Patents Issued in June 9, 2020
  • Patent number: 10675884
    Abstract: An ink supplying device includes a first reservoir, a second reservoir, a pump, a detector, a measuring section, and a determining section. The pump moves ink between the first reservoir and the second reservoir. The detector is provided on the first reservoir and detects the ink in the first reservoir. The measuring section measures a first period and a second period. The determining section determines whether or not the first period and the second period are equal. The first period is a period starting when the detector does not detect the ink and ending when the pump has moved the ink from the first reservoir to the second reservoir. The second period is a period starting when the pump starts moving the ink from the second reservoir to the first reservoir and ending when the detector detects the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tsubasa Miyamae
  • Patent number: 10675885
    Abstract: A printing device includes an ink jet print head having individually controllable nozzles for jetting ink drops. An ink line connected to a chamber has a feed and/or return line for the print head. The print head, ink line and chamber move jointly relative to printing material. The ink line is part of a circulation ink supply system for the print head. A mass element associated with the chamber has a position and/or shape relative to the chamber changing as a function of the joint movement so that the chamber volume is a function of the position and/or shape of the mass element to compensate for pressure fluctuations and/or movements of the ink and avoid problems in the ink supply system for a print head in industrial, high-performance ink jet printing and in cooperation with circulation ink supply systems conveying large volumes of ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Mueller, David Ehrbar
  • Patent number: 10675886
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a circulation pathway that circulates an ink between a pressure chamber of a printing head and the outside thereof. The number of eject of the ink to be ejected from an ejection port of the printing head to a unit printing area is set according to a concentration of the ink in the circulation pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Nakagawa, Yumi Yanai, Seiji Abe
  • Patent number: 10675887
    Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a head including a plurality of nozzle groups, a main scanning portion that scans the head in a main scanning direction, a sub-scanning portion that relatively moves the head and the medium in a sub-scanning direction, which intersects the main scanning direction, and a control portion, in which the control portion generates supplementing printing data, which corrects printing data in a manner in which it is possible to supplement with another nozzle within a predetermined nozzle group and executes a printing process on the basis of the supplementing printing data in a case in which it is determined that a predetermined nozzle within the predetermined nozzle group is a non-discharging nozzle when forming a plurality of raster lines on the medium by discharging the liquid from the nozzles of the plurality of nozzle groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Eishin Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10675888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a thermal print head. Dispose a silicon substrate on a carrier, and dispose sequentially a glaze layer, a thermal resistance layer, an electrode pattern layer, and a passivation layer on the silicon substrate for forming a thermal print head. In addition, the size of the silicon substrate disposed on the carrier can be changed according to the opening on the carrier for providing a large-size thermal print head or one-time large-size printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Chien Hwa Coating Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hui Liu, Yi-Wei Lin, Chun-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 10675889
    Abstract: The invention provides dispersed inorganic mixed metal oxide pigment compositions in a non-aqueous media utilizing a dispersant having polyisobutylene succinic anhydride structure to disperse a mixed metal oxide pigment in the media. The metal oxide pigment is of the type used to colour ceramic or glass articles. A milling process using beads is also described to reduce the mixed metal oxide particle size to the desired range. A method of using the mixed metal oxide dispersion to digitally print an image on a ceramic or glass article using the dispersion jetted through a nozzle and subsequently firing the coloured article is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: LUBRIZOL ADVANCED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventor: Dean Thetford
  • Patent number: 10675890
    Abstract: A drying unit includes: a first irradiation device that includes plural first irradiation arrays each having plural laser elements disposed along a feeding direction of a recording medium to which liquid droplets have been ejected and which is being fed, the recording medium being irradiated with laser light by the laser elements, the first irradiation arrays being disposed side by side in a cross direction crossing the feeding direction, driving of the first irradiation device being controlled for each of the first irradiation arrays; and a second irradiation device that is provided on an upstream side or a downstream side in the feeding direction with respect to the first irradiation device, as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukari Motosugi, Shigeyuki Sakaki, Hiroyuki Tsukuni, Akira Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10675891
    Abstract: A print engine includes: a media support chassis having a plurality of guide rollers mounted between opposite sidewalls thereof, the plurality of guide rollers defining a curved media feed path; a plurality of spittoons, each spittoon being positioned between a neighboring pair of guide rollers and each spittoon having an upper guide portion; and a plurality of printheads, each printhead opposing a respective spittoon. The upper guide portion at least partially intersects a common tangential plane defined between a neighboring pair of rollers, such that print media fed along the curved media path contact the rollers and upper guide portions of the spittoons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventor: Mark Profaca
