Patents Issued in December 29, 2020
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Patent number: 10875226Abstract: An injection molding system comprising: a first selected valve, one or more downstream valves, delivering a fluid to a mold cavity, at least one fluid property sensor, each valve associated with a position sensor that detects opening of a gate at an actual open gate time to the controller, the controller automatically adjusting time of instruction to open the gates on a subsequent injection cycle by an adjustment time equal to any delay in time between a predetermined open gate target time and an actual open gate time, wherein the system forms a first one or more parts or objects, the user inspecting or measuring the first one or more parts or objects and manually adjusts the predetermined open gate target time.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Synventive Molding Soliutions, Inc.Inventor: Mark Moss
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Patent number: 10875227Abstract: A transparent resin molded product and a mold for molding the product are provided in which occurrence of silver streak in the resin molded product is prevented. The resin molded product includes a design portion and a non-design portion, at least a part of the design portion is molded by transparent resin, and a gate trace (a gate arrangement position during the resin molding) is disposed in the non-design portion (runner portion). A foreign matter restraining portion for restraining foreign matters and bubbles contained in the transparent resin is disposed in the vicinity of the gate trace of the non-design portion. The foreign matters and bubbles are restrained by the foreign matter restraining portion and are prevented from flowing to the design portion, and therefore the occurrence of silver streak on the design portion can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroya Ito, Takatoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 10875228Abstract: A method of injection moulding an article, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing an injection mould comprising a plurality of mould parts defining a mould cavity of the injection mould, the plurality of mould parts including first and second movable mould parts, the injection mould further comprising an injection inlet for injecting molten thermoplastic resin material into the mould cavity, wherein the injection inlet is located in the vicinity of the first movable mould part and the second movable mould part is remote from the injection inlet; (b) disposing the first and second movable mould parts in a first configuration so as to define a first intermediate moulding cavity, in which first configuration the first movable mould part is in a first rearward position and the second movable mould part is in a first forward position; (c) injecting molten thermoplastic resin material into the first intermediate moulding cavity through the injection inlet to fill the first intermediate moulding cavity wiType: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: GR8 Engineering LimitedInventor: Peter Reginald Clarke
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Patent number: 10875229Abstract: A melt temperature sensing kit includes a housing and a cup. The housing defines a cavity and has an outer periphery configured to be received by a platen of an injection molding machine. The cup has a proximate end and a distal end and is configured to be received within at least a portion of the cavity. The cup includes a base enclosing the distal end of the cup and a sidewall extending from the base, the sidewall defining a first aperture at the proximate end of the cup, a second aperture disposed between the proximate end and the distal end of the cup, and an internal volume. The first aperture, the second aperture, and the internal volume cooperate to define a flow path. At least one of the housing and the cup facilitate measurement of a shot flow temperature as part of a melt temperature measurement process.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Procon Training and Consulting, LLCInventor: Richard A. Bleck
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Patent number: 10875230Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a polymer container according to a blow molding or stretch blow molding process, in which the base of the blow mold has at least one orifice for pressurized gas to enter the blow mold through the base. Introducing pressurized gas through the orifice in the blow mold base provides cooling assistance within the gas mold, much earlier than the cooling using conventional methods, which can reduce or eliminate the need for any post mold cooling. This method has been found to be applicable to non-hot fill application bottle and container manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Rohit Joshi, Ravi D. Mody
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Patent number: 10875231Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a liquid containing container, a capper has a container holding portion configured to be displaced at a constant first velocity in the circumferential direction of a first central axis, the method including: a liquid blow molding step of molding a preform disposed in a cavity of a mold into a container body having a barrel containing a liquid; an intermediate conveying step of, after the mold is opened, gradually accelerating the container body to a third velocity and delivering the container body to a carrier of a rotary conveying machine by an intermediate conveying device; a rotary conveying step of conveying the container body and delivering the container body to the container holding portion by the carrier of the rotary conveying machine; and a capping step of attaching a cap while the container body is conveyed by the container holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.Inventor: Shigeki Morikami
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Patent number: 10875232Abstract: A method for drape forming a laminated composite charge, the method including placing the laminated composite charge on a forming tool and redirecting forming forces applied to the laminated composite charge during drape forming to counteract wrinkle forming movement between plies of the laminated composite charge.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: David J. Sundquist, John P. Longinette
