Patents Issued in March 9, 2021
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Patent number: 10940573Abstract: A hand-held tool system comprises a hand-held tool and a positioning device matching the hand-held tool. The hand-held tool comprises an output shaft and a working head coupled to the output shaft. The positioning device comprises a detecting module configured to detect a positional feature and/or a movement feature of the positioning device and output a parameter indicative of the positional feature and/or the movement feature, the detecting module and the working head having a preset distance therebetween; a storage module configured at least to record reference position information about the working head; a control module configured to acquire real-time position information about the working head based on the parameter, the preset distance and the reference position information; and an output module configured to output the real-time position information in a way that can be perceived.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yong Shao, Jun Wu, Mingming He, Paolo Andriolo, Ka Tat Kelvin Wong, Shuai Meng
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Patent number: 10940574Abstract: A vise includes a stationary jaw at one end of a rail and including a moveable jaw member having a clamping surface, and a lever having a cam at one end engaged with the jaw member; and a moveable jaw on the rail and including a moveable member engaging with a limit member at the other end of the rail; a jaw element having one end secured to the moveable member and having a clamping surface at the other end, an internal moveable wedge secured to the clamping surface of the jaw element and having first and second inclined surfaces; two opposite arms pivotably secured to the moveable member wherein one ends of the arms contact each other and engage with the first and second inclined surfaces respectively, and each arm has a cavity on an outer edge; and two urging blocks complimentarily engaging the arms respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Chung Li Chen
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Patent number: 10940575Abstract: An adjustable clamping assembly for securing an object (such as, for example, a board or other workpiece) to a work surface (such as, for example, a work bench or work table). A rigid rod member has a bent base section, as well as a clamping shoulder surface disposed at its distal end. A clamping head is slidably disposed along a portion of the length of the rigid rod member, and can be selectively secured in a place.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Michael G. Engeron
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Patent number: 10940576Abstract: A hand tool provided with a first handle, a second handle, a first working portion, a second working portion and a working portion connecting mechanism. The first handle is fixedly connected to the first working portion, the second handle is pivotably connected to the second working portion, and the second working portion is connected to the first working portion through the working portion connecting mechanism, the second working portion has a first position and a second position, and the working portion connecting mechanism causes the second working portion to be moved from the first position to the second position when the second handle is moved from away from the first handle to closer to the first handle. The first position is the position where the second working portion is located away from the first working portion, and the second working portion is rotated and translated relative to the first working portion when the second working portion is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: Hangzhou Great Star Tools Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Min Wang
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Patent number: 10940577Abstract: In a torque control system and method for power impact torque tool, first establish a curve showing the relationship between the high/low working voltages of the tool in normal operation and the high/low torque values that are correspondingly output by the tool at the high/low working voltages. Input a target torque value that falls between the highest and the lowest torque value on the relationship curve to obtain a working voltage corresponding to the target torque value for performing a tightening operation. During the tightening process, a microprocessor of a torque control device receives and uses sensing signals instantly and continuously sent by a torque sensing device and changes in voltage, current and motor temperature continuously detected by a voltage/current sensing element and a temperature sensing element to stably control, via a voltage control module, the working voltage within a preset allowable range of variation for tightening torque control.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: CHINA PNEUMATIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu-Wei Chu, Tai-Yun Chiang
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Patent number: 10940578Abstract: An induction-powered device for use in an alternating magnetic field comprises: a magnetically permeable core; an electrically conductive coil surrounding the core; and an electrical load electrically connected to the coil. The coil is configured to generate a voltage when exposed to the alternating magnetic field, to power the electrical load.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: 1543803 ONTARIO LTD.Inventors: Jon J. Leininger, Richard A. Hornung
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Patent number: 10940579Abstract: A driving tool includes a striking mechanism configured to be actuated by a combustion pressure of a mixed gas of compressed air and fuel, a combustion chamber in which the mixed gas of compressed air and fuel is to be combusted, a valve member configured to open and close communication between the striking mechanism and the combustion chamber, and a valve support member configured to support the valve member. The valve member has a seal part provided on an outer peripheral surface along a moving direction of the valve member.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiichi Watanabe, Takashi Yuki, Yu Yamamoto, Mitsuhiro Kimura
