Patents Issued in January 14, 2020
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Patent number: 10532474Abstract: A beard trimmer may include a handle and a cover, as well as a cutting system with one or more vertical axis rotary cutting heads. The rotary cutting heads may have a moving blade and a fixed blade, each head being surrounded by a crown-shaped comb. The comb may be adjustable in height in order to adjust, in use, the distance between the blades and the skin, and thereby to adapt the cutting of the beard to the desired length. The cover is movably mounted between a closed position and an open position on the handle, such that the cover can be moved from an open position to a protection position where it is flush with the comb tines in order to store the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: BaByliss Faco sprlInventors: Pierre Julemont, Olivier Smal
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Patent number: 10532475Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a grooming system having an adaptive lighting system (70) and a personal care appliance (50), particularly a hair cutting appliance, the adaptive lighting system (70) comprising at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80) that is arranged to detect an illumination-indicative value in the vicinity of a treatment head (54) of the appliance (50), at least one light source (72, 110, 134) that is arranged to illuminate a treatment zone, a lighting control unit (86, 102) operatively coupled with the at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80) and the at least one light source (72, 110, 134), wherein the lighting control unit (86, 102) is arranged to control the at least one light source (72, 110, 134) dependent on the illumination-indicative value detected by the at least one sensor (74, 76, 78, 80), and wherein the lighting control unit (86, 102) is arranged to increase a target illumination level when a detected actual illumination level is low, and to decrease a target illumination level whenType: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Ramachandra Rao Ganesh, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
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Patent number: 10532476Abstract: A retaining element for a razor cartridge has a top portion that includes an aperture therethrough, a bottom portion, and a side portion connecting the top portion to the bottom portion to define a volume between the top portion and the bottom portion, a container having a top opening, a lubricating composition in the container and a first spherical lid to cap the container. The top opening is sized to hold the first spherical lid so that the first spherical lid freely rotates without translation. The container is positioned in the volume so that the first spherical lid at least partially protrudes from the aperture. The lubricating element emits onto an outer surface of the first spherical lid when the first spherical lid rotates.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: BIC VIOLEX S.A.Inventors: Amalia Skarmoutsou, Nikos Chatzigrigoriou, Christos Pandis, Nikos Skounakis, Aliki Douka
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Patent number: 10532477Abstract: A power operated rotary knife including an annular rotary knife blade supported for rotation in a blade housing. The rotary knife blade including a body and a blade section extending from the body. The body section including an outer wall including an upper, middle and lower portions. The upper portion of the outer wall including a bearing race extending radially inwardly into the outer wall. The lower portion of the outer wall including the driven gear. In one embodiment, the intermediate portion includes an annular land having an outer surface defining a radially outermost portion of the outer wall of the body, the outer surface of the annular land being radially outward of the driven gear and the bearing race. In another embodiment, the intermediate portion includes an annular channel having an inner surface being radially inward of first and second ends of the bearing race and the driven gear.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Bettcher Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas A. Mascari, Jeffrey A. Whited
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Patent number: 10532478Abstract: A power operated rotary knife including an annular rotary knife blade supported for rotation in a blade housing. The rotary knife blade including a body and a blade section extending from the body. The body includes an outer wall including an arcuate surface having an upper region extending from a first upper end portion to a second intermediate portion and a lower region extending from the second intermediate portion to a third lower end portion. A plurality of gear teeth extend downwardly from the upper end of the body, each of the plurality of gear teeth including an outer peripheral face forming a portion of the upper region of the arcuate surface of the outer wall. The body outer wall includes a bearing surface having a lower bearing face in the lower region of the arcuate surface and an upper hearing face in the upper region of the arcuate surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Bettcher Industries, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey A. Whited