  • Patent number: 10675892
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a main body; a cover; a pair of supporters including a movable supporter; a first urging member configured to urge the movable supporter in an approach direction; an engaging member movable between a separated position and an engaged position; and a second urging member configured to urge the engaging member toward the engaged position. When the cover is in an open state, the engaging member is located at the engaged position by an urging force of the second urging member so as to inhibit movement of the movable supporter in the approach direction. When the cover is in a closed state, the engaging member is located at the separated position against the urging force of the second urging member by contact of the cover with the engaging member so as not to inhibit the movement of the movable supporter in the approach direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanda, Takehiko Inaba
  • Patent number: 10675893
    Abstract: A tape cassette configured to contain a tape has a box-like cassette case having a wall formed with one of a recess and a hole, and a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least two conductive electrodes being provided to the first surface, a storage electrically connected to the pair of conductive electrodes being provided to the second surface. The at least one of the recess and the hole being arranged at a central area, in a particular direction, of the wall, and the substrate being attached on the wall such that the substrate is arranged at the one of the recess and the hole, and the at least two conductive electrodes are aligned in the particular direction regardless of whether the substrate is attached on the wall in a first orientation or a second orientation which is a reversed orientation with respect to the particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujioka, Koichi Sugiura, Yoshihiro Ota
  • Patent number: 10675894
    Abstract: A tape cassette includes a box-like housing, a tape mounted within the housing, a hole and a first indicator portion. The housing includes a top wall having a top surface, a bottom wall having a bottom surface and opposing the top wall, and a front wall having a specified height and being formed along peripheries of the top wall and the bottom wall. The hole is provided in the front wall. The first indicator portion includes at least one first aperture and indicates a first element among a plurality of elements of a type of the tape. The first indicator portion is provided in a portion, spaced from the front wall, of the bottom wall. The hole and the one first aperture is located to intersect a virtual line orthogonal to the front wall when viewing along a vertical direction orthogonal to the top wall and the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koshiro Yamaguchi, Akira Sago, Takashi Horiuchi, Yasuhiro Iriyama, Yasuhiro Shibata, Tsuyoshi Nagae, Masato Kato, Teruo Imamaki
  • Patent number: 10675895
    Abstract: Provided is an unwinding device for unwinding a sheet from a sheet roll, the sheet roll being inserted onto the device. The unwinding device includes a shaft, a first rotating member and a second rotating member which are inserted onto the shaft, configured to be rotatable with rotation of the sheet roll, the sheet roll being inserted onto the first rotating member and the second rotating member, a first elastic member disposed between the first rotating member and the shaft, the first elastic member being configured to provide first back tension to the sheet when the first rotating member rotates, a second elastic member disposed between the second rotating member and the shaft, the second elastic member being configured to provide second back tension to the sheet when the second rotating member rotates, and a back tension controlling member disposed between the second elastic member and the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BIXOLON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geun Wha Lim, Gwang Keun Park
  • Patent number: 10675896
    Abstract: There is provided an image recording apparatus, including: a conveyer; a carriage; a recording head having at least three nozzle rows; and a controller. When a moving direction of the carriage in one of two continuous recording passes is different from that in the other of the two continuous recording passes, the image recording apparatus conveys a recording medium in the conveyance direction so that two recording areas partially overlap with each other. When a line image, which belongs to an overlap area, is recorded, the image recording apparatus executes recording so that the two continuos recording passes complement each other, and forms at least part of dots in the line image in accordance with a landing order different from a landing order used when the image is recorded in a non-overlap area included in the recording areas and different from the overlap area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Arakane
  • Patent number: 10675897
    Abstract: Examples of an apparatus for flexible flat cable, installable within a print device, are described. The flexible flat cable may be connected to a print carriage assembly of the print device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Deyang Wang, Clint Carl Sensano, Yan Zhu, Chin Siang Chua, Chern Fong Chong
  • Patent number: 10675898
    Abstract: To normally perform a preliminary ejection after a cleaning process. Provided is a recording apparatus including: a recording head that includes an ejection component that ejects a liquid; a circulation unit configured to perform a circulation operation of circulating the liquid in a circulation route including the recording head; a cleaning mechanism that performs a cleaning process with respect to the recording head; and a preliminary ejection unit configured to perform a preliminary ejection operation of preliminarily ejecting the liquid from the ejection component. The cleaning mechanism performs the cleaning process in a state in which circulation of the liquid is stopped, and at least one of the circulation operation by the circulation unit and the preliminary ejection operation by the preliminary ejection unit is performed after the cleaning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Fukasawa, Takatoshi Nakano, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoshinori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10675899
