Patents Issued in October 6, 2020
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Patent number: 10792923Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to calibrating a cleaning element for a printhead. A print medium sensor is aligned with a nozzle plane of the printhead to detect displacement, during a print job, of a print medium out of the nozzle plane. Relative movement between the cleaning element and the printhead is enacted. During this movement, activation of the print medium sensor is detected. A reference position for the cleaning element is stored based on the detected activation.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Francesc Tarrida Tirado, Marc Lupon Navazo, Alejandro Mielgo Barba
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Patent number: 10792924Abstract: A liquid supplying system includes a cartridge having a first storage chamber, a tube to which the cartridge is connectable, a tank having a second storage chamber, and a detector. The liquid stored in the first storage chamber of the cartridge connected to the tube is introduced through an opening of the tube. The liquid introduced through the opening flows through a liquid passage of the tube. The tank includes an inlet port for introducing the liquid flowing through the liquid passage into the second storage chamber. The detector detects whether a level of liquid in the second storage chamber is at a predetermined position that is below the opening and above the inlet port. The second storage chamber has a horizontal cross-sectional area greater than a horizontal cross-sectional area of the liquid passage in a region above the predetermined position and below the opening in a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 10792925Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a tank main body that contains ink, a transparent member that forms at least part of the tank main body and transmits light, and a reference plate that is disposed in the tank main body and in a position facing the transparent member and forms, along with the transparent member, an inflow space which is located between the transparent member and the reference plate and into which the ink flows.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Ryohei Kuri
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Patent number: 10792926Abstract: A liquid supplying device includes a tank; and a cartridge configured to be attached to the tank and having a first storage chamber configured to store liquid. The cartridge is formed with a communicating opening in communication with the first storage chamber. The tank has a second storage chamber configured to store the liquid, a liquid passage, a gas passage, a joint, an outer wall, an inner wall, an air communication portion, and a narrow-width portion. The liquid passage is in communication with the second storage chamber and has a first vertical portion. The gas passage has a second vertical portion. The first vertical portion, the second vertical portion, and the air communication portion are arranged in this order in the first direction and a direction away from the fifth end portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Yoshinori Osakabe, Akinari Ishibe, Hiroaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 10792927Abstract: A first retractable member is provided so as to be freely retractable with respect to the first location hole of a turning member in a state where the first retractable member makes contact with a fitting portion. The first retractable member turns the turning member based on a contact force with the fitting portion corresponding to advance and retreat with respect to the first location hole. The first retractable member moves a fourth engagement portion as the turning member is turned so as to change an engagement position with a third engagement portion, and thereby makes a head unit swing with the engagement position of a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion serving as a fulcrum point so as to adjust the position of the head unit in the fitting portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Daisuke Eto
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Patent number: 10792928Abstract: A tank includes: a wall separating a liquid storage chamber, which stores a liquid to be supplied to a liquid consuming part, from an outside; an inlet penetrating the wall; and a liquid outflow part which allows the liquid to flow to the outside of the liquid storage chamber. The wall includes a view wall, which extends upward and downward and allows a user to visually check a liquid level in the liquid storage chamber, and a bottom wall, which defines an inner bottom surface of the liquid storage chamber by being connected to the view wall. The inner bottom surface of the bottom wall includes an inclined part which extends from at least a part of the view wall to incline downward in a direction away from the view wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taichi Shirono
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Patent number: 10792929Abstract: A supply liquid tank unit of the present disclosure includes a supply liquid tank and a detection sensor. The detection sensor detects a liquid surface of ink in the supply liquid tank. The supply liquid tank is provided with an inner space having a storage chamber which stores the ink and an atmosphere release port for making an inner pressure in the inner space equal to an atmospheric pressure. The detection sensor has a float which moves vertically in accordance with an amount of the ink in the storage chamber and a sensor main body which detects a liquid surface of the ink when the float moves vertically. An inner side surface of the storage chamber is disposed along and near an outer circumferential surface of the float.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masanobu Maeshima