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Patent number: 10532479Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting an item supported by a surface, comprising a knife (1) comprising a blade (2), a blade support means (3), and an alignment guide (4), having an arm (7) pivotally attached to the knife and a surface contacting means (8) extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal plane of the knife and adapted to contact the surface in front of the blade, in the cutting direction so that, in use, the alignment guide can move with the blade, as the blade cuts into an item whereby if the knife tilts or tends to tilt, this is resisted by virtue of the alignment guide or, if the resistance is overcome, is reduced by raising of one or other lateral edges of the surface contacting means.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Inventor: Jonathan Slater
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Patent number: 10532480Abstract: An blade assembly for use with a produce slicer includes a first blade set having a first pair of opposing frame bars and a plurality of blades extending between the first pair of opposing frame bars, a blade cover positioned relative to the first blade set, and a blade support extending from the first target ring to support the plurality of blades. The blade cover includes a planar top portion having a first target ring that defines a first target area through which a piece of produce passes during slicing.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Prince Castle LLCInventors: Mark Fastabend, Eugene S. Maslana, Eric Larson, Scott R. Hammac
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Patent number: 10532481Abstract: A punch tool for forming holes or apertures in workpieces. The tool includes a primary cylinder containing a movable ram and a secondary cylinder containing another movable ram. The primary and secondary cylinders are in hydraulic communication with each other. The primary cylinder is releasably engageable with a powered press tool and various dies or punches can be attached at the secondary cylinder. Systems of powered tools and the punch tools, and methods of forming holes in workpieces using the punch tools.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: RIDGE TOOL COMPANYInventors: Richard M. Kundracik, Matthew Bertram, Robert M. Baracskai
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Patent number: 10532482Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of industrial cutting machines and cutting tools therefore. In one particular aspect the present invention relates to a method and system for quickly changing cutting tools in computer controlled cutting machines, in a first aspect of embodiments described herein there is provided a mechanism for retaining a cutting tool of a cutting machine, the mechanism having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to a cutting surface, the mechanism comprising a mount associated with the cutting machine, a holder for a cutting tool, a retaining device for removably attaching the holder to the mouth, wherein the retaining device is adapted to bias the holder in the direction of the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Rosjoh Pty LtdInventors: John Hollo, Ross Kaigg
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Patent number: 10532483Abstract: A system for punching at least one hole in at least one sheet-like material. In particular, a device and system that is uniquely configured and sized to be a table top unit for automatic punching of paper. The system has a sheet feeder, a sheet transport module and a punching die module that allows a punching die to be easily changed. The paper being punched by the punching die module is moved only a short distance from the sheet feeder and while the paper is still supported by the sheet feeder. The sheet feeder is located outside the system's housing to facilitate adjustment and troubleshooting. This advantageously allows for a smaller, compact unit that is effective and efficient.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Spiral Binding LLCInventors: Guy Vatome, Didier Briere
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Patent number: 10532484Abstract: A motorized chain saw has a measuring system for measuring an object, in particular a trunk. The motorized chain saw has a saw chain, and the measuring system has an evaluation device. The measuring system includes a sensor system for capturing the movement of the saw chain as the saw chain rolls over an object to be measured. The evaluation device is configured to evaluate the movement of the saw chain captured by the sensor system. In a method for operating the motorized chain saw, the sensor system captures the movement of the saw chain as the saw chain rolls over an object to be measured, and the evaluation device evaluates the captured movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Johannes Meier, Patrick Russ, Harald Mang, Tommy Roitsch, Simon Jug, Sven Mueller, Philipp Sandbuehler
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Patent number: 10532485Abstract: A positioning system, attachable to a vehicle for remote operation of the chain saw by a user sitting in the vehicle. A shock absorber indicator functions to tell the user when the weight on the limb is appropriate to engage the saw, and additionally cushions the drop when the saw cuts through the limb.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: The Limb Saw Company LLCInventor: O. Wendell McCracken
