Patents Issued in January 7, 2020
  • Patent number: 10525617
    Abstract: A tooling device for making a plastic film component. The tooling device includes a molding tool having a molding part, a receptacle, an opening and closing device, and at least one covering device having a covering surface and guide arrangement. The molding part and the receptacle are movable relative to each other between a closed and an open position. Relative movement between the molding part and the receptacle to the closed position is transmitted to the covering device to move it from an exposed position, in which the covering surface is spaced from an inner surface of the molding part, to a covered position, in which the covering surface covers a covered section of molding part's inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FAURECIA INNENRAUM SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Vincent Chevroton, Stéphan Flecher, Alain Julien, Gwenael Lecolloter
  • Patent number: 10525618
    Abstract: A controller of a rotary compression-molding machine is configured to detect, with a sensor, an amount of stuck molded products or a flow rate of molded products at an inlet configured to receive a molded product or an outlet configured to discharge the molded product subjected to predetermined post-treatment, of a peripheral device disposed downstream of the molding machine and is further configured to apply the post-treatment to the molded product discharged from the molding machine, and to regulate a rotational speed of a turret and punches of the molding machine in accordance with the detected amount of the stuck molded products or the detected flow rate of the molded products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimada, Katsuhito Fujisaki, Toshihiro Nakaoka
  • Patent number: 10525619
    Abstract: A method is shown for installing a heat tube on a section of pre-insulated piping. A metal carrier pipe is covered with a first layer of foam insulation. Next, a routing device is used to cut a longitudinal slot along the length of the pipe so that the pipe exterior surface is exposed from the insulation. A heat tube is then installed within the longitudinal slot, whereby the heat tube contacts the exterior surface of the metal carrier pipe. A second layer of foam insulation is then sprayed onto the exterior of the metal carrier pipe, covering the previously formed longitudinal slot and installed heat tube. A polyolefin coating is then applied over the insulation to form a protective outer jacket for the insulated pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Thermacor Process, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Keyes
  • Patent number: 10525620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spreading device for a foaming furnace, including a first spreading component and a second spreading component symmetrically mounted on two sides in a hearth of a foaming furnace. Both the first spreading component and the second spreading component are provided with a spreading roll group composed of at least two spreading rolls, and a driving device for driving the spreading roll group. The spreading device further includes a fixing frame, the fixing frame including a first mounting seat and a second mounting seat. The spreading roll includes a first mounting portion and a second mounting portion. The first mounting portion is rotationally connected to the first mounting seat, and the second mounting portion is rotationally connected to the second mounting seat. The spreading device of the present invention has good stability during work, and significantly improves an unfolding effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG RUNYANG NEW MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qingfeng Yang
  • Patent number: 10525621
    Abstract: A molding method for a synthetic resin molding reduces a disturbed flow of molten resin at a side edge of a molding body during injection molding, and allows the design surface of the molding body to have aesthetic appearance. The synthetic resin molding includes a bend arranged on a side edge of the molding body and bending toward its back surface, and a flange protruding laterally from the bend and including a notch. The molding method includes arranging a gate at a position corresponding to an end of one side of the flange in a longitudinal direction and performing injection molding using a colored resin material containing a luster agent kneaded in the material, and forming a thin portion of the bend in a longitudinal direction of the bend to form a groove on a back surface of the bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KASAI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10525622
    Abstract: A main body portion is disposed at a regular position by inserting a protrusion into an engaging portion formed in a leg portion of the main body portion in accordance with a forward movement of a sliding mold including the protrusion. Then, an injection molding mold is completely closed to cause at least a part of a mold surface of the sliding mold to come into contact with the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOKAI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohji Kamiya
  • Patent number: 10525623
    Abstract: Provided is a mold opening/closing device that can prevent a ball screw shaft from reaching a risky speed while using a ball screw having a cantilever supporting structure. A mold clamping device according to the present invention is provided with: a ball screw having a ball screw shaft and a ball screw nut that meshes with the ball screw shaft; and a motor that drives the ball screw. One end of the ball screw shaft is supported by a fixation plate or a movable plate so as to be rotatable or non-rotatable, while being restricted in movement in an axial direction and thereby serving as a fixed end, and the other end thereof serves as a free end. Further, the mold clamping device is characterized in that a distance between the ball screw nut and the fixed end is shorter than a distance between the fixed plate and the movable plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: U-MHI PLATECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Takahashi, Naoki Kato, Toshihiko Kariya