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Patent number: 10940580Abstract: In a hand-held power tool, a torque clutch associated with an output spindle, a transmission element axially displaceable in the direction of a longitudinal center axis of the output spindle, a locking element axially immovable in the direction of the longitudinal center axis and movable in a plane transverse to the longitudinal center axis, for activating and deactivating the torque clutch, the locking element enabling, in at least a first operating position, axial displaceability of the transmission element in the direction of the longitudinal center axis to activate the torque clutch, and in at least a second operating position, for at least limiting the axial displaceability of the transmission element to deactivate the torque clutch, in the second operating position of the locking element, the output spindle being at least essentially axially immovable relative to the gear housing in the direction of the longitudinal center axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm
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Patent number: 10940581Abstract: A cleaning device having a cleaning head assembly and a handle assembly is provided. The assemblies are removably attached to one another by a locking mechanism that includes a female attachment portion having a receptacle and being affixed to a cleaning head, and a male attachment portion having a locking projection and being affixed to a handle and adapted for removable engagement with the female attachment portion. The locking projection on the male attachment portion is biased to engage the receptacle in the female attachment portion so as to releaseably lock the cleaning head and the handle together.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: WINSTON PRODUCTS LLCInventors: Winston H. Breeden, III, Andrew J. Carcioppolo, Robert C. Johnson
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Patent number: 10940582Abstract: A leg structure of a quadruped robot includes a body and four separate leg modules. Each leg module includes a thigh motor assembly, a calf motor assembly, a hip joint motor assembly and an associated linkage and fixing base of the hip joint motor assembly. The hip joint motor drives the thigh and calf assembly through a parallelogram mechanism, the thigh motor assembly directly drives the thigh rod assembly, and the calf motor assembly drives the calf assembly through an anti-parallelogram mechanism. The joint motor assemblies are independent of each other and all the motor assemblies are modularized; the thigh and calf motor assemblies have a good ability to prevent external impact, and the joints on the robot body, formed by using the motor assemblies, have a large working space, thus ensuring the movement flexibility of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HangZhou YuShu Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xingxing Wang, Zhiyu Yang
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Patent number: 10940583Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer program for producing a graphical user interface (100) of a manipulator program and to a method for navigation through a manipulator program, wherein the manipulator system (1) controlled by the manipulator program comprises at least one manipulator (30). The manipulator program comprises at least one set-down point (AP1 to AP5). The user interface (100) has a graphical program progress indicator (150) which indicates the current program progress of the manipulator program and the at least one set-down point (AP1 to AP5) of the manipulator program. The at least one set-down point (AP1 to AP5) indicated can be selected by a user, and the manipulator program is set up to control the manipulator system (1) in such a manner that the system assumes a system state assigned to the selected set-down point (AP1 to AP5) in response to the selection.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbHInventor: Andreas Sedlmayr
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Patent number: 10940584Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, by one or more non-real-time processors, data defining a light illumination pattern for a robotic device. Generating, by the one or more non-real-time processors and based on the data, a spline that represents the light illumination pattern, where a knot vector of the spline defines a timing profile of the light illumination pattern. Providing the spline to one or more real-time processors of the robotic system. Calculating, by the one or more real-time processors, an illumination value from the spline at each of a plurality of time steps. Controlling, by the one or more real-time processors, illumination of a lighting display of the robotic system in accordance with the illumination value of the spline at each respective time step.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Sarah Coe, Yuchen Wu
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Patent number: 10940585Abstract: A vibration suppression device acquires a teaching position, computes a speed plan based on the acquired teaching position and a first acceleration/deceleration parameter, computes data related to deflection occurring during an acceleration/deceleration operation of a robot based on the teaching position and the speed plan, and acquires data indicating a posture at the teaching position. Further, a machine learning unit of the vibration suppression device estimates an acceleration/deceleration parameter with respect to the data related to the deflection and the data related to the posture using the data related to the deflection and the data related to the posture as input data.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takafumi Kajiyama