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Patent number: 10532486Abstract: Disposable cutting blades and method for producing disposable cutting blades with profiled cross sections for a device for chipping wood. The method includes heating a primary material of a hardenable material in a soft-annealed state having a worked surface to a temperature above room temperature, but below a conversion temperature Ac1, rolling the primary material to form a profile blank with at least one precisely gaged guide path in a base body in cross section and with an increased thickness of at least one edge region, a metal-removing working of at least one edge region in a longitudinal direction of the profile blank to form a cutting edge and to form scratching edges in a spaced manner directed perpendicularly to the cutting edge, and continuously hardening the edge regions of the cutting blade.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: BOEHLER PROFIL GMBHInventors: Helmut Ponemayr, Helmut Maisser
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Patent number: 10532487Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating, especially levelling, at least one surface, preferably at least one flat side surface, of oriented strand boards (i.e. OSB wood composite boards) and also to the products obtainable in this way as well as to the uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Jowat SEInventor: Rüdiger Ernst
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Patent number: 10532488Abstract: A method and mold assembly for forming a dry cast concrete corner blocks having non-parallel front and rear faces and non-parallel end faces, with a hollow central core in the blocks. The corner blocks can be used to build a square or irregular corner in a retaining wall, and can be used to build columns or pillars in the wall, without having to cut the corner blocks. Fill material may be poured into aligned cores in the stacked corner blocks which form the wall corner or column, to stabilize the corner blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Western Interlock, Inc.Inventor: Wyatt Pegg
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Patent number: 10532489Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a saw blade for cutting a workpiece, a motor for driving the saw blade to rotate about a first axis, a circuit board for controlling the motor, a heat sink for cooling, and a base plate being formed with a flat surface for contacting with the workpiece during cutting. The housing includes a first containing portion being formed with a first container for containing the motor, a second containing portion extended along a direction substantially parallel to the flat surface from one of the two ends of the first containing portion along a direction substantially perpendicular to the first axis. The second containing portion is formed with a second container which is communicated with the first container. The circuit board and the heat sink are disposed in the second container.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weipeng Chen, Hongwei Wang, Xiangqing Fu
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Patent number: 10532490Abstract: A screw for a plasticating apparatus has one or more helical flights. A portion of the screw has a plurality of advancing grooves arranged in a noncontinuous helix cut in the screw. The advancing grooves are dimensioned to receive material therein as the material is conveyed through the barrel. The screw has a plurality of noncontinuous cross-cut grooves traversing one or more of the advancing grooves. The cross-cut grooves have a second helix angle greater than the first helix angle and less than ninety degrees; and/or one or more of the cross-cut grooves have a third helix angle of about ninety degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Davis-Standard, LLCInventor: John P. Christiano
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Patent number: 10532491Abstract: A twin-screw extrusion kneader includes: two rotating shafts provided side by side in an internal space; a rotational driving portion configured to rotationally drive the rotating shafts; and paddles provided in the rotating shafts and configured to rotate along with the rotating shafts so as to knead a kneading material. Further, the twin-screw extrusion kneader includes movable portions provided as members constituting a part of the housing, the part of the housing including an inner wall surface of the housing, the inner wall surface being opposed to radially outer peripheral surfaces of the paddles. The movable portions can be moved in a direction to approach the paddles and in a direction to be distanced from the paddles. The twin-screw extrusion kneader can control the viscosity of electrode paste by moving the movable portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideki Takekuma
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Patent number: 10532492Abstract: One embodiment provides a twin-screw extruder which is used to knead materials and has excellent productivity. The twin-screw extruder includes screws. The screws include double thread screws in which first screw portions engage with each other. Ratio D1/C of external diameter D1 of the first screw portion to a shaft distance C ranges from 1.25 to 1.40. The screws further include triple thread screws in which third screw portions engage with each other. Ratio D3/C of external diameter D3 of the third screw portion to the shaft distance C ranges from 1.05 to 1.10. External diameter D2 of a second screw portion decreases gradually from the first screw portion toward the third screw portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Toshiki Nakazawa, Masatoshi Ohara, Hiroyuki Saito