  • Patent number: 10525624
    Abstract: A heating element for flow channel heating or for heating a mould impression and an injection-moulding nozzle incorporating the heating element are disclosed. The heating element has a carrier element which carries a heating conductor with first and second connection pins, and a connection device with an electrical connection cable with first and second conductors. The first and second connection pins end in an insulator. The insulator is arranged at least in certain portions in a receiving sleeve of the connection device, and the receiving sleeve points with a first end in the direction of the carrier element, is fixed with the first end on the carrier element and fixes the insulator in relation to the carrier element. A first crimping sleeve is fixed on the first connection pin and the first conductor, and a second crimping sleeve is fixed on the second connection pin and the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: GÜNTHER HEISSKANALTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Herbert Günther, Siegrid Sommer, Torsten Schnell, Ralf Drössler, Marco Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 10525625
    Abstract: A plasticizing unit for a molding machine includes a plasticizing cylinder, and the plasticizing cylinder has a feed zone and a filling opening for material to be plasticized. The filling opening is arranged adjacent to the feeding zone, and a thermal separating device is arranged between the feed zone and the filling opening. An active tempering device for the filling opening is provided, and the active tempering device includes at least one tempering conduit and a tempering medium turbulently flowing through the tempering conduit during operation of the active tempering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Dirneder, Friedrich Johann Kilian, Florian Porod, Robert Strasser
  • Patent number: 10525626
    Abstract: Methods of monitoring and controlling a molding process using a sensed change in strain provided by a strain gauge are provided. A target strain profile is created for a molding process of a molding apparatus. An upper and lower deviation limit from the target strain profile for the molding process is provided. If a sensed change in strain exceeds a deviation limit, an alarm is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: IMFLUX INC.
    Inventors: William Francis Lawless, III, Rick Alan Pollard, Brian Matthew Burns, Gene Michael Altonen
  • Patent number: 10525627
    Abstract: An apparatus for making hollow, form-in-place gaskets is disclosed. The apparatus includes a nozzle and a forming surface. The nozzle comprises an extrusion orifice for extruding a gasket onto the forming surface. The apparatus further includes means for the nozzle to separately communicate with an air supply and a liquid elastomer supply. The nozzle configuration maintains the separation between the supplied air and the supplied liquid elastomer proximate to the extrusion orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventor: Axel Werner Van Briesen
  • Patent number: 10525628
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling support structures in manufacturing are provided. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing the support volume in the design phase based on a perimeter length of a boundary with undercut, projected along a build direction, referred to as a projected undercut perimeter (PUP). By constraining this PUP, the amount of support structures in resulting designs are effectively controlled. By constraining overhang able based PUP, the resulting designs can self support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Xiaoping Qian
  • Patent number: 10525629
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing (AM) system comprising a process distortion compensation computing system configured to determine a digital nominal model that represents a physical target object excluding a distortion, and a digital distortion model that represents the physical target object including at least one distortion. The AM system further comprises an AM peripheral device configured to form a three-dimensional physical object based on a digital compensation model. The process distortion compensation computing system determines a material volume difference between the digital nominal model and the digital distortion model, and generates the digital compensation model that compensates for the material volume difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qingqing Zhang, Yanzhi Chen, Ranadip Acharya, Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany, Vijay Narayan Jagdale, Changle Li, Colette Opsahl Fennessy
  • Patent number: 10525630
    Abstract: A method of minimising distortion in a workpiece is described that includes utilizing a computer system to carry out finite element analysis on a finite element thermo-mechanical model of the workpiece during and after fabrication by additive manufacturing to predict shape distortion and residual stress development in the workpiece, wherein the fabrication includes the fabrication step of depositing multiple layers of a material melted by a heat source along a deposit path on a substrate, and introducing alterations to the workpiece prior to or during fabrication to compensate for the predicted distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: The Boeing Company, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Vu Thua Nguyen, Srinivasarao Lathabai, Yuqing Feng, Anthony Miller, John Barnes, Gary Coleman, Amy Marie Helvey
  • Patent number: 10525631
