Patents Issued in October 6, 2020
  • Patent number: 10793376
    Abstract: The presence of an article in a second container is recognized based on image capture information from an image capture apparatus, and the type of the article whose presence has been recognized is determined by a determining portion. A control apparatus performs a transfer control on an article that has been recognized and whose type has been determined by the determining portion, and a position correction control on an article that has been recognized but whose type has not been determined by the determining portion. During the transfer control, the transfer apparatus is controlled to hold a first position on an article contained in the second container to transfer this article W1 to a first container. During the position correction control, the transfer apparatus is controlled to determine a second holding position on an article contained in the second container, and to hold the second holding position to move the article within the second container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Ukisu, Atsushi Kurayama, Sadataka Nishihara
  • Patent number: 10793377
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a material sorting system comprises: a suction gripper assembly, the suction gripper comprising: a body assembly that includes: an internal airflow passage configured to communicate an airflow between an airflow application port positioned at a first end of the body assembly and a gripping port positioned at the opposing second end of the body assembly; a cup fitting attached to the gripping port; a suction cup secured to the cup fitting; an attachable filter inserted into the suction cup and fastened to the cup fitting; and a mounting assembly, wherein the mounting assembly includes one or more mounting points for pivotally attaching the suction gripper assembly to a sorting robot of the material sorting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AMP Robotics Corporation
    Inventors: Travis W. Martin, Scott E. Krueger, John C. McCoy, Jr., Matanya B. Horowitz
  • Patent number: 10793378
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transfer apparatus includes a gripper, a first driving mechanism, an elastic passive joint part, a conveyor, a second driving mechanism, and base. The gripper grips an article. The first driving mechanism linearly moves the gripper in at least two directions including a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The elastic passive joint part is interposed between the gripper and the first driving mechanism, and operates in accordance with an operation of the gripper. The conveyor conveys the article. The second driving mechanism linearly moves the conveyor in the at least two directions, and is connected to the conveyor. The base supports the first driving mechanism and the second driving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Junya Tanaka, Kazuo Watabe, Akihito Ogawa, Hideichi Nakamoto, Takafumi Sonoura, Haruna Eto
  • Patent number: 10793379
    Abstract: A paper feed apparatus in accordance with the present invention feeds printing paper stored in a printing paper storage unit. The printing paper storage unit includes: a paper stacking table on which the printing paper is stacked; and an erected member erected along a side of the paper stacking table. The erected member includes a low erected portion formed lower in a height direction than a surrounding portion of the erected member. The paper stacking table has a top face thereof located at a position as high as, or higher than, the low erected portion in the height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Junya Masuda
  • Patent number: 10793380
    Abstract: A feeding apparatus includes a rotary member unit having a feeding rotary member to feed a recording material and a separating rotary member which forms a nip portion with the feeding rotary member, an output unit, and a control unit. Where a single recording material is fed to the nip portion, the separating rotary member is rotated in a predetermined direction by the single recording material and, where recording materials are overlapped with one another and fed to the nip portion, the separating rotary member rotation is stopped or rotated in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction to separate the overlapped recording materials. The output unit outputs a state signal in accordance with a separating rotary member rotation state. The control unit obtains a rotation speed of the separating rotary member from the state signal output and determines that the rotary member unit is replaced with a new product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuya Hirano
  • Patent number: 10793381
    Abstract: A belt drive includes a belt and at least one pair of spaced apart rails extending in a first direction and defining a gap. The belt is aligned with the gap and to be driven in an endless loop with the belt including a first movable portion external to the gap on a first side of the rails and a second movable portion biased to be recessed within the gap on an opposite second side of the rails. A rewritable display medium is releasably engageable in a sandwiched position between a slidable contact surface of the rails and a first segment of the second movable portion external to the gap to move the display medium in the first direction for contact-less imaging via a unit spaced from the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Napoleon J Leoni, Chuangyu Zhou, Henryk Birecki, Omer Gila
  • Patent number: 10793383
    Abstract: An example method includes comparing, via circuitry, a first signal indicative of a first amount of light received by a first light sensor to a second signal indicative of a second amount of light received by a second light sensor, wherein the second light sensor is to compensate for an environmental change by detecting the second amount of light transmitted by a light source regardless of a presence or absence of an object in the conveyance path; determine, via the circuitry, whether a reflection loss is present based on the comparing of the first and second signals; and if the circuitry detects the reflection loss based on the comparing of the first and second signals, generating a presence indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Robert A. Ehrhardt
