Patents Issued in May 12, 2020
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Patent number: 10647070Abstract: Producing an object (2), comprising: providing a tool (10) having a mould surface (14); applying uncured composite material (12) to the mould surface (14) to form an assembly (8); curing the assembly (8) to produce cured composite material (12?) having a surface (16?) the same shape as the mould surface (14); providing a digital model (24) of the object (2) specifying a first surface (4) and a second surface (6) of the object (2), the first surface (4) being the same shape as the mould surface (14); and, while the cured composite material (12?) is held against the mould surface (14), machining, using the digital model (24), a further surface (18?) of the cured composite material (12?) such that it has the same shape as the second surface (6) and the same position relative to the mould surface (14) as the second surface (6) relative to the first surface (4).Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: BAE Systems plcInventors: Steven Neil Sanderson, Vanessa Germaine Bickerstaff
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Patent number: 10647071Abstract: A composite film having a high dielectric permittivity engineered particles dispersed in a high breakdown strength polymer material to achieve high energy density.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Powdermet Inc.Inventors: Andrew Sherman, Haixong Tang, Brian Doud
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Patent number: 10647072Abstract: Provided is a router guide that comprises: a guide part that has a first through-hole and a guide surface that guides a cutting tool attachment part of a router device along the first through-hole; a maintaining part that maintains the position of the guide surface; and a positioning part that positions the guide part. The guide surface is formed such that, in a state where the maintaining part is in contact with a surface of a composite material, the distance from the surface becomes smaller as the guide surface approaches a second through-hole. The guide part is formed so as to be elastically deformable. In a case where the guide part is caused to elastically deform along the surface shape of the composite material, the maintaining part maintains the position of the guide surface with respect to the surface at a position that corresponds to the surface shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Takita, Koji Ito
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Patent number: 10647073Abstract: A method for assembling a microlens array assembly including a set of microlens array elements having at least two array elements having a first array element and a second array element includes adsorbing the first array element using a mobile platform, adsorbing the second array element using a fixture platform, coarsely aligning the second array element with the first array element based on edges of the second array element and edges of the first array element, finely aligning the second array element with the first array element based on an array pattern of the second array element and an array pattern of the first array element, and attaching the second array element to the first array element. The method enables assembling of multiple microlens array elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION, SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (BEIJING) CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaofeng Yuan, Qiang Wu
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Patent number: 10647074Abstract: An aerospace vessel including a fuselage, a means for causing the fuselage to fly coupled to the fuselage, and an environmental control system within the fuselage. The environmental control system includes a duct made of closed cell thermoplastic foam, such as polyvinylidene fluoride foam.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Walter Forrest Frantz, Jayant D. Patel, Douglas Dean Maben, Bruce Whitman, Douglas E. Freeman
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Patent number: 10647075Abstract: A friction transmission belt has a rubber layer forming a pulley contacting portion. The rubber layer is made of a rubber composition containing a crosslinked rubber component and crosslinked polyolefin particles. Examples of the crosslinked polyolefin particles can contain ultrahigh molecular weight polyolefin particles having an average molecular weight of 500,000 or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Okubo, Hisashi Matsuda, Hideaki Kawahara, Shinji Takahashi
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Patent number: 10647076Abstract: Provided is a stretching device for stretching an apex filler strip prior to application to a bead for a tire. The stretching device includes a stretching roller and a plurality of guide rollers for guiding the apex filler strip in a loop around the stretching roller. The plurality of guide rollers is arranged for receiving the apex filler strip in an entry orientation and for discharging the apex filler strip in an exit orientation. The plurality of guide rollers is arranged for guiding the one side of the apex filler strip in the entry orientation and the exit orientation under angles different from the support angle (H) with respect to rotation axis (R) of the stretching roller such that the apex filler strip is twisted over a twisting angle of at least forty-five degrees.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: VMI HOLLAND B.V.Inventors: Timen Anton Van Werven, Egbert Grietinus Kelly, Martinus Regterschot