    Abstract: A detector includes a light source to irradiate an object with light, a sensor to image a first pattern and a second pattern formed on the object with the light irradiated by the light source to generate image data, the first pattern and the second pattern imaged by the sensor at different times, and a circuit to control the light source to adjust a light quantity of the light according to a type of the object and irradiate the object with the light quantity adjusted according to the type of the object, and calculate a relative position of the object between the first pattern and the second pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeo Shirato, Mitsunobu Gohda, Tomoaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10675900
    Abstract: A laminated film is provided which has excellent shape appearance at winding and also excellent processability and is capable of achieving higher glossiness of printed objects, the laminated film containing a substrate layer (layer A) composed of a biaxially oriented polyester film and a coating layer (layer B) on at least one side of the layer A, wherein the crystal size of the (100) plane of the layer A obtained by an X-ray diffraction measurement is 4.5 nm or more and less than 6.0 nm, a higher heat shrinkage ratio of the laminated film at 150° C. for 30 minutes between a heat shrinkage ratio in the longitudinal direction and a heat shrinkage ratio in the width direction at 150° C. for 30 minutes is 0.5 to 2.5%, the layer B is located on at least one outermost surface layer, and a surface opposite to the surface having the layer B has a center line average roughness (SRa) of 5 to 15 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shogo Yonaiyama, Masato Horie, Tomoko Hayano
  • Patent number: 10675901
    Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium that is capable of dealing with the requirement for an increase in thermal transfer printing speed, and high density and high quality of a thermally transferred image, capable of preventing the occurrence of abnormal transfer at high temperature and high humidity, and capable of improving transfer sensitivity in printing. A thermal transfer recording medium includes a heat-resistant lubricating layer on one surface of a base material, and an undercoat layer and a dye layer in that order on the other surface of the base material. The undercoat layer includes a copolymer of a polyester having a sulfonic acid group and an acrylic polymer having at least one of a glycidyl group and a carboxyl group, polyvinylpyrrolidone, and an oxazoline group-containing polymer. A binder resin of the dye layer is an acid-modified polyvinyl acetoacetal resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Godai Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 10675902
    Abstract: A method of forming an insulator film by flexographic printing is provided with which an insulator film is formed on a printing object by using ink as an insulator film material and a flexographic printing plate with halftone dots convexly formed on a convex portion thereof that defines a printing pattern. A halftone dot condition change region with a condition of the halftone dots varied such that an ink retention volume therein is smaller than that in other region on the convex portion is provided on a part of the convex portion corresponding to an edge of the printing pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Akitoshi Sakaue, Naoki Iwao, Mitsunori Sato, Yutaka Takezawa, Yutaro Kogawa, Mitsutoshi Naito
  • Patent number: 10675903
    Abstract: Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including: a support; and an image recording layer provided on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound containing a hydrogen bonding group, and a hard polymer particle containing at least one group selected from the group consisting of a urethane group, a urea group, an imide group, an amide group, and a sulfonamide group on the surface of the hard polymer particle, and a number average primary particle diameter of the hard polymer particle is in a range of 0.01 to 1 ?m; and a plate-making method for a planographic printing plate obtained by using the planographic printing plate precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Aizu, Ryo Nakamura, Hiroaki Idei, Tomoki Ochimizu
  • Patent number: 10675904
    Abstract: A method for creating an identification document that includes: defining a debossed region on a surface of a card blank, the debossed region having a pre-determined pattern being indented into the card blank; and applying, as part of a lamination process, an overlay on the surface of the card blank to cover the defined debossed region such that an air gap is formed on the card blank's surface during the lamination process and is sealed and removed after the lamination process, and that a tactile pattern thus created on the surface of the overlay substantially duplicates the pre-determined pattern of the defined debossed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Ashley S. R. Tiguy, Daoshen Bi, Robert Jones
  • Patent number: 10675905
    Abstract: A hybrid currency banknote includes a banknote having visible markings. One or more light-controlling elements and a controller are embedded in or on the banknote. The controller is electrically connected to the one or more light-controlling elements to control the one or more light-controlling elements. A power input connection is electrically connected to the controller, or one or more light-controlling elements, or both. A power source can be connected to the power input connection, for example a piezoelectric or photovoltaic power source. In response to applied power, the controller causes the one or more light-controlling elements to emit light. A value can be stored in a memory in the controller and displayed by the light-controlling elements. The value can be assigned or varied by a hybrid currency teller machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Robert R. Rotzoll, Christopher Bower, Mark Willner
