Patents Issued in July 9, 2020
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Publication number: 20200216239Abstract: A rubberized food-grade device temporarily attaches to a beverage receptacle, preventing insects from entering the beverage but allowing individuals to drink from the receptacle freely. Different devices are contemplated for attachment to bottles, cans, or drinking glasses and are shaped in novel ways.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Michael James Bartelme, Neil Robert Crawford
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Publication number: 20200216240Abstract: A storage container can include at least one movement sensor in or on a frame of the storage container and at least one movement sensor in or on a door of the storage container. A processor can compare outputs of the movement sensors to determine whether the door is open.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: James McBride, Hans Rodrigues de Miranda, Jason Pedersen, Terry Mosier, Bryan Edward Pavlovic, Joshua Jacque Edberg
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Publication number: 20200216241Abstract: A cushion sleeve that protects a bundle of cables secured to a support structure by stainless steel strapping. The cushion sleeve includes a top, a bottom, a first end, and a second end. The cushion sleeve includes a body and sidewalls extending from the body. The cushion sleeve also includes a barbed tongue extending from the first end or the second end of the cushion sleeve and slots located at the opposite end of the cushion sleeve. When installing the cushion sleeve, the barbed tongue is inserted through one of the slots and pulled until the cushion sleeve is tight around the cable bundle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Adam W. Hong, Russell K. Morrow, Rodney G. Rouleau
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Publication number: 20200216242Abstract: A bundle comprising a plurality of paper sheets lying upon another and defining a stack and a tie having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end is provided, wherein a first portion of the tie at the first end overlaps a second portion of the tie at the second end and is connected to the second portion to tie the stack, the first portion being positioned on an end face of the stack, wherein the first portion comprises at least one opening accessible by a user's finger to grip the tie and break the connection between the first and second end portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Corwin James Ackerman, Evan Alton Hutker
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Publication number: 20200216243Abstract: A pouched unit comprising a dose of a substance which is enveloped by a main part of a pouch made from a water soluble material, wherein the pouch comprises a secondary part made from the water soluble material, the secondary part is attached to the main part via a weaker area of the water soluble material, which weaker area is configured to allow manual separation of the secondary part from the main part, and the substance comprises a food material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Arie BOOD
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Publication number: 20200216244Abstract: Disclosed is a biodegradable packaging including: —a biodegradable substrate including a bottom from the edge of which a wall rises so as to define an inner face capable of containing an item, such as a food item or a plant; —a biodegradable film. The biodegradable substrate includes one or more openings arranged on the bottom and/or the wall, the biodegradable film being positioned on the inner face of the biodegradable medium so as to seal at least the openings. The biodegradable film is positioned on the biodegradable substrate by the in-mould labelling technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Vincent PLUQUET, Guillaume BEAUVAIS, Xavier GARREAU
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Publication number: 20200216245Abstract: A bottle holder (2) comprising a base (3) and a lid (4), wherein the base comprises a plurality of bottle receiving portions (7), each bottle receiving portion being configured to engage a neck of a bottle, the lid being configured to engage the base and cover tops of bottles engaged by the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Colin Coules
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Publication number: 20200216246Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a package, a carton, and a blank for forming the carton. An aspect of the invention provides a package comprising a carton or article carrier loaded with one or more articles. The package comprises a group of generally cylindrical articles each having an end and a cylindrical side. The carton is disposed at least partially around the group of articles B. The carton comprises a plurality of panels including: a bottom wall, a top wall, first and second opposed side walls and first and second opposed end walls. The group of articles are arranged in a plurality of rows of articles comprising a first row and a second row.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Nathaniel B. Ball, Meng-Chuan Wu
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Publication number: 20200216247Abstract: The present package for rolled tissue products is formed from a semi-rigid film having a bending stiffness greater than about 20.0 mgf that when folded and sealed provides the package with distinct, planar walls that provide a clear view of the tissue products and may be printed with brand indicia. The package can be provided with a resealable flap that provides easy and convenient repeated access to the tissue products. Also, after products have been dispensed, the package maintains its form and integrity, which is not only visually pleasing, but also permits the package to be stacked even after it has been opened and tissue products have been dispensed. The package rigidity is provided by the material and package configuration and does not require a container or the like to retain the product and provide stability to the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Linda Marie Barran, Timothy Scott Burnham