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Patent number: 10647077Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a process for subjecting oleaginous vegetable material to a continuous prepressing for extracting at least part of the oil contained in said oleaginous vegetable material and producing a cake comprising an at least partially de-oiled oleaginous vegetable material. The apparatus comprises a mechanical prepress for mechanically compressing said oleaginous vegetable material, wherein the prepress is provided with a cake discharge for discharging the cake to a cooler. The cooler comprising means for subjecting the cake to a downward movement, and means for supplying a coolant gas, preferably air, in a counter-current flow to the downward movement of the cake with the purpose of cooling the cake.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Desmet Ballestra Engineering n.v./s.a.Inventors: Marc Kellens, Etienne Le Clef, Timothy G. Kemper
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Patent number: 10647078Abstract: Disclosed is a folder-gluer comprises: a conveyance device configured to convey a corrugated paperboard sheet; a pair of bending bars configured to bend a first panel and a fourth panel of the corrugated paperboard sheet from 0 degree to about 90 degrees; a pair of bending plates provided in a zone where the first and fourth panels are bent from 0 degree to about 90 degrees, and configured such that distal ends thereof come into contact, respectively, with crease lines of the first and fourth panels or vicinities of the crease lines, wherein each of the bending plates is configured to be pushed and moved outwardly in a width direction, by a push-out device; a detector configured to detect a position of the corrugated paperboard sheet; and a control device configured to control the push-out device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA ISOWAInventors: Mitsuhiro Ishizuka, Yukiomi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10647079Abstract: In a method of ultrasonically bonding paperboard, first and second pieces of paperboard are supplied, with at least one of the first and second pieces of paperboard being provided with a clay coating. The first and second pieces of paperboard are moistened and positioned in a gap between a sonotrode and an anvil of an ultrasonic welding unit. The ultrasonic welding unit is activated and the first and second pieces of paperboard are compressed between 30-70%, more preferably between 40-60%, to cause the clay coating to mobilize and force the clay coating material into fiber matrixes of the first and second pieces of paperboard, followed by cooling of the first and second pieces of paperboard, to bond the first and second pieces of paperboard.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: General Mills, Inc.Inventors: George A Tuszkiewicz, David W Jordan, Thomas Miller, Peter L Novotny, Jenna M Ronquillo
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Patent number: 10647080Abstract: The invention relates to a hollow article with rigid walls (18 98), surrounding an enclosed space (19, . . . , 99) that occupies the interior of the hollow article (10, . . . , 90), made of a primary plastic base material (1) in which there is provided a secondary plastic material (2), consisting of a polymer, characterized in that this secondary polymer (2) is formed by a first component (A), being a cyclic diisocyanate as a cyclic compound, with an aromatic or optionally an aliphatic structure, and by at least one additional component (B), wherein this secondary plastic material (2) forms a barrier (12, . . . , 92) in the hollow article (10, . . . , 90), and method for producing thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: RESILUXInventors: Dirk De Cuyper, William Dierickx, Tom Anthierens, Dirk Verlinde
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Patent number: 10647081Abstract: A honeycomb thermal insulation structure may comprise a first facesheet, a second facesheet, and a honeycomb core between the first facesheet and the second facesheet. The honeycomb core may include a plurality of honeycomb unit cells each composed of walls having a height and spaced by a distance. The walls of the honeycomb cells may have perforations. The honeycomb thermal insulation structure may further comprise a non-convective gas loaded in the honeycomb unit cells between the walls. A flow of the gas through the perforations may be substantially absent.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: John R. Hull, Cameron Kai-Ming Chen, John Dalton Williams
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Patent number: 10647082Abstract: Provided are a sandwich panel and a method for manufacturing same, the sandwich panel comprising: a flocking core layer; and skin layers stacked on either side of the flocking core layer, wherein the flocking core layer comprises a mixed fiber containing at least two types of fibers having different average cross sectional diameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.Inventors: Ji-Won Lim, Dong-Eung Kim, Sang-Hyun Rho
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Patent number: 10647083Abstract: A panel structure and a method of forming the panel structure are disclosed. The panel structure typically includes at least one panel associated with a material. The panel structure has been found particularly advantageous for use as an interior panel of an airplane.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: ZEPHYROS, INC.Inventors: David Carlson, Brandon Madaus, Matthew Harthcock, Kearney Barton, Charles L. Taylor, Jason Walker
