Patents Issued in December 17, 2019
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Patent number: 10507571Abstract: An apparatus, having: a panel (100) comprising a top surface (102), a bottom surface (104), and a side surface (106) spanning the top and bottom surfaces; plural upper retaining slots (110), each upper retaining slot recessed into the panel through the top surface, extending parallel to the top surface, and opening through the side surface in at least one location (112), wherein each upper retaining slot comprises a trapezoidal shape; and a dog hole (122) extending through the panel from the top surface to the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Henry Wang
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Patent number: 10507572Abstract: A workbench comprising a first support, a second support and a first work surface, in which said first support comprises a leg structure with an upper end, in which said first work surface comprises a first end, in which said upper end and said first end comprise a connection means to releasably connect them together, and in which said connection means comprises a first pair of parallel elongate troughs provided on either said upper end or said first end, and a first pair of parallel elongate flanges provided on the other of said upper end or said first end, which first pair of flanges is shaped and configured to be releasably engagable in said first pair of troughs.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Gareth Williams
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Patent number: 10507573Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable tool holder for holding workshop tools and the like. The tool holder comprises an elongate, rectangular base member comprising a longitudinal central groove, the base member extending between proximal and distal extremities, an elongate, central bar disposed within the groove centrally, the central bar laterally divided into toothed and plain portions terminating at the proximal and distal portions respectively, a longitudinal edge of the toothed portion comprising teeth, a slider adapted to slide along the length of the toothed portion, and a compression spring, one end of which secured to the slider while the other end secured to a distal extremity, the spring wound around the central bar. Sliding the slider to any point on the toothed portion causes length of the spring to be automatically altered accordingly, while the teeth prevent the slider from freely sliding towards the proximal end. A tool is adapted to be held between two consecutive loops of the spring.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Stanley D Winnard
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Patent number: 10507574Abstract: A seat assembly. The seat assembly is adapted for use in entering confined spaces or otherwise entering spaces through confined entryways. The seat assembly includes a seat that is slidably disposed along a track. In one embodiment, the seat is rotatable. The seat assembly further includes a wire or tether that has multiple clamps positioned along its length. The assembly is utilized by placing the track such that it extends through a confined entryway and then securing the clamps about the perimeter edge of the opening such that the tether is held taut. The tension in the wire exerts a force that maintains the track, the seat, and a user or any equipment thereon in a horizontal position through the opening. Users can the utilize the slidable seat to enter and exit the confined opening with minimal difficulty.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Inventor: Justin Brandt
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Patent number: 10507575Abstract: An attitude-supporting apparatus of a wearable robot includes an actuator for generating a hydraulic pressure by a worker's direct manipulation, and a driving unit including, the driving unit including: an inner component and an outer component capable of relatively rotating, and control components for controlling the relative rotations of the inner component and the outer component, wherein a motion of the control components is controlled by receiving the hydraulic pressure generated from the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jun Hwan Park, Dong Han Koo
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Patent number: 10507576Abstract: An industrial robot with parallel kinematics is proposed which is equipped with a robot base (1), a carrier element (2) for receiving a gripper, a tool or a machine element, at least two moveable actuating units (4), one of which ends is connected to actuating-unit drives (6) arranged on the robot base (1) and the other end is moveably connected to the carrier element (2), a telescope (13) that is moveably arranged between the robot base (1) and the carrier element (2), a first joint (17) with multiple degrees of freedom, by means of which joint the telescope (13) is moveably held on the robot base (1), a second joint (23) with multiple degrees of freedom, by means of which joint the telescope (13) is moveably held on the carrier element (2), whereby the position of the first joint (17) can be displaceably arranged relative to the robot base (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: autonox robotics GmbHInventor: Hartmut Ilch
