the turning axis more or less perpendicularly. The generally planar support surface has a spaced pair of keeper pins extending out from an affixed butt end to a spaced tip end. Preferably, the keeper pins are off-center relative the turning but orbit about the turning axis in a near orbit. More preferably still, the keeper pins orbit the turning axis by a measure which makes either of the brass coupling ends of a fire hose the center of a spiral coil formed therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Kevin D. Berry
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Patent number: 10414625Abstract: A dispenser for elastomeric monofilament is provided. The dispenser has a hollow lower half hingedly joined to a mating hollow upper half. Each half has a peripheral wall with vertically extending sidewalls defining an interior and an exterior to the dispenser. A pair of hubs is formed in the sidewalls of one of the halves and a reel is rotably disposed between the hubs. The reel has elastomeric monofilament therearound. A passage from the interior to the exterior of the dispenser is formed at a junction between the halves by a channel formed in each half having a sinuous path through the peripheral wall thereof. The channels are configured such that a sinuous passage is formed from the interior of the dispenser to the exterior of the dispenser by the juxtaposition of the channels when the halves are joined to each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DPG USA INCInventor: Nikhil Gupta
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Patent number: 10414626Abstract: An apparatus comprising a mobile carrier operable for transporting a reel of oilfield tubing across ground. The mobile carrier comprises a frame comprising a first frame portion, a second frame portion, and a central frame portion extending between the first and second frame portions. The first, second, and central frame portions define an opening for receiving the reel. The mobile carrier also comprises a locking mechanism operable to engage and rotate the reel within the opening, and a plurality of wheels supporting the frame on the ground. The plurality of wheels comprises a plurality of first wheels operably connected to the first frame portion and a plurality of second wheels operably connected to the second frame portion. The opening interposes the plurality of first wheels and the plurality of second wheels.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Devin Rock, Pedro Rangel, Eddie R. Burrell
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Patent number: 10414627Abstract: An elevator system includes at least one elevator group control with a destination control system, at least one elevator group having elevators with a different destination range, destination operating panels at each landing including an input for issuing destination calls, car operating panels located in the elevators having an input for the input of destination calls, hall lanterns for each elevator indicating the moving direction of the corresponding elevator, a signaling device for each elevator indicating the arrival of an elevator at the landing, the destination control system controls hall lanterns to indicate a moving direction of the elevators and activates the signaling device when elevators arrive at a landing. The destination control system displays, after the issue of a destination call, a range identifier indicative of the elevator's destination range, and the next arriving elevator by activation of its signaling device before its arrival at the landing.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventors: Jörn Wienholz-Buß, Seppo Numminen, Janne Sorsa
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Patent number: 10414628Abstract: An illustrative example elevator system device includes an interface configured to operate in a first mode that allows an elevator passenger to communicate with the elevator system. The elevator passenger may communicate with the elevator system by inputting an indication for desired elevator service or receive an indication regarding elevator service. A magnetically actuated switch selectively causes the interface to operate in a second mode that allows an authorized individual to communicate with the elevator system in a manner that is different than an elevator passenger communication in the first mode. The magnetically activated switch includes at least one magnet and at least one switch contact that changes between an open and closed state based on an interaction between the at least one magnet and a magnetic key brought into proximity of the at least one magnet by the authorized individual.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Harold Terry, Peter DePaola
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Patent number: 10414629Abstract: A service tool is provided. The service tool includes a transceiver communicatively coupled to a wireless access device physically connected to a mechanical system. The service tool includes a memory storing a service tool application software thereon. The service tool includes a processor executing the service tool application software to execute at least one of a plurality of operability support levels by the service tool for the mechanical system. The plurality of operability support levels includes an adjuster/construction level. The adjuster/construction level includes security provisions for control of the mechanical system.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventor: Ezhil Nanjappan