  • Patent number: 10675906
    Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a hologram structure having excellent forgery preventability and designability. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a hologram structure comprising: a hologram layer including a reflection type hologram forming region carrying a recorded phase type Fourier transform hologram that transforms an incident light from a point light source into a desired optical image; and a vapor deposition layer formed so as to come into contact with a concavo-convex surface of the reflection type hologram forming region of the hologram layer, and a size of the reflection type hologram forming region in plan view is in a range of 5 mm square or more and 50 mm square or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10675907
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit and a conversion unit. The reception unit receives as a designated color a color of an image desired to be seeable when irradiated with light at a specific wavelength. The conversion unit converts, when converting image data on an image to be printed into print data, a color value of the designated color received by the reception unit into a color value including a value for outputting a special color material that has absorption properties for the light at the specific wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriko Sakai
  • Patent number: 10675908
    Abstract: A binder including a front cover including a front cover exterior layer, a front cover interior layer, a front cover base plate between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover interior layer, an exterior pocket formed between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover base plate, and an interior opening formed through the front cover interior layer and the front cover base plate to the exterior pocket. Methods of manufacturing the binder are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Loree, Jim Warner
  • Patent number: 10675909
    Abstract: A marking instrument having a plurality of removable writing nibs serially aligned so that an operator can remove a spent or fluid-affected writing nib and, thereby, access a fresh writing tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Bezuhly
  • Patent number: 10675910
    Abstract: A device for displaying at least one time-related magnitude including a timepiece movement including at least one time base and at least one energy source which extend in a first same plane, and at least one roller pivotably mounted about an axis of rotation A and which extends in a second plane parallel to the first plane, at least one roller including a display strip arranged on an outer periphery and on which at least one indication of the time-related magnitude is inscribed, the timepiece movement driving at least one roller in rotation about axis A via drive device which extend in the same second plane as at least one roller, at least one roller and the timepiece movement being centred on axis A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Sylvain Dauby, Sylvain Marechal
  • Patent number: 10675911
    Abstract: An isolator for a wheel hub between a brake rotor and a wheel is described, and includes a disk-shaped annular device including an inner ring, an outer ring, a first face portion, a second face portion, a plurality of apertures, a plurality of drain surface portions, and a plurality of radially-oriented drain channels disposed on the first face portion. Each drain channel is recessed in the first face portion. Each drain surface portion is recessed in the first face portion and is fluidly coupled to one of the drain channels. Each of the drain surface portions includes a continuous surface that is recessed from the first face portion between a drainage curve, a respective drain channel, and an arc that is defined on the inner ring between a first point and the respective drain channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations
    Inventors: Ming Liu, JinLong Zhu, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 10675912
    Abstract: An omnidirectional wheel is provided. The omnidirectional wheel includes a plurality of major brackets, a plurality of minor brackets, a plurality of major wheels and a plurality of minor wheels. The major brackets include a first major bracket. The minor brackets include a first minor bracket. The major wheels include a first major wheel, wherein the major wheels are connected to the respective major brackets, the first major wheel is connected to the first major bracket, the first major wheel is rotatable around a first axis, and the first major bracket extends in a first extending direction. The minor wheels include a first minor wheel, wherein the minor wheels are connected to the respective minor brackets, the first minor wheel is connected to the first minor bracket, the first minor wheel is rotatable around a second axis, and the first minor bracket extends in a second extending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventor: Chen Yi Liang
  • Patent number: 10675913
    Abstract: A bicycle having a rear wheel including an axle, a hub shell, a torque element including a torque output portion and a torque input portion, and a rear cog coupled to the torque input portion. The torque output portion is a first radial distance from the torque input portion. The position sensor measures a rotational position of the torque input portion relative to the torque output portion. In one embodiment, the position sensor includes a displacement indicator (e.g., a radial tab mounted to the torque output portion) and a displacement sensor (e.g., an inductive sensor mounted to the torque input portion). The inductive sensor preferably has two sensing coils positioned on each side of the displacement indicator. The hub assembly can further comprise a wireless transmitter adapted to transmit data from the position sensor. The hub shell preferably includes a window that facilitates data transmission from the wireless transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.