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Patent number: 10507577Abstract: Example embodiments may relate to robot-cloud interaction. In particular, a cloud-based service may receive a query from a first robotic system including sensor data, a request for instructions to carry out a task, and information associated with a configuration of the first robotic system. The cloud-based service may then identify stored data including a procedure previously used by a second robotic system to carry out the task and information associated with a configuration of the second robotic system. The cloud-based service may then generate instructions for the first robotic system to carry out the task based at least in part on the sensor data, the procedure used by the second robotic system to carry out the task, the information associated with the configuration of the first robotic system, and the information associated with the configuration of the second robotic system.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: James Joseph Kuffner, Jared Stephen Russell
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Patent number: 10507578Abstract: Example implementations may relate to optimization of observer robot locations. In particular, a control system may detect an event that indicates desired relocation of observer robots within a worksite. Each such observer robot may have respective sensor(s) configured to provide information related to respective positions of a plurality of target objects within the worksite. Responsively, the control system may (i) determine observer robot locations within the worksite at which one or more of the respective sensors are each capable of providing information related to respective positions of one or more of the plurality of target objects and (ii) determine a respectively intended level of positional accuracy for at least two respective target objects. Based on the respectively intended levels of positional accuracy, the control system may select one or more of the observer robot locations and may direct one or more observer robots to relocate to the selected locations.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Jeffrey Linnell, Anthony Sean Jules
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Patent number: 10507579Abstract: A robot control system according to the present invention includes a robot control device for controlling a robot, and a control CPU detachably provided on the robot control device, for generating an operation command to operate the robot. The robot control device includes a network controller for communicating with the outside of the robot control device, a servo controller for controlling the robot, and a connector for connecting the control CPU to the network controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoki Oya, Yuuki Fukumoto
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Patent number: 10507580Abstract: Apparatus and methods for training and controlling of, for instance, robotic devices. In one implementation, a robot may be trained by a user using supervised learning. The user may be unable to control all degrees of freedom of the robot simultaneously. The user may interface to the robot via a control apparatus configured to select and operate a subset of the robot's complement of actuators. The robot may comprise an adaptive controller comprising a neuron network. The adaptive controller may be configured to generate actuator control commands based on the user input and output of the learning process. Training of the adaptive controller may comprise partial set training. The user may train the adaptive controller to operate first actuator subset. Subsequent to learning to operate the first subset, the adaptive controller may be trained to operate another subset of degrees of freedom based on user input via the control apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Brain CorporationInventors: Jean-Baptiste Passot, Oleg Sinyavskiy, Eugene Izhikevich
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Patent number: 10507581Abstract: A robot system includes: at least one non-learned robot that has not learned a learning compensation amount of position control based on an operation command; at least one learned robot that has learned the learning compensation amount of the position control based on the operation command; and a storage device that stores the operation command and the learning compensation amount of the learned robot, the non-learned robot comprising a compensation amount estimation unit that compensates the learning compensation amount of the learned robot stored in the storage device based on a difference between the operation command of the learned robot stored in the storage device and an operation command of an own robot, and estimates the compensated learning compensation amount as a learning compensation amount of the own robot.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Inagaki, Wenjie Chen, Kaimeng Wang
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Patent number: 10507582Abstract: In a case where an apparatus that is moved by a user is moved in a vertical direction, when a distance from an object located in the same two-dimensional position as the apparatus and directly underneath the apparatus is greater than a height, which corresponds to the two-dimensional position and which possibly damages the apparatus when the apparatus falls, a display is caused to perform a first display and a speaker is caused to output a first sound. When the distance is equal to or shorter than the height, the display is caused to perform a second display and the speaker is caused to output a second sound.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiki Kou, Kohei Tahara, Yusaku Ota