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Patent number: 10647084Abstract: A ply for fabricating composite material which includes a first tow including a plurality of fibers spread in a direction along a width of a cross section of the ply. A first sheet of enhancement performance material extends within the plurality of fibers and between a top and a bottom of the cross section of the ply.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Samuel James Meure, Kelsi Hurley, Mark Stewart Wilenski
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Patent number: 10647085Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a support layer including a first surface, a second surface and a first side wall, wherein the first surface and the second surface locate at two opposite sides of the support layer, and the first side wall connects the first surface and the second surface; an adhesion layer disposed on the second surface of the support layer; a base layer disposed on the adhesion layer; and at least one transistor disposed on the base layer, wherein the adhesion layer adheres to a partial portion of the first side wall of the support layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATIONInventors: Hsia-Ching Chu, Ming-Chien Sun, Yuan-Lin Wu
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Patent number: 10647086Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer laid scrim (10, 15) for sheet-like or 3-dimensional high-strength components, consisting of a structure made of a multiplicity of plies of multilayer laid scrim for sheet-like or 3-dimensional high-strength components, consisting of a structure made of a multiplicity of plies made of glass fibres, synthetic fibres, aramid fibres and/or carbon fibres. In order to prevent fan-out of the individual fibres or filaments of the multilayer laid scrim used, it is provided according to the invention that in certain regions structural reinforcement elements (11, 16) are embedded at least into one ply, and/or between at least two plies, of the multilayer laid scrim. Said embedding here can take place over an entire area or else only in the regions which are exposed to a subsequent deformation. The structural reinforcement elements (11, 16) help to generate greater coherence between the individual fibres of the laid scrims, thus preventing fan-out, for example in the edge region.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Inventor: Klaus Szukat
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Patent number: 10647087Abstract: An adhesive assembly can be used to join textile materials together creating a durable wash resistant. An emblem can be removed from a work shirt without leaving glue stains or residue. The shirt may be reused if emblems need to be removed or changed before the life of the garment expires. In various embodiments, a layer of mesh is incorporated into the heat activated glue on the back of the emblem. This mesh does not affect adherence to the garment. The emblem sticks just as well as without the mesh layer and with zero process changes to how the emblem is applied. The mesh allows for the complete removal of the adhesive from the garment when the patch is removed allowing the garment to be used even after the patch is removed.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Cintas Corporate Services, Inc.Inventors: Manuel Figueroa, Susan Lillard, Christopher R. Ventura
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Patent number: 10647088Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 10647089Abstract: The present specification provides a conductive structure body and an electronic device comprising the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sujin Kim, Pumsuk Park, Yong Chan Kim, Ki-Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 10647090Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a display panel motherboard, a method of manufacturing a display panel, and a display apparatus. The display panel motherboard includes a first substrate and a second substrate provided opposite to each other. The first substrate has a plurality of first zones and a plurality of second regions, each of the plurality of first zones has a first display region and a first packaging material pattern on a periphery of the first display region, each of the plurality of second zones has a second packaging material pattern, and the second packaging material pattern is at at least one side of the first packaging material pattern facing away from the first display region.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ang Xiao, Fuyi Cui, Fujiang Jin, Quanqin Sun, Xiangnan Wang
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Patent number: 10647091Abstract: The present invention discloses a planar glass sealing structure and a manufacturing method thereof, the planar glass sealing structure comprises, in a top-down order: a first glass substrate, an insulating layer, a metal sealing frame and a second glass substrate. The insulating layer is formed as a frame shape, and disposed on a peripheral margin of the first glass substrate; the metal sealing frame is formed by heating to melt a metal solder layer between the first and second glass substrate, and it can keep a fixed gap between the first and second glass substrate, so that an inner space thereof is kept in an excellent sealed condition. The present invention can ensure the sealing structure of two correspondingly assembled glass substrates, so that the inner space thereof is insulated from moisture and oxygen, so as to increase the performance and quality of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yawei Liu, Tai-pi Wu, Chih-Che Liu
