Patents Issued in October 29, 2019
  • Patent number: 10456920
    Abstract: A system to process semiconductor wafers includes an end effector, a proximity sensor and a controller. The end effector may be adapted to handle a semiconductor wafer. The proximity sensor may be attached to the end effector and may output a first sensor signal if a distance between the end effector and an object separated from the end effector is less than or equal to a first predetermined distance. The controller is responsive to the first sensor signal to slow a movement of the end effector. The proximity sensor further outputs a second sensor signal if the distance between the end effector and the object is less than or equal to a second predetermined distance in which the second predetermined distance being less than the first predetermined distance. The controller is responsive to the second sensor signal to stop movement of the end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Surya Rajendran, Luis Alberto Hurtado, Dennis Michael Winters
  • Patent number: 10456921
    Abstract: Provided is an industrial-robot control device including a microphone attached to an industrial robot, a specific-sound detector that detects a specific sound from a sound picked up by the microphone, and a controller that allows the industrial robot to operate only during a period in which the specific sound is detected by the specific-sound detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroji Nishi, Shunichi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10456922
    Abstract: An interactive mobile platform control system includes a mobile terminal; a robot intelligent platform wirelessly communicated with the mobile terminal; and a household robot wirelessly communicated with the robot intelligent platform, the mobile terminal is installed with a lightweight software corresponding to the household robot, and configured to receive a user instruction through the lightweight software, the lightweight software is configured to convert the user instruction into a control command and transmit the control command to the robot intelligent platform; the robot intelligent platform is configured to transcode the control command to output an executable command to the household robot; and the household robot is configured to receive the executable command and complete a corresponding action according to the executable command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaogang Xuan, Liang Li
  • Patent number: 10456923
    Abstract: A sensor includes a first support portion, a second support portion, an incremental encoder, a magnetic-flux generating source, and a magnetoelectric transducer. The incremental encoder includes a scale supported by the first support portion and a head supported by the second support portion. The magnetic-flux generating source is supported by one of the first support portion and the second support portion. The magnetoelectric transducer is supported by another of the first support portion and the second support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuuichi Sato
  • Patent number: 10456924
    Abstract: A two-part, selectively dockable robotic system having counterbalanced stabilization during performance of an operation on an underwater target structure is provided. The robotic system includes a first underwater robotic vehicle that is sized and shaped to at least partially surround the underwater target structure. A second underwater robotic vehicle is sized and shaped to at least partially surround the underwater target structure and selectively dock with the first underwater robotic vehicle. The first and second robotic vehicles include complimentary docking mechanisms that permit the vehicles to selectively couple to each other with the underwater target structure disposed at least partially therebetween. One robot includes a tool that can act upon the target structure and the other robot includes a stabilization module that can act upon the target structure in an opposite manner in order to counterbalance the force of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ali Outa, Fadl Abdellatif, Sahejad Patel, Hassane Trigui
  • Patent number: 10456925
    Abstract: A gripper comprising an actuator and two fingers mounted parallel at a distance from each other on the actuator for movement perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the fingers, the fingers having a longitudinal body attached at one end to the actuator. The fingers having two longitudinal claws at the end opposite to the end attached to the actuator, the claws being spaced apart so that there is an elongated gap between the claws. At least one of the fingers having a groove for accommodating an optical fiber which extends partially into the elongated gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific Oy
    Inventors: Sami Paavilainen, Juha Savonsalmi
  • Patent number: 10456926
    Abstract: A robotically assisted power line aerial diverter mounting tool enables a UAV to attach an aerial diverter, or other power line safety equipment, to a power line. To do this, the mounting tool has a mounting plate, a robot-attachment assembly, an intermediary connection mechanism, a mounting receptacle, an extension member, and a diverter-manipulation assembly. The robot-attachment assembly is a rigid frame that is mounted onto one side of mounted plate. The robot-attachment assembly has adjustable fasteners that enable the mounting tool to be affixed to the UAV. The connection mechanism is a detachable fastening system that is mounted onto the mounting plate, opposite to the robot-attachment assembly. The mounting receptacle extends into the connection mechanism so that the extension member can be attached to the connection mechanism. Further, one end of the extension member engages into the receptacle and the diverter manipulation assembly is mounted to the opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Connell Naylor