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Patent number: 10532493Abstract: An installation for shaping a fiber preform as a body of revolution presenting a profile that varies in radial section, the installation including a storage mandrel for storing a fiber texture, follower rollers, and a mold in the form of a body of revolution on which the fiber texture is to be shaped by winding, the follower roller(s) being placed between the storage mandrel and the mold in the form of a body of revolution. The storage mandrel, each follower roller, and the mold present radii across their axial widths that vary to define outer surfaces having profiles in relief. A follower roller has sectors releasably fastened on the outer surface of the roller, each sector extending over a fraction of the circumference of the roller and over all or part of the axial width of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Hubert Jean Marie Fabre, Nicolas Ashtari, Jérémy Hellot, Marc-Emmanuel Techer
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Patent number: 10532494Abstract: A production plant for a ground covering structure (6) comprises a plant inlet zone and a plant outlet zone for a grid reinforcing member (10). The plant further comprises movement means (4) designed in operation to move the grid reinforcing member (10) along a predetermined path from the inlet zone to the outlet zone, supply means (11) for the supply of plastics material in the fluid state in the form of threads (7) to the reinforcing member (10) disposed along the predetermined path, and cooling means (2, 3) for cooling the plastics material in the form of threads (7) which are tangled on the grid reinforcing structure. The inlet zone and the outlet zone are disposed opposite one another along the predetermined path with respect to the supply means.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: OFFICINE MACCAFERRI S.P.A.Inventor: Francesco Ferraiolo
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Patent number: 10532495Abstract: A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams. The multiple streams are exposed to a chamber pressure within a chamber that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Aladdin Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Thomas R. Clark
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Patent number: 10532496Abstract: A method for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the method comprising: (1) reducing a chamber pressure within a chamber to below about 5 millibars; (2) after reducing the chamber pressure to below about 5 millibars, providing a polymer melt to the chamber; (3) separating the polymer melt into at least eight streams; (4) while the at least eight streams of the polymer melt are within the chamber, exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars; (5) after exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars, recombining the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream; and (6) forming polymer from the single polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Aladdin Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Thomas R. Clark
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Patent number: 10532497Abstract: A mould (10) for a tire, comprising two shells (30) that are each intended to mould a lateral sidewall of the tire, a ring of sectors (20) intended to mould a tread of the tire, each sector (20) of the ring of sectors comprising a radially inner face (21) having a moulding lining (22). The mould (10) has microstructures (50) that are designed to fill a clearance between two moulding linings (22) of adjacent sectors (20) and/or between a moulding lining (22) of one sector (20) and a shell (30), when the mould is closed.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Etienne Blanchet, Thomas Lescur
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Patent number: 10532498Abstract: The present invention applies to a molding method for a fiber-reinforced plastic structure having an internal cavity. Firstly, grain groups, which mainly consist of a plurality of high-rigidity grains, are accommodated in bags, and a plurality of cores are formed. A reinforcing fiber substrate, is placed between the plurality of adjacent cores so as to be interposed therebetween. For example, a plurality of molding base materials are prepared by surrounding each core with a prepreg, and the plurality of molding base materials are combined and placed inside a molding die, and the molding base materials are compression molded. When compression molding, a part of the outer surface of the cores is locally pressurized, and the internal pressure of the cores is increased, changing the shape thereof, thus eliminating voids that are present between the cores and the prepreg and/or the prepreg and the molding surface of the die.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Tsuneo Takano, Yuuji Kazehaya, Mitsushi Nishimura
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Patent number: 10532499Abstract: A method of making a laminated trim component is provided. A heated plastic composite sheet is pressed against a heated laminated sheet to bond a plastic cushioning layer of the laminated sheet to the plastic composite sheet. The step of pressing compresses a portion of the laminated sheet spaced inwardly from an outer periphery of the laminated sheet to locally compact and thin the cushioning layer at the portion to form a compressed portion of the cushioning layer. Interior portions of the sheets stretch during the step of pressing while remaining intact.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Global IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Darius J Preisler, Christopher A. Heikkila, Steven A. Mitchell