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Patent number: 10647092Abstract: A vehicle luminous signaling glazing forming, for example, a laminated vehicle windshield includes a first exterior glazing, with first main face and second main face, a lamination interlayer made of polymeric material with an other edge face, a second interior glazing, with third main face and fourth main face, the second main face and the third main face being the internal faces of the laminated glazing. The glazing also includes a flexible carrier for the diodes including a diode zone, an emerging electrical supply zone emerging from the other edge face, divided into a plurality of track strips, carrying electrical tracks, with an individual width Wi of less than 5 cm.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Pascal Bauerle, Stephan Gillessen, Arthur Stricher
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Patent number: 10647093Abstract: Disclosed is a biodegradable sheet comprising at least one layer which is a direct contact layer, intended to successfully contact materials, such as liquids, while maintaining the mechanical properties of the sheet and to extend the biodegradable sheet shelf life. The direct contact layer may comprise a hydrophobic polymer selected from poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), Polydioxanone (PDO) polyglycolic acid (PGA), polybutylene succinate (PBS), polybutylene succinate adipate (PBSA), poly lactic acid (PLA), polybutylene adipate terphtalate (PBAT), polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), such as polyhydroxybutyrates (PHB), polyhydroxyvalerates (PHV), and polyhydroxybutyrate-hydroxyvalerate copolymers (PHBV) or any mixture thereof. The biodegradable sheet may further comprise surface treated nanoclay particles, PVOH grafted with a crosslinker and PBS or PBSA The biodegradable sheet may further include at least one metalized, biodegradable, laminate layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Tipa Corp. Ltd.Inventors: Daphna Nissenbaum, Tal Neuman, Dori Pelled, Shai Garty, Nili Konieczny
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Patent number: 10647094Abstract: There is provided a thermally conductive composite material obtained by dispersing a thermally conductive filler in a matrix. The thermally conductive filler is a mixture including boron nitride particles with an average particle size of 10 ?m to 100 ?m and aluminum nitride particles with an average particle size that is 1/100 to ½ of the average particle size of the boron nitride particles, a content of the boron nitride particles is 60 volume % to 90 volume % with respect to a total amount of the boron nitride particles and the aluminum nitride particles, a content of the thermally conductive filler is 80 volume % to 95 volume % with respect to a total amount of the composite material, and a porosity of the composite material is 10 volume % or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Megumi Sasaki, Hiromitsu Tanaka, Shinichi Miura, Masataka Deguchi, Masaki Terada, Tetsuyoshi Fukaya
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Patent number: 10647095Abstract: A surface-treated polymer film is disclosed. The film has a polymer substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface and a primer applied to the first surface of the substrate. The primer is a cross-linked acrylic polymer or other suitable polymer. A method of insulating a surface with an insulation material constructed from the surface-treated polymer is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Lamtec CorporationInventors: Charles Petty, David Indyke, Hal Robbins, Timothy John Koblish
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Patent number: 10647096Abstract: The invention provides a laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition which is favorably laminated together with a layer including a plasticizer-containing polymer composition while ensuring that the migration of the plasticizer into the acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition layer is small and the resultant laminate attains excellent durability, and also provides a laminate obtained by laminating a layer including the laminating acrylic thermoplastic polymer composition onto one or both sides of a layer including the plasticizer-containing polymer composition. Further, the invention provides a polymer composition which, when the plasticizer-containing polymer described above is a vinyl chloride-based polymer, can keep sufficient adhesive force after being adhered to a layer including such a vinyl chloride-based polymer, and also provides an adhesive product using the composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kanayo Nakada, Yoshihiro Morishita, Hiroshi Oshima
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Patent number: 10647097Abstract: A gas barrier film includes a support, a gas barrier layer provided on one surface of the support and including an inorganic layer, and a deformation inhibition layer provided on a surface of the support opposite to a surface on which the gas barrier layer is provided and including a bifunctional or higher (meth)acrylate, in which the support has a thermal expansion coefficient of 30×10?6/° C. or greater, and the (meth)acrylate of the deformation inhibition layer has a volume shrinkage rate of 3% to 20%.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Eijiro Iwase
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Patent number: 10647098Abstract: The present application relates to a method for preparing a base film, a laminate or a polarizing film. The present application can provide an elongatable base film which simultaneously maintains elongation and recovery rates at proper levels and guarantees water resistance, and thus can be effectively applied in the preparation of, for example, a polarizing film. The present application can also provide a laminate using the film or a method for preparing a polarizing film using the base film. The base film can be effectively applied in the preparation of a polarizing film having an excellent function, such as polarization performance, while having a thickness of, for example, about 10 ?m or less, about 8 ?m or less, about 7 ?m or less, about 6 ?m or less, or about 5 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Se Woo Yang, Sung Hyun Nam, Kyun Il Rah