  • Patent number: 10456927
    Abstract: The invention discloses a handling robot control system, comprising a base, an air balance cavity set in the base, an air pump fixedly arranged at the middle of the air balance cavity, air valves symmetrically disposed in two sides of the end walls of the air balance cavity, The handling robot may confirm the position of the cargoes and the the position where the cargoes will be placed through the infrared detector, and control the inner motor to drive the movement, rotation, lifting and handling of the device; during the movement, the balance and stability of the device may be maintained through the adjustment of the air pressure when it moves on the rugged road surface, and through the transmission of the coupling and the connecting shaft, the device may continue to move when it maintains balance, so that the stability may be maintained when the cargoes are carried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Guosong Ge
  • Patent number: 10456928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum gripper unit. The unit has a first mounting container and a second mounting container of cylindrical shapes formed in an H-type when seen from the outside, including a main body for providing a common vacuum chamber. A vacuum pump is inserted into the first mounting container, while the vacuum pump or a release valve is selectively mounted in the second mounting container. In addition, a front insertion hole of each of the first mounting container and the second mounting container is provided with a finishing material which supports each of the release valve and the vacuum pump that are mounted to thereby prevent the valve and pump from being separated. It is preferable that the finishing material of at least the first mounting container is a silencer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: VTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 10456929
    Abstract: A soft robotic bending actuator has a stiff layer bonded to a softer layer where the softer layer is a cellular solid with interconnected voids. The softer layer contracts under a negative pressure differential between the internal pressure of the actuator and its environment applied along its axial direction. The contraction results in a bending motion; i.e., an increased curvature away from the stiff layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Miller, Nathaniel Wicks
  • Patent number: 10456930
    Abstract: A vacuum ejector device (2) for generating at least partial vacuum to be supplied to a gripping member (4), comprising a device body (6) having an elongated shape along a longitudinal axis A. A movable sealing and venting element (24) is provided and is structured to selectively substantially close and seal, in a sealing position, a vacuum duct (16) when the air supply is activated, and to open or vent said vacuum duct to release or vent via a venting duct (26), in a venting position, the vacuum within the gripping member (4) when the vacuum source or air supply is deactivated. The sealing and venting element (24) is arranged essentially at the longitudinal axis A, and that the venting duct (26) is arranged and provides for fluid communication between the sealing and venting element (24) and a venting outlet port (28) provided at a long side of said elongated device body (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: PIAB AB
    Inventor: Peter Tell
  • Patent number: 10456931
    Abstract: Described herein is a multi-axis industrial robot, in particular of a SCARA type, wherein the arm bearing the operating unit comprises a base body and a covering body, which constitute a hermetically closed housing that contains the actuation assembly of said unit. The robot is characterized in that the arm further comprises an internal intermediate body via which the covering body can be fixed to the base body without any need to envisage direct fixing between these two bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Comau S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Bordegnoni, Francesco Ciniello
  • Patent number: 10456932
    Abstract: A conduction path structure of a robot in which a conduction path has a simplified structure is provided. A conduction path structure of a robot includes: a structural mechanism which functions as a support and has a conductor portion; an actuator that operates the structural mechanism; and a conduction path through which driving power and/or a control signal is supplied to the actuator, wherein the conduction path also serves as the conductor portion of the structural mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sou Saitou, Tsutomu Shikagawa, Kiichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 10456933
    Abstract: System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Binder
  • Patent number: 10456934
    Abstract: System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: May Patents Ltd.