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Patent number: 10875233Abstract: In an embodiment, a paint roller manufacturing system and method uses a fabric-coating applicator to apply a fabric adhesive onto a portion of a perforated paint roller cover fabric material having a plurality of perforations through which adhesive may flow, and into the plurality of perforations and into interstitial spaces of the fabric material, to yield a length of coated fabric. An inner strip and an outer strip are wound about a mandrel in offset relation. A strip-coating applicator is used to apply a strip adhesive to the outer strip as it is wound about the mandrel. Simultaneously with the step of applying the strip adhesive to the outer strip, a portion of the coated paint roller fabric material is received at the outer strip and the length of coated fabric is wound about at least the outer strip to form a paint roller tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Chandra Sekar
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Patent number: 10875234Abstract: A device for stretching a thermoplastic film simultaneously in the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction is provided. The device includes, on each side of the film (F) to be stretched, grasping members for grasping a lateral edge of the film (F), and guide members; first and second guide rails (R1, R2), on which the members and are respectively able to move; first connecting rods connecting the grasping members and the guide members. In an embodiment, each guide member is connected to a single grasping member by one or several of said first connecting rods, and is connected to a first longitudinal adjusting member by one or several second connecting rods connected to the first longitudinal adjusting member; and the device includes adjusting means for adjusting the position and orientation of said first longitudinal adjusting member relative to said first and second guide rail (R1, R2).Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Jean-Pierre Darlet
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Patent number: 10875235Abstract: The invention relates to imparting surfaces with nanometer sized structures that provide bactericidal properties to the surface and devices. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a bactericidal surface with nanometer sized pillars created by imprinting a softened polymer surface with a mold. In another embodiment, the nanometer sized pillars are part of a medical device with antibacterial properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Albert Fan Yee, Elena Liang, Nicole Ing, Markelle Gibbs, Mary Nora Dickson
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Patent number: 10875236Abstract: A method for etching a layer of assembled block copolymer including first and second polymer phases, the etching method including a first step of etching by a first plasma formed from carbon monoxide or a first gas mixture including a fluorocarbon gas and a depolymerising gas, the first etching step being carried out so as to partially etch the first polymer phase and to deposit a carbon layer on the second polymer phase, and a second step of etching by a second plasma formed from a second gas mixture including a depolymerising gas and a gas selected among the carbon oxides and the fluorocarbon gases, the second etching step being carried out so as to etch the first polymer phase and the carbon layer on the second polymer phase.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Nicolas Posseme, Sébastien Barnola, Patricia Pimenta Barros, Aurélien Sarrazin
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Patent number: 10875237Abstract: A device for fabricating structures of large dimensions, layer by layer. The invention relates to a device making use of positioning an extrusion head in three dimensions by means of cables in order to deposit a pasty material continuously in thin layers, e.g. a mortar comprising either a hydraulic binder or thermoplastic compounds or thermosetting compounds or curable compounds. The invention is for making industrial elements of very large dimensions, and more particularly for making buildings.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Xavier Rocher
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Patent number: 10875238Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable medium to provide patterned layer deposition of liquid types to a plate surface in layers organized in layouts with sites of patterns aligned to a plate origin of the plate surface. At least one layer includes a layout defining a geometric layout of the plate surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David H. Ochs, Joshua M. Yu, Jeffrey A. Nielsen, Kenneth Ward, Christie Dudenhoefer
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Patent number: 10875239Abstract: A first aspect of the present invention is a constant force compression construct, comprising: (a) a plurality of compressible layers, each compressible layer comprising a plurality of interconnected flexible struts configured as a regular hexagonal lattice of repeating unit cells, with the layers spaced apart from one another, and with the unit cells of each layer aligned with one another; and (b) a plurality of beams interconnecting each of the compressible layers with each respective adjacent compressible layer to form a three-dimensional lattice having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a compressible region therebetween, with the repeating unit cells contained in the compressible region.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Carbon, Inc.Inventor: Sean Friedrich Walter McCluskey