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Patent number: 10414630Abstract: A universal adapter assembly for connecting a roller guide to a frame of an elevator car where an existing hole pattern in the frame of the elevator car is different from an existing hole pattern of the roller guide. The assembly includes an upper member having a hole pattern complementary to the hole pattern of the roller guide permitting the roller guide to be readily connected to the upper member. The assembly includes at least one low member connected to and disposed below the upper member. The upper and lower members each include at least one enlarged opening to permit relative adjustment of the members to compensate for the differing hole patterns of the roller guide and the frame of the elevator car. Preferably, the assembly is configured to be light weight, easy to install and capable of providing additional vibration damping.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ELEVATOR SAFETY COMPANYInventors: Jeffery Geroso, Andrew James Laughton
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Patent number: 10414631Abstract: A device for driving a handrail of a passenger conveyor includes an endless drive element that is driven by a motor. Support rolls are disposed on the side of the drive element which lies opposite to the handrail, and the drive element is supported on the support rolls by a belt.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Pavel Vlasak, Jiri Drencko
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Patent number: 10414632Abstract: An escalator system for facilitating the transport of good is disclosed. The system includes a step plate comprising a horizontal planar surface configured for supporting a passenger's weight. A pulley is located near, and coupled with, a bottom of the step plate. The system also includes a retracting platform having a horizontal planar surface coplanar with the horizontal planar surface of the step plate. The retracting platform is configured to lower into the step plate. A platform chain is connected on one end to an upper adjacent step plate and connected on another end to a bottom surface of the retracting platform. The platform chain extends around the pulley and when the upper adjacent step plate moves upward, the platform chain is pulled toward the upper adjacent step plate, and the platform chain pulls the retracting platform down such that the retracting platform lowers into the step plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventors: Constanza Terry, Amelie Terry
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Patent number: 10414633Abstract: A utility system may include at least one moveable arm, and at least one grappling assembly connected to the moveable arm. The grappling assembly includes an upper claw, a lower claw, and fasteners to pivotally secure the lower claw to the upper claw. The upper claw includes lower grasping surfaces and coupling openings. The lower claw includes upper grasping surfaces and mating openings. Each mating opening is axially aligned with one of the coupling openings. The upper and lower claws rotate about the fasteners at first pivot axes when the fasteners are retained within first coupling openings of the upper claw and within the mating openings of the lower claw. The upper and lower claw rotate about the fasteners at different, second pivot axes when the fasteners are retained within second coupling openings of the upper claw and within the mating openings of the lower claw.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Westendorf Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventors: Matthew N. Westendorf, Neal W. Westendorf
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Patent number: 10414634Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling the crane of a working machine by using boom tip control, in which method the crane comprises at least two booms connected to the working machine and each other in an articulated manner, which booms are moved in relation to the working machine and to each other by means of actuators controlled by a control system of the working machine, and in which method the direction and speed of motion of the head of the crane, controlled by the driver applying controls in the working machine, is implemented by applying speeds of the different booms of the crane.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: John Deere Forestry OyInventors: Mikko Palmroth, Simo Laitinen, Vesa Siltanen, Timo Käppi
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Patent number: 10414635Abstract: A remote operation device capable of providing, to the operator, guidance of a work content to be performed by manual work or remote operation on the work machine in accordance with a state of the work machine, is a remote operation device (40) configured to be capable of communicating with the work machine, and includes: an operation unit (42) that generates an operation signal for performing remote operation of the work machine in accordance with operator's operation; a reception unit (40a) that receives detection signals of detection devices (81 to 84) that detect the state of the work machine; and a display unit (43) that displays a screen indicating a work content to be performed by manual work or the remote operation on the work machine on the basis of the received state of the work machine.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TADANO LTD.Inventor: Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 10414636Abstract: There is provided improved accuracy in cargo handling by a spreader (306) including a distance sensor (308a, 308b) transmitting optical signals. The handled cargo (312) includes a plurality of interconnected sides (312a, 312b). The transmission directions of the optical signals are selected and distances are measured by reflected optical signals transmitted in the selected directions. The measured distances are used to determine a reference line that matches a shape of at least one of the interconnected sides (312a, 312b) of the cargo (312).Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KONECRANES GLOBAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ville Mannari, Ari Nieminen