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Patent number: 10647099Abstract: Methods and apparatus to form venting channels on a panel for a decorative layer are disclosed. An example method includes contacting an outer surface of a tool to an outer resin layer of a panel. The outer surface of the tool has protrusions. The example method includes moving the outer surface of the tool on the outer resin layer of the panel in a first direction to cause the protrusions of the tool to form first venting channels on the outer resin layer of the panel and coupling a decorative layer to the outer resin layer of the panel via an adhesive layer. The first venting channels are to vent at least one of gas or vapor away from the decorative layer to deter separation of a portion of the decorative layer from the outer resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Xiaoxi Wang
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Patent number: 10647100Abstract: A lamination system includes a film supply, a material supply, and a laminator. The laminator causes a film from the film supply to be laminated to a sheet from the material supply to establish a laminated sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Berry Plastics CorporationInventors: Brooke D. Kitzmiller, Jeffrey A. Middlesworth
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Patent number: 10647101Abstract: A multilayer material is disclosed which consists of polyethylene foam sandwiched between two external layers of high-density polyethylene. A two-step manufacturing process for forming such a multilayer material is disclosed, which consists of (1) thermal bonding of a roll stock of PE foam with a roll stock of HDPE/LDPE laminate, followed by cutting into composites, and (2) thermal bonding of two composites to form a multilayer material.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Palziv LtdInventor: Yosef Ben Shalom
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Patent number: 10647102Abstract: A system includes a gripper device to grasp a disposable proxy. The gripper device is moveable to position a pressure sensitive adhesive in contact with the disposable proxy and apply a pressure force to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to the disposable proxy. The gripper device is moveable to position the pressure sensitive adhesive in contact with an edge portion of a first layer of a plurality of layers and apply a pressure force to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to the edge portion of the first layer. The system further includes a cutting device moveable to apply a cutting force to separate a sacrificial corner portion of the first layer proximate the edge portion of the first layer from a remaining portion of the first layer. The gripper device is movable to peel the remaining portion of the first layer from one or more remaining layers of the plurality of layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dragan Filipovic, Martin Petersen, Sultan Shair, Stefaan Guido Van Nieuwenhove, Shatil Sinha, Wendy Wen-Ling Lin
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Patent number: 10647103Abstract: A method of printing a three-dimensional structure onto a base having irregularities on the surface is disclosed. A sensing device determines the depth of the irregularity on the surface. A computing system receives an image file including a predetermined thickness of a layer to be printed onto the base. The predetermined thickness is adjusted based on the depth of the irregularity. A printing device prints a layer onto the base having the adjusted predetermined thickness print on the irregularity to make the surface substantially smooth.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Todd W. Miller, Jeremy D. Walker
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Patent number: 10647104Abstract: According to one embodiment, a material feeding device includes a feeding unit. The feeding unit includes an electrode unit electrically chargeable by application of voltage thereto and an insulating unit covering the electrode unit, the electrode unit being configured to attract and separate a material to and from a surface of the insulating unit by control of a charged state of the electrode unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kotaro Kobayashi, Hideshi Nakano, Hiroshi Ohno, Shanying Pan, Masayuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10647105Abstract: What is disclosed is an object holder for retaining an object in a direct-to-object print system and a direct-to-object print system configured to use various embodiments of the object holder of the present invention. In one embodiment, the object holder comprises a shuttle mount configured to slideably traverse a support member positioned parallel to a plane formed by at least one printhead configured to eject marking material on to a surface of an object. A plurality of threads, at least partially comprising a flexible synthetic elastomer, are connected to the shuttle mount. The threads are joined together to form an elastic netting which can be manually expanded around the object to retain the object to the shuttle mount while the object is being printed in the direct-to-object print system.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael Nicholas Soures, Jonathan Ross Ireland, Bruce H. Smith, Donald E. Thresh, James D. Van Bortel
