Patents Issued in July 21, 2020
  • Patent number: 10717222
    Abstract: A multi-lane die is provided. The multi-lane slot die comprises an upper body member, a lower body member, an upper shim, a separator shim, and a lower shim. The upper shim is positioned between the upper body member and the separator shim. The upper shim, the upper body member, and the separator shim define a first at least one dispensing channel that extends to a first at least one dispense opening of the multi-lane die. The lower shim is positioned between the separator shim and the lower body member. The lower shim, the separator shim, and the lower body member define a second at least one dispensing channel that extends to a second at least one dispense opening of the multi-lane die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. Greenlund, David J. Kuenne, Matthew S. Frisinger, Charlotte K. Erickson
  • Patent number: 10717223
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin film of the present invention contains at least a base layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin; a melting point of the thermoplastic resin contained in the heat seal layer is lower than a melting point of the thermoplastic resin of the base layer; a core roughness depth Rk of a surface of the heat seal layer being from 1.2 to 9.0 ?m; and a ratio Rzjis/Rk of a ten point height of roughness profile Rzjis to a core roughness depth Rk of the surface of the heat seal layer measured in accordance with JIS B0601:2013 Appendix 1 being from 2.0 to 9.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: YUPO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Shunsuke Honda, Takahiko Ueda
  • Patent number: 10717224
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a product with skin includes: attaching a preformed base material to a vacuum forming die on a back surface of the base material, disposing a skin material as a material of the skin on a front surface of a base material, and sucking the skin material through the vacuum forming die and the base material to deform a main portion of skin material so as to be in close contact with the front surface of the base material; cutting a surplus portion of the skin material not being in close contact with the front surface of the base material with a trim blade so that a distal end portion remains around the main portion, thereby forming the skin having the distal end portion; and winding the distal end portion of the skin around the back surface of the base material by a winding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yumi Hida, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Kenichi Furuta, Hideyuki Miura, Akira Maeda, Shingo Yokota, Takuya Ueno
  • Patent number: 10717225
    Abstract: A method for placing a piece of a composite material. The piece of the composite material is picked up from a source using an end effector. The piece is moved to a tool using the end effector. The piece is placed on the tool using the end effector. The piece is conformed to a shape of the tool using a roller system in the end effector, in which the roller system is moveable to conform the piece to a shape of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Paul R. Stone
  • Patent number: 10717226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements for agricultural storage bags, more specifically agricultural storage bags having improved shock, tear and puncture resistance, and enhanced stretching properties. The agricultural storage bag has an embossed pattern of a plurality of embossed regions that are comprised of a plurality of linear embosses. Each embossed region is separated by a continuous unembossed region. Further disclosed is a method for forming the improved agricultural storage bags from a collapsed tube formed by a blown film extrusion process. More than one set of intermeshing rollers may be used to apply the embossed pattern to the improved agricultural storage bags. Once the storage bags are embossed, a folding operation may fold the bags into a plurality of annular folds so that the bags may be used with an agricultural bagging machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Poly-America, L.P.