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Patent number: 10414637Abstract: A boom section for the boom of a telescopic crane has a lower shell and an upper shell. The lower shell and the upper shell are welded to one another, and the weld seam extends between the lower shell and the upper shell angled in at least one region to at least one section edge of the boom section.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Ehingen GmbHInventors: Bernd Boos, Holger Schilke
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Patent number: 10414638Abstract: Components and systems for a flexible tensioning member for construction equipment. A tensioning member is comprised of a fiber having a specific tensile strength greater than 1,000 kilonewton meters per kilogram. The tensioning member connects two components and has an attachment allowing the tensioning member to flex relative to a component. The attachment may provide a system for connecting multiple tensioning members.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Manitowoc Crane Companies, LLCInventors: Arumugam Munuswamy, Marius Fangnang Keunda
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Patent number: 10414639Abstract: A winch assembly includes a lower body having a base, first and second sides, first and second upper body sides, a spacer positioned between the first and the upper body second sides, a first shaft extending through the upper body sides, the first shaft supporting first and second gears, a winding bar supported and rotated by the first shaft and attached to a first end of a strap, a second shaft extending through the first and second upper body sides and supporting first and second ratchet gears, the first ratchet gear meshing with the first gear and the second ratchet gear meshing with the second gear, a pawl for engaging one of the first and second ratchet gears, and a handle attached to the second shaft for rotating the second shaft, wherein rotation of the second shaft imparts rotation of the first and second ratchet gears and the first and second gears.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: DUTTON-LAINSON COMPANYInventor: Joseph C. Downs
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Patent number: 10414640Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle body 30, a fork 22 mounted on the vehicle body, a controller configured to adjust a position and an orientation of the vehicle body, a laser sensor 20 configured to measure distance data from the laser sensor to an object existing in a space set forward of the fork, and a control commander configured to, when the distance data measured by the laser sensor includes a load or a pallet 100 to be lifted, generate track data for moving the vehicle body to a loading position of the load or the pallet based on the distance data, and provide a command to the controller using the generated track data.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Minoru Tanaka, Akinobu Fujii, Mitsuo Koide, Yuuji Tsusaka, Makoto Ichinose, Makoto Hayakawa
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Patent number: 10414641Abstract: A device for uncorking a bottle of a pressurised liquid such as a bottle of champagne. The device includes a hollow main body with a substantially cylindrical cross-section, with a lower portion including an opening allowing the neck of the bottle to pass therethrough and a profile capable of snap-fitting the lower portion onto the collar of the bottle, an intermediate portion making it possible to grip the device and guide the ejected cork into the main body, and an upper portion including means for trapping the ejected cork so as to make it possible to trap and retain the cork after extracting same.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventors: Aymerick Sanchez, Guillaume Cazaudehore
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Patent number: 10414642Abstract: A beverage dispenser includes a housing, a first pouch, a cutting mechanism, a water source, and a pump. The housing has at least a first receptacle. The first pouch has a beverage content for seating in the first receptacle and has an opening area thereon for opening the pouch. The cutting mechanism for opening the first pouch in the opening area of the pouch in order to allow the contents thereof to evacuate from the pouch. The water source is coupled to the housing permitting water to mix with the contents of the pouch. The pump coupled to the water reservoir for transferring water from the water reservoir to the vicinity of the first receptacle such that water from the water reservoir mixes with the contents of the pouch. The opening area of the pouch permits cutting or slicing of the pouch with the cutting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Bibo Barmaid LLCInventors: Douglas F. Melville, Jr., Gary M. Barch, Craig Bures, Debra L. Walker