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Patent number: 10532500Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for insert-molding a tubular member to define a hollow portion. A circumferential portion of a circumferential wall of the tubular member is removed to expose the hollow portion to outside.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MANABE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Takamasa Manabe
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Patent number: 10532501Abstract: A resin filling device includes: a first mold and a second mold provided so as to face each other to sandwich therebetween a laminated iron core and thereby to fix the laminated iron core; a flow path forming member provided to the first mold so as to be engageable with one of the axial ends of the laminated iron core and forming a resin flow path through which a resin flows; and a fitting member provided to the second mold to be fitted into an opening portion of the flow path forming member that is in communication with the resin flow path, wherein the fitting member is provided with a vent portion for discharging air in the resin flow path to outside.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: KURODA PRECISION INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Hironobu Okudaira, Tomoaki Murayama, Osamu Fukuyama
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Patent number: 10532502Abstract: The present invention is a container having a label that is embedded in the container and a method of temporarily marking the container over the label. The container is sufficiently transparent to allow indicia formed on the label to be ascertained through a wall of the container. The exterior wall of the container may be written upon with a marker that leaves marks that are erasable from the exterior of the container. A method of producing the container is described.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Inventors: Michael Sean Maher, Lisa Elizabeth Latimer
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Patent number: 10532503Abstract: An optical fiber re-coating device of the invention includes an optical fiber coater that includes: a pair of glass members having grooves formed thereon; and two bases on which the respective glass members are provided, wherein at least one of the paired glass members has a cross section in a direction vertical to a mounting surface of the bases, the cross section is formed in a trapezoidal shape, the groove is provided on a short side of the trapezoidal shape, and an inclined surface of the glass member including an inclined side of the trapezoidal shape is pressed, and the glass member is thereby fixed to the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.Inventors: Noriyuki Kawanishi, Koichi Yokota, Ryo Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10532504Abstract: An apparatus usable with an injection molder for producing articles includes a first mold support including a first mold, and a second mold support including a second mold and a first die. The first mold support is movable relative to the second mold support between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the first mold and the second mold being brought together to form an injection molded article include a body having at least one protrusion extending outwardly from the body and facing the second mold. In the second position, the first mold and the first die being brought together to subsequently form the article, the first die selectively subsequently forming an altered cross sectional region in at least a portion of the protrusion, forming an undercut in the altered cross sectional region or between the altered cross sectional region of the subsequently formed protrusion and the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.Inventors: Michael Anderson, David Richard Maroney
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Patent number: 10532505Abstract: An injection molding machine capable of opening/closing a movable mold relative to a stationary mold by moving a crosshead backward and forward to move a movable platen backward and forward relative to a stationary platen through a toggle link. The injection molding machine includes a reciprocating mechanism that receives a counterforce exerted on the crosshead in the back-and-forth direction when the movable mold and the stationary mold are closed, and a load acquisition unit that acquires a load exerted on the reciprocating mechanism in a direction perpendicular to the back-and-forth direction of the crosshead.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Nishimura, Toshiaki Ichihara
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Patent number: 10532506Abstract: A clamp assembly for an injection molding machine includes (a) a clamp cylinder housing and (b) a clamp piston affixed to an end portion of a tie bar and slidable within the housing among a clamping position, a mold break position, and a meshing position disposed axially intermediate the clamping and the mold break positions. The clamp assembly further includes (c) a clamp chamber for urging the clamp piston towards the clamping position when pressurized; (d) a return device for urging the clamp piston towards the meshing position when pressure in the clamp chamber is relieved; and (e) a mold break chamber for urging the clamp piston towards the mold break position when pressurized. The mold break chamber is bounded axially by opposed surfaces of the tie bar and the return device.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: NIIGON MACHINES LTD.Inventors: Carsten Link, Robert D. Schad, Luke Osmokrovic