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Patent number: 10875240Abstract: A stabilizing liquid functional material (SLFM) for 3D printing includes ceramic nanoparticles in an amount ranging from about 0.25% to about 5% by weight based on a total SLFM weight and silica nanoparticles present in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to about 10% by weight based on the total SLFM weight. The ceramic nanoparticles have a particle size ranging from about 5 nm to about 50 nm. The silica nanoparticles have a particle size ranging from about 10 nm to about 50 nm. The ceramic nanoparticles and the silica nanoparticles are different in composition and/or morphology. An electromagnetic radiation absorber is present in an amount ranging from about 1% to about 10% by weight based on the total SLFM weight. An organic solvent is present in an amount from about 5% to about 50% by weight based on the total SLFM weight. The SLFM includes a balance of water.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James Elmer Abbott, Jr., Raymond Adamic, David A. Champion
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Patent number: 10875241Abstract: A three-dimensional (3-D) printer includes build and support material development stations positioned to transfer layers of build and support materials to an intermediate transfer surface. The intermediate transfer surface transfers a layer of the build and support materials to a platen each time the platen contacts the intermediate transfer surface. A sensor detects the thickness of the layer on the platen, and a mechanical planer is positioned to contact and level the layer on the platen as the platen moves past the mechanical planer. Additionally, a feedback loop is electrically connected to the sensor and the mechanical planer. The mechanical planer adjusts the amount of the build material and the support material removed from the layer based on the thickness of the layer on the platen, as determined by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Robert A. Clark, Michael F. Zona, William J. Nowak, Chu-heng Liu, Jorge A. Alvarez, Paul J. McConville
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Patent number: 10875242Abstract: A three-dimensional modeling apparatus for fabricating a three-dimensional object includes a plasticizing section that plasticizes a thermoplastic material to transform into a molten material; an ejection section for ejecting the molten material; a first air blowing section that blows air from a circumference of the nozzle toward the molten material ejected from the nozzle; a platform on which the molten material ejected from the nozzle is deposited; and a control unit that changes a relative positional relationship between the ejection section and the platform.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Koichi Saito, Shunsuke Mizukami, Kazuhide Nakamura
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Patent number: 10875243Abstract: Systems and methods for a robotic fabrication and assembly platform providing a plurality of printable materials for fabrication of a three-dimensional object are provided. A method includes activating a pneumatic actuator to extend a quick-change turret from a pneumatic seal. The method may insert a plurality of barrels into the quick-change turret. The method may also align one of the plurality of barrels with a pneumatic seal in the quick-change turret. The method may also disengage the pneumatic actuator to seat the aligned barrel onto the pneumatic seal and print a three-dimensional object. The method may further halt the printing of the three-dimensional object prior to completion and engage the pneumatic actuator to extend the quick-change turret from the pneumatic seal.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, LLCInventor: Scott Douglas Cambron
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Patent number: 10875244Abstract: An extrusion head for a three-dimensional printer is disclosed including a feed tube, a heater, a cooler, and a bridge. The feed tube can be made of metal and has an inlet for receiving a forwardly driven filament of solid deposition material, an outlet, a downstream portion adjacent to the outlet, an upstream portion upstream from the downstream portion, and an internal passage extending from the inlet to the outlet. The heater is thermally coupled with the downstream portion of the feed tube for heating a filament to provide softened fluid deposition material. The cooler is thermally coupled with the upstream portion and spaced generally axially from the heater to define a generally axially extending gap traversed by the feed tube. The bridge traverses the gap and provides a rigid mechanical connection between the heater and the cooler.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Slice Engineering LLCInventor: Christopher Mark Montgomery
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Patent number: 10875245Abstract: A nozzle for dispense of a material that is a composite of fillers such as short fibers (e.g. carbon fibers) and a polymer matrix. The nozzle through which the composite material is dispensed has an expansion region through which the composite material flows. The expansion region dispenses a composite material wherein the fibers are substantially not aligned (e.g. in a random orientation with respect to each other in the polymer matrix).Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: AREVO, INC.Inventor: Natalie Margaretha Rudolph
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Patent number: 10875246Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for an additive manufacturing or three dimensional (3D) printing system, including a build point, located at a n origin of a Spherical coordinate system; a theta axis motor configured to incrementally control rotation of the build point in relation to an extruder head along the theta axis; a phi axis motor configured to incrementally control rotation of the build point in relation to the extruder head along the phi axis perpendicular to the theta axis; and a rho radius motor configured to incrementally control the extruder head to a desired radius from the build point.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Jay Lee