    Inventor: Brad A. Cobler
  • Patent number: 10717227
    Abstract: A soluble material for three-dimensional modeling, which is used as a raw material of a support material for supporting a three-dimensional object when the three-dimensional object is produced, using a 3D printer of a FDM system, includes a polyester resin including one or more aromatic dicarboxylic acid monomer units A with a sulfonate group, one or more dicarboxylic acid monomer units B without a sulfonate group, and one or more diol monomer units. The proportion of the aromatic dicarboxylic acid monomer unit(s) A in the total of all dicarboxylic acid monomer units is from 10 to 70 mol %. The soluble material has hygroscopicity resistance while the material is large in dissolution rate into any neutral water and removable speedily from a precursor of the three-dimensional object without using any aqueous strong alkaline solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Sawada, Tadanori Yoshimura, Jouji Hirai, Takuma Kimura
  • Patent number: 10717228
    Abstract: Various embodiments related to three dimensional printers, and reinforced filaments, and their methods of use are described. In one embodiment, a void free reinforced filament is fed into an conduit nozzle. The reinforced filament includes a core, which may be continuous or semi-continuous, and a matrix material surrounding the core. The reinforced filament is heated to a temperature greater than a melting temperature of the matrix material and less than a melting temperature of the core prior to drag the filament from the conduit nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MARKFORGED, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Thomas Mark, Antoni S. Gozdz
  • Patent number: 10717229
    Abstract: A system for direct writing a conformal or free-form magnet includes producing a magnetic ink compound by mixing an photopolymer base and a magnetic material powder, extruding a layer of the magnetic ink compound through a nozzle on to a target substrate to form a layer, soft-curing the layer by exposing the layer to a first light, repeatedly extruding a layer and soft-curing the layer, then post-curing the magnet by exposing the magnet to a second light and an elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Sameh Dardona, Paul Sheedy, Wayde R. Schmidt, Dustin D. Caldwell, Slade R. Culp
  • Patent number: 10717230
    Abstract: A method for printing an object using a high power one-dimensional (1D) line laser imager for selective laser sintering of thermal plastics. The technique is a two-step process. First, a layer of fresh powder is deposited on top of an existing powder bed. Second, the powder is sintered with the line laser print head. The laser is modulated at the source or with a spatial light modulator. Multiple passes or imagers can be used for increased part width and productivity. Using the relative travel between energy receiving surface and the laser print head in the direction perpendicular to the laser imaging line, a 2D pattern is imaged. Multiple print head can be aligned and joined to form a wider laser print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Chu-heng Liu
  • Patent number: 10717231
    Abstract: A three-dimensional forming apparatus includes: a stage; a material supply unit that supplies the stage with a sintered material including metal powder and a binder; a head unit that includes an energy radiation unit supplying energy capable of sintering the sintered material to the sintered material supplied by the material supply unit; a head base that holds a plurality of the head units; and a driving unit that is capable of three-dimensionally moving the head base relative to the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Katakura, Takeshi Miyashita, Tomoyuki Kamakura, Tetsuhiko Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10717232
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to material sets for 3-dimensional printing, 3-dimensional printing systems, and 3-dimensional printed parts. A material set can include a polyamide polymer powder having an average particle size from 20 ?m to 120 ?m and a fusing agent. The polyamide-11 can have a solution viscosity from 1.5 to 1.75 at room temperature, and may increase by no more than 5% after exposure to 180° C. for 20 hours. The fusing agent can include an energy absorber capable of absorbing electromagnetic radiation to produce heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yi Feng, Erica Montei Fung, Michael A. Novick
  • Patent number: 10717233
    Abstract: The invention comprises an improved 3D object printer for building three dimensional products for multiple industries, including dental fields like orthodontic tooth aligners, drill guides, castable parts, partial dentures, and prosthetic models. The invention further comprises an improved 3D object printer that builds products using an improved, dynamic substrate base. The invention even further comprises a substrate assembly that is customizeable to build from a database of printed object profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Park Dental Research Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald A Bulard
  • Patent number: 10717234
    Abstract: A system for transferring near-UV and/or UV photons with engineered angular momentum on to matter, and treat organic and inorganic substances and/or impurities comprising a coherent or incoherent source of near-UV and/or UV photons, and one or more angular momentum generators configured to deliver near-UV and/or UV photons with optimized spin angular momentum (SAM), orbital angular momentum OAM, and/or a SAM/OAM combination to target organic or inorganic substance and/or impurity, wherein the angular momentum generators are scalable such that they can be fabricated as a stand alone structure, as a structure fabricated on the package of the near-UV and/or UV photon source, or as an integral part of the near-UV and/or UV photon source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NuSpot Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Paolo Batoni