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Publication number: 20200216248Abstract: A spout for a container, wherein the spout includes a spout body and a spout counterpart. The spout body has a first zone, and the spout counterpart has a final zone. In the final position of the spout, an outlet opening arranged on the spout is open, providing a liquid communication through the spout body to and through the outlet opening. The final zone features a first subzone and a second subzone, arranged free of mutual overlap, allowing the spout to be arranged in its final position in two different configurations: a first configuration of the final position, where a reference subzone of the first zone is arranged to physically interact with the first subzone, and a second configuration of the final position, where the reference subzone is arranged to physically interact with the second subzone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Vincent Vaucher
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Publication number: 20200216249Abstract: A box formed from a plastic corrugated material with soft score lines is provided. The soft score lines are formed to enable the top flaps of the box to lay substantially flat against the outer surface of the box when folded to an open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Donald J. Balazs
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Publication number: 20200216250Abstract: Disclosed are a method for packaging a display panel, a display panel packaging box, and a packaging box body (100). The method includes: placing and fixing one display panel in a packaging box body (100), and the part of the display panel having a driving circuit board faces a first direction, the part of the display panel having a panel module faces a second direction, the first direction is opposite to the second direction; and placing and fixing another display panel in the packaging box body (100), and the part of the another display panel having the panel module faces the first direction, the part of the another display panel having the driving circuit board facing the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Shuozhen LIANG
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Publication number: 20200216251Abstract: A cushion member includes a tubular portion and an abutting portion. The tubular portion has, in its inside, a hollow that extends in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of a storage portion. The tubular portion can be elastically deformed by an external force in the first direction. The abutting portion abuts on, in the first direction, a portion of the cover portion other than the lid. An evasive cut portion is formed at a portion of the tubular portion that faces the lid of the cover portion in the first direction, the evasive cut portion being a cut that is cut into from an end of the tubular portion in the second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Yuta Nohara, Yoshihiro Ando
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Publication number: 20200216252Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide dunnage including a void filler and an attachment member usable to suspend the void filler in midair adjacent a palletized load of goods.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Humberto Laguna
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Publication number: 20200216253Abstract: It is an object to simply control an internal temperature of each individual container. A container comprises a cover portion; a box body including; a containing space formed therein; and an opening surface openable and closable by the cover portion; and a recording device including: a storage unit storing measurement information containing an internal temperature of the containing space and time when measuring the temperature; and a communication unit transmitting the measurement information to an external device, the recording device being provided in the cover portion, or the box body, or within the containing space, outside surfaces of the cover portion and the box body being covered with a metallic material to block communications between the communication unit and the external device, the metallic material used blocking of the communications between the communication unit and the external device being cancelled upon opening the cover portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Toru TANABE, Nobuya HORIKOSHI
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Publication number: 20200216254Abstract: It is an object to simply control a temperature of a predetermined space. A temperature control apparatus comprises a storage unit storing measurement information containing temperatures measured in a containing space of a container to be transported, and measurement time of each temperature; and a temperature control unit determining time when the temperature contained in the measurement information, stored in the storage unit, of the containing space reaches for the first time a temperature lower than an upper limit value of a temperature zone to be kept in the containing space, as start time of transporting the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Toru TANABE, Richard KOIKE