  • Patent number: 10793384
    Abstract: A roll conveyance device includes a transportation device including a roll holding shaft extending in a predetermined direction from a distal section of an arm to hold a roll such that the roll holding shaft is inserted into a core member of the roll; and a mounting section within a moving range of the roll holding shaft, the mounting section allowing the roll to be mounted in a state in which both axial ends of the core member of roll are open. The transportation device is configured to mount the roll on the mounting section, the roll holding shaft is to be pulled out from the core member of the roll mounted on the mounting section to a first side of an axial direction of the core member, and the roll holding shaft is to be inserted into the core member from a second side of the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ZUIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nagafuchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yoshiaki Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 10793385
    Abstract: The problem of providing an apparatus for conveying a molded body for heat exchanger fins that is capable of realizing high speed conveying of the molded body for heat exchanger fins, preventing the generation of noise during conveying, and miniaturization is provided. An apparatus conveys a metal strip in a predetermined direction after tube insertion portions are formed in a thin metal plate, and has a plurality of conveying units disposed along a conveying direction of the molded body for heat exchanger fins, each conveying unit including: a rotating conveyor that has a plurality of tapered protrusions that are capable of advancing into the tube insertion portions and a rotating shaft in a direction that is perpendicular to a conveying direction of the metal strip on a horizontal plane; and a rotating conveyor driving unit that rotationally drives the rotating conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HIDAKA SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Nishizawa, Keiichi Morishita
  • Patent number: 10793386
    Abstract: A device for stacking notes of value includes at least one circulating belt arrangement including an endless belt guided over rollers serving as deflecting elements. The circumferential surface of the belt has at least one transport tongue into which at least a section of a note of value is insertable. The device includes at least one strip-off element that contacts the note for the removal from the transport tongue. The device includes a contact element which is arranged and configured such that during the transport in the transport tongue the note moves the contact element into a first position. The contact element contacts an area of the note at least after the removal of the note of value from the transport tongue up to the arrival of this note on the deposit surface or on the upper note of value of a value note stack deposited on the deposit surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Amen, Elmar Berendes
  • Patent number: 10793387
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a supply tray which supports sheets and includes a movable plate configured to move in correspondence to reduction in a number of the sheets, a discharge tray which is located below the supply tray; a discharge unit which has a discharge opening for discharging the sheet and moves from a lower position and a higher position in correspondence to reduction in the number of the sheets supported on the supply tray, a controller which controls movements of the movable plate and the discharge unit, and a sheet detection unit which detects whether the sheets supported on the discharge tray is lower than a predetermined height. The controller determines a timing to move the discharge unit from the higher position toward the lower position based on a detection result of the sheet detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Shigeno
  • Patent number: 10793388
    Abstract: A feeder arrangement support system for supporting an arrangement of a feeder on a feeder arrangement unit includes a imaging unit that images information, a processor that superimposes arrangement support information for supporting the feeder arrangement on the feeder arrangement unit on an image obtained by imaging the feeder arrangement unit or a field of view of a worker, to generate a superimposed composite image, and a display that displays the superimposed composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONINC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naofumi Ikuta, Takuya Yamazaki, Hiroki Sagara, Isato Iwata
  • Patent number: 10793389
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a fold unit that folds a first adjustment sheet including an adjustment pattern, over the adjustment pattern based on a predetermined reference fold position; an image reader that reads an image of the adjustment pattern with the first adjustment sheet folded by the fold unit unfolded; a position identifying unit that, based on a fold line in the image of the adjustment pattern read by the image reader, identifies a position of the fold line; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts a fold position of the fold unit based on a difference between the position of the fold line identified by the position identifying unit and the reference fold position. The image reader includes a scanner that scans the first adjustment sheet relatively in a direction along fold of the first adjustment sheet, and reads the image of the adjustment pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 10793390