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Patent number: 10414643Abstract: A system and method for dispensing sparkling and other pressurized beverages from a container. Sparkling wine and other beverages may be dispensed without removing a cork or other closure. One or more needles may be inserted through the closure and sparkling beverage dispensed through the one or more needles. The one or more needles may be inserted at an angle to the vertical or axis of the bottle opening in which the closure is positioned, e.g., to avoid contact with a metal retainer on the closure. Dispensed beverage may be directed to a pressurized reservoir to help maintain or recover carbonation prior to dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Coravin, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Robert Kevin Moore
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Patent number: 10414644Abstract: An insert is disclosed for use with a closed loop dispensing system. The insert is press-fitted into the throat of a liquid container. The insert includes a normally closed chemical valve which is opened when subjected to a suction force to permit the liquid in the container to be dispensed to a mixing machine or the like. The insert also includes a plurality of radially spaced-apart bi-directional valves which automatically permit air to be vented into the container. The bi-directional valves also permit off-gassing of gas in the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Rodney Laible
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Patent number: 10414645Abstract: An insert is disclosed for use with a closed loop dispensing system. The insert is press-fitted into the throat of a liquid container. The insert includes a normally closed chemical valve which is opened when pierced by a vertically movable lance to permit the liquid in the container to be dispensed to a mixing machine or the like. The insert also includes a plurality of radially spaced-apart bi-directional valves which automatically permit air to be vented into the container. The bi-directional valves also permit off-gassing of gas in the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Inventor: Rodney Laible
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Patent number: 10414646Abstract: A method of forming at least one Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) includes forming a beam structure and an electrode on an insulator layer, remote from the beam structure. The method further includes forming at least one sacrificial layer over the beam structure, and remote from the electrode. The method further includes forming a lid structure over the at least one sacrificial layer and the electrode. The method further includes providing simultaneously a vent hole through the lid structure to expose the sacrificial layer and to form a partial via over the electrode. The method further includes venting the sacrificial layer to form a cavity. The method further includes sealing the vent hole with material. The method further includes forming a final via in the lid structure to the electrode, through the partial via.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Russell T. Herrin, Jeffrey C. Maling, Anthony K. Stamper
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Patent number: 10414647Abstract: A device having a microelectronic component housed in a hermetically sealed housing having a vacuum inner space, and including a getter that substantially traps only hydrogen, is inert to oxygen and/or to nitrogen, and is housed in said inner space. Each of the constituent parts of the device being likely to degas into the inner space is a mineral material.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: LYNREDInventors: Jérôme Favier, David Bunel
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Patent number: 10414648Abstract: Method for making a cavity, comprising steps to: make a hole in a cover covering a sacrificial portion on a substrate; make a first layer on the cover, either in a first configuration covering a first region of the cover around the hole, or in a second configuration surrounding a first region of the cover around the hole; deposit a second layer covering the cover and the first layer and with, in a first configuration a low adhesion force between the first and second layers, or in a second configuration a low adhesion force between the second layer and the first region; etch the second layer, forming a flap of which a first part does not hermetically close or seal the hole, and of which a second end is fixed to a second region of the cover; etch the sacrificial portion; close the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Bruno Reig, Damien Saint-Patrice
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Patent number: 10414649Abstract: Acid gas compounds are removed from a process gas such as, for example, syngas or natural gas, by flowing a feed gas into a desulfurization unit to remove a substantial fraction of sulfur compounds from the feed gas and flowing the resulting desulfurized gas into a CO2 removal unit to remove a substantial fraction of CO2 from the desulfurized gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Research Triangle InstituteInventors: David L. Denton, Raghubir P. Gupta, Brian S. Turk, Vijay Gupta, Himanshu Paliwal