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Patent number: 10792930Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection port ejecting a liquid, a pressure chamber storing the liquid, an element generating energy for ejecting the liquid in the pressure chamber, first and second tanks which can store the liquid, a flow passage establishing communication between the first and second tanks through the pressure chamber, a switching unit switching a flowing direction of the liquid in the flow passage between a first direction from the first tank to the second tank and a second direction being opposite to the first direction, and a pressure compensation unit. When a pressure in a downstream side flow passage portion downstream of the pressure chamber has a predetermined pressure or below, the pressure compensation unit compensates for reduction in pressure in the downstream side flow passage portion by supplying the liquid to the downstream side flow passage portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Yamada, Yohei Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, Naozumi Nabeshima
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Patent number: 10792931Abstract: An optical deflection apparatus includes a mirror unit, a pair of elastic supporting units configured to rotatably support the mirror unit around a predetermined axis, at least one drive unit configured to elastically deform the pair of elastic supporting units, and a drive control unit configured to input a drive frequency into the at least one drive unit so as to control the at least one drive unit, wherein a first time interval at which the drive control unit changes the drive frequency in a first temperature range is shorter than a second time interval at which the drive control unit changes the drive frequency in a second temperature range, the second temperature range being at a higher temperature than the first temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Nakagawa, Toshihiro Yamashiro
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Patent number: 10792932Abstract: An image recording apparatus that irradiates a recording target with laser light and records an image thereon, that includes: a laser irradiation device that has plural laser emitting elements, and irradiates the recording target with laser light emitted from the plural laser emitting elements; an irradiation condition adjusting unit that causes the laser irradiation device to emit laser light such that a part of an image dot recorded on the recording target moving relatively to the laser irradiation device overlaps an image dot adjacent thereto, and makes a laser irradiation condition for when image dots forming a boundary between a colored portion and a non-colored portion are recorded, different from a laser irradiation condition for when the other image dots are recorded; and an output control unit that controls the irradiation with the laser light, based on the laser irradiation condition adjusted by the irradiation condition adjusting unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Sawamura, Yoshihiko Hotta, Kazuyuki Uetake, Takahiro Furukawa, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
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Patent number: 10792933Abstract: An apparatus includes an input bin for receiving a stack of envelopes, a conveyor for conveying each envelope of the stack along an envelope path, and a cartridge retainer adapted for electrical connection to an inkjet cartridge defining a 1×M array of inkjet printing nozzles. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the cartridge retainer and configured to activate the inkjet cartridge nozzles to deposit ink droplets according to a predetermined duty cycle able to cause printing, on an envelope conveyed at a first feed rate, a first indicium having a density of M×N dots per inch, where N is greater than M/2 and less than M. The conveyor, however, conveys envelopes faster than the first feed rate, whereby the first indicium is printed at a density of less than M×N dots per inch on a moving envelopes.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: OPEX CorporationInventor: John Forbes
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Patent number: 10792934Abstract: A shell for a portable telecommunication system (3) comprises a surface defining a hollow volume, suitable for being mechanically connected in a removable manner to a portable telecommunication system (2), said portable telecommunication system (2) being able to be inserted, at least partially, in the hollow volume, said portable telecommunication system (2) comprising a memory suitable for storing a computer document, the shell being characterized in that it comprises a communication unit suitable for receiving a document stored in the memory from the portable telecommunication system (2), and a miniature printing device (1) for documents, suitable for receiving said computer document via the communication unit and for printing same.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: QuickerPics, LLCInventors: David Zhang, Clement Perrot, Robin Barata
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Patent number: 10792935Abstract: In one example of the disclosure, a print agent is applied upon a length of web substrate. A dryer is utilized to dry the web substrate length. Moisture is applied to the web substrate length. The moisturized web substrate length is wound upon a spool to form a top liner length, with no dryer to be utilized to dry the web substrate length between the moisture application and the winding.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Jake H Thomas, Jason Swei, Alan Jacques