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Patent number: 10940586Abstract: In a method for correcting a target position, a three-dimensional matrix is formed by piling up, in a Z-direction at predetermined intervals, matrix planes each formed by continuously connecting, in X- and Y-directions, quadrangular areas that are parallel to an XY-plane and each have a reference point, and a target position of a work robot designated in an operation space of the three-dimensional matrix is corrected. In this method, a first block and a second block are set which are individually contiguous with the specific block, and the target position is corrected based on respective reference points in the upper area and the lower area of the specific block, the first block, and the second block and the measured deviation amount of the work robot from the reference points.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hideki Hosaka
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Patent number: 10940587Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a robot to navigate a perceptually aliased environment, the robot being configured to infer a first Gaussian mixture model (GMM) of a first pose of the robot, and to plan an optimal control action by: determining a second GMM of a simulated pose of the robot by simulating applying the first control action to the first GMM; determining from the second GMM a range of possible observations; calculating scene probabilities for associating each possible observation with each aliased scene of a set of aliased scenes; calculating from the scene probabilities an objective function to determine an estimated cost of the first control action; and comparing the estimated cost of the first control action with estimated costs calculated for one or more additional control actions, to determine an optimal control action.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd.Inventors: Antony Thomas, Shashank Pathak, Vadim Indelman
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Patent number: 10940588Abstract: The invention relates to an improved robotic arm apparatus and associated method which improves a robot configured in a “delta” arrangement. The robotic arm apparatus is arranged with three substantially identical movable arm assemblies connected together with three linear actuators in a triangular configuration such that each end of each linear actuator has at least one translational degree of freedom.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Neil Ludban
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Patent number: 10940589Abstract: The application relates to a haptic system comprising a haptic device that has an end effector terminal and a transmission structure which can generate a translational movement as an output variable, said translational movement extending from the transmission structure to the end effector terminal via a boom such that the end effector terminal moves in a manner that is perceptible to a user, the transmission structure being formed by means of driven linear shafts. The application further relates to a method for operating a haptic system comprising a haptic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Technische Universität BerlinInventors: Thomas Vorsatz, Boris Beckmann-Dobrev
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Patent number: 10940590Abstract: A method for calibrating a system with a conveying apparatus and at least a first robot includes determining the positions of at least three measuring points of a first component transported by the conveying apparatus in a first transport position using the first robot. The method further includes determining the position of at least one of the measuring points in a second transport position using the first robot, or determining the positions of at least two of the measuring points of the component in a third transport position and the position of at least one other measuring point in the third transport position or at least one of these measuring points in a fourth transport position using at least one second robot.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbHInventors: Thomas Purrucker, Robert Miller, Ralf Mittmann, Daniele Sagnotti, Manuela Hauschild, Benno Eichner, Stephan Clair, Felix Lückert, Markus Hager, Maximilian Lindner
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Patent number: 10940591Abstract: This method is for calibrating a coordinate system of an image capture device and a coordinate system of a robot arm in a robot system that includes a display device, the image capture device, and the robot arm to which one of the display device and the image capture device is fixed, the robot arm having a drive shaft. The method includes: acquiring first captured image data based on first image data; acquiring second captured image data based on second image data different from the first image data; and calibrating the coordinate system of the image capture device and the coordinate system of the robot arm, using the first captured image data and the second captured image data.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Norikazu Tonogai
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Patent number: 10940592Abstract: A transport tool for transporting a laboratory article using a pipette of a pipetting system, and having a plug-in sleeve at a top end, an article holder at a bottom end, and a connecting part which connects the plug-in sleeve to the article holder. The plug-in sleeve has a side sleeve wall and a bottom which surround an interior space of the plug-in sleeve having a cylindrical or conically tapering shape. The plug-in sleeve further has an upward-facing opening for receiving an end of a pipette of an automated pipetting system. The article holder has a holding element oriented downward away from the connecting part. The holding element having at least two elongated projections which has one or more snap hooks protruding outwards to hook under a storage opening of a pipette tip carrier.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TECAN TRADING AGInventors: Stefan Buchloh, Thomas Iten, Nico Birkner