    Inventor: Wolfgang Ebersbach
  • Patent number: 10675914
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus designed to engage tire chains on motorized vehicles when hazardous road conditions are present, including snow or ice. Moreover, the chains are designed to be deployed manually from inoperative to operative positioning by raising and lowering the apparatus handle. A rotating quick deploy chain wheel at the bottom of the apparatus throws a plurality of chains between the tire and road surface generating vehicle traction. This utility patent for tire chains will provide a cost effective, simple method for putting on and taking off snow tire chains. Existing automatic chain systems characteristically require electronics, motors or a pneumatic system. The embodiment of this apparatus is the simplicity of locking a handle and the chains are engaged. Releasing the handle and the chains are disengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Dusawn Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Charles Edward Anderson, Jr., Kristine Janelle Im
  • Patent number: 10675915
    Abstract: A rubber composition contains a diene rubber containing a styrene-butadiene copolymer component formed from at least one type of styrene-butadiene copolymer and a reinforcing filler; the styrene-butadiene copolymer satisfying: a bonded styrene content being from 5 to 50 wt. %; a total of styrene content of an ozone-decomposed component S1 having one styrene-derived unit and styrene content of an ozone-decomposed component S1V1 having one styrene-derived unit and one 1,2-bonded butadiene-derived unit being less than 80 wt. % of the bonded styrene content and a total of styrene content of the ozone-decomposed component S1V1 being 10 wt. % or greater of the bonded styrene content; an integrated intensity of an ozone-decomposed component S1V2 having one styrene-derived unit and two 1,2-bonded butadiene-derived units being 15% or greater of an integrated intensity of all ozone-decomposed components containing a styrene-derived unit; and a vinyl content of butadiene moiety being 50% or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Sekine, Makoto Ashiura, Ryosuke Sakai, Fumito Yatsuyanagi
  • Patent number: 10675916
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a land portion is provided with a land groove connected to a peripheral grooves only in first end portion among both end portions. A direction in which the first end portion of the land groove connected to first side of at least one the peripheral groove is inclined to a tire width direction is the same as a direction in which the first portion of the land groove connected to second side of the peripheral groove is inclined to the tire width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Souichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10675917
    Abstract: A tire comprises center blocks 4 comprising a first center lateral groove 5A and a second center closed sipe 6a opposed to each other in a tire axial direction, and a second center lateral groove 5B and a first center closed sipe 6b axially opposed to each other. Lengths thereof satisfy the followings: LA/LA0?½, LB/LB0?½, Lb/Lb0 in a range of from ? to ?, La/La0 in a range of from ? to ?, LA<La, (LA+La)<LA0, LB<Lb, and (LB+Lb)<LB0. The center blocks 4 comprise a high rigidity region extending continuously between penetrating sipes 3 and between a first imaginary line passing through terminating ends of the first center lateral groove and the first center closed sipe and a second imaginary line passing through terminating ends of the second center lateral groove and the second center closed sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Aya Wakizono, Hiroshi Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 10675918
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall portion provided in its radially outer region B with side protectors protruding axially outwardly from the outer surface Ba of the radially outer region B. The side protectors are arranged in the tire circumferential direction at intervals so that grooved portions are formed between the side protectors. The width W1 in the tire circumferential direction of the grooved portion is in a range of from 50% to 70% of the width W2 in the tire circumferential direction of the side protector when measured at the same radial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Kageyama
  • Patent number: 10675919
    Abstract: A circumferential direction protrusion is provided extending longitudinally mainly along a tire circumferential direction on a side outward in a tire radial direction from a maximum tire width position on at least a first tire side portion of a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Kodama, Masataka Koishi, Kenichiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10675920
    Abstract: A circumferential direction protrusion is provided extending longitudinally mainly along a tire circumferential direction on a side outward in a tire radial direction from a maximum tire width position on at least a first tire side portion of a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Kodama, Masataka Koishi, Kenichiro Endo
  • Patent number: 10675921
    Abstract: A tire pressure detector disposed at a wheel, wherein the wheel includes a rim and a tire mounted around the rim, with a pressure space formed between the tire and the rim. The rim includes an air tap connected with the pressure space. The tire pressure detector includes a main body movably disposed in the pressure space and provided with a housing space, and a detection module disposed in the housing space. The detection module further includes a sensing unit for sensing the air pressure in the pressure space and producing a pressure signal. A central processing unit of the detection module receives the pressure signal and wirelessly transmits the pressure signal through the wireless transmission unit. Therefore, vibration and waving issue due to imbalance weight is avoided, thus balancing the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CUB ELECPARTS INC.