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Patent number: 10792936Abstract: A coating device includes a coating member, a nip forming member, a pair of conveying members, and circuitry. The nip forming member forms a coating nip together with the coating member. The pair of conveying members is opposed each other to nip and convey a recording medium to the coating nip. The circuitry is configured to cause the pair of conveying members to release nipping of the recording medium at timing when a leading end of the recording medium reaches the coating nip.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Chike
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Patent number: 10792937Abstract: To perform high-quality printing more appropriately, a printing apparatus (10) configured to print on a medium (50) by inkjet includes: an inkjet head (102); and a UV light source (104) as an energy ray emitting unit. The UV light source (104) emits the ultraviolet rays to the ink adhered to the medium (50), causing the ink to generate heat to evaporate at least a part of a solvent in the ink. The ink ejected by the inkjet head (102) includes a polymerizing substance that polymerizes when irradiated with the energy rays, and the solvent. The ink on the medium (50) is in a state in which planarization of the ink progresses with a lapse of time at a time point after 100 ms has elapsed since the UV light source (104) emitted the ultraviolet rays.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Masaru Ohnishi
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Patent number: 10792938Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first feeding part configured to feed print media from a first support part supporting the print media, a second feeding part configured to feed print media from a second support part supporting the print media, and a print head configured to print on the print media fed by the first feeding part or the second feeding part. Further, the printing apparatus includes a first conveying path where the print media fed by the first feeding part are conveyed to the print head, and a second conveying path where the print media fed by the second feeding part are conveyed to the print head. At least a part of the second feeding part protrudes in a predetermined spatial area within the first conveying path during a feed operation of feeding print media from the second support part.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masakazu Tsukuda, Seiji Ogasawara, Takaaki Ishida, Shuichi Tokuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Kazuki Matsuo
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Patent number: 10792939Abstract: A printer including a printing part which prints on a recording paper; a cutter part which cuts the recording paper; and a conveying part which includes a conveying route having a curving shape and through which the recording paper conveyed through the cutter part is conveyed; a conveying route cover which is attached to the conveying part and covers a portion of the conveying route; and a flapper which is provided at a curved portion of the conveying route, has a curved shape, and is rotatably attached to the conveying route cover so as to rotatably open or close relative to a main body of the printer, wherein the conveying route cover and the flapper are movable together so as to separate from or contact the main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventors: Tatsuya Oguchi, Sumio Watanabe, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10792940Abstract: An example of the claim method includes, in response to detecting a rejected media unit, directing a media feed path towards a reject area. The method includes depositing the rejected media unit into the reject area. The reject area is defined by a cassette surface on a body of the ribbon cassette. The ribbon cassette is unable to be removed from the media processing device until the rejected media unit is removed from the cassette surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Joseph D. Moreira, Angel B. Rosales, Steve Ting Kei Chow, Myung S. Jun
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Patent number: 10792941Abstract: A winding apparatus includes a winding core unit onto which a continuous medium is to be wound, the winding core unit having a notched portion having a shape in which a part of the winding core unit in a circumferential direction is cut out as viewed in an extending direction of the winding core unit, and a notch complementing unit to be detacheably inserted into the notched portion from one end portion side in the extending direction of the winding core unit, the notch complementing unit being configured to complement the notched portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Shintani
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Patent number: 10792942Abstract: Measuring the thickness of a print media supported by a platen or belt by: moving a measurement bar to a first position to contact a surface of the platen or belt, moving the measurement bar to a second position to contact a surface of the print media when supported by the platen or belt, and determining the spatial difference between the first and second positions such as to measure the thickness of the print media. The measurement bar is arranged to cover a width of the print media when supported by the platen or belt.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Raimon Castells de Monet, David Faundez Barroso, David Munoz Navarro, Marco Ignacio Barbetta