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various aspects for mobile and automated processing utilizing additive manufacturing. The present disclosure includes methods for the utilization of mobile and automated processing apparatus. In some examples, the mobile additive manufacturing apparatus may perform surface treatments that alter the topography of an existing surface. Other examples may involve the processing of dimensionally large layers which may be joined together to create large pieces with three dimensional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventors: Robert A. Flitsch, Frederick A. Flitsch
  • Patent number: 10525632
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for precision locating additively manufactured components for assembly and/or post processing manufacturing are provided for herein. In some embodiments, at least one component can be additively manufactured to include one or more kinematic features on one or more surfaces of the component. The kinematic feature(s) can be configured to engage complementary kinematic feature(s) formed in a second component so the two components can form an assembly. Alternatively, the kinematic feature(s) can be configured to engage complementary kinematic feature(s) associated with a post-processing machine such that the one or more post-processing actions can be performed on the component after the component is precisely located with respect to the machine by way of the kinematic features of the component and associated with the machine. A variety of systems and methods that utilize kinematic features are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Ryan Wade Penny, Anastasios John Hart
  • Patent number: 10525633
    Abstract: Method for bonding a sheetlike cover material to a shaped article, using an adhesive film comprising at least one layer of a heat-activatedly bondable adhesive, where the adhesive film is disposed, over the full area or a partial area, between the cover material and the shaped article, the heat-activatedly bondable adhesive as yet not adhering to the shaped article, wherein the cover material is pulled onto the shaped article under tension, so that the layer of the heat-activatedly bondable adhesive contacts the shaped article, and the activation of the heat-activatedly bondable adhesive is brought about by means of the pressure resulting exclusively from the tension, and optionally of heat introduced by means of external energy supply, whereby the heat-activatedly bondable adhesive adheres to the shaped article and a durable connection of the cover material to the shaped article is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TESA SE
    Inventors: Jannik Sellin, Thomas Niemeyer, Esther Von Possel
  • Patent number: 10525634
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrasonic welding device comprising a sonotrode (1) secured to an amplifier (12), and this in turn being secured to a converter (13), on which the head (2) is secured, characterised by comprising an external casing (3) disposed around the sonotrode (1), together delimiting an annular chamber (4) for the circulation of pressurised air having a crenellated opening in the front end (31) thereof for the output of pressurised air and the cooling of the sonotrode (1), wherein said external casing (3) has a rear portion (32) on the head (2) that can move axially, forming a presser plate which exerts a pressure—owing to the action of compressible means (51)—against the parts (P1, P2) to be welded, in a peripheral zone next to the welding zone, before the tip (11) of the sonotrode (1) comes into contact with said parts to be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventor: Carles Vila Noria
  • Patent number: 10525635
    Abstract: A system for creating a feedstock line for additive manufacturing of an object comprises a prepreg-tow supply, a prepreg-tow separator, an optical-direction-modifier supply, a combiner, and at least one heater. The prepreg-tow supply dispenses a precursor prepreg tow, comprising elongate filaments and resin. The prepreg-tow separator separates the precursor prepreg tow into individual elongate filaments at least partially covered with the resin. The optical-direction-modifier supply dispenses optical direction modifiers to the elongate filaments. When electromagnetic radiation strikes the outer surface of the optical direction modifiers, at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation departs the outer surface at an angle. The combiner combines the elongate filaments and the optical direction modifiers into a derivative prepreg tow. At least the one heater heats the resin to cause wet-out of the optical direction modifiers and the elongate filaments in the derivative prepreg tow by the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Mark Stewart Wilenski, Michael Patrick Kozar, Samuel F. Harrison, Nick Shadbeh Evans, Faraón Torres
  • Patent number: 10525636
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite structure includes: providing first mandrels, each first mandrel including a base and a plurality of projections arranged longitudinally along and projecting vertically out from the base; providing second mandrels; providing first ribbon plies, each first ribbon ply including a sheet of fibrous material; arranging each first ribbon ply with a respective first mandrel, the arranging of each first ribbon ply including substantially covering each surface of each of the projections of one of the first mandrels with a respective first ribbon ply; mating each second mandrel with a respective first mandrel such that each first ribbon ply is sandwiched between a respective first mandrel and a respective second mandrel; and curing resin disposed with the first ribbon plies to consolidate the first ribbon plies together and form a fiber-reinforced composite core structure of an acoustic panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Adams, Jeffrey Woods, Luby Weaver, Randy A. Monton, Charles M. Biset