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Publication number: 20200216255Abstract: A product and product packaging suitable for retail sale. The product can include a package carton comprising external and internal surfaces, wherein the internal surface includes a plurality of fold lines and first and second graphic portions, wherein the graphic portions are suitable to provide at least a portion of at least one of a toy, a game, a collectible, and an educational tool. The first graphic portion and the second graphic portion are bilaterally symmetrical to each other relative to at least one fold line of the plurality of fold lines. In another embodiment, the product is for use by a first consumer group but not a second consumer group, while the at least one of the toy, game, collectible, and educational tool is for use by the second consumer group but not the first consumer group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Amit Sachdev, David Wood, Derek Manwaring, Gonzalo Canteros-Paz, Mark G. Evans, Mauriclo Mountinho, Penne Tornett, Samatha Boulukos, Sara Scrittore, Samir Idichchou, Xuan Dai, Adriana Leite, Hairong Wang
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Publication number: 20200216256Abstract: A compostable lid intended to seal a beverage capsule is provided. The lid is composed of a multilayer complex successively comprising a non-woven material wherein at least 50% by weight of the fibers are composed of polylactic acid (PLA), an adhesive layer suitable for coming into contact with food, and a support layer composed of a vegetable parchment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Valerio MIOZZO, Hervé PLANCHARD, Florence VIDAL, Mireille ROUX
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Publication number: 20200216257Abstract: A capsule for powder or semi-liquid food products includes: a hollow rigid body forming a chamber for a dose of product and having a base and upper opening. A cover closes the opening. Elements for controlled flow of a solvent toward the chamber are formed on the cover and result in thrust on the cover via pressure of the solvent, to allow sliding of the cover, guided by walls of the body, from the opening towards the base with pushing on the dose. Notches on the base act as flexible membranes to obtain an opening of the base, at the thrust of the cover, and allow the passage of the dose towards a connecting duct. Elements retaining the cover on the opening are positioned between the cover and an annular zone of the opening of the body, and temporarily retain the cover up to the start of the thrust.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Alberto ZAPPOLI, Roberto DEMONTIS
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Publication number: 20200216258Abstract: The present invention relates to an expandable infusion packet (1, 5), wherein the infusion packet is in a permanently compressed state in the absence of water and converts to an expanded state in the presence of water.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVERInventor: Fabio BENINATI
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Publication number: 20200216259Abstract: Waste chute devices and methods for using the same are provided. In some embodiments, a method for operating waste chutes comprises: receiving, using a hardware processor of a waste chute device, an identity associated with a user of the waste chute device; in response to receiving the identity associated with the user, allowing, using the hardware processor, a door of the waste chute device to be opened; determining, using the hardware processor, a number of items and at least one type associated with the items that have been placed in an opening of the waste chute device; determining, using the hardware processor, that the door of the waste chute device has been closed; updating, using the hardware processor, information associated with the user based on the number of items and the at least one type of items that have been placed in the opening of the waste chute device; and providing, using the hardware processor, the user with the updated information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Rohit Thomas Aggarwala, Anand Naga Babu, Jesse Shapins, Matthew Eli Breuer, Violet Whitney, Daniel Henry Vanderkam, Michael Constantine Mattheakis, Thomas Joseph Kennedy, Amanda Meurer
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Publication number: 20200216260Abstract: A trash can anchor device structured and arranged to releasably hold an outdoor trash can and prevent it from being toppled over by gusts of wind or stray animals foraging for food.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Leighton Fraser
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Publication number: 20200216261Abstract: A store for storing parcels has a main aisle and storage aisles arranged transversely to the main aisle and provided with storage places for the parcels. Beams arranged parallel to the main aisle and fastened to supports bear at least some of the weight forces acting in the storage aisles. A transport unit for transporting parcels is arranged in the main aisle. The transport unit has a first transport mechanism moving along the main aisle and a second transport mechanism that transfers parcels from the transport unit into a storage aisle, takes up parcels from a storage aisle and delivers them to the transport unit. The second transport mechanism has a slide movable transversely to the main aisle. The slide forms a rest for parcels during transfer and take-up. A tiltable platform that supports the slide is provided with a tilt mechanism that tilts the platform relative to the transport unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Jan Willem Frederiks
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Publication number: 20200216262Abstract: A buffer storage device (100) for an overhead conveyor system (10) having individually conveyable transport units (40), with a closed conveying path that includes a buffer section (117) along which transport units are conveyable downstream, a feed section (104) for feeding transport units to a feed point (102) of the buffer section, a discharge section (105) for discharging transport units from a discharge point (103) of the buffer section, and one or more additional bypass sections (113) which in each case connect a starting point along the buffer section to a destination point along the buffer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: FERAG AGInventor: Sergio SIGRIST