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Patent number: 10792943Abstract: The present invention is to provide a recording apparatus capable of cleaning the surface of a medium such as a card at each time before and after image transfer, in a transport path to which is fed a card ejected from a media supply C, and a cleaning section that performs cleaning by nipping the card with a pair of contact rollers to pass through. In the transport path, when the card is transported to the transfer section by driving roller pairs and contact rollers, the card prior to transfer is cleaned. After transfer processing in the transfer section, the card is transported in the opposite direction to pass through the cleaning section again, and is transported to the discharge section D, and the card subsequent to transfer is thereby cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventor: Daisuke Kaneoya
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Patent number: 10792944Abstract: A drying apparatus usable with a printing system includes a housing, a first set of radiative heating elements, a second set of radiative heating elements, and an air handling device. The housing includes a front region and a rear region adjacent to the front region. The front region includes an inlet to receive media. The rear region includes an outlet to pass media there through. The first set of radiative heating elements is disposed within the front region to heat the media. The second set of radiative heating elements is disposed within the rear region to heat the media. The air handling device is disposed across from the second set of radiative heating elements to jet air within the rear region to cool the media prior to the media being passed through the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Gary Tarver, Jayanta C. Panditaratne, Jason Cassidy Hower, Hua Tan, James Kearns
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Patent number: 10792945Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a printing unit configured to print on a sheet; a bookbinding unit configured to perform a cutting process of cutting a binding member for binding a plurality of sheets before sheets printed by the printing unit are stacked on a stack tray and perform a binding process of binding the sheets by the cut binding member; and a controller configured to cause the bookbinding unit to perform the cutting process of the binding member based on sheet size information, the controller controls, in a case of producing a plurality of copies of bookbound products, not to perform the cutting process of the binding member of a second copy while sheets are stacking as a first copy, but to perform the cutting process of the binding member of a next copy while sheets are stacking as each of the second copy and subsequent copies.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Teppei Hasegawa
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Patent number: 10792946Abstract: An illuminated assembly, and methods of making and using such an illuminated assembly, whereby the illuminated assembly includes a panel and at least one sheet coupled to the panel, the sheet capable of overlaying engagement with the panel. The sheet can include a sheet front surface opposite a sheet back surface, and at least one light transmission portion disposed therein, whereby the light transmission portion can communicate between the sheet front and back surfaces. Further, the illuminated assembly can include a light source operatively coupled to the panel, whereby in an activated condition, the light source can provide light to the panel. Following, the light can be transmitted from the panel through the light transmission portion of the sheet such that the light can be viewable by a viewer of the sheet front surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Inventor: Susan Francesca Hudachek
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Patent number: 10792947Abstract: In an optical structure for displaying a stereoscopic frame image on a structure formation surface, a frame motif that displays a frame image in which reflection moves is formed on a structure formation surface, the frame motif is made up of a plurality of perforated reflecting segments, each including one or more first reflecting mirrors having a reflective layer uniformly tilted relative to the structure formation surface, the tilt angle of the first reflecting mirror is different between adjacent perforated reflecting segments so as to gradually change over a plurality of adjacent perforated reflecting segments, and at least one of the plurality of perforated reflecting segments surrounds an opening provided with no first reflecting mirror.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoko Tashiro, Toshiki Toda, Keitaro Sugihara
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Patent number: 10792948Abstract: A micro-optic device, including: a substrate; a plurality of image elements; and a plurality of focusing elements, each focusing element focuses light towards, or causes light to be diverged from or constructively interfere at a real or imaginary focal point, the focusing elements causing the image elements to be sampled so as to project imagery which is observable to a user from at least a first viewing angle, wherein a first focusing structure including at least a first group of the focusing elements and a first imagery structure including at least a first group of the image elements are integrated into a first unitary structure on a first side of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: CCL Secure Pty LtdInventor: Karlo Ivan Jolic
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Patent number: 10792949Abstract: An information recording medium is formed by laminating a transparent protective layer and a base material having laser color-developing properties. The information recording medium includes an intermediate layer that is disposed between the transparent protective layer and the base material. In the information recording medium, the intermediate layer includes a diffraction structure layer that has a diffraction structure, and a first reflective layer that reflects visible light and is destroyed when irradiated with a laser beam. Light, when incident from a transparent protective layer side, causes a diffracted light pattern to appear in the diffraction structure layer so as to be observable from the transparent protective layer side. A laser beam, when applied from the transparent protective layer side, passes through the diffraction structure layer, destroys the first reflective layer, and develops color in the base material.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetaka Ide, Naoki Minamikawa