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Patent number: 10875247Abstract: A multi-beam volumetric resin curing system and method for whole-volume additive manufacturing of an object includes a bath containing a photosensitive resin, a light source for producing a light beam, and a spatial light modulator which produces a phase- or intensity-modulated light beam by impressing a phase profile or intensity profile of an image onto a light beam received from the light source. The system and method also include projection optics which then produces multiple sub-image beams from the modulated light beam which are projected to intersect each other in the photosensitive resin to cure select volumetric regions of the resin in a whole-volume three-dimensional pattern representing the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Securitv. LLCInventors: Maxim Shusteff, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Nicholas Fang, Robert Matthew Panas, Johannes Henriksson, Brett Kelly, Allison E. Browar
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Patent number: 10875248Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods of fabricating surface topography based on a scanned surface topography. The method converts 3D scanned surface topography data that have submicron resolution to digital formats that can be stored, manipulated, or tiled, and used as an input for replicating the surface topography with submicron resolution on another substrate. The digitized surface topography data is then converted to input for 1) 3D printing to replicate the scanned surface topography with submicron resolution, with or without a subsequent coating layer or layers to impart additional properties and/or features, 2) 3D printing a master that replicates the scanned surface topography with submicron resolution, which will be used for fast replica molding of the surface topography onto another substrate, and 3) creating a photomask with submicron resolution for transferring the surface topography to a metal substrate surface through subsequent photolithography and etching processes.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Board Of Trustees Of The University Of ArkansasInventors: Mahyar Afshar Mohajer, Josue Goss, Dipankar Choudhury, Min Zou, Shelby Robert Maddox
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Patent number: 10875249Abstract: A machine (1) for the additive manufacture of a component (2) by complete or partial selective melting of a powder comprises: a working chamber (100); a sleeve (3) having a top opening (4) opening into the working chamber (100), and having a vertical central axis (5), a support plate (6) intended to accept the component (2) in the process of being manufactured, a device (7) for actuating the translational movement of the support plate (6) inside the sleeve (3) along the vertical central axis (5) of the sleeve (3), and a component (2) extraction system (8) comprising a container (9), the extraction system (8) further comprising at least one closure plate (12) that is able to move in order to close the bottom opening (15) of the container (9), and the attachment between the support plate (6) and the actuating device (7) being of the removable type.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: AddUpInventors: Jean-Pierre Nicaise, Gilles Walrand
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Patent number: 10875250Abstract: A method of analytically determining a laser power for laser sintering includes choosing a batch of powder material for building a plurality of test rods; selecting a range of laser power for building the test rods; determining a plurality of power increments within the selected range to define a plurality of laser power settings; programming a laser sintering machine to build at least one test rod at each laser power setting; constructing the test rods; wherein the optimal power is at least one watt below a lowest laser power setting associated with the formation of voids; identifying the laser power setting used to construct a respective test rod without formation of voids in the surface as an optimal laser power; and configuring the selective laser sintering machine with the optimal laser power when conducting a laser sintering process using the chosen batch of powder material.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Hexcel CorporationInventors: Scott DeFelice, Anthony DeCarmine
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Patent number: 10875251Abstract: A method and a connecting element for joining two components, at least one of which is made of a fiber-reinforced composite, are proposed.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: EJOT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Dieter Kittel
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Patent number: 10875252Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for interconnecting components of a sporting good, in particular a sports shoe, and a sports shoe manufactured with such a method. The method may include (a.) forming a pattern element having at least one removable at least partially non-transparent or non-reflective portion, (b.) irradiating at least one of the first and the second component via the pattern element with heat radiation and (c.) interconnecting the irradiated first and second component.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Andreas Johannes Seefried, Clemens Paul Dyckmans, Maximilian Philipp Kurtz
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Patent number: 10875253Abstract: Method for the production of a pacifier teat and pacifier teat with a suction section forming a cavity, to which suction section a shaft adjoins, wherein an elastic hollow body having suction section and the shaft is pre-formed in an injection or in a dipping process and opposite wall sections of the pre-formed hollow body are connected with each other in the region of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MAM BABYARTIKEL GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.Inventor: Peter Rohrig