    Abstract: A conveying unit (100) of a web, or sheet, of paper, or similar products, arranged to transfer along a transfer direction the web, or sheet, of paper, having a support (41) having a lateral surface (42) provided with at least one peripheral suction groove (43). A suction belt (45) is arranged to move along a closed trajectory (46) comprising the suction portion (44). The suction belt (45) is configured to air-tightly engage the suction portion and provides at least one through hole (47) arranged to be positioned at a respective suction portion (43) in order to cause a suction effect on the web, or sheet, and to transfer it from a first point P1 to a second point P2 of a production line of paper products. It is, furthermore, provided a driving device (60) configured to move the suction belt (45) with respect to the support (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: M.T.C.—MACCHINE TRASFORMAZIONE CARTA SRL
    Inventor: Alessandro De Matteis
  • Patent number: 10793391
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine (100) for manufacturing an optical fibre (200), characterised in that the machine comprises: at least one capstan (20, 21) and at least one pulley (22), which define a run of the optical fibre in a main area (2) of the machine, an optical fibre guiding system comprising a transmission member (25) and a clamping element (26) that is rigidly connected to the transmission member (25) and is able to retain an end of the optical fibre (200), the transmission member (25) being arranged parallel to the run of the optical fibre, a device (5) for having the clamping element (26) automatically grip the optical fibre (200), said device comprising: means (53) for placing the optical fibre in a starting position in which the optical fibre runs at a distance from the clamping element in a direction extending substantially perpendicularly to the clamping element (26), a fibre-spacing finger (51), that can move between a neutral position at a distance from the optical fibre located in t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Conductix Wampfler France
    Inventor: Michel Grillet
  • Patent number: 10793392
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device for eliminating a yarn loop during winding of a yarn on a cross-wound bobbin on a spinning machine at a constant speed of the yarn production includes a cylindrical two pole magnet rotatably mounted about a longitudinal axis thereof. A compensatory arm is connected to the two pole magnet. A magnetic core includes two poles situated opposite of each other, with the cylindrical two pole magnet rotatable between the poles. A side of the magnetic core opposite from the two poles passes through a cavity of an electrical coil, wherein the magnetic core is interrupted in the cavity. A two pole permanent magnet is located at the point of the interruption of the magnetic core in the cavity of the electrical coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Rieter CZ s.r.o.
    Inventors: Miroslav Stusak, Milan Moravec
  • Patent number: 10793393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spool for winding a fibrous web, the lateral surface of which is formed by a coated spool core. The aim of the invention is to improve the winding quality by the fact that the outer lateral surface is formed by a plurality of separate coatings which are arranged axially next to one another, of which at least two adjacent coatings are made of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Malte Müller, Matthias Wohlfahrt, Ewald Wetschenbacher, Ralf-Harald Preising
  • Patent number: 10793394
    Abstract: A self-propelled elevator system includes a hoistway (11) including a plurality of drives (40), wherein each of the plurality of drives includes a stationary portion (16) of a propulsion system and a controller (30) configured to operate the stationary portion of the propulsion system. The propelled elevator system also includes an elevator car ((14), 42) comprising a processor (44) and a transceiver (48), wherein the transceiver is configured to communicate with the controllers of one or more of the plurality of drives that are adjacent to the elevator car and one or more sensors (46) disposed on the elevator car, wherein the processor is configured to receive signals from the one or more sensors. The processor is configured to control a movement of the elevator car within the hoistway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: David Ginsberg, Dang V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10793395
    Abstract: A method for forming a tubular construction element built up of longitudinally extending segments joined together in a side-by-side relationship, wherein the length in the longitudinal direction of the tubular construction element is greater than the diameter thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: PG INVENTION B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Johannes Lodewijk Geurts
  • Patent number: 10793396
    Abstract: An elevator car door safety device that uses flags along a hoistway is disclosed. The elevator car door safety device is mounted to the outside of an elevator car door using a mounting plate and includes a locking assembly mounted to the sill of the elevator car door. The car door safety device includes a lever with a hook at its distal end. The safety device also includes a flag engagement arm perpendicularly mounted to the lever. If the flag engagement arm engages a flag on the hoistway then the hook is prevented from being lodged into the locking assembly and the car door is permitted to open. Inversely, if no flag is engaged, the lever will continue to rotate urging the hook to be lodged within the locking assembly, thereby preventing the door from opening. An electric switch assembly can be used to stop the motion of the elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ricardo Macareno, Nelson Alonso
  • Patent number: 10793397