  • Patent number: 10525637
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for designing flat composites that are formed into 3D shapes. One embodiment is a method that includes loading data defining a three dimensional (3D) shape for a composite part, identifying constraints based on dimensions of the 3D shape, simulating flattening of the 3D shape into a planar shape, and acquiring a mandrel having the planar shape. The method also includes placing features at the mandrel which permit a laminate laid-up onto the mandrel to compensate for the constraints during forming of the laminate into the 3D shape, and generating a Numerical Control (NC) program that directs an Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machine laying up the laminate. The NC program includes instructions for laying up tows of constituent material onto the mandrel having the features, to form layers of the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Amol Ogale, Phillip J. Crothers
  • Patent number: 10525638
    Abstract: Closed-loop systems and methods for controlling the temperature at the compaction point as an automated fiber placement (AFP) machine is placing material over complex surface features at varying speeds. The closed-loop system starts with multiple infrared temperature sensors directed at the layup surface in front of the compaction roller and also at the new layup surface behind the compaction roller. These sensors supply direct temperature readings to a control computer, which also receives speed data and a listing of active tows from the AFP machine and is also programmed with the number of plies in the current layup. In accordance with one embodiment, the heater control system uses a proportional-integral-derivative loop to control the temperature at the compaction point (e.g., at the interface of the compaction roller and a newly laid tow) and regulate the heater power to achieve the desired temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brice A. Johnson, Samuel F. Pedigo, Sayata Ghose, John Z. Lin
  • Patent number: 10525639
    Abstract: A system for fabrication of an aerospace structure incorporates a mold having a surface and at least one unidirectional SFL head adapted to lay down a plurality of collimated tows in a predetermined laminated pattern on the mold surface to produce a fuselage skin. At least one cross plied laminate SFL head is adapted to lay down a cross plied laminate base interface on the fuselage skin to establish a lattice rib shape for each of a plurality of lattice ribs. The cross plied laminate SFL head has a band placement head steerable to avoid structural design features and to maintain spacing from adjacent steered lattice ribs. The unidirectional SFL head is further adapted to lay down a plurality of collimated tows on the base interface of each of the plurality of lattice ribs for a first plurality of unidirectional tow plies in each lattice rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Boris B. Sokolov, Mostafa Rassaian, Marc J. Piehl
  • Patent number: 10525640
    Abstract: A composite structure is provided. The structure includes at least one ply of preimpregnated material formed into a curved elongated member of continuous fibers onto a mandrel. The fibers have a select orientation. The curved elongated member has a length and a cross-sectional geometry that varies along the length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vernon M. Benson, Jason K. Slack, Todd A. Rosevear, James L. Harvey, Mark Roman, Timothy S. Olschewski
  • Patent number: 10525641
    Abstract: Apparatuses for forming a composite structure are configured to provide a tension at least partially along at least one ply of material as the at least one ply of material is supplied from a material feed assembly to a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Vernon M. Benson, Jason K. Slack, Todd A. Rosevear, James L. Harvey, Mark Roman, Timothy S. Olschewski
  • Patent number: 10525642
    Abstract: A preform is infused with a resin to form a composite laminate. The preform is placed between a mold and a vacuum bag. An offset tool is placed to permit the vacuum bag to lift away from a surface of the preform in a controlled amount. A charge of the resin is injected between the vacuum bag and the preform to lift the vacuum bag off the surface of the preform and move the vacuum bag toward the offset tool, so that the resin occupies a volume between the vacuum bag and the preform. The preform is infused with the resin by applying a super-atmospheric pressure to an outer surface of the vacuum bag to transport the resin from the volume between the vacuum bag and the preform into a volume within the preform. The resin in the preform is cured, forming the composite laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: GKN Aerospace Services Structures LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Feeney, Steven Hayse, David A. Rogozinski
  • Patent number: 10525643
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for making foam laminates having a concave surface. The methods include: (a) placing the foam sheet-containing sandwich structure in a mold; and (b) shaping the laminate in the mold to form the foam laminate having a concave surface. In the methods, the foam sheet is a slice from a foam bun in which a foaming reaction occurs such that the foam rises in a direction away from a base, such that one major surface of the sheet is a foam rise direction facing surface and the opposed major surface of the sheet is a base facing surface, and prior to placing the foam laminate in the mold, the foam sheet is oriented so that the shaping forms the foam laminate having the concave surface wherein the foam rise direction facing surface of the foam sheet faces the concave surface of the foam laminate. Also disclosed are automotive headliners and hoodliners made thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Covestro LLC