  • Patent number: 10717235
    Abstract: A method and a device for three-dimensional joint color and translucency printing, wherein at least a first non-transparent printing material with a first printing material color and at least one transparent printing material (6) is used to construct a printing object (7), wherein an arrangement of the printing materials is determined based on a desired color reproduction of the printing object (7), wherein the arrangement of the printing materials is determined based on a desired translucency reproduction of the printing object (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Alan Brunton, Can Ates Arikan, Philipp Urban, Tejas Madan Tanksale
  • Patent number: 10717236
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for curing a heat-curable material (1) in an embedded curing zone (2) and an assembly resulting from such method. The method comprises providing a heat-conducting strip (3) partially arranged between a component (9) and a substrate (10) that form the embedded curing zone (2) therein between. The heat-conducting strip (3) extends from the embedded curing zone (2) to a radiation-accessible zone (7) that is distanced from the embedded curing zone (2) and at least partially free of the component (9) and the substrate (10). The method further comprises irradiating the heat-conducting strip (3) in the radiation-accessible zone (7) by means of electromagnetic radiation (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Ashok Sridhar, Anja Henckens, Gunther Dreezen
  • Patent number: 10717237
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesive tape carrier made of a film, onto at least one side of which film an adhesive material is applied, wherein the film is a monoaxially stretched film made of polypropylene which contains at least 80 percent by weight polypropylene which has been processed in advance at least once, preferably has been extruded at least once, wherein the film has a stretching ratio during stretching in the longitudinal direction of 1:4 to 1:10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: TESA SE
    Inventors: Patrick Kerep, Christian Krause, Reinhard Storbeck, Jian Yang-Voss
  • Patent number: 10717238
    Abstract: In a method for the further processing of a product (30) that is preferably prefabricated in large numbers, the product has a surface (31) for an additive multi-dimensional application of material. Information for the additive multi-dimensional application of material is input into a device in which the multi-dimensional application of material is digitised from this information and is deconstructed into elements that are suitable for the additive application of the application of material to the surface (31). The prefabricated product (30) is introduced into a device (I) for additive application of the material application such that the elements for the additive multi-dimensional application of material on the surface (31) are assembled in accordance with the information using an additive manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ARBURG GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Oliver Kessling, Eberhard Duffner
  • Patent number: 10717239
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating preforms. One embodiment is a method comprising acquiring tows of fiber reinforced material, selecting a number of tows to utilize for a bundle having an aggregate shape, assembling the tows together into the bundle, curving the assembled tows by slipping the assembled tows with respect to each other, drawing the bundle through a die to bind the bundle into a preform, enforcing a longitudinally varying cross section along the preform, and locking in a curvature of the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Christian Gordon, Andrew Klimovski
  • Patent number: 10717240
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a hat stiffener which includes a step of positioning two or more reinforcement fiber layers about a mandrel. The method further includes a step of cutting through the two or more reinforcement fiber layers forming a first stack of first end portions of the two or more reinforcement fiber layers and a second stack of second end portions of the two or more reinforcement fiber layers wherein the first and second stacks are in overlying relationship with respect to the mandrel. In addition, the method further includes moving the first stack of the first end portions and the second stack of the second end portions of the two or more reinforcement fiber layers out of overlying relationship with respect to the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew Kenneth Glynn, Max Marley Osborne, Peter J. Lockett
  • Patent number: 10717241
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing method for a composite material, a manufacturing apparatus for a composite material, a preform, and a composite material, capable of molding a high quality composite material having a little constraint in the shape by improving moldability while suppressing a deviation of the arrangement of the reinforced fiber during preforming. A manufacturing method for a composite material 400 provided with a reinforcement 510 and resin 600 infused into the reinforcement, includes: an apply process (step S12) for applying an adhesive to the sheet-shaped reinforcement having first and second regions 511 and 512 such that a content density of the adhesive 520 of the second region is lower than that of the first region; and a preforming process (step S17) for preforming the reinforcement in a three-dimensional shape to form a preform such that the second region has a curvature larger than that of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinichi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10717242