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Patent number: 10875254Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting two fibre-reinforced plastic components, comprising the following steps: producing a first fibre-reinforced plastic component, wherein a fabric made of fibrous matting is provided, which is impregnated with a resin-curing agent mixture, which is then subsequently cured, wherein the part of the surface of the first fibre-reinforced plastic component, which is to be later adhered to the second fibre-reinforced plastic component (hereinafter also referred to as joining surface), is masked with an adhesive strip before the impregnation of the fibrous matting with the resin-curing agent mixture; producing a second fibre-reinforced plastic component using the above steps, wherein the part of the surface of the second fibre-reinforced plastic component, which is to be later adhered to the first fibre-reinforced plastic component, is also masked with an adhesive strip before the impregnation of the fibrous matting with the resin-curing agent mixture; removing the adhesType: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TESA SEInventors: Stephan Bernt, Uwe Michel
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Patent number: 10875255Abstract: A device for sealing sample tubes comprises a tool assembly configured to interface with a rack (10) holding a plurality of sample storage tubes (20), the tool assembly holding a plurality of punches (322) and a die plate (324) including a plurality of cutting holes, with each of the plurality of cutting holes accepting one of the plurality of punches (322). The tool assembly receives a foil sheet (131) between the punches (322) and the die plate (324). The device includes an actuator enabling linear movement of the tool assembly. Linear movement of the tool assembly towards the rack (10) engages the die plate (324) against the rack (10) and punches the punches (322) through the cutting holes of the die plate (324) to punch a plurality of sealing sections from the foil sheet (131) and to press and seal each of the sealing sections against a top end of each of the plurality of sample storage tubes (20) in the rack (10).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: BROOKS AUTOMATION, INC.Inventor: Beat Reuteler
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Patent number: 10875256Abstract: A method of making a joint for a structure comprises forming a thermoplastic filler, applying an uncured first thermoset layer into direct contact with the thermoplastic filler, applying an uncured second thermoset layer into direct contact with the thermoplastic filler, and applying an uncured third thermoset layer into direct contact with the thermoplastic filler. The method additionally comprises curing the uncured first thermoset layer, the uncured second thermoset layer, and the uncured third thermoset layer at a temperature below a melting temperature of the thermoplastic material to form a cured first thermoset layer, a cured second thermoset layer, and a cured third thermoset layer and bonding together the cured first thermoset layer, the cured second thermoset layer, the cured third thermoset layer, and the thermoplastic filler.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Gabriel Z. Forston, Christopher G. Harris, Joshua P. Tyndall, Hyukbong Kwon, Carolyn Schmidt
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Patent number: 10875257Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to devices and methods for furniture protection. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to foam-film sheets configured to protect furniture from damage. An exemplary foam-film sheet as disclosed herein includes a sheet of foam material having a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge; a sheet of film material having a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge; a first seal between a portion of the foam material proximate its first lateral edge and a portion of the film material proximate its first lateral edge; and a second seal between a portion of the foam material proximate its second lateral edge and a portion of the film material proximate its second lateral edge, wherein the film and foam are substantially unsealed along the entire transverse width between the first and second sealed portions near the lateral edges of the foam material.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging LLCInventors: Thomas D. Wetsch, Darren Keith Green
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Patent number: 10875258Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for generatively producing components, said device comprising a radiation device for selectively radiating a powder bed, and an induction device for inductively heating the component produced by radiating the powder bed, Said induction device comprising at least one voltage source which can simultaneously produce alternating voltages with at least two different frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AGInventors: Joachim Bamberg, Erwin Bayer, Andreas Jakimov, Herbert Hanrieder, Bertram Kopperger, Wilhelm Satzger, Thomas Hess, Karl-Heinz Dusel, Stefan Schneiderbanger
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Patent number: 10875259Abstract: A high-moisture-permeability, microporous plastic film randomly having a lot of recesses having different opening diameters and depths, with clefts formed in the recesses, is produced by pressing a first pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface to a flat-surface metal roll, to produce an anvil roll randomly having a lot of recesses on a metal roll surface; arranging a second pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface oppositely to the anvil roll; and passing a plastic film through a gap between the second pattern roll and the anvil roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Seiji Kagawa
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Patent number: 10875260Abstract: A system and method for forming a composite part. The method comprises positioning a prepreg material relative to a composite forming tool. The composite forming tool comprises a frame associated with a shaping system, a base comprising at least one mold, and the shaping system associated with the frame and configured to move relative to the frame, the base, and the prepreg material. The method also lowers the shaping system of the composite forming tool towards the prepreg material. The method applies pressure to the prepreg material with a centerline presser of the shaping system. The method also applies a force to the prepreg material using a number of compliant elongate members of the shaping system to uniformly apply the prepreg material to the at least one mold of the base of the composite forming tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Silas Lawton Studley, Matthew Ray DesJardien, James N. Buttrick