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Patent number: 10940593Abstract: The present invention provides a robot apparatus which can determine a contact state at a contact point without increasing the contact point, can be miniaturized, and also can decrease the cost. Contact points are provided in a hand device. Contact points are provided in a tool device, which come in contact with the contact points, respectively, when the tool device has been mounted on the hand device. A voltage detecting circuit is provided in the tool device, which detects a voltage between the contact points. The controlling circuit determines contact states between the contact points and the contact points, by using a value of the voltage which has been detected by the voltage detecting circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Akitaka Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 10940594Abstract: A robot arm includes a wrist, an end effector, and an adjustable joint coupling the end effector to the wrist. The adjustable joint includes a member received in a socket. In one example, the member is a ball. In another example, the member is a tang. In both examples, an upper flange and a lower flange can be used to couple the wrist to a forearm.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Persimmon Technologies CorporationInventors: Martin Hosek, Tuan Thuc Ha
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Patent number: 10940595Abstract: A robot includes a robot main body that includes a base and a robot arm connected to the base, a motor that is provided inside the robot main body and drives the robot arm, a control board that is provided inside the robot main body, a power supply board that supplies electric power to the control board, and a drive board that drives the motor based on a command from the control board, and in which the robot main body includes a suction hole from which a pipe to which a suction device for sucking gas inside the robot main body is connected is detachable.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Akio Niu, Masaru Takahashi, Takuya Owa, Yoshinobu Goto
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Patent number: 10940596Abstract: A manually operated hair trimming device having a barrel which is rolled over hair to be trimmed. The barrel has at least one aperture through which hair is able to protrude. The device has a first cutting blade provided inside the barrel and a second cutting blade is associated with the barrel. In use, as the barrel is rolled over hair to be trimmed, hair protrudes through the at least one aperture and is cut by a shearing force between relatively moving first and second cutting blades.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: THE IP BUSINESS LTDInventor: Timothy Richard Mount
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Patent number: 10940597Abstract: Provided is a razor cartridge having a new fixing clip mounting structure. Such a razor cartridge includes at least one razor blade having a cutting edge, a blade housing configured to accommodate the at least one razor blade in a longitudinal direction, which is perpendicular to a shaving direction, and a pair of fixing clips configured to secure both ends of the at least one razor blade to be seated in the blade housing, wherein the blade housing includes a pair of side slits which are disposed at a forward position with respect to the at least one razor blade and configured to be open at a side end of the blade housing, and each of the pair of fixing clips includes a first leg portion and a second leg portion, wherein for each of the fixing clips, the corresponding first leg portion is accommodated in a corresponding side slit of the pair of side slits and the corresponding second leg portion is wrapped around a rear end of the blade housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: DORCO CO., LTD.Inventors: Semin Park, Kyongsik Lee, Jinwoo Jeong
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Patent number: 10940598Abstract: A method for assembling a razor handle is provided. The method includes installing a rod into a first shell of a body of a razor handle, installing an attachment end of a head onto a front end of the first shell, installing a clip member onto a rear end of the first shell, positioning a second shell adjacent to the first shell, compressing the first shell and the second shell together, and covering the first and second shell with a cover layer. The clip member includes retention features to facilitate coupling to the first and second shells. The cover layer can entirely surround the first and second shells, can be overmolded on both shells, and can be formed of thermoplastic elastomer with a durometer value of between about 15 and about 20. The thermoplastic elastomer is substantially translucent or less opaque than the first and second shell.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Hong Lu, Stephen Charles Witkus, Alexander Stephen Forti, Huibin Gong
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Patent number: 10940599Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods in which a utility knife includes a blade guard rotatably covering the cutting edge of a blade. The blade guard can be locked and unlocked by a primary mechanism. In addition or alternative to the primary mechanism, the blade guard can be set to provide a maximum exposure of the cutting edge for cutting, a minimum exposure of the cutting edge, a maximum retraction of the blade guard over the cutting edge after performing work, or a minimum retraction of the blade guard. The tensive force required to rotate the blade guard and expose the cutting edge can also be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Spellbound Development Group, Inc.Inventors: Carlos Reyes, Earl J. Votolato
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Patent number: 10940600Abstract: A device for forming an opening in a nipple of a baby bottle has a housing having a platform formed on a top surface thereof. a cutting unit is positioned on the platform. The cutting unit moves in an up and down manner forming the opening in the nipple. A holding device on the platform has a base and a cutout formed in a top surface of the base holding the nipple there within. The cutout is formed to hold the nipple so that an area of the nipple where the opening is formed is positioned in a bottom area of the cutout. A slot is formed in a bottom section of the cutout and extending through the base, the slot allowing the cutting unit to penetrate through the nipple and into the slot. The cutting unit contacts and stretches an interior wall of the nipple where the opening is to be formed reducing disfiguration where the opening is formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Mace CorporationInventors: Miaohong Hanson, John Hanson, Haibo Huang