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Publication number: 20200216263Abstract: A container handling vehicle for an automated storage and retrieval system includes a three-dimensional grid having multiple storage columns, in which containers are stored one on top of another in vertical stacks. The container handling vehicle is arrangeable above a top level of the grid for retrieving a container from, and storing a container in, at least some of the storage columns, and/or for transporting a container horizontally across the top level of the grid. The container handling vehicle has a lifting device including a lifting frame for releasable connection to a container, and lifting bands arranged to lower and raise the lifting frame relative to the storage columns. The lifting device includes a container centring device arranged to extend around portions of the lifting frame. The container centring device having a lower open end including at least one edge element for interaction with a peripheral part of the upper end of a storage column.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Autostore Technology ASInventors: Ivar Fjeldheim, Trond Austrheim
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Publication number: 20200216264Abstract: An automated production system for facilitating execution of a work order within a facility. The system includes a fetch robot at an inventory storage station (ISS), an automated guided vehicle (AGV) moving autonomously between the ISS and work stations, and a controller in communication with the fetch robot and AGV. The controller receives the work order, directs the AGV to move to the ISS, receive a first signal that the AGV has arrived at the ISS, and directs, based on receiving the first signal, the fetch robot to retrieve a part associated with the work order from within the ISS, wherein the fetch robot loads the part onto the AGV. The controller also receives a second signal that retrieval and loading of the part has been completed, and directs, based on receiving the second signal, the AGV to deliver the part from the ISS to the work station.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Fernando L. Martinez, Erica Nicole Hunt
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Publication number: 20200216265Abstract: A method is provided for delivering source containers, via a mobile robotic container delivery system, to a first shelf and a second shelf, and in a particular order. Each source container has a position on one of the first shelf or the second shelf. The method includes delivering recipient containers on a floor level below the first shelf, wherein each container of the recipient containers is configured on a respective mobile robot, providing instructions to a user to retrieve an item from a first respective source container on one of the first shelf or the second shelf, moving a respective first recipient container on its respective first mobile robot out from underneath the first shelf to receive the item retrieved from the respective first source container and receiving a confirmation that the item has been retrieved from the respective first source container and placed appropriately.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Daniel THEOBALD
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Publication number: 20200216266Abstract: A robotic shuttle system for logistics and a control method thereof are disclosed. The novel robotic shuttle system for logistics is compact in structure, convenient for disassembly and maintenance, and integrated intelligently, and may precisely realize the functions such as moving, lifting, carrying, fault warning, etc. The novel robotic shuttle system for logistics includes a novel logistics shuttle robot and a WCS automatic storage system; the novel logistics shuttle robot includes a vehicle body, a straight motor, a straight wheel, a transverse motor, a transverse wheel, a position sensor, a lifting motor, an encoder, a PLC controller, a lifting position sensor, a telescopic fork, a finger, a telescopic fork position sensor, a telescopic fork motor, and an antenna; and the bottom of the vehicle body- is respectively provided with the straight wheel and the transverse wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Wu Xi Galaxy Technology Company LimitedInventors: Lu SHEN, Chunguang GU, Yan YANG
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Publication number: 20200216267Abstract: The present invention relates to a belt with a protrusion, including: a belt main body including tooth portions at a predetermined tooth pitch on an inner surface of the belt in a longitudinal direction, and a cord extending in the longitudinal direction and arranged at a predetermined cord pitch in a width direction; and a protruding portion formed on a back surface of the belt main body by an integral formation, in which: the cord has a fineness of 900 to 1100 deniers, and a ratio of a total of intervals between the adjacent cords to a belt width of 12 to 45%; and the protruding portion is arranged outside the tooth portions, has a hardness of 81 to 91 degrees, and has a base width smaller than the tooth pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.Inventors: Kentaro Arimachi, Akira Takenaka, Takahide Okazawa