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Patent number: 10875261Abstract: The invention relates to a production system (1) for laying fiber tapes (2), said production system (1) comprising: a laying device (5) having at least two roll-out devices (9); an application device (6) having an application surface (32) for receiving the fiber tape (2), wherein the fiber tape (2) can be rolled out in strips onto the application surface (32); a manipulation device (7) for manipulating the fiber tape (2) applied to the application device (6), wherein the manipulation device (7) has a receiving surface (59) for receiving the fiber tape (2).Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Fill Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Norbert Danninger, Gregor Wittmann
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Patent number: 10875262Abstract: This patent application focuses on the cutting, laying and impregnating the fiber tape using a tape laying and cutting head. The head contains a stationary or moving laser system with an in-situ mixing of resin and hardener, rollers (1,2) and a spreader (6) for pressing. The head enables manufacturing of small fiber reinforced parts avoiding the problems in manufacturing them.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventors: Qiongge Tai, Pravin Luthada, Emir Goletic, Oriol Ala Puig, Vaibhav Shah
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Patent number: 10875263Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securing laminates to mandrels. One embodiment is a method for facilitating layup of preforms, the method including selecting a mandrel that includes at least one receptacle, disposing a first vacuum bag atop the mandrel that covers the receptacle, selecting a Ply Location Template (PLT) that includes a securement element, aligning a portion of the securement element with the receptacle, pressing the portion of the securement element downward into the first vacuum bag and driving the portion of the securement element into the receptacle, and abutting a preform against the PLT.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Keith Edward Baddock, Peter Lucas Heintz, Manning James Scarfe
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Patent number: 10875264Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for securing laminates to mandrels. One embodiment is a method for facilitating layup of preforms, the method including selecting a mandrel that includes at least one receptacle, disposing a first vacuum bag atop the mandrel that covers the receptacle, selecting a Ply Location Template (PLT) that includes a securement element, aligning a portion of the securement element with the receptacle, pressing the portion of the securement element downward into the first vacuum bag and driving the portion of the securement element into the receptacle, and abutting a preform against the PLT.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Keith Edward Baddock, Peter Lucas Heintz, Manning James Scarfe
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Patent number: 10875265Abstract: A hybrid metallic/composite structural component may comprise a metallic inner tube, a first lobe extending from the metallic inner tube, and a composite outer tube surrounding the metallic inner tube and the lobe, wherein a first end of the metallic inner tube extends from the composite outer tube and a second end of the metallic inner tube extends from the composite outer tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventor: Bradley William Baird
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Patent number: 10875266Abstract: A repair tool for applying a coating patch includes a heating element, a flexible bladder disposed adjacent the heating element, and an inflexible shell disposed about the flexible bladder. The inflexible shell defines a negative space corresponding to a plurality of sides of an aircraft component. A controller is communicatively coupled to the heating element and the bladder, and is configured to control a temperature of the heating element and a pressure of the flexible bladder.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventor: David J. Eigner
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Patent number: 10875267Abstract: Methods and systems for making a film made of dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomeric material are provided herein. The subject methods and systems achieve dimensional stability of an elastic film by applying thermal treatment as part of the film making process and enhance the shrinkage of the film by intentionally with stretching the film while hot and freezing the film in the stretch. The systems and methods are useful in controlling shrinkage of DVA post film extrusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Anna C. Claerbout, Peter W. Manders, Stefan B. Ohlsson, Willy J. J. Leysen
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Patent number: 10875268Abstract: A transport system prevents swinging of a lift stage at the time of ascent and descent, while appropriately supporting an article shifted from the reference position. The transport system includes a transport device that transfers a green tire to and from a rack part. The transport device includes a lift stage, a support part, and a guided part. The lift stage is provided to be movable upward and downward. The support part is provided on the lift stage and supports an upper inner wall of the green tire from a lower side. The guided part is provided on the lift stage. The rack part is provided with a guide part having a lower portion defining a first gap with the guided part and an upper portion defining a second gap with the guided part.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.Inventor: Hideji Sakata