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Patent number: 10507583Abstract: A robot control device includes a feature-point detecting unit that detects, from an image of an object acquired by a visual sensor, the positions of a plurality of feature points on the object in a predetermined cycle; a position/orientation calculating unit that updates, in the predetermined cycle, respective equations of motion of the plurality of feature points on the basis of the detected positions of the plurality of feature points and that calculates the position or orientation of the object on the basis of the detected positions of the plurality of feature points calculated from the updated equations of motion; and a robot-arm-movement control unit that controls the movement of a robot arm so as to follow the object, on the basis of the calculated position or orientation of the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Kaimeng Wang, Wenjie Chen
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Patent number: 10507584Abstract: Example systems and methods are described that are capable of manipulating fixtures and objects. In one implementation, a system includes a robotic actuator and a processing system configured to generate commands for positioning the robotic actuator. A vision system is configured to process visual information proximate the robotic actuator. The robotic actuator is configured to manipulate a fixture, where the fixture is configured to be placed on a work surface to aid in manipulating an object.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: DISHCRAFT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Kenneth M. Peters, Paul M. Birkmeyer
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Patent number: 10507585Abstract: A robot system includes a model storage unit; a model display unit; an input unit for inputting an allowable speed of the robot; a calculation unit for calculating a predicted maximum speed of the robot, based on a trajectory plan of an operation command to be applied to the robot; a speed modification unit for modifying a command speed of the robot such that the predicted maximum speed becomes the allowable speed or lower, when the predicted maximum speed is higher than the allowable speed; and a speed display unit for displaying at least one of the allowable speed, the predicted maximum speed, the ratio between an actual speed of the robot after the command speed is modified and the allowable speed, and the actual speed of the robot, in relation to the robot, in the model of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 10507586Abstract: A motor module system has a plurality of identical modules, a robot configured by connecting said plurality of motor modules directly or via connecting members, and a setting terminal. Each motor module includes a motor main body having a rotating output portion, a wireless communication function, a control unit, and a battery. The wireless communication function, the control unit, and the motor main body are in a same housing. The setting terminal has a wireless communication function and a setting function for assigning functions to the control unit of each of the plurality of motor modules using the wireless communication function in order to operate said robot. The control unit controls the driving of the motor main body based on the function set by the setting function of the setting terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Keigan Inc.Inventor: Takashi Tokuda
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Patent number: 10507587Abstract: The present application relates to a device (10) for treating a part of a body of a person to be treated. The device has a treating unit (12) and an angular orientation identifier (40) to generate information indicative of the angular orientation of the treating unit (12). The angular orientation identifier comprises an orientation sensor to generate information indicating the angular orientation with respect to the horizontal. A controller is configured to adjust one or more characteristics of the device (10) in response to information indicative of the angular orientation of the treating unit (12) provided by the angular orientation identifier (40). The present application also relates to a method of treating a part of a body of a person to be treated.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Raymon Henk Uit De Bulten
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Patent number: 10507588Abstract: Shaving assemblies are disclosed that include a blade unit, an interface element configured to connect the blade unit to a handle, on which the blade unit is pivotably mounted, and an return element disposed between the blade unit and interface element. The return element serves as interface piece, connector and pivot all in one. Shaving systems including such shaving assemblies are also disclosed, as are methods of using such shaving systems.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ShaveLogic, Inc.Inventors: Craig A. Provost, William E. Tucker, John W. Griffin
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Patent number: 10507589Abstract: Method of manufacturing a substrate with a cut thermal film comprises obtaining an input digital image of a design to be transferred to the substrate; storing the input image in memory; rendering design elements of the design as a single output image; based upon a bleed size value, a maximum number of negative areas, a maximum number of positive areas, and attribute values: resizing the image to include a border for bleed; filling transparent areas of the image with the substrate attribute values; creating a cutting path; creating a mask image; inverting the mask image; modifying the mask image to adjust fill areas around details, to limit negative areas to be less than the maximum number of negative areas, and to limit positive areas to be less than the maximum number of positive areas; creating cutting path data in memory as a vector path outlining the mask image.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ZAZZLE INC.Inventor: Young Harvill