    Inventor: Yehuda Binder
  • Patent number: 10456935
    Abstract: A motorized shaving apparatus and head therefor that cuts or trims hair via shearing. In one embodiment, the invention is a shaving apparatus head having a body, a rotary cutter mounted to the body so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis, the rotary cutter having cutting edges that collectively define a reference cylinder about the rotational axis, and a blade mounted to the body so as to extend along a first reference plane that intersects the reference cylinder, the blade positioned so that a user's hairs are sheared between a cutting edge of the blade and the cutting edges of the rotary cutter when the rotary cutter is rotating about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HYBRID RAZOR LTD
    Inventors: Shoham Zak, Beni Nachon, Gil Perlberg, Tsafrir Ben-Ari
  • Patent number: 10456936
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for an adjustable spacing comb for a hair cutting appliance that may be fitted with an adjustable spacing comb. The adjustment drive comprises an actuator for actuating a movable comb portion of the adjustable spacing comb with respect to a blade set of the hair cutting appliance, a manually operable rotation element, and a rotary encoder, that is configured to detect rotary movement of the rotation element and to output a respective user input signal, wherein the actuator is operated in response to the user input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Geert-Jan Darwinkel, Hendrik Klass Haagsma, Nicky Lewis, Matthew Gerard Nayna, Cornelis Johannes Zandsteeg, Hilde Seip, Auke Meint Jan Veninga, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
  • Patent number: 10456937
    Abstract: A guard element (4) for use in a hair cutting unit as a guard of a movable hair cutting element of the hair cutting unit has a disc-shaped base (10) and an annular wall (20) comprising a main part (21) extending from the periphery of the base (10), and a flange-shaped part (22) comprising an outwardly bent section (24). The annular wall (20) is reinforced on the basis of at least one of a design where a smallest inner periphery of the flange-shaped part (22) has a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of a largest inner periphery of a straight section (23) of the main part (21) connected to the periphery of the base (10), and a design where a free end section (25) of the flange-shaped part (22) is at least partially bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mark Klaas Albert Veldhuis, Johannes Silvius, Redmer Van Tijum, Gerrit Klaseboer, Steven Johan Grobbink, Ingmar Grasmeijer, Remi Alex Guillebot
  • Patent number: 10456938
    Abstract: A sheath and knife separation control structure includes a sheath formed of a first sheath shell and a second sheath shell and including a knife blade accommodation chamber and a stop block, a knife having a knife blade accommodated in the knife blade accommodation chamber and a stop portion stoppable by the stop block, and a clamping control unit including a clamp pivotally connected to the sheath and a first clamping portion and a second clamping portion adapted for clamping the first sheath shell and second sheath shell of the sheath such that the stop block of the sheath is stopped against the stop portion to lock the knife to the sheath. The stop portion is movable to push away the stop block for allowing separation of the knife from the sheath when the clamping control unit is unclamped from the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Race Wu
  • Patent number: 10456939
    Abstract: A cell cutting device that cuts a mother substrate for display devices includes a fixing unit configured to move in a state where the mother substrate for display devices is fixed on the fixing unit, a cutter configured to perform a cutting process on the mother substrate for display devices and the cutter faces a surface of the mother substrate during the cutting process, a cutter driving unit driving the cutter in a state where the cutter is fixed thereon, and a buffer member arranged on another surface of the mother substrate to correspond to the cutter. The other surface is opposite the surface facing the cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hoe Heo, Seung-Jun Lee
  • Patent number: 10456940
    Abstract: A notching tool for notching a workpiece, the notching tool having a notching punch and a die having an inner surface. The notching punch includes first and second punch portions, the first punch portion has a punch plane intended to hit the workpiece in a notching operation. The second punch portion protrudes from the punch plane in a direction which is substantially perpendicular to the punch plane, and is intended to contact the inner surface of the die when the notching punch hits the workpiece. The disclosure further provides a use of this notching tool and a method of notching which involves the operation of such a notching tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Maquinaria Geka, S.A.