    Inventor: Bin Lee
  • Patent number: 10525644
    Abstract: Wood-type golf clubs and/or golf club heads include: (a) a golf club head base member including a face member having a ball striking face; and (b) a polymeric body member engaged with the golf club head base member, wherein the polymeric body member is formed via a rotational molding process (or other centrifugal force inducing molding process) and/or engaged with the golf club head base member via a rotational molding process (or other centrifugal force inducing molding process). The polymeric body member forms at least a portion of a crown member of the club head in some structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: John T. Stites, Gary G. Tavares, Todd A. Waatti
  • Patent number: 10525645
    Abstract: In manufacturing a functional plastic lens by loading a functional sheet S having a difference in the accuracy of bending in directions, into a mold 50 and by performing insert molding to integrally mold a lens body with the functional sheet S, a direction in which the accuracy of the bending to the functional sheet S is high is made to be a reference axis A, and the functional sheet S is loaded into the mold 50 to inhibit a filling direction of resin and the reference axis A from being orthogonal to each other. With this arrangement, the functional plastic lens having high quality is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Saito, Takashi Suzuki, Kiyonori Sato, Kenji Tanagawa
  • Patent number: 10525646
    Abstract: A clamping device includes a first clamp for clamping the distal end of a steel wire at a position corresponding to a first winding groove and a second clamp for clamping the distal end of a steel wire at a position corresponding to a second winding groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: FUJI SEIKO CO., LTD., FUJI SHOJI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeaki Nomura
  • Patent number: 10525647
    Abstract: Provided is a servo press machine having a configuration that allows miniaturization of the servo press machine, and a motor using the same. A servo press machine includes a servomotor, a crankshaft rotated by driving of the servomotor, a connecting rod connected to an eccentric portion of the crankshaft, and a slide connected to the connecting rod, wherein two connecting rods are connected to the crankshaft, the servomotor is an axial gap motor, a rotor of the axial gap motor is assembled with the crankshaft between the two connecting rods, and a stator of the axial gap motor is fixed to a crown in which the crankshaft is housed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Shougo Shibasaki, Masataka Yahara, Fumio Tajima
  • Patent number: 10525648
    Abstract: A method and system for compacting waste materials in a collection container. The container can be a freestanding waste container, a self-contained compaction container, or a container on a waste collection vehicle. A hydraulically operated compactor blade is positioned in the upper portion of the container with its bottom edge a distance above the floor. A door member can be provided in the rear wall of the collection container. The compactor blade can be in its rest position relative to the top opening. The container member can be positioned or located on a trailer or truck-type vehicle and adapted to be tilted for evacuation of materials collected therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventor: Richard T. Williams
  • Patent number: 10525649
    Abstract: A servo motor controller comprises: a position command generation unit; a position detection unit; a position control unit that generates a velocity command for position control based on a position command and a position FB; a force command generation unit that generates a force command for instructing force to be applied to a subject by a driving target; a force detection unit; a force control unit that generates a velocity command for force control based on the force command and a force FB; a selection unit that selects one of the position control and the force control; and a storage unit that stores a force threshold. The selection unit selects one of the velocity commands for the position control and the force control of a smaller value. If the force FB is smaller than the force threshold, the selection unit selects the velocity command for the position control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ikai, Tsutomu Nakamura, Tomoyuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 10525650
    Abstract: A baler is provided that includes a housing that defines a baling chamber and a plunger movable along an axis within the baling chamber to compress the crop material. The baler includes a first guide rail coupled to an exterior surface of the baling chamber and a second guide rail coupled to the exterior surface of the baling chamber. The baler includes at least one bearing coupled to the plunger to guide a movement of the plunger within the baling chamber. The bearing has a first bearing surface, a second bearing surface and a third bearing surface. The first bearing surface engages the first guide rail, the second bearing surface engages the first guide rail and the third bearing surface engages the second guide rail to constrain a vertical movement and a lateral movement of the plunger relative to the baling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Joshua J. Pasa
  • Patent number: 10525651