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Patent number: 10507590Abstract: An example system includes a cutting tool and a device configured to remotely control the cutting tool. The device is configured to establish a wireless communication with the cutting tool, and the cutting tool is configured to send a first signal to the device indicating that the cutting tool is enabled to be operated remotely responsive to the cutting tool receiving information indicating that a trigger is locked in an “on” state and a remote switch is in a first position. The device is configured to send a second signal to the cutting tool indicating a request to cause the cutting tool to perform a cutting operation responsive to receiving information indicative of actuation of at least one button of a user interface of the device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Luke Skinner, Timothy Ryan Obermann, Benjamin Oliver Ryan Cabot, Thomas Cunningham Hanks
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Patent number: 10507591Abstract: A workpiece manufacturing apparatus includes a punch, which is provided in a lower die assembly and punches out a workpiece from an unprocessed material, and an ejector, which is provided in an upper die assembly so as to be capable of approaching and moving away from the lower die assembly. The manufacturing apparatus further includes a spring, which is provided in the upper die assembly and urges the ejector toward the lower die assembly, and a locking device, which locks the ejector with respect to the upper die assembly at a position at which the punch punches out the workpiece and releases the ejector when the die assemblies are opened. The locking device includes an actuator, which is provided in the upper die assembly and slides a slider between a locking position, at which the ejector is locked, and a releasing position, at which the ejector is released.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Hirata, Taira Ito
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Patent number: 10507592Abstract: A 3D printer is described which is configured to build up a three-dimensional component in layers by forming layers of particulate construction material lying one upon the other and by selectively solidifying a partial region of the respective construction material layer. The 3D printer is configured to build up one or more first three-dimensional components in a first construction space and simultaneously one or more second three-dimensional components in a second construction space which is arranged adjacent to the first construction space. The 3D printer has a coating device arrangement which is displaceable across the first and the second construction space and a printing device which is displaceable across the first and the second construction space.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: ExOne GmbHInventors: Rainer Höchsmann, Alexander Müller, Sven Klaua
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Patent number: 10507593Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting system. The cutting system (1) is designed to extend in the direction of a first system axis (7) which extends horizontally along a width (B) of the cutting system (1), in the direction of a second system axis (8) which extends vertically relative to the first system axis (7), and in the direction of a third system axis (9) which extends along the depth (T) of the cutting system orthogonally to the first system axis (7) and the second system axis (8). The cutting system has a support (2), a tool (3; 4) which is received on the support (2) in the form of a saw with a spindle shaft (13; 14), the operating direction of the tool following the direction of the first system axis (7), and an additional tool (5) which is received on the support (2) in the form of a chop saw with a third spindle shaft (15), the operating direction of the additional tool following the direction of the first system axis (7).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: D. Swarovski KGInventors: Johannes Schweigl, Hubert Schwabegger, Joachim Karger, Gerhard Lindenthaler, Andreas Mimm
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Patent number: 10507594Abstract: A method and a device for introducing and/or adding non-dry-powder additive materials and/or coating materials with a liquid, solid, semi-solid, or paste-like consistency or in suspended or emulsified form, for example, peroxides, fats, waxes, IV improvers, polymers, or similar materials, to an existing lumpy or particulate material which is moved and mixed, and optionally warmed and reduced to small pieces in a receptacle and/or compressor, said material being in particular polymer particles and/or flakes, wood fibers, paper cuttings, or similar materials. According to the invention, the additive material is introduced below the level of the material and/or material particles already in the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: EREMA ENGINEERING RECYCLING MASCHINEN UND ANLAGEN GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.Inventors: Gerhard Wendelin, Klaus Feichtinger, Manfred Hackl