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Patent number: 10940601Abstract: A saw has a system for sensing the torque on a cutting blade to signal when the blade begins to cut material. The saw has a drive belt extending between a driven wheel and a drive wheel and a belt tensioner that engages a side of the belt and maintains tension in the belt. The belt tensioner is movable to maintain the tension in the belt. A control system calculates the movement of the belt tensioner. The saw has a system for determining the size of the sacrificial blade. A through beam photoelectric emitter and receiver pair are positioned on opposite sides of the blade such that a largest cutting blade is moved above the beam regardless of a horizontal position of the cutting blade and sensor senses a vertical position of the axis of the blade. The sensor senses the vertical position of the blade axis when the blade is moved above the beam.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Kurt G. Adair, Douglas A. Ceckowski, Michael F. Hart
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Patent number: 10940602Abstract: A food singulator apparatus is configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus. The apparatus includes an engagement member for engaging with a front side of the food product and temporarily halt the food product while cutting by a cutting device a front food slice of the food product, and a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the front food slice from the remaining part of the food product and slide it downwards and under the takeaway device where the food slice is subsequently received as an individual food slice.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: MAREL MEAT B.V., MAREL A/SInventors: Frank-Willem Johan Martin Van Happen, Niels Hundtofte, Lars Riis Jensen
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Patent number: 10940603Abstract: A label processing apparatus including a head configured to cause a wire pin to move toward and away from a label medium for performing processing on the label medium, a first wall member located at a position in a first direction from the transport path surface including a first communication hole communicating with outside, and a fan configured to blow air onto a ventilation region including a region located at the head side of the first surface in the transport direction, and to then cause the air to be discharged to the outside through the first communication hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Masubuchi
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Patent number: 10940604Abstract: In a water-jet cutting installation for machining substantially vertical material panels such as glass panes, at least one section of the high-pressure line is guided, by a guide system including at least one guide element, to the rear of the device in order to improve access to the intake and/or discharge region of the machining installation and to increase operator safety.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: LISEC AUSTRIA GMBHInventor: Franz Haselmayr
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Patent number: 10940605Abstract: A power tool includes a housing and a motor disposed in the housing. The motor has an axial face and a motor shaft extending from the axial face. The power tool also includes a spindle driven by the motor about an output axis, a motor plate having a central opening defining an inner surface of the motor plate, and a tolerance ring coupled to the inner surface of the motor plate. The tolerance ring has deformable waves. The motor plate is coupled to the motor by engagement of the deformable waves with the motor to take up tolerances between the motor plate and the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Troy C. Thorson, Jeffrey M. Wackwitz, Emily Doberstein, James Wekwert
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Patent number: 10940606Abstract: A bearingless groove router bit includes at least one cutting element affixed to a head of the router bit and has a first end spaced from an end of connected shank connected to the head and a second end adjacent to the second end of the head. The cutting element includes a cutting edge extending along the cutting element between the first end to the second end of the cutting element. The cutting edge may include a radial side edge that projects radially inwardly relative to a central axis of the router bit and a straight side edge that extends from an end of the radial side edge outwardly relative to the central axis to minimize tear out during cutting of a groove in a work piece.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Henry Wang, Ralph Bagnall
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Patent number: 10940607Abstract: The invention relates to a machining device, in particular for machining workpieces made from wood, wood materials, plastic or the like, having at least one workpiece table with a first workpiece holder for holding at least one workpiece, furthermore with a second workpiece holder for holding at least one workpiece, wherein the workpiece can be positioned in at least two dimensions, advantageously in three dimensions, during a re-clamping operation from the first workpiece holder into the second workpiece holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HOMAG GMBHInventor: Volker Schmieder