    Abstract: A compaction device for use with an automated fiber placement machine includes multiple compaction rollers mounted for independent displacement on a supporting frame. The attitude of the compaction rollers change relative to each other when fiber tows are laid up at an angle over an edge of a tool in order to maintain compaction pressure on the tows and thereby reduce non-compacted areas of the tows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Michael Robert Chapman, Robert M. Watson, Stephen Howard Williams
  • Patent number: 10717243
    Abstract: Provided is a preform member bonding method of bonding a preform member and another member with an adhesive in an RTM process. The preform member bonding method includes increasing viscosity of the adhesive by heat-treating only the adhesive in advance before inserting the adhesive between bonding surfaces of the preform member and the other member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Yui, Akihisa Okuda, Hiromichi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 10717244
    Abstract: Presented are manufacturing control systems for composite-material structures, methods for assembling/operating such systems, and transfer molding techniques for predicting and ameliorating void conditions in fiber-reinforced polymer panels. A method for forming a composite-material construction includes receiving a start signal indicating a fiber-based preform is inside a mold cavity, and transmitting a command signal to inject pressurized resin into the mold to induce resin flow within the mold cavity and impregnate the fiber-based preform. An electronic controller receives, from a distributed array of sensors attached to the mold, signals indicative of pressure and/or temperature at discrete locations on an interior face of the mold cavity. The controller determines a measurement deviation between a calibrated baseline value and the pressure and/or temperature values for each of the discrete locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, University of Southern California
    Inventors: Roger G. Ghanem, Venkateshwar R. Aitharaju, Hamid G. Kia
  • Patent number: 10717245
    Abstract: A thermoplastic prepreg includes a mat, web, or fabric of fibers and hollow glass microspheres that are positioned atop the mat, web, or fabric of fibers or dispersed therein. The thermoplastic prepreg also includes a thermoplastic polymer that is fully impregnated through the mat, web, or fabric of fibers and the hollow glass microspheres so that the thermoplastic prepreg has a void content of less than 3% by volume of the thermoplastic prepreg. The thermoplastic material is polymerized monomers and oligomers in which greater than 90% by weight of the monomers or oligomers react to form the thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Mingfu Zhang, Jawed Asrar
  • Patent number: 10717246
    Abstract: The flexible sheet-like material comprises a textile layer, which is coated at least on one side with a functional layer which is permeable to gas but impermeable to the matrix material, acting as a barrier layer for the matrix material, and is produced by coating the textile layer directly with a foam or a paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: TRANS-TEXTIL GMBH, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Krings, Manfred Hänsch, Leopold Pribil, Wilhelm Hierhammer
  • Patent number: 10717247
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for manufacturing an air maintenance tire includes an air pumping tube assembly station constructing an air pumping tube sub-assembly, a tire preparation station for forming passageways in the tire to accept an outlet device of the air pumping tube sub-assembly, an air pumping tube sub-assembly installation station and a pressure regulator installation station. The air pumping tube sub-assembly inserts into an elongate tire groove opening, facilitated by groove-spreading apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Christopher David Dyrlund, Andres Ignacio Delgado
  • Patent number: 10717248
    Abstract: The invention includes methods for forming a retreaded tire, and treads there for. Particular embodiments of such methods provide a tire tread, the tire tread having a bottom side and a top side configured for engaging a ground surface, a thickness extending between the top side and the bottom side, and a pair of opposing lateral sides defining a width of the tread, the bottom side having one or more submerged voids extending from the bottom side into the tread thickness to form a tread pattern, the submerged voids having a depth less than the thickness and the top side being free of any exposed voids comprising a groove. Further steps include applying the tire tread to a tire carcass, curing the tire tread to the tire carcass, and forming one or more voids into the tread thickness the top side of the tread after the step of bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: E. Bruce Colby, Metodi L. Ikonomov, Dimitri G. Tsihlas, Michael Widmyer, Cesar E. Zarak
  • Patent number: 10717249