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Patent number: 10414650Abstract: A multi-tubular chemical reactor (400) includes an igniter (435) for the initiation of gas phase exothermic reaction within the gas phase reaction zones (409) of the tubular reactor units (408). A method of carrying out a gas phase exothermic reaction within the multi-tubular chemical reactor comprising: introducing gaseous reactants into a tubular reactor unit (408); initiating with radiant heat an exothermic reaction of the gaseous reactants within the reactor unit; and transferring heat produced by the exothermic reaction occurring within the gas phase reaction zone of the reactor unit to the gas phase reaction zone of one or more adjacent reactor units (408), thereby initiating an exothermic reaction within at least one adjacent reactor unit (408) until in such manner an exothermic reaction has been initiated in each of the plurality of spaced-apart reactor units (408).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Watt Fuel Cell Corp.Inventors: Caine M. Finnerty, Paul DeWald
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Patent number: 10414651Abstract: Methods, kits, cartridges, and compounds related to generating chlorine dioxide by exposing ClO2? to at least one of an iron porphyrin catalyst or an iron porphyrazine catalyst are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: John T. Groves, Roy Xiao
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Patent number: 10414652Abstract: Described herein are methods for the bromine-facilitated synthesis of fluoro-sulfur compounds, that include SF4, SF5Cl, SF5Br and SF6. The methods described herein generally require lower temperature and pressure, produce higher yields, require less time, do not use corrosive or costly reactants and solvents that are commonly used in the synthesis of the fluoro-sulfur compounds, and do not produce deleterious waste products when compared to previously-used methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: AvantBio CorporationInventor: Rolf Winter
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Patent number: 10414653Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing agglomeraterd boron nitride particles which are suitable to be used as a thermally conductive filler for a heat dissipation sheet of a power semiconductor device, and which exhibit excellent isotropy of thermal conductivity, excellent degradation resistance, and excellent kneadability with respect to resin. The agglomerated boron nitride particles are obtained by agglomerating boron nitride primary particles. The agglomerated BN articles are characterized in that: a peak area intensity ratio ((100)/(004)) of a (100) plane to a (004) plane of the BN primary particles is 0.25 or more, and the average crystallite size of the BN primary particles obtained from a (002) plane peak of the BN primary particles is 375 ? or more.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsura Ikemiya, Masanori Yamazaki, Takuya Suzuki, Kazuki Takeda, Toshiyuki Sawamura, Sawa Hiramatsu, Tatsushi Isojima
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Patent number: 10414654Abstract: A system suitable for oxidizing ammonia with oxygen in the presence of catalysts is described. The system includes a reactor equipped with at least one supply line for a reactant gas mixture and at least one discharge line for a process gas; a catalyst comprising at least one transition metal oxide that is not an oxide of a platinum metal; and a device for adjusting a molar ratio of oxygen to ammonia of less than or equal to 1.75 mol/mol in the reactant gas mixture by mixing an oxygen-containing gas stream having an O2 content of <20% by volume with a chosen amount of ammonia. The oxygen-containing gas stream is produced by a device for: diluting an air stream with a gas stream comprising less than 20% by volume oxygen; or depleting oxygen from an oxygen-containing gas mixture, preferably from air; or by a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AGInventors: Meinhard Schwefer, Rolf Siefert, Klaus Ruthardt, Alberto Cremona, Edoardo Vogna
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Patent number: 10414655Abstract: Stem cell, bone and nerve scaffolding comprising discrete carbon nanotubes is disclosed. The discrete carbon nanotubes may be have targeted, or selective oxidation levels and/or content on the interior and exterior of the tube walls. The described scaffolding may be used to guide, target and protect stem cells upon injection into the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Molecular Rebar Design, LLCInventors: Clive P. Bosnyak, Kurt W. Swogger, Nancy Henderson, Paul Everill
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Patent number: 10414656Abstract: Discrete, individualized carbon nanotubes having targeted, or selective, oxidation levels and/or content on the interior and exterior of the tube walls are claimed. Such carbon nanotubes can have little to no inner tube surface oxidation, or differing amounts and/or types of oxidation between the tubes' inner and outer surfaces. These new discrete carbon nanotubes are useful in plasticizers, which can then be used as an additive in compounding and formulation of elastomeric, thermoplastic and thermoset composite for improvement of mechanical, electrical and thermal properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Molecular Rebar Design, LLCInventors: Kurt W. Swogger, Clive P. Bosnyak, Nancy Henderson, Malcolm Finlayson, Bryce Daniel Sturtevant, Steve Hoenig