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Patent number: 10647106Abstract: A service is provided over a communication network. Initially, information indicative of physical characteristics of an item specified by a requester is received along with a request to generate a physical three dimensional model for the item. The information is transformed into model data used to generate the three dimensional model. Components for generating the physical three dimensional model are obtained from storage. A physical three dimensional model for the item specified by the remote requestor is generated, and imagery descriptive of the physical three dimensional model is sent to the remote requestor via the communication network. The components used to generate the physical three dimensional model are returned to storage.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: James H. Pratt, Marc Andrew Sullivan, Ari Craine
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Patent number: 10647107Abstract: An ultraviolet curing apparatus includes a housing, a plurality of ultraviolet light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged in a length direction of the housing, and at least one shutter part coupled to the housing to be movable in the length direction, to cover at least a portion of the plurality of ultraviolet LEDs to limit an irradiation region of ultraviolet light emitted by the plurality of ultraviolet LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho Yu, Dong Wook Kim, Byeong Sang Kim, Kyung Bin Park, Ki Ju Sohn, Ju Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 10647108Abstract: Provided is a transfer-type image recording apparatus including: a transfer body; a support member for a transfer body; and a support member for a recording medium, wherein the image recording apparatus further includes a buckling member satisfying the following formulae (1) to (3) arranged in at least one of a space between the transfer body and the support member for a transfer body, or a space between a recording medium and the support member for a recording medium: X1/X2?0.20??Formula (1): (Y1/X1)/{(Y2?Y1)/(X3?X1)}?5.0??Formula (2): Y1<Y2:??Formula (3).Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuichiro Kanasugi
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Patent number: 10647109Abstract: A printing apparatus including a code information detecting unit configured to detect code information in image data, and a printing controller configured to control bidirectional printing to repeat a first scan including ink ejection in accordance with movement of a printing head to a first side in a main scanning direction, a second scan including ink ejection in accordance with movement of the printing head to a second side in the main scanning direction, and medium transport performed between the first scan and the second scan. The printing controller is configured to perform printing by any one of the first scan or the second scan in an area of the code information detected by the code information detecting unit, during the bidirectional printing based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasutoshi Takeuchi, Masaya Usui, Naoki Sudo
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Patent number: 10647110Abstract: A method detects defective printing nozzles in an inkjet printing machine having a computer. The method includes printing a multi-row nozzle test chart for detection purposes, the test chart contains a number of horizontal rows of equidistant vertical lines printed periodically and disposed underneath one another. Wherein in every row of the nozzle test chart periodically only those respective printing nozzles of the print head contribute to the first element of the nozzle test chart that correspond to the specified number of the horizontal rows. An area coverage element geometrically associated with the nozzle test chart is printed. Both elements are recorded by an image sensor and both elements are evaluated by the computer. Defective printing nozzles are identified by evaluating the recorded nozzle test chart by the computer. Defects are allocated in the area coverage element to the printing nozzles in the nozzle test chart by the computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Johannes Muehl, Hans Koehler
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Patent number: 10647111Abstract: Provided is a liquid droplet forming device including: a liquid container capable of containing a liquid; a membranous member disposed at a bottom of the liquid container and including a discharging hole; a deforming unit capable of deforming the membranous member; and a driving unit configured to drive the deforming unit by outputting a discharging signal for deforming the membranous member to discharge the liquid or a suppressing signal for suppressing residual vibration of the membranous member, wherein the suppressing signal is a signal based on natural vibration period T0 of the membranous member, wherein an amplitude of the suppressing signal is lower than or equal to an amplitude of the discharging signal, and wherein interval time Ti from when outputting of the discharging signal is ended until when outputting of the suppressing signal is started satisfies a formula: Ti=(m?½)×T0, where m represents a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Kuramochi, Daisuke Takagi, Satoshi Okano, Takahiko Matsumoto, Koichi Muramatsu, Satoshi Nakazawa, Ryuya Mashiko