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Patent number: 10792950Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer body with a carrier film, a partial reflective layer, arranged on the surface of the carrier film, which is at least partially transparent in a first area and opaque in a second area, a partial decorative layer, arranged on a surface of the carrier film and/or the side of the decorative layer facing away from the carrier film, which is present in a third area and not present in a fourth area, wherein the first area overlaps the third area and the second area overlaps the third and the fourth areas. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing such a multilayer body, a security element with such a multilayer body and a security document with such a security element.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: OVD KINEGRAM AGInventor: Andreas Schilling
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Patent number: 10792951Abstract: A security document may include a laserizable first layer including a grayscale image formed by laserizing; a color pattern that is in alignment with the grayscale image; and a second layer arranged between the first layer and the pattern, such that the first layer is above the second layer, and the pattern is below the second layer. The second layer may be more opaque than the first layer, such that when observing the security document from the top, the grayscale image appears to be colored by the color pattern only when the bottom of the security document is being illuminated.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCEInventors: Benoît Berthe, Coralie Vandroux
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Patent number: 10792952Abstract: A promotional item comprises a writing instrument having a substantially flat surface and a box carrying the writing instrument and having a top with a flat surface. A matching recess in the box has an opening in the flat surface matching a profile of the writing instrument. The flat surface of the writing instrument is flush with the flat surface of the box when the writing instrument is carried by the box and positioned in the recess. Promotional indicia is disposed on the flat surface of the box and the flat surface of the writing instrument.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Hub Pen Company, LLCInventor: Jason Lucash
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Patent number: 10792953Abstract: There is provided to a tilt board (1, 51, 61, 101) comprising an activity surface (3) supported by a base (5). The base comprises a front wall (7) and a rear wall (9) that extends downwardly from the activity surface by a greater distance than the front wall. The activity surface (3) comprises an activity surface surround (15) defining an aperture (17) therein and a removable activity surface insert (19) dimensioned for reception in the aperture. A plurality of interchangeable activity surface inserts (19) may be provided. The activity surface inserts (19) are also tilt adjustable relative to the remainder of the tilt board. The tilt board (1, 51, 61, 101) is provided with a circumferential flange so that the tilt board may be inserted into an aperture of a larger work surface such as a table if desired. The tilt board can be used for a range of activities, can lie flat in a larger work surface if desired, and the tilt angle can be adjusted to several angles which is highly advantageous.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SKM Advanced Products LimitedInventor: Pat McGee
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Patent number: 10792954Abstract: A housing is formed with an opening for the receipt of a cosmetic pencil to be sharpened. A shaping funnel within the housing is formed of a plurality blades in operative proximity around the opening. A motor rotates the shaping funnel and the plurality of blades for sharpening the cosmetic pencil within the shaping funnel.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SI/TKO Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Ryan Christopher Jones
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Patent number: 10792955Abstract: The present invention relates to a plate with a printed layer, including a plate having a bent portion, a lower printed layer, and an upper printed layer provided at a portion of the lower printed layer, in which at least a portion of the lower printed layer is provided at a position corresponding to the bent portion on a main surface of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: AGC Inc.Inventors: Jun Ito, Azusa Takai
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Patent number: 10792956Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light-weight tire inner tube comprising a film tube with a wall thickness of 100 to 400 microns, pneumatic tires containing the light-weight tire inner tube, and related methods for manufacturing the light-weight tire inner tube. The film tube is comprised of a film material comprising at least one thermoplastic engineering resin and optionally at least one saturated elastomer, and the film material of the film tube has an oxygen permeability of 8-15 cm3 O2/m2·per day at 25° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLCInventor: David G. Abdallah, Jr.