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Patent number: 10414657Abstract: The present invention relates to graphene, and particularly, to a method for preparing graphene, to said graphene, and to an electronic device using said graphene. The present invention, as described above, can be constructed by the inclusion of the steps of: forming a graphene layer on a catalytic metal layer; forming an organic-inorganic hybrid film in an uncured state on the graphene layer; and curing the film.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jinsan Moon, Kyungho Jung, Eunseck Kang
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Patent number: 10414658Abstract: Disclosed is a composition of matter comprising a biologically active substance bound to a graphene-coated dielectric-core particle, and methods for making and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Millman Systems LLCInventor: Stephen Jeffery Gorton
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Patent number: 10414659Abstract: A method of creating storing and using recycled graphene oxide materials to create highly resilient objects having desirable qualities of graphene.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMYInventors: Victor F Medina, Jose Mattei-Sosa, Christopher S Griggs
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Patent number: 10414660Abstract: A method that decomposes monosilane wherein a monosilane-containing gas stream is circulated in a circuit system including a reactor that decomposes the monosilane, the method including injecting a monosilane-containing gas stream into the reactor, bringing the gas stream into contact with a heated surface inside the reactor at which surface a portion of the monosilane in the gas stream is decomposed to deposit a solid silicon layer on the surface so that the concentration of the monosilane in the gas stream decreases, discharging the gas stream from the reactor, reprocessing the gas stream including at least partially compensating the decrease in the monosilane concentration resulting from the decomposition by addition of monosilane, and reinjecting the reprocessed, monosilane-containing gas stream into the reactor, wherein during deposition an operating pressure of 2.5 to 10 bar is established and the gas stream enters the reactor at a velocity of less than 7.5 m/s.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Schmid Silicon Technology GmbHInventors: Christian Schmid, Georgij Petrik, Jochem Hahn
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Patent number: 10414661Abstract: A method of producing a silicon hydride oxide-containing organic solvent (coating solution) is provided with which a silicon hydride oxide coating film can be formed on a substrate. Using the silicon hydride oxide-containing organic solvent makes it unnecessary to place a coating solution in non-oxidizing atmosphere at the time of coating or to heat the substrate after coating because the silicon hydride oxide is formed in the coating solution before it is coated. The method includes blowing an oxygen-containing gas through an organic solvent containing a silicon hydride or a polymer thereof. The silicon hydride oxide may contain a proportion of (residual Si-H groups)/(Si-H groups before oxidation) of 1 to 40 mol %. The silicon hydride can be obtained by reacting a cyclic silane with a hydrogen halide in the presence of an aluminum halide, and reducing the obtained cyclic halosilane.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Thin Film Electronics ASAInventors: Yuichi Goto, Masahisa Endo, Gun Son, Kentaro Negai
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Patent number: 10414662Abstract: Methods and systems for cost effectively transforming lower quality sands into higher quality sands for use as proppants in fracking operations. One or more of an attrition process, a microwaving process and a tumbling process, and systems therefor, are disclosed and shown to be applied to sands having inferior physical properties in order to increase the performance of those sands as proppants in hydrocarbon formation fracturing.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: FORECASTER CHEMICALS, LLCInventors: Syed Akbar, Jared Rose
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Patent number: 10414663Abstract: A method is provided for synthesizing a molecular sieve of SFE framework type using a structure directed agent selected from one or more of 1,2,3,5-tetramethyl-1H-pyrazol-2-ium cations and 1,2,3,4-tetramethyl-1H-imidazol-3-ium cations.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventor: Dan Xie
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Patent number: 10414664Abstract: A process of producing a zeotype material having a zeolite-type framework. The process includes providing a zeolite having a framework, dealuminating the zeolite to remove aluminum atoms therefrom to produce a dealuminated framework comprising a plurality of vacancy sites, contacting the dealuminated framework with dichloromethane and a precursor comprising heteroatoms, and then heating the dealuminated framework, the dichloromethane, and the precursor under reflux conditions to incorporate the heteroatoms into at least some of the plurality of vacancy sites in the dealuminated framework to produce a zeotype material having a zeolite-type framework comprising the heteroatoms. In addition, a process is provided for producing a stannosilicate comprising a zeolite-type framework comprising Sn heteroatoms incorporated therein which form Sn sites in the zeolite-type framework each having an open configuration or a closed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Rajamani P. Gounder, Juan Carlos Vega-Vila, James William Harris