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Patent number: 10507595Abstract: An extrusion head having a perforated plate of a granulating system. The extrusion head can have a head part and a perforated plate with a perforated-plate wear insert, a perforated-plate main body, a central inflow cone, an inflow cone part, a plurality of nozzle channels, a plurality of perforated dies, and at least one corrosion protected fastener. The perforated-plate can be detachably fastened to the head part. The head part can have at least one central melt channel into which the inflow cone part projects and distributes a melt flow among nozzle channels which can be arranged in the shape of a ring and among the perforated dies which can be arranged in at least one ring. The at least one fastener can be positioned in a central region of the at least one ring of the perforated dies.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: MAAG Automatik GmbHInventors: Stefan Dahlheimer, Helmuth Meidhof, Thomas Braun
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Patent number: 10507596Abstract: The present invention relates to low or zero-tack composite materials such as pre-pregs and their use in automated manufacturing, particularly robotic pick and place. The present invention further relates to an automated process for preparing an article, particularly a molded article, from a fiber-reinforced composition material. The molded articles prepared by the process described herein are particularly suitable as components for transport applications, and particularly the automotive industry. The automotive components prepared by the present invention are particularly suitable as mid- or high-volume automotive parts, in which cost and speed of production are paramount. The present invention provides a process in which the cutting and handling of pre-preg materials is greatly simplified, providing advantages of efficiency and economy.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Cytec Industries Inc.Inventors: Mark Raymond Steele, Andrew Steven Gibbs
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Patent number: 10507597Abstract: Method and device for delamination/dismantling of multi-layer systems SM comprising several layers including at least one organic layer, wherein the layers are separated by interfaces, characterized in that it comprises at least the following steps: Mixing the multilayer system with a fluid composed of at least one gas having the particularity of causing the swelling of at least one of the layers and one or more non-reactive liquids having the particularity of allowing the separation of each layer unitarily or of subsets of layers composing the multilayer system without degradation of the constituents of the layers, the gas/liquid fluid being raised in temperature and pressure, Recovering separately at least one or more layers or a subset of undegraded layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Cyril Aymonier, Cédric Slostowski
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Patent number: 10507598Abstract: The method of recycling carbon fiber prepreg waste and transparent thermoplastic waste includes shredding of a volume of transparent thermoplastic waste and a volume of carbon fiber prepreg waste, where the carbon fiber prepreg waste includes a colored backing film. The colored backing film may have a plurality of colors associated therewith, yielding a mixture of multi-colored shreds. A mold is filled with the shredded volume of transparent thermoplastic waste, and the mold is inserted and compressed in a hot press. The shredded volume of transparent thermoplastic waste is cured in the hot press to produce a transparent sheet. The shredded volume of carbon fiber prepreg waste is then heated, such as, for example, with hot air, and then spread on the transparent sheet. The heated, shredded volume of carbon fiber prepreg waste and the transparent sheet are hot pressed to form a colored sheet with a transparent protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: United Arab Emirates UniversityInventor: Waleed Khalil Ahmed
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Patent number: 10507599Abstract: A moldable earpiece heating case for heating a first and second moldable earpiece to achieve a moldable condition which can be configured to fit within the auricle of the ear.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Decibullz LLCInventor: Kyle J Kirkpatrick
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Patent number: 10507600Abstract: A method of manufacturing a monolithic component having internal wall(s), including separately placing uncured composite material on a mold parts, placing the mold parts on a support plate with a portion of the uncured composite material extending between and in contact with the adjacent mold parts, interconnecting the adjacent mold parts through a connection allowing limited relative movement on the support plate along a direction corresponding to a thickness of the uncured composite material therebetween, biasing the adjacent mold part toward each other along the limited relative movement to provide a compressive force on the uncured composite material extending therebetween, and curing the composite material to obtain the monolithic component with each internal wall being formed between adjacent mold parts. The bias causes the adjacent mold parts to move toward each other as the thickness of uncured material extending therebetween reduces during curing. A tool assembly is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.Inventors: Richard Gingras, Steven Roy, Marc-André Octeau, Pascal Forget