    Abstract: Apparatus and system for controllably removing liquid from tofu with no or minimal cracking or deforming. An interior box contains tofu. Interior box is insertable and removable from exterior box. Interior box includes drain(s) for liquid removed from tofu, and resilient spacers on bottom to create space between bottoms of interior and exterior boxes for containing drained liquid and for cushioning tofu when pressed. A cover releasably attaches to top of nested boxes. Telescoping extender extends through cover into interior box. Extender is attached at one end to inside cover and attached at other end through a spring-loaded cap to a press plate. Extender has interior tier cylinder nested within exterior tier cylinder. Extender progressively telescopes interior cylinder out of exterior cylinder, and then telescopes exterior tier cylinder to extend press plate further into interior box to press tofu to release liquid. Spring-loaded cap on extender cushions pressure on tofu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventor: Kyung Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 10717250
    Abstract: Provided is an embossed product on which a deep bumpy design is formed and which is also excellent in terms of a bumpy design shape-imparting property and cushioning performance and durability thereof. A composite material for embossing is a composite material in which a flexible polyurethane foam sheet is laminated on one surface of a skin material, in which the flexible polyurethane foam sheet has a thickness of 3 to 15 mm and a compression percentage of 5% to 40% in a temperature range of 100° C. to 150° C. In addition, an embossed product is obtained by embossing a surface of the skin material of the composite material for embossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Seiren Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10717251
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of repairing a composite structure comprising fiber-reinforced polymer plies each with unidirectional fibers. The method comprises removing a damaged portion of the composite structure to form a void in the composite structure. The method also comprises positioning an adhesive layer into the void. The method further comprises positioning a first nanotube sheet ply and a first fiber-reinforced polymer repair ply into the void, by first positioning one of the first nanotube sheet ply or the first fiber-reinforced polymer repair ply into the void over the adhesive layer. The first nanotube sheet ply is fiberless and the first fiber-reinforced polymer repair ply comprises unidirectional fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Zeaid F. Hasan
  • Patent number: 10717252
    Abstract: Provided is an article of cookware and a method of making the same. The cookware has a multi-layer bonded composite wall structure having an inner metal layer and an outer metal layer, and a core layer between the inner layer and the outer layer. The core layer has at least two perforated graphite plates, each plate having a plurality of spaced-apart holes formed therethrough, and at least one intermediate metal element disposed between the at least two perforated graphite plates and extending through the plurality of spaced-apart holes of each of the at least two perforated graphite plates. The at least one intermediate metal element is metallurgically bonded to the inner layer and the outer layer at least through the plurality of spaced-apart holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ALL-CLAD METALCRAFTERS LLC
    Inventors: William A. Groll, John Watkins
  • Patent number: 10717253
    Abstract: Provided herein may be a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device may include a display panel including a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface, a first auxiliary layer on the first surface of the display panel, and including at least one layer, a second auxiliary layer on the second surface of the display panel, and including at least one layer, and a side-reinforcing member enclosing cut surfaces of the display panel, the first auxiliary layer, and the second auxiliary layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Gil Ryu, Eun Jung Oh
  • Patent number: 10717254
    Abstract: The current disclosure relates to a polymeric laminate structure having an outer polystyrene film, either blown or cast, comprised of crystal polystyrene homopolymer, optionally blended with up to about 45 wt-% of high impact polystyrene and/or inorganic fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Multi-Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: M. David Parsio
  • Patent number: 10717255
    Abstract: Multi-layer films include at least one cavitated core layer that is microporous and breathable, and at least one skin layer. The cavitated core layer includes a polyolefin and an inorganic filler dispersed in the polyolefin. Methods for forming polymeric films and articles of manufacture prepared therefrom are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Middlesworth, Brooke D. Kitzmiller, Vadim G. Zaikov
  • Patent number: 10717256
    Abstract: A bi-laminate polymer coated metal substrate, vehicle trim member formed therefrom, and method of manufacture thereof are provided. The bi-laminate polymer coated metal substrate includes a monolithic metal substrate having a first area with a first polymeric material bonded thereto and a second area, different from the first area, with a second polymeric material bonded thereto. A substantially tear resistant, protective substrate is releasably bonded to the first polymeric material, with the first polymeric material being sandwiched between the protective substrate and the metal substrate. The protective substrate is selectively removable from the first polymeric material to expose the first polymeric material as a finish surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: MAGNA EXTERIORS INC.