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Patent number: 10647112Abstract: A liquid droplet discharging apparatus includes: a first piezoelectric element that moves a head in a first direction; a second piezoelectric element that moves the head in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a movement unit that moves a medium in the first direction in accordance with a predetermined target movement amount; a transport amount measurement unit as a movement amount measurement unit that measures a movement amount of the medium in the first direction; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element. The drive control unit drives either one of the first piezoelectric element or the second piezoelectric element according to a difference B?A between a target transport amount A as the target movement amount and a transport amount B as the movement amount measured from the transport amount measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yoji Kitano, Junichi Okamoto
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Patent number: 10647113Abstract: Provided is a recording head including: a recording element; a delay circuit including a delay element and configured to supply a clock signal from a main body unit of a recording apparatus to the delay element; and a logical sum (OR) element configured to generate a clock state signal based on a logical sum of the clock signal and output from each delay element. The recording head detects a defect in the clock signal transmitted from the main body unit to the recording head based on the clock state signal, and sets the recording element to a disable state when a defect is detected in the clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideyuki Ueki
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Patent number: 10647114Abstract: The invention describes a method and apparatus for characterising EHT tripping events and thus discriminating between false trip events and those that warrant the printer being shut down.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Domino UK LimitedInventors: Daniel John Lee, Simon Brierley, Christopher Adrian Chapman
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Patent number: 10647115Abstract: Quantization is performed on multi-valued data corresponding to a non-overlap recording area and one of recording heads on the basis of a dither pattern and multi-valued data corresponding to the non-overlap recording area and the other one of the recording heads, and also arrangements of thresholds for the dither patterns used between the scanning operations are varied.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Yoshikazu Ishikawa, Akitoshi Yamada
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Patent number: 10647116Abstract: A first flow path member of a liquid ejection head includes a plurality of pressurizing chambers connected to a plurality of ejection holes, a plurality of first individual flow paths connected to the plurality of pressurizing chambers, a plurality of second individual flow paths and a plurality of third individual flow paths, a first common flow path connected in common to the plurality of first and second individual flow paths, and a second common flow path connected in common to the plurality of third individual flow paths. A length from an area centroid of a surface pressurized by a displacement element in the pressurizing chamber to the area centroid via the first individual flow path, first common flow path, and second individual flow path in this order is longer than twice a length from the area centroid to the second common flow path via the third individual flow path.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventor: Naoki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10647117Abstract: There is provided a piezoelectric device including a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, and a diaphragm disposed between the pressure chamber and the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element is disposed on the diaphragm so as to overlap an inner periphery of the pressure chamber in plan view, and has an inner edge on a center side of the pressure chamber with the inner periphery of the pressure chamber being sandwiched within the piezoelectric element in plan view. A shape of the inner edge of the piezoelectric element is such that in the smallest first rectangle, which includes the inner edge in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Tamura, Sayaka Yamasaki
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Patent number: 10647119Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a fluid ejection device. The method includes forming a drive circuitry layer on a substrate. The method further includes fabricating at least one fluid ejection element on the substrate. Furthermore, the method includes forming at least one slot within a top portion of the substrate, and forming at least one fluid feed trench within a bottom portion of the substrate. Each fluid feed trench of the at least one fluid feed trench is in fluid communication with one or more slots of the at least one slot. Additionally, the method includes laminating a flow feature layer and a nozzle plate over the substrate having the at least one slot and the at least one fluid feed trench formed therewithin. Further disclosed is a fluid ejection device fabricated using the aforementioned method.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: David Bernard, Andrew McNees, James Mrvos
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Patent number: 10647120Abstract: An ejector for ink-jet printers, comprising a main body (2) and a through hole (3), arranged through the main body (2), which has a surface (4). At least the surface (4) of the through hole (3) is made of an elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SYSTEM CERAMICS S.P.A.Inventors: Franco Stefani, Mohamed Ouassif