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Publication number: 20200216268Abstract: A shuttle for logistics includes a vehicle body, a supercapacitor, a straight wheel, a straight motor, a transverse wheel, a transverse motor, a synchronous belt, a position sensor, a charging contact, a lifting motor, a lifting frame, a second synchronous belt, an encoder, a PLC controller, a lifting cam, a lifting position sensor, a telescopic fork, a finger, a telescopic fork position sensor, a telescopic fork motor, an antenna, and a controller. A bottom of the vehicle body is provided with the straight wheel and the transverse wheel, and a level of the straight wheel is lower than that of the transverse wheel. The straight motor and the transverse motor are arranged on the vehicle body, respectively. The straight motor is linked to the straight wheel, and the transverse motor is linked to the transverse wheel. The supercapacitor is arranged on the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Wu Xi Galaxy Technology Company LimitedInventors: Lu SHEN, Chunguang GU, Yan YANG
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Publication number: 20200216269Abstract: The invention relates to a driving end module of a modular conveyor belt, the driving end module having an elongate body with an arrangement of interspaced fingers on opposed sides along the length of the body. Each interspaced finger includes a transverse aperture which defines a link path through the transverse apertures into which a rigid rod can be inserted through an installation aperture to link two adjacent conveyor belt rows to each other and provide a conveyor belt section. The driving head also includes a socket located between the installation aperture and the link path which is shaped to receive a plug to prevent the rigid rod from sliding through the installation aperture. The driving end module further includes a terminal driving head having a positive drive protrusion which in use engages a vertically extending ridge of a rotating drive tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Christopher Dale
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Publication number: 20200216270Abstract: A device for singulation of used beverage or food containers received in bulk into individual objects, including: a first receiving area arranged for simultaneously receiving and keeping a plurality of containers; a second receiving area positioned at a higher vertical level than the first receiving area, wherein the device further includes a transporting device comprising a container elevating member for transporting a container from the first receiving area to the second receiving area wherein the elevating member is attached to said transporting device, moves along and is locked to a circumferential path around a first axis upon activation of the transporting device, and the first axis is inclined at an angle of 1° to 45° relative the horizontal plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Tomra Systems ASAInventor: Anders ANVIK
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Publication number: 20200216271Abstract: A glass processing apparatus to convey a glass sheet along a conveyance path can include a plurality of air bars spaced apart from each other along a first direction extending perpendicular to a central axis. Each air bar can include a surface with a plurality of fluid outlet ports. The glass processing apparatus can include a plurality of plates, and at least one of the plurality of plates can be positioned between ones of the plurality of air bars. Each plate can include a surface with a plurality of fluid inlet ports. The plurality of air bars and the plurality of plates can be symmetrically arranged relative to the central axis. Methods of processing a glass sheet can include emitting fluid from the plurality of fluid outlet ports of each of the plurality of air bars, thereby providing a cushion of fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Cheng Nan Chou, Ming Hua Chuang
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Publication number: 20200216272Abstract: A receiver having a horizontally elongated chamber within a housing, the chamber having a convex triangular cross-section and a dump flap defining a bottom vertex of the triangular cross-section, with a horizontal air/vacuum resin material inlet connecting to the chamber, and a horizontal air/vacuum outlet leading from and connected to the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: .Inventor: Stephen B. Maguire
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Publication number: 20200216273Abstract: A reaction vessel pickup mechanism, an automatic loading device, a sample analyzer, and a loading method are disclosed. Driven by a driving structure, each of the pickup blocks moves in a first preset time or a preset distance and then stops or shakes, so that a reaction vessel is dropped from the pickup blocks more easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhengguo WANG, Yanwen WENG, Zhi ZHANG, Changan WANG, Jun WANG
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Publication number: 20200216274Abstract: A device (20) for distribution of solid particles (22) for loading a vessel with solid particles, comprising a solid particles feed hopper (21), a rotating member and a drive member for driving in rotation said rotating member about a rotation axis, and a set of at least one deflector element (25, 25?, 25?) carried by said rotating member and erected, or adapted to be erected, on rotation of the shaft, relative to the rotation axis, in which device the feed hopper defines a set of at least one opening (29) conformed in an asymmetric manner relative to the rotation axis, defining at most one plane of symmetry passing through the rotation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: PETROVALInventors: Olivier GIRARD, François GUERRAND, Adriaan STANDER, Giuseppe GALASSINI