    Abstract: Guide assemblies are provided which include a translation guide, a door leaf for a lift, movable along the guide and comprising at least one support element placed at one end of the door leaf, at least one runner housed slidably in the translation guide and defining one or more connection seats to the support element, wherein the connection seat/s and the support element can be coupled with at least two different orientations of the runner with respect to the door leaf. For each orientation, the runner delimits at least a different friction surface with respect to the translation guide, the friction surfaces being non-equidistant from the support element so that the relative position between the door leaf and the translation guide can be changed by different orientations of the runner. The invention further relates to runners usable in a guide assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: WITTUR HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Massimo Preziosa
  • Patent number: 10793398
    Abstract: A conveyance element (20) for a people conveyor (1) is configured for being moved in a conveyance direction. The conveyance element (20) comprises a tread plate (24) configured for supporting passengers and at least one protection element (28, 29) configured for collecting items and/or fluids. The tread plate (24) has a longitudinal extension extending parallel to the conveyance direction and a lateral extension extending transversely to the conveyance direction. The at least one protection element (28, 29) is arranged below the tread plate (24), when the conveyance element (20) is arranged in an upright orientation, and it extends beyond at least one end (23) of the tread plate (24) in the conveyance direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Alexander Turek, Thomas Illedits
  • Patent number: 10793399
    Abstract: An installation jib for a girder beam installation and removal system includes a main body having a first end and a second, opposite end, the main body extending along a longitudinal axis between the first end and the second end. The installation jib further includes a first sub-frame element coupled to the main body, a first roller coupled to the first sub-frame element, a second sub-frame element coupled to the main body, and a second roller coupled to the second sub-frame element. The first sub-frame element and the second sub-frame element are spaced longitudinally apart from one another, and the first roller and the second roller each are configured to rotate about an axis that is parallel to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KONECRANES GLOBAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Lawrence, Cory Wotachek
  • Patent number: 10793400
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method of using a grapple assembly comprising grapple arms, mecanum wheels, and drive motors. The grapple assembly may use the grapple arms to grasp a pole and support the pole using the mecanum wheels. The drive motors may be configured to drive the mecanum wheels to rotate the mecanum wheels to provide translation and rotation of the pole. The method may be used for positioning and setting a pole, such as a utility pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Altec Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Downing, Joshua J. Hickman, McNeil Andrew Garton
  • Patent number: 10793401
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle frame for a mobile crane having a frame, in particular having a middle frame part that extends in the longitudinal vehicle direction, and having at least one sliding beam box for a support apparatus that is releasably bolted to a front-face rear end of the frame, wherein the bolting between the frame and the sliding beam box comprises at least two pins extending in the longitudinal vehicle direction and at least two pins extending transversely to the vehicle direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-WERK EHINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Gerber, Gerd Breuning, Alexander Patte
  • Patent number: 10793402
    Abstract: A retractable warping winch with a supporting housing, adapted to be stably fixed to a deck of a vessel at an opening thereof, and a bell, including a base and a drum integral to each other. The bell is movably supported by the housing so that it can vertically shift therein between an extracted working position and a retracted rest position. The winch also includes a driving mechanism to rotate the bell, including a motor and a transmission. The driving mechanism includes a drive hub mounted in the housing. The base of the bell is mounted in the drive hub to be rotatably integral therewith and free to axially shift with respect thereto. The drive hub is mounted in the housing to be rotatably free and axially constrained thereto. The motor is mounted on the housing, externally and laterally thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HARKEN ITALY S.P.A.
    Inventor: Michele Cazzaro
  • Patent number: 10793403
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including a winch system, wherein the winch system includes a single winch line, wherein a payload is suspended from a first end of the winch line, and the winch system is controllable to vary the rate of ascent of the payload to the UAV, and a control system including a processor and program instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by the processor to control the winch, the control system configured to (a) receive data regarding oscillations of the payload, and (b) operate the winch system to vary a retraction rate of the winch line to damp oscillations of the payload during ascent of the payload to the UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Wing Aviation LLC
    Inventors: Joshua John Bialkowski, John Roberts, Abraham Bachrach
  • Patent number: 10793404
    Abstract: A system has a hoist system to lift a payload to a position adjacent to a ceiling of a room. Image sensor systems collect visual data and payload depth data within the payload and ambient depth data within the room. A controller is connected to the hoist system and the image sensor systems. The controller is configured to control the motion of the hoist system. The motion of the hoist system is controlled in part by the ambient depth data from the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BUMBLEBEE SPACES INC.