    Inventors: San-Chuan Yu, Yuan-Tung Hung, Kuo-Ting Lee, Kuan-Kai Huang
  • Patent number: 10675922
    Abstract: A pneumatic vehicle tire having a self-sealing sealant arranged in its interior, on the inner surface opposite from the tread, the sealant being highly viscous and the sealant having such a tackiness that it adheres to the inner surface. The inner surface on which the sealant is arranged has regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect, these regions provided with an adhesion-reducing effect taking up between 40% and 60% of the inner surface on which the sealant is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Jacob, Oliver Schuermann
  • Patent number: 10675923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for pneumatically powering a wheel comprising a bearing support (10), a shaft (20) comprising a hub-forming end (21) which extends radially (Y), at least one set of rolling bearings (30), wherein the system further comprises a chamber (C) formed by the hub-forming end (21), the bearing support (10), a rolling bearing seal (40) and a chamber seal (50), a primary channel (60) crossing the bearing support (10) and opening into the chamber (C), a secondary channel (70) crossing the hub-forming end (21) and opening into the chamber (C), wherein seals seal the cavity (C) in order to let air pass from the primary channel to the secondary channel via the cavity (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: POCALIN HYDRAULICS INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Stephane Vidal, Marc Perot, Sylvain Michon
  • Patent number: 10675924
    Abstract: A tire inflation system for a work vehicle includes a controller with a memory and a processor, where the controller is configured to perform an iterative process until a stopping condition is reached. The iterative process includes receiving a tire pressure sensor signal indicative of a tire pressure a one tire, receiving a draft load sensor signal indicative of a draft load on the work vehicle, determining a draft load difference between the draft load and a maximum draft load, and outputting a target tire pressure output signal indicative of instructions to adjust the tire pressure of the tire in response to determining that the draft load difference is greater than or equal to a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Rowland J. Milburn, Jr., Paulius R. Stonikas, William Louis Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10675925
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire-wear detection sensor for a vehicle having a telematics system and tires including a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and an RF antenna in electronic communication with the sensors, and capable of transmitting the temperature signal and the pressure signal to the telematics system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Charles Lee Oakes, III, Jess W. Gingrich
  • Patent number: 10675926
    Abstract: An inspection system for use in measuring several vehicle conditions in a high volume vehicle inspection line. A plurality of sensors are installed on a vehicle for measuring a plurality of vehicle conditions to assist in the rapid evaluation of critical vehicle conditions or parameters. At least one tool is positioned along a vehicle path in a monitoring station. As the vehicle passes through the monitoring station, the tool received electronic data from the plurality of sensors and displays one or more signals to alert an inspector of acceptable or unacceptable vehicle conditions. In one example, the plurality of sensors includes tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) data from the vehicle tires to rapidly assess the condition of the tire air pressure and other monitored tire conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ATEQ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jacques Mouchet
  • Patent number: 10675927
    Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system includes a processing station for processing at least one of a tire and a wheel prior to joining the tire and the wheel for forming a tire-wheel assembly. The processing station includes one of a tire lubricating sub-station and a wheel lubricating sub-station. A lubrication conditioning system is fluidly-coupled to the processing station. The lubrication conditioning system includes: a lubricant reservoir, a lubricant temperature modifier arranged at least proximate to the lubricant reservoir, a lubricant temperature sensor arranged within a cavity formed by the lubricant reservoir and a controller communicatively-coupled to both of the lubricant temperature modifier and the lubricant temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Android Industries LLC