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Patent number: 10532507Abstract: A method and a device for cleaning a fluid is provided, the device including a housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet, and a slide mechanism which is movable in the housing and has at least one passage having at least two filters lying substantially symmetrically opposite each other, wherein starting from the housing inlet the fluid flows symmetrically onto the filters in the passage and downstream of the filters is directed to the outlet of the housing, wherein a part of the fluid that does not flow through the passage forms a hydrodynamic buffer in a gap between the slide mechanism and the housing, wherein the passage opens out into at least two symmetrically opposite sub-channels of the outlet and at least four flushing flows are generated in the gap between at least two inlet mouths and at least two outlet mouths of the passage.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: AUROTEC GMBHInventors: Stefan Zikeli, Michael Longin, Friedrich Ecker, Klaus Weidinger
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Patent number: 10532508Abstract: A sealing device for sealing a venting port of an extrusion apparatus. The sealing device includes a saddle having a saddle counter bore and a seal ring positioned in the saddle counter bore of the saddle. The sealing device also includes a barrel counter bore provided in a barrel of the extrusion apparatus. The saddle counter bore and the barrel counter bore are dimensioned to receive the seal ring, wherein when the seal ring is positioned in the saddle counter bore and the barrel counter bore, a seal is formed between the seal ring in all range of processing temperatures, the saddle and the barrel to prevent the unwanted leakage of high pressure melt.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Graham Engineering CorporationInventor: Jingyi Xu
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Patent number: 10532509Abstract: A biaxial stretch blow molding device comprises: a first guide shaft 57 which is erected on an upper base 51 and to which a blow core fixing member 54 is slidably coupled; a second guide shaft 67 erected on the stretch rod fixing member 56; a support member 59 fixed to the first guide shaft 57 and provided with a guide hole 68 through which the second guide shaft 67 is slidably inserted; a first drive device 63 that moves the blow core fixing member 54 forward and backward independently of the stretch rod fixing member 56; and a second drive device 70 that moves the stretch rod fixing member 56 forward and backward independently of the blow core fixing member 54.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Horigome, Yuji Sakabe, Shou Komiyama
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Patent number: 10532510Abstract: Methods for producing a high aspect ratio nanostructured thermoplastic polymer foil, or a nanostructured thermoplastic polymer coating on a carrier foil, including at least one high aspect ratio nanostructured surface area are described herein. A method may include providing an extrusion coating roller for an industrial polymer extrusion coating process using a thermoplastic material, applying a high aspect ratio nanostructured surface on the extrusion coating roller thereby forming a high aspect ratio nanostructured extrusion coating roller, maintaining the temperature of the high aspect ratio nanostructured extrusion coating roller below the solidification temperature of the thermoplastic material, moving a carrier foil between the rotating high aspect ratio nanostructured extrusion coating roller and a rotating counter pressure roller, and continuously applying a melt of the thermoplastic material between the moving carrier foil and the rotating high aspect ratio nanostructured extrusion roller.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: INMOLD A/S, Danapak Flexibles A/SInventors: Henrik Pranov, Maria Matschuk, Sanne Norup Westad, Peter Lass Johansen, Ole Brodsgard
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Patent number: 10532511Abstract: In an aspect, infilling includes one or more the following characteristics: (i) adjacent rows and columns, which may be overlapping or non-overlapping; (ii) no sharp angle turns, i.e., no turns of ninety degree or less; and (iii) intersecting between infill patterns occurs from layer to layer (i.e., at offset z-axis positions). An infilling technique may also or instead include rotating the infill pattern about ninety degrees in some alternating fashion from layer to layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MakerBot Industries, LLCInventor: Andrey V. Patrov
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Patent number: 10532512Abstract: An additive manufacturing system may include an extruder. The extruder may include a barrel having a bore. Additionally, the extruder may include an extruder screw at least partially received within the bore of the barrel. The additive manufacturing system also may include a gear pump fluidly coupled to the bore of the barrel. The extruder screw may extend at least partially into the gear pump.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Thermwood CorporationInventors: Kenneth J. Susnjara, Brian S. Smiddy