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Publication number: 20200216275Abstract: A crop input transfer system for transferring a crop input to an implement tank supported on an implement dispensing the crop input, the crop input transfer system includes a mobile supply vehicle powered independent of the implement. The mobile supply vehicle has a boom and a supply tank holding a crop input supply. The crop transfer system includes a coupler with a first coupler portion that matingly couples with a second coupler portion. The first coupler portion is mounted to the boom and the second coupler portion is mounted to the implement. The crop input supply in the supply tank is communicated to implement tank via the matingly coupled first and second coupler portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Jonathan T. Welte, Nowell Moore
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Publication number: 20200216276Abstract: The wheel chock includes a locking mechanism that can be held in a locked state when properly positioned on a base plate. The locking mechanism includes a positioning unit having at least one tooth provided to engage a side of a corresponding one of the blocking elements in a latched engagement when the positioning unit is in the fully locked position. The locking mechanism also includes first means for moving the positioning unit from the unlocked position towards the fully locked position, and second means for selectively holding the positioning unit in the fully locked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: 9172-9863 QUEBEC INC.Inventors: Gregory PALMER, Jonathan DUBE, Daniel GROTHE, Gaetan JETTE, Marc-Andre BOIVIN
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Publication number: 20200216277Abstract: A sheet container includes a sheet loader, a pair of sheet regulators, a pressing member, and a pressing force adjusting device. The sheet loader is movable in a vertical direction and configured to load a sheet. The pair of sheet regulators is configured to regulate a position in a width direction of the sheet loaded on the sheet loader. The pressing member is disposed on at least one of the pair of sheet regulators and configured to press a lateral end face of the sheet, toward another one of the pair of sheet regulators in the width direction of the sheet. The pressing force adjusting device is configured to adjust pressing force generated by the pressing member to the sheet while maintaining a state in which the pressing member applies the pressing force to the sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Shinya OHISHI, Ippei KIMURA
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Publication number: 20200216278Abstract: A gripper arrangement for lifting a flexible semi-finished product from a support, wherein the gripper arrangement comprises a flexible semi-finished product resting on a support and at least one pair of grippers with a suction gripper or needle gripper and with at least one clamping gripper, wherein the suction or needle gripper is pivotable around an axis between a pick-up position for picking up an edge of the flexible semi-finished product and a transfer position for transferring the edge of the flexible semi-finished product to the clamping gripper. Furthermore, a corresponding method is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Dominic WILKEN
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Publication number: 20200216279Abstract: A transporting device sends a sheet with the rotation of a first drive roller with the sheet sandwiched between a first drive roller and a driven roller. The sheet is sent to a direction to which a back surface thereof is pressed against a guide surface, and is transported to a second drive roller in a state of being pressed against the guide surface after the guide surface pushing and bending a transport path toward a front surface side. A lifted amount of the sheet from the guide surface is monitored by a sensor, and the transportation is stopped in a case where the lifted amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yuji ASANO
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Publication number: 20200216280Abstract: Provided is a sensor control apparatus including a main board, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor, which are connected in series to the main board. The first sensor includes a diagnosis unit configured to perform a failure diagnosis of each of an LED, a phototransistor, and an LED controller. In a case where a failure is detected, the diagnosis unit electrically isolates the first sensor from the series connection, and supplies a power supply voltage to the second sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Mitsuhiro Sugeta
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Publication number: 20200216281Abstract: A web handling system and method for controlling tension in a web of material is disclosed. For instance, the web handling system is particularly well suited for maintaining web tension within predefined setpoints during temporary interruptions in the process, such as during splicing operations. The web handling system includes an accumulator or festoon that accumulates amounts of the material as the material is being fed downstream. At least one guide roll within the festoon is coupled to a drive device, such as a motor. The system also includes at least one tension sensing device. The drive device accelerates or decelerates the guide roll based upon information obtained from the tension sensing device. In one embodiment, the system further includes an electronic gearing configuration between a roll of material being unwound and the guide roll within the festoon for better synchronization and further minimizing tension swings.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Pramod R. Raul, Aaron Gander, Eric-John R. Gilgenbach