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Patent number: 10507601Abstract: Disclosed is an elastomeric bladder tool and related systems and methods. In one embodiment, the elastomeric bladder tool comprises an elastomeric inner layer substantially defining an inner cavity of the elastomeric bladder tool, an elastomeric outer layer substantially defining an outer surface of the elastomeric bladder tool, and a permeable middle layer positioned between the elastomeric inner layer and the elastomeric outer layer. The permeable middle layer has greater permeability than both the elastomeric outer layer and the elastomeric inner layer to allow for evacuating of gases that have entered the permeable middle layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Rubbercraft Corporation of California, Ltd.Inventors: Robert Harshberger, Finley Miller, Mathias Hecht
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Patent number: 10507602Abstract: A modular accelerated cure system, for which the modules are of a size and weight to each be easily portable by one person, may be configured to fit a variety of parts, e.g., carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) components, such as found in the manufacture of composite aerospace structures. The system may be used to accelerate the cure of materials that allow elevated temperature cures, e.g., sealants, primers, coatings, paints, adhesives, and protective coatings, by increasing the ambient temperature surrounding a part, or a portion of the part, within each module in a controlled manner. The system is modular in that a number of modules may be fitted together to operate in unison and also may be adapted to fit parts of a variety of contours, shapes, and sizes. Temperature within each module may be controlled using a heat controller that receives a temperature indication from each module.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Joshua Paul Carlsen, Teresa Bennett, Timothy David Aquino, Eli Scott Fielden, Christopher Kovalenko, Ian Cox Matheson, Isabel Calderon Glasmann, Shane Rahrle, W. Taylor Peterson, Michael D. Ridges
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Patent number: 10507603Abstract: A method for reinforcing an existing base structure with at least one reinforcing structure so as to form a support structure having the following steps: producing the at least one reinforcing structure, connecting the at least one reinforcing structure to the base structure such that the at least one reinforcing structure is connected to the base structure in a connection position and the base structure together with the at least one reinforcing structure forms the support structure. The at least one reinforcing structure is made of a composite material comprising fibers and a matrix by means of pultrusion and/or extrusion, and a pultrusion unit and/or an extrusion unit is moved in space such that the at least one reinforcing structure, is pultruded and/or extruded onto the base structure at the respective required connection position after the pultrusion and/or extrusion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: 9T Labs AGInventors: Martin Eichenhofer, Florian Eichenhofer
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Patent number: 10507604Abstract: A nanotransfer printing method, including the steps of coating a polymer thin film on a template substrate where a surface pattern is formed, fabricating the polymer thin film into a thin-film replica mold by using the polymer thin film and an adhesive film, forming nanostructures on the thin-film replica mold, selectively weakening an adhesive force between the adhesive film and the thin-film replica mold, and transferring the nanostructures into a target object, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Yeon Sik Jung, Jae Won Jeong, Kwang Min Baek, Jong Min Kim, Tae Won Nam
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Patent number: 10507605Abstract: A method and system of vacuum loading powder used in rotational molding are provided. A loader has a hopper with a tangential inlet at the top and a discharge assembly at the bottom. A vacuum source generates a vacuum at the center of the hopper drawing air and raw material into the tangential inlet. A filter assembly between the tangential inlet and the vacuum source partially separating the air from the raw material. One or more load cells between the hopper and a platform measures an amount of raw material present within the hopper.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Wittmann Battenfeld Canada Inc.Inventors: Robbie Miller, Joseph Corturillo
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Patent number: 10507606Abstract: In general, in various embodiments, the present disclosure is directed systems and methods for producing a porous surface from a solid piece of polymer. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to systems that include a track assembly, mold assembly, press assembly, and methods for using the same for producing a porous surface from a solid piece of polymer. In some embodiments, the present systems and methods are directed to processing a polymer at a temperature below a melting point of the polymer to produce a solid piece of polymer with an integrated a porous surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Vertera, Inc.Inventors: Wei-Hsiang Chang, Stephen Lee Laffoon, Christopher S. D. Lee