    Inventors: Scott Mouser, Malcolm Ward, Monica Saarlaid, Robyn Griffin
  • Patent number: 10717257
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are disclosed for at least partially curing a light-curable material within a dispenser to obtain an at least partially-cured material and dispensing the at least partially-cured material to a substrate, while retaining substantially all of the light within the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Carissa A Pajel, Benjamin P Hargrave, Hugh C VanValkenburgh, Darrin Hansen, Kay Y Blohowiak
  • Patent number: 10717258
    Abstract: A laminating machine has at least one material source, configured as a sheet feeder, for sheets of a material to be laminated. The laminating machine also has at least one imbricating device for arranging un-laminated sheets in an imbricated manner with respect to one another. The laminating machine further has at least one laminating unit for producing a laminated material web from the sheets. At least one thickness control device is arranged in a transport path which is provided for the laminated material web downstream of the at least one laminating unit. A control region of the thickness control device intersects, at least partially, with the transport path which is provided for the laminated material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Philipp Meckelein, Michael Scheller
  • Patent number: 10717259
    Abstract: A positive transport of carbon fiber bundles, in ribbon form, with in-line manipulation of the fiber bundles (spreading or spreading and volumization with manipulators) during fiber bundle transport to points of fiber bundle deliveries into the circular loom bed plate turntable is described herein. The automated placements of these deliveries of the fiber bundle/tow at selected orientations in the area correspond to the feeding zone of an improved circular loom bed plate turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Le Costaouec
  • Patent number: 10717260
    Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a laminated structure including a step of bonding a single layer or multiple layers of graphene formed on a first substrate to a second substrate through an adhesive layer including a delayed-curing UV curable resin by a roll-to-roll process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Shimizu, Nozomi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10717261
    Abstract: An intentionally activated frangible bonding system comprises a frangible adhesive, adhesive primer, composite material matrix, and/or the like, having a polydispersion of at least one additive spread throughout the frangible bonding material. The additive degrades a bond provided by the frangible bonding material, upon application of a specific energy to the frangible bonding material. An energy emitter is configured to selectively direct the specific energy toward a structure or assembly comprising components bonded by the frangible bonding material to degrade the frangible bonding material bonding the components for disassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Chiang, Jared Mark Paulson
  • Patent number: 10717262
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for unpacking a component 16 manufactured by means of a generative manufacturing process, from a particulate material fill 18. In the method, an auxiliary frame 20 having a vertical circumferential wall structure 22, open downward, is arranged above a vertical circumferential wall structure 12 of a construction box 10. In addition, a construction platform 14 of the construction box 10 is displaced upward, so that the particulate material fill 18 containing the component 16 is transferred from the construction box 10 to the auxiliary frame 20. In addition, the auxiliary frame 20 with the particulate material fill 18 containing the component, and the construction box 10 are moved away from each other, and the component 16 is unpacked from the particulate material fill 18 at least in part and is removed from the auxiliary frame 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: ExOne GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Höchsmann, Alexander Müller, Sven Klaua, Maximilian Baumann, Wolfgang Seeger, Renate Ratzenberger, Lisa Huber
  • Patent number: 10717263
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional object includes a support assembly having a build platform, a track extending through a build area, and a deposition mechanism mounted on the track and configured for producing the three-dimensional object in a layer-by-layer technique. The deposition mechanism includes a carriage moveable along the track, a supply of a flowable material mounted on the carriage, a roller in communication with the flowable material, where the roller is rotatably mounted on the carriage and configured for rotating to carry the flowable resin to an application for application to produce the object, and an exposure device mounted on the carriage. The exposure device emits electromagnetic waves to an exposure site to solidify the applied flowable material to produce the object. The roller is permeable to the electromagnetic waves, such that the waves pass through the roller in traveling from the exposure device to the exposure site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: PAXIS LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Knecht, Michael G. Littrell
  • Patent number: 10717264
    Abstract: This disclosure describes various system and methods for monitoring photons emitted by a heat source of an additive manufacturing device. Sensor data recorded while monitoring the photons can be used to predict metallurgical, mechanical and geometrical properties of a part produced during an additive manufacturing operation. In some embodiments, a test pattern can be used to calibrate an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SIGMA LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek R. Dave, Mark J. Cola, R. Bruce Madigan, Alberto Castro, Glenn Wikle, Lars Jacquemetton, Peter Campbell