    Inventors: Sankarshan Murthy, Garrett Rayner, Prahlad Athreya, Aaron Licata, Deepthi Krovvidi, Scott Tandoi, Terrence Williams
  • Patent number: 10793405
    Abstract: A scissor jack comprises a bracket coupled to a first upper arm and a second upper arm; a load rest positioned above the bracket and pivotally connected to the bracket; an elastic element disposed between the load rest and the bracket; a base coupled to a first lower arm and a second lower arm; a first connector pivotally connected to the first upper arm and the first lower arm; a second connector pivotally connected to the second upper arm and the second lower arm; and a driving rod drivably connected to the first and second connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael Tao, Brenna Liu, Han Zhou, Zhuang Xu, Wendy Ge
  • Patent number: 10793406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a scissors lift comprising a bottom frame, a top frame and a scissors mechanism arranged between the bottom frame and the top frame to displace the bottom frame and the top frame relative to each other by transfer of an actuation force. The scissors mechanism comprises a central hollow scissors arm delimited between opposite scissors arm surfaces, wherein the central hollow scissors arm has a bottom pivotal connection connecting it to the bottom frame and a top pivotal connection connecting it to the top frame. Further, the mechanism comprises two passive scissors arms being pivotally connected to the bottom frame and pivotally connected to the top frame. Each of the two passive scissors arms are pivotally connected to the central hollow scissors arm on the opposite scissors arm surfaces of the central hollow scissors arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Pride Mobility Products Corporation
    Inventor: Frank Lykkegaard
  • Patent number: 10793407
    Abstract: A high visibility push-pull handler configured to be mounted on a lift truck. The handler comprising a frame assembly, a pantograph mechanism coupled to the frame assembly, and a faceplate assembly coupled to the pantograph mechanism. The hander is configured with a view window extending through the handler, the view window not obstructed by parts of the handler when the handler is in any normal operating configuration, including a fully extended configuration, a fully retracted configuration, and any configuration in between the full extended and fully retracted positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Rightline Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Jim D. Hamlik, Joel D. Hamlik, Cameron R. Burak
  • Patent number: 10793408
    Abstract: Provided is a stand-up riding type cargo handling vehicle capable of reliably preventing traveling with the foot of an operator kept protruding outside a vehicle. The stand-up riding type cargo handling vehicle includes a boarding floor which an operator boards; a first foot pedal and a second foot pedal that are provided on the boarding floor, and a control unit that is connected to the first and second foot pedals. The first foot pedal is disposed at a position corresponding to the left foot of the operator who gets aboard facing forward; the second foot pedal is disposed at a position corresponding to the right foot of the operator who gets aboard facing forward, and is divided into a front foot pedal and a rear foot pedal in a forward/backward direction; and the front and rear foot pedals are separated by a predetermined amount in the forward/backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mariko Onishi
  • Patent number: 10793409
    Abstract: A control system detects a loaded state for a lifting device. The control system receives a current load value from a load sensor corresponding to a load on the lifting device and compares the current load value from a previously received load value to determine a change in load. The control system receives a current displacement value from a displacement sensor corresponding to a displacement of the lifting device and compares the current displacement value with a previously received displacement value to determine a change in displacement. The control system compares the change in load with the change in displacement to determine a current load slope. The lifting device in identified in a loaded state based on a comparison of the current load slope with a load slope threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ENTRO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Brian Unger
  • Patent number: 10793410
    Abstract: A plying tool includes a main body including a first joining portion and a second joining portion and a plying member set including a first and second plying member movably and releasably connected with the main body. The first and second plying members are movable relative to each other and adapted to connect with the main body in a first arrangement with the first plying member connected with the first joining portion and the second plying member connected with the second joining portion respectively, and a second arrangement with the first plying member connected with the second joining portion and the second plying member connected with the first joining portion respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Tang Chou Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mou-Tang Liou
  • Patent number: 10793411
    Abstract: A sterilizing device for sterilizing closures for closing containers has vertically-oriented closure receivers arranged around a circumference of said rotor that moves said closures through a treatment zone between a closure inlet and outlet. One of the closure receivers is provided with said actuating device that at least partially engages the housing for applying, using the actuator, an actuation movement to a closure in said closure receiver. The actuator is movably connected to the opening via a bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Danelski, Thomas Niehr
  • Patent number: 10793412