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wood material panel pressing device for pressing a fibrous press cake in order to produce a wood material panel, including an inspection device that is designed to emit a signal in the event of a disruption. According to the disclosure, the inspection device has a camera and an evaluation unit, the camera is arranged in an intake region of the wood material panel pressing device and the evaluation unit is designed to automatically carry out a method featuring the steps: (i) continuous recording of images (B) of the intake region, (ii) continuous detection of measurement data for evaluation region pixels of images (B), which belong to a predefined evaluation region comprising at least one region bordering a target horizontal of the fibrous press cake at the top, such that evaluation data is obtained, and (iii) emission of a signal if the evaluation data changes by more than a predefined tolerance value (DT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SWISS KRONO TEC AG
    Inventor: Daniel Sperlich
  • Patent number: 10525652
    Abstract: Method for producing cardboard tubes by winding a plurality of ribbons (U, L) onto a spindle (1), a preset number of the ribbons (U, L) being glued in correspondence of the lower or radial inner surface thereof, characterized in that a predetermined amount of supplementary quick setting glue is applied on the lower surface of the last ribbon (U) destined to be wound on the spindle (1), in proximity to at least a longitudinal edge (BU) of the ribbon (U) forming a corresponding stripe of quick setting glue (G) astride of a section (ST) of the same ribbon interested or intersected by a subsequent cutting action executed downstream of the spindle (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Inventor: Fabio Perini
  • Patent number: 10525653
    Abstract: The plant includes a single facer for the production of a corrugated board. Video cameras detect any gluing defects or other defects of the corrugated cardboard. An image processing unit and a central control unit provide information about the detected defects and can act on one or more operating parameters of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Fosber S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Adami
  • Patent number: 10525654
    Abstract: A manifold skin/side trim combination for a domestic kitchen appliance built into a cabinet is provided. The combination includes a manifold skin having a main skin body having a first surface and a second surface, and an opening in the first surface; and a side trim of the domestic kitchen appliance configured to be positioned adjacent to a front face of the cabinet, the side trim having a main section, an insertion extension that extends into the opening, and a transition section that connects the insertion extension to the main section such that the insertion section extends at an extension angle greater than zero degrees relative to the main section. An outside surface of the main section of the side trim is in the same plane as the second surface of the main skin body, and the second surface is adjacent to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: George May, Michael Penuel
  • Patent number: 10525655
    Abstract: A composite material for a pharmaceutical packaging is provided that includes a substrate and a protective layer. The substrate has a contact region in contact with the protective layer. The contact region includes a contact area between the substrate and the protective layer and a region of the substrate close to the surface. The substrate is made of glass or of a cyclic olefin polymer or a cyclic olefin copolymer, while the protective layer is made of ceramic material. The substrate in the contact region is different from the substrate outside the contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Matthias Bicker, Manfred Lohmeyer, Tanja Woywod
  • Patent number: 10525656
    Abstract: A honeycomb core having a lattice structure which includes a resin-impregnated matrix, a method for producing such a honeycomb core, a sandwich panel having such a honeycomb core, and use of such a honeycomb core or such a sandwich panel in automobile construction. The matrix is impregnated inhomogeneously with the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dietz, Christoph Krammer
  • Patent number: 10525657
    Abstract: A gas permeable glass window, suitable for use with liquid interface additive manufacturing, has an optically transparent glass article greater than about 0.5 millimeters in thickness defining a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of gas channels are disposed through the article from the first surface to the second surface. The gas channels occupy less than about 1.0% of a surface area of the article and are configured such that the article has a gas permeability between about 10 barrers and about 2000 barrers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sasha Marjanovic, Garrett Andrew Piech, Kristopher Allen Wieland
  • Patent number: 10525658
    Abstract: A method for producing a mesh including a resin mesh main body, and a resin reinforcing member configured to reinforce the mesh main body includes: a step of forming a plurality of through-holes using a laser beam in a mesh formation region of a first film material made of resin; a step of forming an opening portion in a second film material made of resin; a step of layering the first film material and the second film material so that the mesh formation region and the opening portion are arranged at positions that conform to each other; and a step of joining the first film material and the second film material to each other through laser welding at a portion surrounding the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: OMRON Corporation, OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hirono, Yuka Tanioka, Junji Kawamoto, Makoto Tabata, Akio Sumiya
  • Patent number: 10525659
    Abstract: A vehicle component has at least one sandwich part which forms a crash element that absorbs kinetic energy. The at least one sandwich part has a layer structure of at least two fiber-reinforced and one synthetic resin matrix-containing cover layer elements and at least one core layer element provided between two adjacent cover layer elements. The at least one core layer element has channels which pass transversely through each cover layer element and/or the core layer element. The at least one core layer element is made of a hard foam material or a softwood, and the channels provided in the core layer element form predetermined breaking points for the core layer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dirk Lukaszewicz