  • Patent number: 10717265
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system includes a platen having a top surface to support an object being manufactured, a support structure, an actuator coupled to at least one of the platen or the support structure to create relative motion there between along a first axis parallel to the top surface, a plurality of printheads mounted on the support structure, and an energy source. Each printhead includes a dispenser to deliver a plurality of successive layers of feed material over the platen. The printheads are spaced along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis such that during motion along the first axis the plurality of printheads dispense feed material in a plurality of parallel swaths along the first axis. The energy source is configured to fuse at least a portion of the feed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Hou T. Ng, Raanan Zehavi, Nag B. Patibandla
  • Patent number: 10717266
    Abstract: A filament cutting device for a three-dimensional (3D) printer, the 3D printer including an extruder assembly that is configured to extrude filament onto a printing platform, the filament cutting device including: a first portion attached to the extruder assembly of the 3D printer and a second portion, where each of at least one of the first and second portions includes a respective cutting edge for cutting the filament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation
    Inventor: Bennet Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10717267
    Abstract: In a method of printing a transferable component, a stamp including an elastomeric post having three-dimensional relief features protruding from a surface thereof is pressed against a component on a donor substrate with a first pressure that is sufficient to mechanically deform the relief features and a region of the post between the relief features to contact the component over a first contact area. The stamp is retracted from the donor substrate such that the component is adhered to the stamp. The stamp including the component adhered thereto is pressed against a receiving substrate with a second pressure that is less than the first pressure to contact the component over a second contact area that is smaller than the first contact area. The stamp is then retracted from the receiving substrate to delaminate the component from the stamp and print the component onto the receiving substrate. Related apparatus and stamps are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Inventors: Etienne Menard, John A. Rogers, Seok Kim, Andrew Carlson
  • Patent number: 10717268
    Abstract: A sheet-fed press includes at least two units embodied as modules. The at least two modules respectively each comprise at least one individual drive, each individual drive being configured as a position-controlled electric motor. At least one of the at least two modules is configured as a non-impact coating module, and the at least coating module is arranged as at least another of at least two modules that is configured as a primer module or as a painting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Bernard, Hartmut Breunig, Frank Huppmann, Bernd Masuch
  • Patent number: 10717269
    Abstract: A print quality examination device is provided in a printing machine (1) provided with a printing unit (3) that performs printing on a mirror-reflection member (5a) of a sheet (5) to which the mirror-reflection member (5a) is added. The print quality examination device of the printing machine is provided with an examination camera (18a) that images a picture printed on the sheet (5), a light source (18h) that irradiates the sheet (5) with light, and a print quality examination unit (18g) that examines the quality of the picture printed by the printing unit (3) based on image data imaged by the examination camera (18a). The examination camera (18a) or the light source (18h) is configured to be movably supported on an arc about a detection point (P) imaged by the examination camera (18a) for the sheet (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: KOMORI CORPORATION, GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Numauchi, Takashi Suto, Sayuri Yanagiuchi, Ryuzo Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 10717270
    Abstract: A method for producing a light-accumulating transfer sheet, which comprises: an adhesive layer forming step for forming an adhesive layer on a supporting layer; a resin layer forming step for forming a resin layer on the adhesive layer; a heat generation layer forming step for forming a heat generation layer, which comprises a dye layer containing a near-infrared absorbing dye on the resin layer; and a pigment dispersion layer forming step for forming a pigment dispersion layer, which contains a light-accumulating pigment on the heat generation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SANTOSHOJI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuo Sanari
  • Patent number: 10717271
    Abstract: An apparatus for non-evaporative drying comprises a solvent permeable transfer substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. An ejector is configured to eject a droplet comprising at least one solvent onto the first surface of the transfer substrate. A reservoir comprising a draw solution is configured to place the draw solution in contact with the second surface of the transfer substrate, and a print substrate is configured to contact a portion of the first surface of the transfer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Eugene S. Beh, Michael Benedict, Jessica Louis Baker Rivest, David Mathew Johnson