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Patent number: 10940608Abstract: An adhesive and release liner application system and method. A bottom table is slidable with respect to a frame and a middle table is slidable with respect to the bottom table. An elevator drive subsystem between a top table and the middle table is configured to adjust the elevation of the top table relative to the middle table. An adhesive head, connected to an adhesive supply subsystem, a release liner applicator, a release liner cutter, and a staple gun are mounted to the top table for applying the adhesive to a surface of a structural member positioned adjacent the top table, for applying a release liner over the adhesive on the surface, for inserting at least one staple through the release liner and into the surface, and for cutting the release liner.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: National Lumber CompanyInventors: Brocklyn Martin, Jansen Burkholder, Peter Bogush, David Bruce, Robert Thompson, Paul J. VanBuskirk, Steven Camacho, Michael J. Etzel, Derek Daniel Bennett
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Patent number: 10940609Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an additively manufactured transport structure. The transport structure includes cavities into which components that use an external interface are inserted. A plurality of components are assembled and integrated into the vehicle. In an embodiment, the components and frame are modular, enabling reparability and replacement of single parts in the event of isolated failures.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Divergent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Robert Czinger, Broc William TenHouten, Stuart Paul Macey, David Charles O'Connell, Jon Paul Gunner, Antonio Bernerd Martinez, Narender Shankar Lakshman
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Patent number: 10940610Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a drum, a drum drive system, and a control system. The drum drive system includes a pump configured to pump a fluid through a hydraulic system and a motor positioned to rotate the drum to agitate drum contents. The control system is configured to perform a calibration test to determine a baseline operating pressure of the fluid in the hydraulic system, perform a buildup detection test to determine a current operating pressure of the fluid in the hydraulic system, and determine that there is a buildup of the drum contents within the drum in response to a difference between the baseline operating pressure and the current operating pressure exceeding a threshold differential. In some embodiments, the calibration test and the buildup detection test are only performed if a temperature of the fluid exceeds a threshold temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Oshkosh CorporationInventors: Cody D. Clifton, Bryan S. Datema, Zhenyi Wei, Ted Tesmer
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Patent number: 10940611Abstract: A cleaving system employs a shaper, a positioner, an internal preparation system, an external preparation system, a cleaver, and a cropper to cleave a workpiece into cleaved pieces. The shaper shapes a workpiece into a defined geometric shape. The positioner then positions the workpiece such that the internal preparation system can generate a separation layer at the cleaving plane. The internal preparation system focuses a laser beam internal to the workpiece at a focal point and scans the focal point across the cleaving plane to create the separation layer. The external preparation system scores the external surface of the workpiece at a location coincident with the separation layer. The cleaver cleaves the workpiece by propagating the crack on the external surface along the separation layer. The cropper shapes the cleaved piece into a geometric shape as needed.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HALO INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Andrei Teodor Iancu, Charles William Rudy
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Patent number: 10940612Abstract: Certain polyamide beads or granules are useful as a sustaining material for underground natural or artificial cracks of the earth's crust essentially employed for the extraction of hydrocarbons such as crude oil or natural gas; such polyamide beads have a spherical or ellipsoidal shape and have a surface free of concave portions, advantageously having a uniform shape, and having a mean diameter lower than or equal to 1.7 mm and a porosity lower than 0.1 ml/g, and are produced using a particular cutting device/extruder.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: Performance Polyamides S.A.S., Gala Industries. Inc.Inventors: Jean-Francois Estur, Eric Roche, Michael Eloo, Berthold Druschel
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Patent number: 10940613Abstract: The present subject matter claims a process and apparatus for forming, crystallizing and increasing the molecular weight of polymer particles which does not require re-heating the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) pellets after they are cut and crystallized in the under water cutting (UWC) section. In the existing solid state polycondensation (SSP) technologies where an UWC is used, high crystallinity of the PET pellets can occur, by cooling and re-heating the PET pellets, which results in reduced removal efficiency of by-products, such as acetaldehyde (AA) and furthermore also a reduction of the reaction rates of molecular weight increasing reactions.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Jan De Ren, Stephan Dietmer Wilhelmi, Roel Julia Julien Bauters
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Patent number: 10940614Abstract: A process for manufacturing rubber crumb comprises the following steps: (a) suspending rubber granules having a given size in an autoclave (1) containing a supercritical fluid; (b) agitating the mixture for a predetermined time at constant pressure and constant temperature; (c) carrying out an isenthalpic expansion of the mixture from step (b) by spraying it through a nozzle (20).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, ARMINESInventors: Jose Merino Lopez, Frédéric Pialot, Nathalie Coste, Jean-Jacques Letourneau, Jacques Fages, Martial Sauceau