    Inventors: Alberto José Herrero, Mikel Pardavila
  • Patent number: 10456941
    Abstract: A dual knife food cutter apparatus is configurable into a cutting configuration and a storage configuration. In the cutting configuration, the first blade is attached to the second blade to form a substantially contiguous combined cutting side. In the storage configuration, the cutting side of each blade is inserted into a slot of the handle of the other blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventors: Johnathan T Spae, Roy Paul Prosise, Daniel F. Caputo, Benjamin D. Litteral
  • Patent number: 10456942
    Abstract: A cutting method includes a pipe of a cutting tool driving a pressing foot assembly of the cutting tool to press against an object in a direction; the pressing foot assembly sliding along the direction by cooperation of a sliding block of the pressing foot assembly and a sliding slot on the pipe to compress a spring of the cutting tool; the compressed spring generating a resilient force for driving the pressing foot assembly to collapse a plurality of wave-shaped core layers of the object; and after the plurality of wave-shaped core layers of the object is collapsed by the pressing foot assembly, a blade assembly of the cutting tool protruding from the pressing foot assembly via an opening on the pressing foot assembly and being driven to cut the collapsed object along another direction perpendicular to the direction without oscillation as the cutting tool moves along the another direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Yuan-Chi Hsu
  • Patent number: 10456943
    Abstract: Methods and equipment for cutting products, including food products. Such equipment includes an impeller adapted to be coaxially mounted within an annular-shaped cutting head for rotation about an axis of the cutting head in a rotational direction relative to the cutting head. The impeller includes a base and ring spaced axially from each other, at least a first intermediate plate disposed between the base and the ring so as to define at least first and second tier levels within the impeller, and paddles disposed between the base and the ring and within the first and second tier levels. The first intermediate plate has an opening therein that defines a passage between the first and second tier levels. The impeller further has pockets defined by and between immediately adjacent pairs of paddles within each tier level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wade King, Fut Meng Wong
  • Patent number: 10456944
    Abstract: A multifunction cutting tool guide which includes a base plate having a top surface and a bottom surface, with the base plate top surface including connection points for connecting a power tool to the base plate top surface. A track extends longitudinally along the bottom surface of the base plate for use in guided cuts. The track is defined by first and second spaced walls with at least one of the walls being movable with respect to the other wall to accommodate various sized straight edges. The base also includes a laterally extending channel adapted to mount on a straight edge for rip cuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Affinity Tool Works, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ursell, Garry Favel, Tsvi Hershkovich, Rick Ursell, Ken Neilson
  • Patent number: 10456945
    Abstract: A tool system for use with an accessory tool including a mounting end, comprises an oscillating power tool and a handheld tool assembly. The oscillating power tool includes a first tool holder configured to connect to the mounting end of the accessory tool. The handheld tool assembly includes a second tool holder configured to connect to the mounting end of the accessory tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frederik Dresen, Creighton Wade Nachtigall, Christopher A. Nowacki, Kenneth C. Osberg, Bobby Brent Boyd
  • Patent number: 10456946
    Abstract: A cutting member of a saw chain has a cutting tooth and a cutting surface having at least one cutting edge. In a side view, looking in a sharpening direction, a first line connects an intersection between an upper edge of a roof section and the cutting surface to an intersection between an imaginary line, which extends parallel to the upper edge, and the cutting surface. A second line connects an intersection between the upper edge and an imaginary displacement of the cutting surface parallel to the contact surface at a position in which a tooth tip of the cutting tooth lies perpendicular to the running direction above a longitudinal center axis of the rearward bearing point, to a point of intersection between the imaginary line and the imaginary displacement of the cutting surface. The contact surface is aligned such that the first and second line extend in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier
  • Patent number: 10456947
    Abstract: A clamping device for an adjustable stop of a processing machine for guiding workpieces through the processing machine is provided with at least one clamping part that clamps the stop against at least one counter stop. The clamping part is provided on a transmission element, wherein the transmission element is acted upon with a force (F1) that is converted into a clamping force (F2) acting upon the clamping part. A release unit is provided for releasing the clamping action. The transmission element is a two-armed lever, one arm of which is acted upon with the force (F1) in the form of a compressive force and the other arm of which generates the clamping force (F2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Michael Weinig AG