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Patent number: 10792957Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 is provided in a tread portion 2 with a circumferential land region 6 provided with transverse sipes 15 extending across the entire width of the circumferential land region. Each of the transverse sipes 15 comprises an arc-shaped first portion 18 convexed toward one side in the tire circumferential direction and an arc-shaped second portion 19 convexed toward the other side in the tire circumferential direction and connected with the first portion 18 so as to have a wavy configuration. The transverse sipes 15 include a first transverse sipe 16 of which first portion 18 is deeper than the second portion 19 thereof, and a second transverse sipe 17 of which second portion 19 is deeper than the first portion 18 thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yoshiaki Kanematsu
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Patent number: 10792958Abstract: A tread portion is provided with a first block and a second block, which protrudes outward in a tire width direction more than the first block, alternately in a tire circumferential direction in a shoulder region. A first projection is provided in an outer side of the first block, and a second projection is provided in an outer side of the second block. An outside end of the second projection is connected to a side surface of the second block and is arranged closer to an outer side in the tire diametrical direction than an outside end of the first projection. An angle ?1 formed by a side surface of the first projection and a surface of the side wall portion is greater than an angle ?2 formed by a side surface of the second projection and the surface of the side wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Toshihiko Takahashi
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Patent number: 10792959Abstract: A tire comprises a bead having an axial width at the seat D comprising a circumferential reinforcing element (22) of which the radially innermost point (222) is at a radial distance Z and at an axial distance Y from the radially innermost point (211) of the bead, and such that Y/D is at least equal to 0.5 and Z/D is at most equal to 0.4. The end of the carcass reinforcement (311) is situated radially on the outside of the radially outermost point (223) of the circumferential reinforcing element. This same bead comprises at least one bead layer (23) surrounding the bead filler rubber (21) and such that its axially outermost end (231) is radially on the outside of the end (311) and such that its axially innermost end (232) is at least radially on the outside of the point (222).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Francis Bordoz, Pascal Pachoud, Lionel Maubre
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Patent number: 10792960Abstract: An article that experiences repeated deformation includes an electronic component as an inclusion. The article includes at least one structural element, in which the structural element includes a material. At least one electronic component is incorporated into the material as an inclusion. The electronic component includes an integrated circuit and may also include at least one sensor and an antenna. The size of the electronic inclusion is no greater than the largest inclusion typically occurring within the material. The article may be an article formed of rubber, such as a tire.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Carl Trevor Ross Pulford, Michael Chris Varley, Justin Yinket Che, Cheng-Hsiung Lin
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Patent number: 10792961Abstract: A tire state monitoring device that is able to stabilize fixing of a sensor unit is provided. A tire state monitoring device includes a tire valve mounted on a tire wheel, a cylindrical nut screwed onto the valve stem of the tire valve, and a sensor unit that detects a tire state and transmits a detection result to an external part. A nut insertion hole, into which the cylindrical nut is inserted, is formed in the sensor unit. An elastic ring member is fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical nut and elastically deforms in the radial direction of the cylindrical nut while the cylindrical nut is kept inserted in the nut insertion hole. The sensor unit is held by the cylindrical nut by a resilient force of the elastic ring member.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Takumi Sugino
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Patent number: 10792962Abstract: The invention relates to design of all-terrain vehicles. The vehicle comprises a gas line which is connected to all of the wheel tires simultaneously and is coupled to a system for inflating the tires. A suspension comprises a wheel springing system connected to the wheel tires, a pneumatic drive and a system for inflating the tires, wherein the wheel springing system is configured in the form of an gas line formed from the cavities of the pipes from which a frame is welded, or is configured outside the frame, forming a closed loop that is connected to each of the tires by means of pipes with closure members, and wherein the pneumatic drive and the system for inflating the tires are constituted by an engine exhaust system which is provided with a baffle and is coupled to the air line by means of a pipe with a closure member.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ensenor Enterprises LimitedInventor: Aleksey Garagashyan