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Patent number: 10875269Abstract: A tyre building plant (1; 100) comprises a forming drum (4) and a supply device (10) for supplying an elongated element (3) towards the forming drum. The supply device comprises at least one conveyor belt (11; 101) which extends in a supply direction (X) between a loading region (12), in which the elongated element is loaded on the conveyor belt and an unloading region (13), a control unit (19) for controlling the loading of the elongated element (3) on the conveyor belt (11; 101), at least a first detection element which is fixed with a first portion (20) of the conveyor belt, a sensor (22) which is fixed and independent with respect to the conveyor belt and which detects the position of the first portion (20) with respect to the supply device. The loading of the elongated element on the conveyor belt is performed when the first portion is at a predefined reference distance from the loading region (12).Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.Inventor: Davide Conti
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Patent number: 10875270Abstract: The tire vulcanizing mould includes a plurality of segments for molding the outside of the tire tread. The segments are able to move radially between a position in which the mold is open and a position in which the mold is closed. The segments have frustoconical bearing surfaces that are placed radially on the outside. An axially mobile external ring, which acts on the frustoconical bearing surfaces, is placed radially on the outside of the segments in order to cause them to close and to move back from their position of closure in the mold. The external ring is radially preloaded towards the inside when the mold is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.Inventor: Christian Defaisse
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Patent number: 10875271Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating gap fillers for composite parts. One exemplary system includes a controller that acquires a geometry for a gap filler that will occupy a volume at a joint between laminates of curable constituent material, subdivides the geometry of the gap filler into layers, and for each layer: identifies variations in width of the layer along a length of the gap filler, and generates instructions for trimming a web of curable constituent material to match the variations in width of the layer. The system also includes rollers that dispense webs of the curable constituent material, trimmers that trim the webs of the curable constituent material based on the instructions, and compaction rollers that compact the trimmed webs together to fabricate the gap filler.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Andrew Klimovski, Karlgren Ka-Tsun Lai
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Patent number: 10875272Abstract: An inner-circulating high speed hydraulic system, a hydraulic platform and a hydraulic platform assembly consisting of said systems, wherein the inner-circulating high speed hydraulic system comprises a hydraulic cylinder component and a pressure valve component, the hydraulic cylinder component including a high pressure cylinder, a hydraulic plunger, and a housing, wherein an axial hole and radial holes intersecting with the axial hole are disposed at the top/bottom of the high pressure cylinder and the high pressure cylinder is contained within the housing, wherein the inner-circulating oil chamber may communicate with the axial hole via the radial holes and further communicate with chambers at the top/bottom of the hydraulic plunger, wherein compressed air inlets are disposed on the housing and a lower end of the hydraulic plunger is connected to an actuating element; and a pressure valve component, comprising a pressure servo motor and a pressure plunger driven by the pressure servo motor to move up and dType: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: SHANGHAI ETERNAL MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventor: Whah Tseng
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Patent number: 10875273Abstract: To provide a foldable structure to which stiffness is imparted so that non-uniform extension and contraction is inhibited even when each surface is formed of a flexible material, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing device of the foldable structure, and a non-transitory computer-readable computer medium storing a program. A foldable structure including at least two tubular structures in which the two tubular structures include a shared surface array which is continuous shared surfaces shared by each other, and a twisting characteristic in the shared surface array of one tubular structure is in a direction opposite to that of the twisting characteristic in the shared surface array of the other tubular structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Japan Science and Technology AgencyInventors: Tomohiro Tachi, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Evgueni T. Filipov, Glaucio H. Paulino
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Patent number: 10875274Abstract: Disclosed are cooling materials for clothing and other body gear that may use a discontinuous pattern of highly absorbent polymers coupled to a base fabric that has a low resistance to moisture spread (e.g., a high wicking rate) and lower absorption properties compared to the highly absorbent polymer elements, to manage moisture (e.g., sweat) and body heat. The absorbance of the highly absorbent polymers is greater than that of the base fabric, such as at least two times greater, and the highly absorbent polymer elements may be non-endothermic.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc.Inventors: Michael E. “Woody” Blackford, Wayne Alan Skankey, Jeffrey Thomas Mergy, Craig Gates
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Patent number: 10875275Abstract: A composition for forming a separation layer that separates a support base that transmits light from a laminate including the support base, a substrate, the separation layer and an adhesive layer between the support base and the substrate by irradiating the separation layer with light from the support base side and modifying the separation layer. The composition contains a resin component which has a phenol skeleton.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TOKYO OHKA KOGYO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Yoshioka, Hirofumi Imai, Hiroaki Takeuchi