    Inventors: Hermann Marquardt, Walter Rapp, Ralf Wagner
  • Patent number: 10456948
    Abstract: The component (100) according to the invention has a first wood element (110) with at least a first main fiber direction (114) and a second wood element (120) with at least a second main fiber direction (124). At the end, and spaced apart, the first wood element (110) is adhesively bonded, on a first side cutting through the first main fiber direction (114), to a first side (121) of the second wood element (120) cutting through the second main fiber direction (124).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Timber Structures 3.0 AG
    Inventor: Stefan Zollig
  • Patent number: 10456949
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing fibrous board has a board carrier and a plurality of at least four cutting tools for separating a fibrous material, in particular strand-shaped or tape-shaped fibrous material into portions, and for depositing the portions. The board carrier is displaceable below the depositing cutting tools here through in at least one movement direction. The depositing cutting tools are substantially stationary and are disposed beside one another in such a manner that the portions of these depositing cutting tools may be simultaneously deposited beside one another on the board carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Jaromir Ufer
  • Patent number: 10456950
    Abstract: A topping sheet forming method includes: a feeding and division step of feeding a textile original fabric, obtained by weaving longitudinally aligned tire cords into a cord fabric by use of weft yarns, and cutting off the weft yarns in predetermined widthwise positions to divide the textile original fabric into a plurality of narrow textile original fabrics; and a topping step of topping at least one surface of each of the narrow textile original fabrics with unvulcanized rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Fujimoto, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10456951
    Abstract: The invention relates to an injection mold (4) for manufacturing a rotary part made of a composite material having outer flanges, comprising a mandrel (2) on which a fiber reinforcement is intended to be held (9) and including a central wall (6) the profile of which matches that of the part to be manufactured and two side plates (8), molding wedges (12) for bearing against a non-covered surface of the fiber reinforcement, and two outer bells (14) for covering the molding wedges and the plates of the mandrel with sealing O-rings (24) being inserted between the bells and the plates of the mandrel, the bells each being provided with an attachment flange (20) for bearing against one another with at least one sealing O-ring (26) inserted therebetween, the attachment flanges of the bells being clamped against one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Thierry Chauvin
  • Patent number: 10456952
    Abstract: A tire cure mold has a tread molding face that comes in contact with a tread face of a tire set in a cavity, a protruding portion for forming a groove portion and protruding inward in a tire diametrical direction from the tread molding face, a depression for forming a groove bottom projection and formed by recessing a top face of the protruding portion, a first vent hole open in the tread molding face, a second vent hole open in a bottom face of the depression, and a spring vent mounted in the second vent hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Ando
  • Patent number: 10456953
    Abstract: A device and a method for the thermal reshaping of hose blanks from preferably pre-extruded elastic raw hose material, wherein during the reshaping, the hose blank is arranged in a shell-like, single- or multi-piece molding tool with a hollow body, wherein the tempering of the molding tool that is necessary for reshaping occurs by means of clamp-like tempering elements which are shaped congruently to the outer surface of the mold and which close form-fittingly over the mold, while the molding tool itself does not comprise any tempering system at all, in particular no ducts or other hollow spaces for circulating a tempering medium, and wherein the temperature of each tempering element is kept constant during the process, while, to modify the temperature of the molding tool, a different tempering element with a correspondingly constant temperature is positioned against the molding tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Creative Balloons GmbH
    Inventor: Fred Göbel
  • Patent number: 10456954
    Abstract: A method of shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers is provided, in which the plastics material pre-forms are expanded inside a blow mold with the aid of an expansion agent and a stretch rod to form the plastics material containers, and in which at least the blow mold and/or the stretch rod is or are sterilized if necessary at least in part with sterilization agent, wherein, to sterilize the outer side of the stretch rod, the stretch rod is displaced at least in part into the blow mold, and the sterilization agents are brought from a discharge element arranged outside the stretch rod to the exterior face of the stretch rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Frank Winzinger
  • Patent number: 10456955
    Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a nut 1 for a clamping mechanism 10, a clamping mechanism 10 comprising a tie bolt 11 and two nuts 1, a vulcanizing press 20 comprising clamping mechanisms 10 and a support device 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: REMA TIP TOP AG