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Patent number: 10792963Abstract: The filter assembly is positioned between an outwardly threaded stem of a tire valve that controls the flow of tire gas and an internally threaded stem-receiving mount on a tire gas sensor. The filter assembly includes a housing having relatively opposing first and second ends, a mount-engaging portion adjacent to said first end, a cavity open at said first end, a stem-engaging stub at the second end, and at least one port extending through the stub and into the cavity; a filter insertable in the cavity; and a retainer mountable in the cavity at the first end of the housing and having a bore extending therethrough. The stub at the second end of the housing is disposed to depress the tire valve stem and release tire gas when the filter assembly and the tire valve stem are fully threaded into the mount on the sensing device. The tire gas flows through the port in the stub, the filter, and the bore in the retainer before reaching the sensing device.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: DORAN MANUFACTURING LLCInventors: Jie Shen, Jeffrey Stegman, James Clifford Samocki
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Patent number: 10792964Abstract: A trailer suitable for affixation to an all-terrain vehicle in at least two configurations, and methods for securing a trailer to an ATV. The trailer has a bed including a frame, longitudinal bars, and latitudinal bars, with a pair of wheels secured under the bed. The latitudinal bars are bent at their ends so that the ends extend beyond the sides of the bed and bend upward, with apertures positioned at each end of the latitudinal bars. A base plate is secured to and extends perpendicularly upward from the first end of the bed, with an aperture positioned thereon sized to receive a ball hitch when the trailer is affixed to the ATV in a first configuration. Affixed to the second end of the bed is a trailer coupler to receive the ball hitch for affixation to the ATV in a second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Inventor: Robert L Peyton
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Patent number: 10792965Abstract: A safety chain engaging device for a towing vehicle having a gooseneck hitch attached with a rail of the towing vehicle is shown and described. The safety chain engaging device may include a first bracket configured to be secured with the rail of the towing vehicle, and a second bracket attached with the first bracket, the second bracket including a plate member spaced from the first bracket. The safety chain engaging device may also include at least one safety chain engaging member secured with the plate member, where the safety chain engaging member is configured to be laterally spaced from the rail upon securement of the first bracket with the rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: HORIZON GLOBAL AMERICAS INC.Inventors: Lynn H. Mida, Gail R. Matheus
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Patent number: 10792966Abstract: A leaf spring assembly for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle including a leaf spring resiliently supporting of a wheel carrier on a vehicle body of the motor vehicle. The leaf spring has a first end portion, and a diametrically or longitudinally, opposite second end portion fastened, pivotably mounted, to the vehicle. The leaf spring includes a suspension portion extending between the two end portions. The leaf spring includes two spring leaves held pressed one against the other by a first clamp in the suspension portion and are held pressed one against the other by a second clamp distanced or longitudinally spaced from the first clamp. The position of the second clamp, its position on the leaf spring, is variable in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the leaf spring.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 10792967Abstract: An in-wheel motor drive device includes a wheel hub bearing unit and a speed reduction unit that decelerates rotation of a motor unit and transmits decelerated rotation to a wheel. A suspension bracket has an upper connecting seat portion connectable with a suspension device, a lower connecting seat portion connectable with the suspension device, and an intermediate area connecting a vehicle rear part of the upper connecting seat portion and a vehicle rear part of the lower connecting seat portion. A notch is provided between a vehicle front part of the upper connecting seat portion and a vehicle front part of the lower connecting seat portion on a front side of the vehicle of the intermediate area. The suspension bracket is attached/fixed to a casing of the speed reduction unit and/or a fixed wheel such that an axis of the wheel hub bearing unit passes through the notch.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro Tamura, Minoru Suzuki