  • Patent number: 10525660
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tape with a given width, said tape being composed of an assembly of filaments extending in a direction substantially parallel to the length of the tape, and between which a powder of a polymeric material is distributed, each face of said tape being associated with a nonwoven of polymeric fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HEXCEL REINFORCEMENTS
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Beraud, Jacques Ducarre, Jean-Benoit Thiel
  • Patent number: 10525661
    Abstract: In a nonwoven fabric, uniaxially oriented bodies each including a thermoplastic resin layer and first and second adhesive layers respectively stacked on both surfaces of the thermoplastic resin layer and having melting points lower than that of a thermoplastic resin constituting the thermoplastic resin layer are warp-weft laminated with the first or second adhesive layer interposed between the uniaxially oriented bodies in such a manner that orientation axes thereof intersect each other. The nonwoven fabric has a mass per unit area of 5 to 13 g/m2, a layer composition ratio of the first adhesive layer, the thermoplastic resin layer, and the second adhesive layer in each of the uniaxially oriented bodies is 20/60/20 to 30/40/30, and an average value of bending resistances by a cantilever method is less than or equal to 50 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuhito Suzuki, Takashi Onodera, Jun Yamada
  • Patent number: 10525662
    Abstract: The product is made, in part, of a network of interconnected mycelia cells forming a mass. In one embodiment, the mass includes one or more embedded elements, such as a panel. In another embodiment, the mass is formed over a three-dimensional lattice. The mycelia cells form hyphae that bond directly to panels made of cellulosic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: ECOVATIVE DESIGN LLC
    Inventors: Eben Bayer, Gavin McIntyre
  • Patent number: 10525663
    Abstract: A polyisocyanurate foam insulation product is produced from an isocyanate component, a polyol-containing component, and a blowing agent. The polyol-containing component comprises one or more polyols, a fire retardant, and one or more surfactants, and the polyisocyanurate foam insulation product has an R-value per inch of at least 5.7 when measured at 40° F. In some formulations, the polylol-containing component may include a fire retardant, a metallo-organic compound, or combinations thereof. The cell size of the foam may be less than 120 microns. The polyol-containing component may include a mixture of polyols having different functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Malay Nandi, Lance Wang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10525664
    Abstract: Provided is an air-permeable sheet (3) to be used in a state of being interposed between a suction stage (1) and an air-impermeable substrate (4) when printing is performed by a sheet-fed method on the surface of the substrate (4) fixed by suction to the suction stage (1), the air-permeable sheet capable of printing a desired printing pattern on the surface of the substrate with high accuracy. The air-permeable sheet (3) includes a non-woven fabric layer (3b) and a support layer (3a) constituted by a woven fabric or knitted fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: JAPAN VILENE COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kenichi Nomura, Hirobumi Ushijima, Kengo Noguchi, Noriko Michihata, Takeshi Kobayashi, Masaaki Kawabe
  • Patent number: 10525665
    Abstract: A waved meltblown fiber web of the present invention relates to a fiber web prepared by a meltblown method and is characterized by a preparation method in which a meltblown microfiber comes in contact with collection portions having different surface velocities so as to be collected. The waved meltblown fiber web of the present invention is characterized in that: a part of meltblown microfibers reaches a low velocity collection portion so as to be horizontally layered, thereby forming a horizontal fiber layer (10); another part of the meltblown microfibers reaches a high velocity collection portion of which the surface velocity is greater that of the low velocity collection portion so as to form a serpentine vertical fiber layer (20); and the upper end of the vertical fiber layer (20) becomes entangled so as to form a wave shaped wave layer (30) forming the uppermost portion of the fiber web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: IKSUNG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hun Joo Lee, Kee Wook Yang, Jong Hyuk Cha, Gue Ssuk Kang, Chang Hyeon Kim
  • Patent number: 10525666
    Abstract: An optical laminate structure includes a light control laminate having at least one light reflection layer, a first quarter wave plate laminated on one of surfaces of the light reflection layer, and a second quarter wave plate laminated on another surface of the light reflection layer. The light reflection layer includes a right-handed circularly polarized light reflection layer or a left-handed circularly polarized light reflection layer, and an angle formed by a polarization axis of the S-polarized light or P-polarized light incident from a position inclined from an axis perpendicular to a surface of the light control laminate by 45° or more and 65° or less and a slow axis of the first quarter wave plate on a side to which the S-polarized light or P-polarized light is incident is 5° or more and less than 45°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hayasaki, Hitoshi Asami, Yoshiyuki Yahagi, Chihiro Takahashi, Kouichi Tanaka