    Inventor: Patric Scheungraber
  • Patent number: 10456956
    Abstract: A multi-chemistry structure includes: a plurality of interconnected polymer struts arranged in a lattice; a first layer of the lattice including a first array of first unit cells; a second layer of the lattice including a second array of second unit cells; at least one region of the lattice being formed of a first polymer; and at least one region of the lattice being formed of a second polymer different from the first polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Sophia S. Yang, Alan J. Jacobsen, Zak C. Eckel, Jacob M. Hundley, William Carter
  • Patent number: 10456958
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing synthetic leather using a silicone rubber coating liquid; and synthetic leather produced by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Soon Kie Jung
  • Patent number: 10456959
    Abstract: A system for crafting railroad crossties of compressed bamboo is described. The system employs a hydraulic press configured to effectively compress multiple stalks of bamboo into a strong unified beam within a mold. Bamboo is first mashed, dried, and treated. A resin is employed as a permanent adhesive, binding the stalks together. The bamboo is stacked within a mold and compressed under the pressure exerted by the hydraulic press. An oven is used to heat the compressed bamboo, and then the bamboo is cooled. The compressed bamboo beam may then be trimmed to remove excess bamboo, and is cut into crosstie segments if needed. The resulting crosstie is sturdy, ecologically friendly, and rapidly manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TieBam, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Avraham, David Johns, Patrick Wang, Jean-Luc Kouyoumji, Reuben Smith
  • Patent number: 10456960
    Abstract: Systems and methods for incrementally forming a composite part are disclosed herein. The systems include a forming mandrel, which includes a forming surface, and a forming machine. The forming machine includes a forming bladder, a pressure-regulating device, and a positioning device. The forming bladder is configured to be inflated to a forming pressure and to press the ply of composite material against the forming surface. The methods include placing a ply of composite material on a forming surface of a forming mandrel and pressing a forming bladder against the ply of composite material at a selected location to press a selected portion of the ply of composite material against the forming surface and conform the selected portion of the ply of composite material to a surface profile of the forming surface. The methods further include repeating the pressing a plurality of times at a plurality of selected locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael Robert Chapman, Charles M. Richards, Jeffrey M. Hansen, Robert L. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10456961
    Abstract: The bonding apparatus of the present invention is an apparatus that bonds a patch containing a reinforcing fiber to a bonded section of a corner section CR of an object member. The bonding apparatus has s heater mat, a pushing member, a bag member having a decompression port, a mold releasing film, a breather, a heater mat and a sealant. A pushing member has a first cowl plate, a second cowl plate and an elastic pressuring body. A pressuring section of the pushing member has the surface shape corresponding to a corner section design value after the patch is bonded. By protruding from a gap between a first cowl plate and a second cowl plate to a direction of the corner section CR, the patch is pushed to the bonded section and the generation of a wrinkle in the reinforcing fiber can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Terasaka, Jun Eto, Yasunobu Ishida
  • Patent number: 10456962
    Abstract: A heat-insulating housing (21) includes: a wall body; and an open-cell resin body (4) of thermosetting resin with which a heat-insulating space formed by the wall body is filled by integral foaming, the open-cell resin body including: a plurality of cells (47); a cell film portion (42); a cell skeleton portion (43); a first through-hole (44) formed so as to extend through the cell film portion; and a second through-hole (45) formed so as to extend through the cell skeleton portion, wherein the plurality of cells communicate with one another through the first through-hole and the second through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Uekado, Tsuyoki Hirai
  • Patent number: 10456963
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns component carriers including: (i) a first support structure having a generally rectangular cross-section; and (ii) a second support structure having a generally rectangular cross-section, where the first support structure and the second support structure are formed of fiber-filled polypropylene; and where the component carrier is configured to be part of an electrical vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Zhongcai Tong, Chao Liu, Zhen Yu Xie, Chuangqi Guo
  • Patent number: 10456964