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Patent number: 10532513Abstract: A method of producing a workpiece by using additive manufacturing techniques includes obtaining computer-aided design data representing the workpiece in multiple layers. The method includes providing build platforms and layer tools. Each layer tool is moveable relative to a respective build platform and configured to generate or solidify a material layer on the respective build platform. The method includes producing a first defined material layer of the workpiece on a first build platform by controlling a first layer tool according to a first layer definition. The method includes transferring the first defined material layer from the first build platform to a second build platform and measuring the first defined material layer using a first measuring head to measure individual characteristics. The method includes producing further material layers of the workpiece by controlling a second layer tool in accordance with further layer definitions as a function of the measured individual characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignees: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, LLCInventors: Marcin B. Bauza, Richard H. Knebel, Thomas Engel, Nils Haverkamp, Rainer Sagemueller, Dominik Seitz, Tobias Held
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Patent number: 10532514Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping method including the steps, after a lamination step, in which steps of forming a powder layer, flattening with a squeegee and sintering are repeated, followed by cutting of the surface of the laminate, 1. setting the overall shape of an object to be shaped by a CAD/CAM system, and setting machining units that form the overall shape and cutting allowances on peripheral sides and upper sides of each of the machining units, 2. cutting of the peripheral sides and upper sides according to a prescribed order, after lamination with addition of a cutting allowance on the peripheral sides of each machining unit, and after carrying out lamination to the thickness of the cutting allowance on the upper side of the machining unit and the machining unit adjacent above the machining unit, and 3. continuing repetition of step 2, from the lowest to the topmost machining unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Matsuura Machinery Corp.Inventors: Satoru Tarumi, Jun Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10532515Abstract: A method that includes additively manufacturing with an additive manufacturing (AM) system a sub-component that has a locator element. Using a control system of the AM system for positioning a first location of the locator element. Selectively placing a portion of another sub-component adjacent to the locator element, based on the positioning. Then attaching the second sub-component to the first sub-component in a region, wherein the region is based on the positioning knowledge from the control system so as to make a component. A component that comprises a first sub-component that has an AM locator element; and a second sub-component attached to the first sub-component, wherein the locator element is attached to the second sub-component within the same additive manufacturing build chamber as the first sub-component.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Evans Graham, John Broddus Deaton, Jr., Mark Allen Cheverton, Thomas Charles Adcock, Andrew David Deal, Marshall Gordon Jones, Prabhjot Singh
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Patent number: 10532516Abstract: The shaping method for shaping a 3D object includes shaping execution data generating step of generating shaping execution data indicating the 3D object in a format corresponding to a shaping device; and shaping executing step of shaping the 3D object with the shaping device based on the shaping execution data, the 3D object being shaped using at least a shaping material of plural colors, wherein the shaping execution data generating step is a step of generating the shaping executing data based on 3D object data indicating the 3D object in which at least one part is colored, the shaping execution data being generated by at least carrying out color conversion using a shaping material profile or a profile corresponding to the shaping material of plural colors, and the color conversion being carried out using the plurality of shaping material profiles different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenji Harayama
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Patent number: 10532517Abstract: A method for joining a device to an object with the aid of a combination of ultrasonic vibration energy and induction heating, wherein the device includes a portion of a thermoplastic polymer and a susceptor additive wherein this portion is at least partly liquefied or plasticized through the ultrasonic vibration energy in combination with the induction heating and wherein the joining includes establishing a connection between the device and the object which connection is at least one of a positive fit connection, a weld, a press fit connection, and an adhesive connection. The induction heating is applied for rendering the device portion suitable for absorption of ultrasonic vibration energy than other device portions by raising its temperature above the glass transition temperature of the polymer. The ultrasonic vibration energy is used for liquefying or at least plasticizing the thermoplastic polymer of the named device portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: WOODWELDING AGInventors: Elmar Mock, Laurent Torriani, Mario Lehmann, Patricia Poschner, Joakim Kvist, Jörg Mayer