    Abstract: An interactive robotic station for beverage preparation comprising a user input interface (101), automated ingredient dispensers (41), a robotic station (105) to collect ingredients from the dispenser, mix the ingredients, perform bartending operation, preferably mixing and/or shaking and/or muddling and/or blending and/or straining, pour the beverage in an open top container (5) and provide the container to a user, and a control unit (103) to automatically control the dispensers and the robotic station based on the inputs from the input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Inventor: Carlo Filippo Ratti
  • Patent number: 10793413
    Abstract: A coolant recirculation apparatus is for a beverage dispense system. The apparatus comprises a pump mechanism arranged to recirculate coolant via a coolant circuit from a coolant reservoir to a beverage dispense location having at least one dispense point at which beverage is dispensed; an agitation mechanism arranged to agitate coolant within the coolant reservoir; a data sensor arranged to sense temperature data associated with the coolant; and a control unit in communication with the pump mechanism, the agitation mechanism and the data sensor. The control unit is arranged to control the rate of operation of the agitation mechanism and the pump mechanism in response to the temperature data and according to a predefined property of the beverage dispense system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Cornelius Beverage Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Cook, Mark William Bromwich, Simon Anthony Felton
  • Patent number: 10793414
    Abstract: A beverage supply device is provided with: physical buttons for receiving an indicator operation indicating that a beverage selected from among the plurality of types of beverages is to be supplied; a control unit that causes a selected beverage to be discharged from a predetermined nozzle while one of the physical buttons is receiving an indicator operation; and a storage unit that stores the number of sales for each beverage. The control unit increases the number of sales for a beverage by one sale when the same beverage is supplied continuously and the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is longer than a predetermined period. The control unit does not increase the number of sales for a beverage when the interval during which the beverage is supplied continuously is shorter than a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yajima, Masahiro Kamiyama, Yasuhiro Imazeki
  • Patent number: 10793415
    Abstract: A water dispensing apparatus may include a dispenser housing at which a container accommodation part accommodating a container is formed to be recessed; a water nozzle provided at an inner surface of the dispenser housing which defines an upper surface of the container accommodation part; a water level detecting member provided at the inner surface of the dispenser housing close to the water nozzle and configured to detect a level of water filled in the container; a target water level input part provided to input the level of water filled in the container; and a water level indicating unit provided at an inner surface of the dispenser housing which defines a side surface of the container accommodation part to indicate a water level on the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byoungsuk Choi, Shinhyun Park, Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 10793416
    Abstract: A fuel vent connector includes a longitudinal axis and a flow path a long the longitudinal axis. The connector further includes a first portion pivotally supporting a plurality of fingers, each finger amongst the plurality of fingers having a latching head biased radially outwardly and configured to latch within a fuel vent opening. The connector further includes a second portion biased longitudinally away from the first portion with respect to the longitudinal axis. The flow path extends through the first and second portions, and longitudinal movement of the second portion towards the first portion moves the fingers radially inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Conrad J. Dahm
  • Patent number: 10793417
    Abstract: A device for fueling motor vehicles with a fluid used as a fuel and composed of liquefied gas, in particular liquefied natural gas, includes: at least one storage container; a cooling device; at least one conveying device for feeding the fluid from the at least one storage container to at least one fueling device for motor vehicles; and at least one line for supplying the fluid to the fueling device. The at least one line includes a media-conveying central pipeline as a medium pipe and at least one additional media-conveying pipeline that is arranged concentrically with respect to the central pipeline and defines an annular space together with the media-conveying central pipeline. The media-conveying central pipeline and the at least one annular space supply and return the fluid or a gas flow. The at least one additional media-conveying pipeline is surrounded by a jacket pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BRUGG ROHR AG HOLDING
    Inventors: Joern Homann, Thomas Albrecht, Marc Oliver Herbst
  • Patent number: 10793418
    Abstract: A rotating apparatus includes a folded back elastically deformable portion including a first piezoelectric element for deforming a first elastically deformable portion and a second piezoelectric element for deforming a second elastically deformable portion, and the rotating apparatus rotates a movable portion around a predetermined rotation axis, by respectively applying first and second driving voltage signals to the first and second piezoelectric elements, to deform the first and second elastically deformable portions. First and second connection positions have a relationship of being relatively the same or symmetrical across all folded back structures. The first connection position is where a signal line of the first driving voltage signal and the first piezoelectric element are connected, and the second connection position is where a signal line of the second driving voltage signal and the second piezoelectric element are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuki Shinkawa, Tsuyoshi Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10793419