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Patent number: 10507607Abstract: A honeycomb core includes carbon fiber having four or more different fiber directions, and when a ribbon direction is set as an X axis direction, a cell width direction is set as a Y axis direction, and a direction that is orthogonal to the ribbon direction and the cell width direction is set as a Z axis direction. A condition in which angles formed by the X axis direction and the respective fiber directions of the carbon fiber are set at ?45 degrees, 0 degrees, 45 degrees, and 90 degrees is set as a reference condition. The respective fiber directions are rotated from the reference condition by a fixed rotation angle so that none of the fiber directions are parallel to the X axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazushi Sekine, Masahiro Miyashita, Hiroki Kobayashi, Masami Kume, Saburo Murase, Shigeru Ariki, Kozo Hayata
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Patent number: 10507608Abstract: The invention concerns polyamide moulding compound, in particular for producing heat-resistant moulded parts, having the following composition: (A) 20 to 79 wt. % of at least one partially aromatic polyamide in the form of a copolyamide which comprises 50 to 80 mol. % units formed by hexanediamine and terephthalic acid; (B) 1 to 15 wt. % of at least one impact-resistant modifier; (C) 20 to 60 wt. % of at least one carbon fibre; and (D) 0 to 5 wt. % of at least one additive, components (A) to (D) adding up to 100 wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: EMS-PATENT AGInventors: Nikolai Lamberts, Bernd Henkelmann, Philipp Harder
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Patent number: 10507609Abstract: A vehicle trim component is disclosed. The vehicle trim component may be prepared by a process comprising heating and placing a fiber panel into a mold cavity, compressing the fiber panel in the mold cavity to form a compression formed component providing a structural substrate having a thickness along an edge and injecting resin into the mold cavity with the structural substrate. A border may be formed along the thickness of the structural substrate by the injected resin; the border may provide dimensional accuracy at the edge of the structural substrate notwithstanding variations in the fiber panel. A resin feature (such as a part, component, connector, reinforcing element, weakened zone, shape, etc.) may be formed in or on the structural substrate by the injected resin (e.g. in a gap or void). The resin feature may comprise a rib to extend across an interface between the structural substrate and the border.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Shanghai Yanfeng Jianqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd.Inventors: Bart W. Fox, Jeffrey A. Deyoung, Tony M. Pokorzynski
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Patent number: 10507610Abstract: A molded component having a thickness reduction feature is provided. The molded component can include an injection molded polymer substrate having a front panel, a side panel, and a corner between and adjoining the front panel and the side panel. The substrate can also have a groove extending along the corner between the front panel and the side panel, the groove having a front panel edge and a side panel edge. The front panel edge and/or side panel edge have a dentil profile edge, the dentil profile edge reducing an effective thickness of the corner and thus providing increased or controlled cooling of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Warren Penner, Kerry Scott Zellner, Jr.
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Patent number: 10507611Abstract: A method for producing a sterilized container comprises: providing a preform having a hanger arranged on a bottom of the preform, heating the preform in a heating device, feeding the heated preform into a stretching and blowing apparatus, stretching and blowing the preform in the stretching and blowing apparatus such that the container for the infusion solution is formed from the preform, cleaning the formed container in a rinsing apparatus, and drying the cleaned container in a drying device, filling the cleaned and dried container at least with an infusion solution, via a filling opening present in the container, in a filling plant, closing the container by attaching a closure cap to the filling opening of the container, sterilizing the closed container in an autoclave, wherein the hanger of the preform is oriented and folded over by a bending apparatus prior to stretching and blowing in the stretching and blowing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbHInventors: Torsten Brandenburger, Andreas Pfeffer, Christian Frensch
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Patent number: 10507612Abstract: Disclosed is a composite material including a black pigment, carbon fibers, and a resin, wherein marking is applied with a laser having a wavelength of 100 to 2,000 nm on the composite material having 1) an area proportion of the carbon fibers in its topmost surface layer of 10 to 90%, 2) a proportion of the black pigment contained in the composite material of 0.2 to 20% by mass, and 3) an average fiber length of the carbon fibers of 1 mm or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Teijin LimitedInventors: Shuji Koike, Takashi Goto
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Patent number: 10507614Abstract: A method and device of providing a replica masturbation device is disclosed. Users upload images of their body parts to a central database, and other users use data sets generated based on these images from the central database to produce replica masturbation devices of the user's body parts.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: THIKA HOLDINGS LLCInventor: Vivien Johan Cambridge