    Inventors: Donald Graham Straitiff, Barry Allan Clark, Lawrence J. Lawson, Joshua James Hicks, Robert Reece, David Henry Larson
  • Patent number: 10675928
    Abstract: The method for assembling a set of construction elements (1) comprises at least the following steps: a) assembling two complementary external faces of two construction elements (1) by adhesion, b) continuing the assembly carried out in step a) by adhering other faces of the elements (1) to complementary external faces of other construction elements (1) until a predefined portion of a building or engineered structure is obtained, c) adhering sheets (15, 16), so-called cladding sheets, made of a wood-based material to at least a portion of the coplanar faces of the elements (1) assembled in the preceding steps, d) repeating steps a) to c) until the part is obtained. The invention also relates to a building made with at least three elements assembled according to the method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PI SYSTEM AUTOMATION
    Inventors: Pascal Barnichon, Benoit Brandely, Gilles Ramillien
  • Patent number: 10675929
    Abstract: A valve stem cover includes a cylindrical cap open at a bottom end thereof and threaded with threads on an inside surface thereof. The cylindrical cap is adapted for threaded engagement with a threaded tire valve stem that projects through a wheel rim. A skirt projects downwardly from the bottom end of the cylindrical cap and is adapted to cover substantially a lower portion of a threaded tire valve stem that projects through the wheel rim. A decorative top portion projects upwardly from a top end of the cylindrical cap and can be removable for interchangeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventors: Enrique J. Baiz, Osvaldo Izquierdo
  • Patent number: 10675930
    Abstract: A recreational collapsing/expanding tow bar for towing a vehicle. The tow bar contains a collapsing/expanding middle part and a pair of attachment ends. The attachment ends include a sleeve, fastener, and bar end. The fastener includes a first end, a second end, a ball, and a shaft. The fastener is secured within the sleeve and retained with the bar end. The fastener can be used in a fixed rigid position or a rotational position. The collapsing/expanding middle part is rigid and adjustable to various distances between the towing and towed vehicle, wherein the device is compact in size and easily stored. Additional towing connectors are disclosed to engage a snowmobile and motorcycle for being towed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Robert J Ramstad
  • Patent number: 10675931
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing sway between a towing vehicle and a trailer is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a bracket assembly that attaches to a tongue of a trailer. The bracket assembly may include a surface for supporting a spring arm extending from a weight distribution hitch installed on a tow vehicle. The bracket assembly may include a clamp that is able to apply a frictional force to thereby oppose movement of the spring arm. The clamping force applied by the clamp may be variable to ensure proper operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: PROGRESS MFG. INC.
    Inventor: Jed Anderson
  • Patent number: 10675932
    Abstract: A dual-mode vehicle, wheels for the vehicle, and a method of transitioning the vehicle from a land mode to a flight mode. In the land mode, the method includes rotating a pair of spaced wheel arms about a central pivot to lower a body of the dual-mode vehicle to a ground surface. Each wheel arm extends from the central pivot to a wheel. The method also includes rotating the central pivot about a longitudinal vehicle axis to raise the wheel arms and the wheels above the ground surface. After raising the wheel arms and wheels above the ground surface, the method includes rotating the wheel arms about the central pivot to position the wheels for use as rotors in the flight mode. In the flight mode, the method includes rotating the wheels in order to extract rotor blades positioned within the wheels to extend beyond the wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Taewoo Nam, Yasuo Uehara
  • Patent number: 10675933
    Abstract: A control arm assembly for a suspension system of a vehicle includes a base member configured to couple to a structural member of the vehicle via at least one isolator, and a control arm pivotally coupled to the base member and configured to couple to a steering knuckle of the vehicle, such that kinematics acting on the control arm are decoupled from an isolation provided by the coupling between the base member and the vehicle structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Thomas F. Wentworth, Gregory A Sbroglia