    Abstract: A MEMS assembly includes a housing having an internal volume V, wherein the housing has a sound opening to the internal volume V, a MEMS component in the housing adjacent to the sound opening, and a layer element arranged at least regionally at a surface region of the housing that faces the internal volume V, wherein the layer element includes a layer material having a lower thermal conductivity and a higher heat capacity than the housing material of the housing that adjoins the layer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Marc Fueldner, Niccolo De Milleri, Bernd Goller, Ulrich Krumbein, Gerhard Lohninger, Giordano Tosolini, Andreas Wiesbauer
  • Patent number: 10793421
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device is disclosed. The MEMS device includes a device substrate having a MEMS component in a device region. A top cap is fusion bonded to the top surface of the device substrate and a bottom cap is fusion bonded to the bottom surface of the device substrate. The top and bottom caps encapsulate the MEMS components. A cap includes a via isolation which extends a thickness of the cap and surrounds the device region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Natarajan Rajasekaran, Siddharth Chakravarty, Yu Ting Ng, Rakesh Kumar, Pradeep Yelehanka
  • Patent number: 10793422
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) package may include a wafer having a MEMS device; a metal cap partially anchored to the wafer where at least one point between the cap and the wafer is unanchored, the metal cap at least substantially extending over the MEMS device; an electrical contact pad electrically coupled to the MEMS device; and a sealing layer disposed over the metal cap and the wafer, such that the sealing layer seals a gap between an unanchored portion of the metal cap and the wafer to encapsulate the MEMS device; wherein the electrical contact pad and the metal cap include the same composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: You Qian, Humberto Campanella Pineda, Rakesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 10793423
    Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus and systems for providing home and building security and condition monitoring. More particularly, the invention relates to a plurality of devices, including intelligent, multi-sensing, network-connected devices, that communicate dynamically with each other and a remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: William Joseph Carroll, Bradley Dean Molinsky, Michael J. Dunst, Thomas Andrew Tipton, Joseph S. Battaglini
  • Patent number: 10793424
    Abstract: A device with a first MEMS device and a second MEMS device is disclosed. The first MEMS device is configured to sense at least one external influence. The second MEMS device is responsive to the at least one external influence. The first MEMS device is configured to change a state when the at least one external influence exceeds a threshold value. The first MEMS device is configured to retain the state below the threshold value, wherein the change in state of the first MEMS device is done passively and wherein the state of the first MEMS device is indicative of a status of the second MEMS device. In one example, the first MEMS device further comprises a normally open switch that closes when the external influence exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Julian Thompson, Stephen Lloyd, Joseph Seeger
  • Patent number: 10793425
    Abstract: A method for protecting a MEMS unit, in particular a MEMS sensor, against infrared investigations, at least one area of the MEMS unit being doped, the at least one doped area absorbing, reflecting or diffusely scattering more than 50%, in particular more than 90%, of an infrared light incident upon it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Curcic, Oliver Willers, Sven Zinober, Ulrich Kunz
  • Patent number: 10793426
    Abstract: A microelectromechanical system structure and a method for fabricating the same are provided. A method for fabricating a MEMS structure includes the following steps. A first substrate is provided, wherein a transistor, a first dielectric layer and an interconnection structure are formed thereon. A second substrate is provided, wherein a second dielectric layer and a thermal stability layer are formed on the second substrate. The first substrate is bonded to the second substrate, and the second substrate removed. A conductive layer is formed within the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the interconnection structure. The thermal stability layer is located between the conductive layer and the interconnection structure. A growth temperature of a material of the thermal stability layer is higher than a growth temperature of a material of the conductive layer and a growth temperature of a material of the interconnection structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Chang-Sheng Hsu, Chih-Fan Hu, Chia-Wei Lee, En Chan Chen, Shih-Wei Li
  • Patent number: 10793427
    Abstract: A MEMS device formed in a first semiconductor substrate is sealed using a second semiconductor substrate. To achieve this, an Aluminum Germanium structure is formed above the first substrate, and a polysilicon layer is formed above the second substrate. The first substrate is covered with the second substrate so as to cause the polysilicon layer to contact the Aluminum Germanium structure. Thereafter, eutectic bonding is performed between the first and second substrates so as to cause the Aluminum Germanium structure to melt and form an AlGeSi sealant thereby to seal the MEMS device. Optionally, the Germanium Aluminum structure includes, in part, a layer of Germanium overlaying a layer of Aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KIONIX, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Heller, Toma Fujita