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Patent number: 10792968Abstract: A bushing may include an elastic compression portion configured to form a primary compression ratio due to a compressive deformation by a primary press-fitting load and be pressed by a secondary compression ratio greater than the primary compression ratio by a secondary press-fitting load greater than the primary press-fitting load, wherein the elastic compression portion is formed in an opened cross section to be a secondary surface contact larger than a primary surface contact without a bulge phenomenon by a volume dispersion in a state in which it is pressed by the primary press-fitting load to be the primary surface contact and then is pressed by the secondary press-fitting load.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, PYUNG HWA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae-Un Sung, Jun-Hyeong Park, Yong-Hyun Ryu, Soo-Hyun Lim
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Patent number: 10792969Abstract: The disclosure relates to a longitudinal leaf spring device for suspension of a body of a motor vehicle. and the longitudinal leaf spring device comprises a longitudinally formed leaf spring element and a coupling device that mechanically couples the leaf spring element to a motor vehicle axle. According to the disclosure, a holder device is provided that has a base holder element for fixed connection to a vehicle chassis and a suspension adjustment element that faces the leaf spring element and is fixedly connected to the base holder element. In this case, the leaf spring element is connected in a front region, fixedly to the base holder element, and the front region is provided to come into mechanical bearing with the suspension adjustment element in at least one operating state.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 10792970Abstract: A method for a vehicle comprising at least one wheel suspension with at least one damper, wherein the at least one damper is such that it can adjust its damping resistance between a first damping mode and at least a second damping mode, wherein the second damping mode presents a larger damping resistance than a damping resistance of the first damping mode. The method comprises the steps: S1) identifying if the vehicle is in a first situation during driving of said vehicle which may lead to a subsequent impact force (F) on the at least one wheel suspension which is of a magnitude such that the at least one damper, when in its first damping mode, will reach a position where no further damping can be performed; and, if this is the case, S2) adjusting the damping resistance from the first damping mode to the at least second damping mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventors: Anders Sandberg, Tobias Brandin
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Patent number: 10792971Abstract: A tensioning device for attachment to a vehicle suspension system reduces play at ends of a pan hard bar (track bar) of the vehicle suspension system, remedying instabilities that can occur in vehicle suspensions. The device can include a bracket clamped to the pan hard bar at a point between the ends of the pan hard bar, or may be otherwise mounted to a bracket formed on the pan hard bar in OEM installations. The other end of the device is secured to the frame or the axle of the vehicle, generally near an end of the pan hard bar. The device is pre-tensioned to apply force at the ends of the pan hard bar, and includes a damping plunger to also damp forces that vibrate the ends of the pan hard bar, further loosening attachments. The tension is field-adjustable and may be tuned for various applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Inventor: Matthew Ethan Grimes
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Patent number: 10792972Abstract: A heating and cooling system for a vehicle included within a radiator module having a plurality of fins. At least two thermophysical batteries are provided, each including an adsorption bed unit and an evaporator condenser unit. At least one upper coolant line extends along the adsorption bed unit of each of the thermophysical batteries and is configured to be connected to a source of waste heat of the vehicle for transferring heat from the source of waste heat to a coolant contained in the coolant line and to the adsorption bed units to recharge the adsorption bed unit. At least one distribution element configured in discharge mode to convey heated fluids from adjacent the adsorption bed units or cooled fluids from adjacent to the evaporator condenser units to another region of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Jasmin Jijina Sinkular, Frank Horton, Hussein Dourra