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Patent number: 10940615Abstract: Provided is a mold clamping device that can simplify the component count or structure by including a mold thickness adjustment mechanism that reduces the load on a power source, is easily maintained, and has high design flexibility. Also provided is a mold clamping device that can set a long distance (daylight) between molds without having to upsize the entire mold clamping device and can simplify the component count or structure. A mold clamping device for split molds includes a first platen, a second platen, a pressure receiving platen, and a mold thickness adjustment mechanism disposed on the pressure receiving platen. At least one of the first platen and the second platen is able to move back and forth so as to approach or depart from the other. The pressure receiving platen is located on a side remote from the first platen, of the second platen.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KYORAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Ono, Kengo Shimada, Yosuke Muroya, Shuji Ito
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Patent number: 10940616Abstract: A method for preventing detachment of a three-dimensional object from a printing tray of a printing apparatus is disclosed. The method includes printing a carpet of building material below and around the base of a three-dimensional object to be printed; and printing said three-dimensional object. The portions of the carpet that protrude out of the boundaries of the base of the three-dimensional object are coated with one or more layers of support material to help keep the carpet flexible and adhesive in texture.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: STRATASYS LTD.Inventors: Eliahu M. Kritchman, Hanan Gothait, Eduardo Napadensky
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Patent number: 10940617Abstract: A golf club with a multi-material face is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention has a striking face portion that is backed by a composite layer. The multi-material face disclosed in accordance with the present invention may generally be manufactured via a bladder molding process that applies hydrostatic forces to the composite layer to create a more consistent bond between the composite material and the metallic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Uday V. Deshmukh, John Morin
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Patent number: 10940618Abstract: An apparatus for producing a microporous plastic film comprising a pattern roll having large numbers of high-hardness, fine particles; an anvil roll opposing the pattern roll; a conveying means for passing a plastic film through a gap of both rolls; a stationary frame rotatably supporting one of both rolls; a pair of laterally arranged movable frames rotatably supporting the other roll; and a pair of laterally arranged carriages to each of which each of the movable frames is fixed; at least one of the carriages moving in a running direction of the plastic film to generate positional difference between a pair of the movable frames, so that the center axes of both rolls are relatively inclined to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Seiji Kagawa, Atsuko Kagawa
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Patent number: 10940619Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet support that can be used to obtain a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet that maintains its gloss and that has excellent handleability and high condition uniformity while preventing the formation of air bubbles in an adhesive layer. A resin is supplied to one side of a substrate, which is passed between a cooling roller A and a rubber roller A. A porous film is stacked on another side of the substrate through a resin, and the substrate is passed between a cooling roller B and a rubber roller B. The cooling rollers A and B have surfaces with a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of 5 to 30 ?m and 0 to 20 ?m, respectively. The rubber rollers A and B have a rubber hardness (durometer (Type A)) of 60 to 95 and 50 to 80, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Aoyagi, Katsuyuki Hirano, Toru Takahashi, Munenori Ieshige
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Patent number: 10940620Abstract: A method for manufacturing a foam molded body which can allow the foam resin sheet to follow the shape of the cavity of the mold with high accuracy even when the thickness of the foam resin sheet is thick. The method includes an arranging step to arrange one sheet of a foam resin sheet between first and second molds, the foam resin sheet being formed by extruding and dangling a molten foam resin from a slit; and an expanding step to expand the foam resin sheet by subjecting the foam resin sheet to a reduced pressure suction.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: KYORAKU CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Yamasaki, Teruo Tamada, Yu Igarashi, Yuta Minamigawa
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Patent number: 10940621Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to plastic-metal junctions and methods of making the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of forming a junction between a metal form and a solid plastic. The method can include contacting a metal including a plurality of pores and a flowable resin composition including a polybutylene terephthalate and a polyethylene terephthalate. The method can also include curing the flowable composition to form the solid plastic, to provide the junction between the metal and the solid plastic.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: SHPP GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Hyemin Park, Kihyuk Jang, Bing Guan, Norio Ozawa, Takamune Yamamoto, Norihiko Ohno, Jos Van Gisbergen, Hongjie Yu
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Patent number: 10940622Abstract: Injection molding system having a flow control apparatus and method that controls the movement and/or rate of movement of a valve pin over the course of an injection cycle to cause the pin to move to one or select positions and/or to control the rate of movement of the pin over the course of the injection cycle.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Vito Galati, Lin Yang