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a support element for a means of transport, wherein the method comprises: —providing a polypropylene/natural fiber mat (106), wherein the mat (106) has a basis weight of less than 1150 g/m2, wherein the polypropylene/natural fiber mat (106) comprises a first type of natural fibers, —preheating the mat (106), —placing the mat (106) in a mold (100), wherein the mold (100) has a rib-shaped cavity (112), —pressing the mat (106) into a predefined form by the mold (100), so that the thickness of the mat (106) after the pressing is less than 1.5 mm—immediately and directly after the pressing, insert molding the mat (106) by injecting a polypropylene-containing material into the rib-shaped cavity, wherein the insert molding has the effect that the material forms stiffening ribs (200) that are integrally bonded with the mat (106), —demolding the mat (106) comprising the stiffening ribs (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FAURECIA INNENRAUM SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Guillaume Basquin, Denis Wolf, Lidia Chapeau
  • Patent number: 10456965
    Abstract: A composite (100) comprises: an integrally molded article of two or more function parts (111) made of a cured material of a liquid resin composition and two or more connection parts (112); and a retention part (120) made of a resin composition different from the liquid resin composition and having two or more through-holes (121) or concave parts. The function parts (111) are respectively arranged inside the through-holes (121) or the concave parts of the retention part (120). The connection parts (112) are joined to a surface of the retention part (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Tatsuno, Hiroshi Motoki, Tomohiro Saito, Yuya Oshima
  • Patent number: 10456966
    Abstract: A hollow body molding device forming a hollow molded body in a main cavity of a mold having in its one end a pressure port including a floating core by injecting molten resin through an injection gate into the main cavity having an outlet, and then pressure-injecting pressurized fluid through the pressure port into the main cavity to move the core toward the outlet through the resin injected into the main cavity to extrude the resin through the outlet and discharge it into a waste cavity, the device having: a floating core accommodating portion located between the outlet and a communication passage leading to the waste cavity and adjoins the main cavity and accommodates the core moved to the outlet by the fluid, in the device, a floating core accommodating portion inside diameter is smaller than a main cavity outlet diameter and is larger than a floating core outside diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwata, Hideaki Sakai, Yasuhiro Sone, Yoshinori Sadakata, Kazuhiro Yokobori
  • Patent number: 10456968
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object printer includes a multi-nozzle extruder, at least one extrusion material supply, and a dispenser that provides extrusion material from the extrusion material supply to each of a plurality of channels, each channel supplying extrusion material to at least one nozzle in the multi nozzle extruder. The dispenser includes an inlet to receive extrusion material from at least one extrusion material supply, an outlet configured to direct the extrusion material to a channel in the plurality of channels, and an actuator configured to move the outlet into alignment with each channel in the plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Barry P. Mandel, David A. Mantell, Peter J. Nystrom
  • Patent number: 10456969
    Abstract: A die and a method for producing a structural part from hardenable material by way of a die. The die includes a die bottom part; a die top part; a die control unit; a flexible element extending along a lower edge of the die top part; and at least one adjusting bolt to adjust at least partially, via the die control unit, a spatial distance between the flexible element and the die bottom part during extrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fuel Systems GesmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Pozgainer, Sandor Palvoelgyi
  • Patent number: 10456970
    Abstract: An armrest for a captain's chair of a vehicle includes an outer layer and an inner layer including a foaming agent and defining a hollow core. At least one of the inner layer and the outer layer may include a reinforcing material and/or may be varied in thickness along its length. The armrest may include a third layer defining the hollow core. A related method includes heating a parison having a first and second layers, mixing a foaming agent into the second layer prior to heating, feeding the heated parison between mold halves, clamping the heated parison by moving the mold halves together, and pushing the layers of the heated parison outward, using blown air, such that the first layer is adjacent the mold and the second layer forms a hollow core of the armrest, the hollow core being partially filled by expansion of the second layer during cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raj S. Roychoudhury, Michael Medoro
  • Patent number: 10456971
    Abstract: A mold comprises a mold body (1) for forming therearound a body (60) with a body cavity which is accessible via an opening. The mold body is assembled from a set of mutually cohesive body parts (30,40). The body parts (30,40) are mutually releasable and removable from the body via the opening. An inflatable body (60) can be manufactured with the mold. The inflatable body (60) comprises a wall of elastomer material, which wall at least in an inflated state of the body bounds a body cavity accessible through a wall opening. The body is inflatable by filling the body cavity with a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Zamqua Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Fred Baas