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Patent number: 10507615Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that sets, as an attribute to be used for manufacture of a 3D modeled object, an attribute of a 2D image to be used for forming the 2D image on a recording medium, when the 3D modeled object is manufactured by laminating recording media together.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuhiro Ohkawa
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Patent number: 10507616Abstract: In a three-dimensional object-manufacturing apparatus, a Hamilton path-calculating part generates, on the basis of three-dimensional shape data representing a shape of a three-dimensional object, a voxel model representing an internal structure for forming the three-dimensional object. The Hamilton path-calculating part also determines whether a Hamilton path can be established in the voxel model. When it is determined that a Hamilton path cannot be established in the voxel model, a subvoxel-generating part divides the voxels to generate subvoxels. The Hamilton path-calculating part establishes a Hamilton path in the voxel model. A tool path data-generating part generates a tool path for forming a forming material based on the established Hamilton path. A three-dimensional object-forming unit implements the forming of the three-dimensional object on the basis of the tool path.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: KEIO UNIVERSITYInventor: Hiroya Tanaka
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Patent number: 10507617Abstract: A laser welded structure is formed by laser welding together a resin molded body formed from a thermoplastic polymer alloy containing a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin and a metal body made of a metal. A glass transition temperature of the amorphous resin is lower than a melting start temperature of the crystalline resin.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Arai, Shigeharu Tsunoda, Wataru Sawada, Masaru Kamoshida, Toshikazu Shigyo
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Patent number: 10507618Abstract: A tubular body formed by joining two semi-tubular portions that are divided in radial direction, the tubular body having a connection flange portion provided with a bolt hole on at least one end portion. The two semi-tubular portions have joint projection portions at both edge portions in circumferential direction, the joint projection portions projecting in radial direction and extending in axial direction, and each joint projection portion of the semi-tubular portions on at least one of both sides in circumferential direction is configured to be bent so as to deviate from a virtual division face passing a central axis in such a manner that a joint portion formed by abutting the joint projection portions does not interfere with a tool for fastening a bolt inserted into the bolt hole in a predetermined area in the vicinity of the bolt hole of the connection flange portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: UCHIYAMA MANUFACTURING CORP.Inventors: Masayuki Mori, Katsunori Matsuki
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Patent number: 10507619Abstract: A laminator includes a turnover abutment and a film laminating device. The turnover abutment includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and at least one of the first surface and the second surface is a bearing surface on which a plurality of suction structures are provided. The plurality of suction structures are used for sucking a borne object onto the bearing surface. The film laminating device is configured to laminate a film on the borne object on the bearing surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xuequan Jin, Yachao Tong, Linlin Wang, Gu Yao
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Patent number: 10507620Abstract: A device for positioning a first element relative to a second element which comprises: a horizontal panel on the upper face of which the first element is able to be disposed and which has a housing able to hold the second element; and first abutment against which the first element is able to come into abutment in a first adjusting direction and second abutment against which the first element is able to come into abutment in a second adjusting direction perpendicular to the first adjusting direction, the first and second abutment being mounted on the panel projecting from the upper face of the panel, The device comprising an arrangement for adjusting the position of the first abutment in the first adjusting direction and an arrangement for adjusting the position of the second abutment means in the second adjusting direction with respect to the position of the housing in the panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: FAZUPInventors: Antoine Samakh, Mathieu Samakh
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Patent number: 10507621Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing an insulation component in which an insulating foam material is placed in a mold and in which (a) isocyanates, (b) polymeric compound having hydrogen atoms reactive towards isocyanate, (c) chain extenders and/or crosslinkers, and (d) catalysts are mixed to give a reaction mixture and the reaction mixture is injected into the mold and cured to form a seamless outer material enclosing the insulating foam wherein the average functionality of the polyols (b) and the chain extenders and/or crosslinkers (c) and the isocyanates (a) is greater than 2.2. The invention further relates to an insulation component obtainable by such a process and a door or wall component for cold storage that is made from that insulation component.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Yang Chun Zhou, Wei Han, Joe Gu, Xingang Wang, Diao Qing