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Patent number: 10532518Abstract: A metallic/composite joint may comprise a composite member having a flared end or an angled end, a liner perimetrically surrounding the composite member, and a metallic member perimetrically surrounding the liner. A first side of the liner contacts the composite member and a second side of the liner contacts the metallic member. The liner perimetrically surrounds at least a portion of the flared end. A through-thickness compressive stiffness of the liner may be less than a similar stiffness of the composite member.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Mark R Gurvich, Rony Giovanni Ganis, Virginia H Faustino
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Patent number: 10532519Abstract: A hardened cellular material formed by stretching a stretchable material is disclosed. Fluid is allowed to enter softened stretchable material through apertures in a stretching surface to define voids at locations in the stretchable material at locations defined by the apertures. The stretchable material is then hardened with voids at locations controlled/defined by the apertures.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Fly Technologies Inc.Inventors: Robert Brent Cordner, Glenn Hibbard
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Patent number: 10532520Abstract: A helical winding unit includes a plurality of guides arrayed in a peripheral direction of a liner, and adapted to guide each of a plurality of fiber bundles supplied to the helical winding unit to the liner, and an opening member arranged downstream of the plurality of guides in a travelling direction of the fiber bundle, and including an inner peripheral surface for forming a hole, through which the plurality of fiber bundles are inserted from one side to the other side in the axial direction. A plurality of opening surfaces on which the plurality of fiber bundles travel while making contact are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the opening member, and a cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the axial direction of each opening surface is linear.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Tetsuya Matsuura, Hirotaka Wada, Tatsuhiko Nishida, Shu Ikezaki, Daigoro Nakamura
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Patent number: 10532521Abstract: A method of fabricating a composite material part having a body secured to at least one platform present at one end of the body, the method including using the fiber blank to form a preform for the part that is to be made by folding out segments of the second and third portions that are not interlinked with the first portion on opposite sides of the first portion, by shaping the folded-out segments of the second and third portions to form preform portions for a platform of the part to be fabricated, and by folding down the segment of the first portion in order to fill in the groove present in the gap between the second and third portions; and densifying the preform with a matrix in order to obtain a part made of composite material having at least one integrated platform.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Sébastien Pautard
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Patent number: 10532522Abstract: A method for molding a fiber-reinforced plastic member involves disposing a reinforced-fiber base material 2 inside a molding space S, which is created between a mold 1 and a bag film 6, and then depressurizing the inside of the molding space S and curing a resin composition R contained in the reinforced-fiber base material 2, wherein a flat pressure plate 5 made of spring steel is disposed between the reinforced-fiber base material 2 and the bag film 6. The pressure plate 5 elastically deforms along the shape of the reinforced-fiber base material 2 while the inside of the molding space S is being depressurized, and returns to its original flat shape when depressurization is stopped and the bag film 6 is removed after curing of the resin composition R.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Murai
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Patent number: 10532523Abstract: Embodiments of the invention allow performing an additive manufacturing process using a base object. Some embodiments enable placement of a three-dimensional base object inside a three-dimensional printer and print on the base object to produce a three-dimensional product. One exemplary embodiment is a method including: obtaining a representation of a three-dimensional physical object as a base object; obtaining a representation of a three-dimensional physical object as a product producible by adding layers of material on the base object. A representation of a support structure configured to retain the base object position within an additive manufacturing apparatus is determined, and the support structure is produced using an additive manufacturing process. Alternatively, a representation of an on-object structure determined and the on-object structure is produced using an additive manufacturing process by adding one or more layers of material on the base object.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Shmuel Ur Innovation LTDInventor: Shmuel Ur