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Publication number: 20200216282Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a blade configured to cut a sheet that is conveyed along a sheet conveyance path, a scrap path through which scrap generated when the sheet is cut by the blade passes, a guide member configured to guide the sheet conveyed, and a blowing unit configured to blow air such that the air crosses the sheet conveyance path from a side opposite the scrap path with the sheet conveyance path therebetween, wherein the blowing unit blows air such that the air flows along the guide member positioned at a second position at which the scrap is allowed to enter the scrap path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Shigeo Doi
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Publication number: 20200216283Abstract: An example apparatus includes a media receiving portion having a leading edge receiving region and a trailing edge receiving region for receiving media traveling onto the media receiving portion in a direction from the trailing edge receiving portion the leading edge receiving portion. The example apparatus further includes a leading edge stop coupled to the media receiving portion at the leading edge receiving portion. The leading edge stop is resiliently coupled to the media receiving portion to bias against movement of the leading edge stop from a resting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Kevin Lo, Daniel Fredrickson, Tim Roels, Brett Thomas Buchholtz, Steven Brown, Hunter Dane Cantrell
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Publication number: 20200216284Abstract: An example disclosed output hopper includes a cavity to receive media units from an output of a media processing device, the cavity to cause the media units to form a stack in a first direction; a first door pivotably movable between a closed position and an open position, the first door to retain the media units in the cavity when in the closed position, wherein the first door is configured to pivot on a first axis substantially parallel to the first direction; wherein: the first door includes a first cutout at a first top edge of the first door; and the first cutout allow the media units to spill over the first and second top edges when a capacity of the cavity is exceeded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Graham Marshall, Konstantinos Tsiopanos, Thomas R. Helma, Noel R. Bankston
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Publication number: 20200216285Abstract: A variable sized coiled tubing counter is described herein. The variable sized coiled tubing counter includes a plurality of rollers. At least one roller is a floating roller which is allowed to travel and may be connected to a tension assembly. The variable sized tubing counter typically includes a counter which is rotationally connected to a floating counting roller using a somewhat flexible axle. As coiled tubing passes through the tubing counter, the length of tubing is determined based on the number of rotations of the counting roller. The use of floating, tensioned rollers allows the disclosed tubing counter to be utilized with multiple diameters of coiled tubing without significant adjustment to the tubing counter or changing components of the tubing counter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2020Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: PREMIER COIL SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Randall Dean Behrens
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Publication number: 20200216286Abstract: Elastic yarn wound body packages able to simplify processing of a tail yarn of an elastic yarn when manufacturing a fabric, or the like, continuously by simultaneous vertical take-up unwinding of a multistage elastic yarn through providing elastic yarn wound body packages on a multistage stand are provided. The elastic yarn wound body package comprises a paper tube and an elastic yarn wound body, wherein: the paper tube has a groove in the circumferential direction, perpendicular to the paper tube axis, between an end portion of the elastic yarn wound body and an end portion of the paper tube; a tail yarn of the elastic yarn wound body is wound into the groove; and a wire-shaped object or tape-shaped object that crosses at least a portion of the yarn bundle of the tail yarn is held thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Toray Opelontex Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki OZASA, Hideki NAKANISHI, Kayoko NAKAJIMA, Koutarou MIZUNO, Yutaka SATO
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Publication number: 20200216287Abstract: The invention provides a device for winding a flexible tube, the device comprising two identical blades LA placed opposite ways round one against the other and pivotally secured to each other about their respective axes of axial symmetry, which together constitute a pivot axis PIV. The device is remarkable in that: one of the blades presents in its left edge an upwardly open notch EC that is formed by a first circular arc ARC1 having its origin at a connection point PR situated on the right edge of the notch and on the longitudinal axis LG of the blade; a diameter of the first circular arc lying on the longitudinal axis; and the first circular arc presenting a central angle ? of not less than 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2018Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventor: Patrice KANDIN
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Publication number: 20200216288Abstract: A monitoring device (120) is provided at a building (100) in which an elevator (110) is provided and communicates with a center via an IP network (401). The monitoring device (120) includes a communication unit (143) and a selecting unit (133). The communication unit (143) can perform wireless communication in a plurality of communication modes. The selecting unit (133) selects a connection mode on the basis of a first evaluation value and a second evaluation value. The communication unit (143) transmits voice data and state data indicating a state of the elevator (110) to the center in the connection mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tomohiro HATTORI