Patents Issued in March 9, 2021
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Patent number: 10940927Abstract: An actuator for imparting steering movement to a tiller of a propulsion unit of a marine vessel comprises an absolute position sensor which senses a steering position and a relative position sensor which senses a position of the motor. A steering control unit calibrates the relative position sensor based on a signal of the absolute position sensor. Calibration of the relative position sensor based on a signal of the absolute position sensor initializes an accumulative position which accumulates a relative position as the actuator moves over time.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Marine Canada Acquistion Inc.Inventors: Anson Chin Pang Chan, Ian Michael Carlson, Ray Tat Lung Wong, Mark Isaac Dyck
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Patent number: 10940928Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of outboard engines, particularly to a direct-drive electric outboard engine and an outboard engine system for alleviating the problem of the existing outboard engines, i.e., incapability of simultaneously meeting requirements on rev and torque of different types of ships. The direct-drive electric outboard engine includes an external rotor mechanism and a stator mechanism; wherein the external rotor mechanism includes an external stator and an impeller; the external rotor is located outside the stator mechanism; and the impeller is located outside the external rotor.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: CHANGZHOU GOLDEN MOTOR TECHNOLOGY CO LTD.Inventors: Zhang He, Hongchang Liang
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Patent number: 10940929Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust system for a combustion engine of a marine vessel. The exhaust system includes an exhaust system inlet configured to be coupled to an exhaust gas outlet of the marine engine, one or more exhaust system outlets, and an exhaust gas flow path extending from the inlet to the one or more exhaust system outlets and having a forward flow direction from the exhaust system inlet and a reverse flow direction extending from at least one of the one or more exhaust system outlets. The exhaust system further includes a flow redirection arrangement in the exhaust gas flow path for restricting a flow of liquid flowing in the reverse flow direction, the flow redirection arrangement comprising at least one flow redirection feature configured to redirect a first stream of the liquid toward the forward flow direction to collide with a second stream of the flow of liquid. The invention also relates to motor assemblies and marine vessels having such exhaust systems.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: COX POWERTRAIN LIMITEDInventor: James Eatwell
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Patent number: 10940930Abstract: An online antifouling ship ballast water treatment system includes a ballast water main pipeline, a ballast water branch pipeline, a dispensing pipeline, a filter on the ballast water main pipeline, an electrolysis unit on the ballast water branch pipeline, and a dispensing pump on the dispensing pipeline. Some of seawater introduced into the system is filtered by the filter and flows to the ballast water branch pipeline and the electrolysis unit, some of seawater electrolyzed by the electrolysis unit is reinjected to the filter through the dispensing pump and the dispensing pipeline after a ballast process is completed, and kept in the filter until a next ballast operation, so that growth and propagation of marine organisms in the filter can be inhibited by sodium hypochlorite contained in a TRO solution when a ballast pump stops working. The present invention also provides a ship ballast water treatment method.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: SUNRUI MARINE ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Guangzhou Liu, Dongxia Duan, Ping Yao
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Patent number: 10940931Abstract: A craft having a source of deuterium-containing micro-fusion fuel particles is operable above a planetary, lunar or asteroid surface in the presence of ambient cosmic rays. The fuel particles are dispersible from a set of ports, where at least some of the ports are in an underside of the craft body and others are in lateral sides of the craft body. Dispersed fuel particles interact with ambient cosmic rays and muons to generate energetic reaction products, at least some which are then received by the underside of the craft to generate lift and also selected lateral sides of the craft to generate propulsive thrust in a desired lateral direction. The craft can carry tethers and winches to carry a payload above the surface from location to another. In another embodiment, a balloon-based design, such as a dirigible, provides primary buoyant lift, while the micro-fusion particles provide at least lateral thrust, and supplemental lift where needed.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Jerome Drexler
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Patent number: 10940932Abstract: A modular fuselage for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a battery module, an avionics module, and a mission payload module. The battery module houses a battery to power the UAV. The avionics module houses flight control circuitry of the UAV. The mission payload module houses equipment associated with a mission of the UAV. The battery module, the avionics module, and the mission payload module are detachable from each other and mechanically securable to each other to contiguously form at least a portion of the modular fuselage of the UAV.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Wing Aviation LLCInventors: Adam Woodworth, Adem Rudin, Stephen Benson, James Schmalzried, Kyle Liske, Jesse Blake, André Prager, Nicolas Renold, Evan Twyford
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Patent number: 10940933Abstract: A door opening system with a deceleration mechanism may be adapted to control an opening of a door module that includes a door panel and a door frame. Deceleration mechanism may include strap that connects door panel with door frame, spool, and spool. Spool may receive one end of strap, is biased to roll up a first portion of strap, and adapted to perform a first unwinding of the first portion of strap. Spool may receive a second end of strap, is biased to roll up a second portion of strap, and adapted to perform a second unwinding of the second portion of strap from spool. Spool may include a braking apparatus that is adapted to decelerate the second unwinding when a velocity of the second unwinding is above a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Thomas Tendyra, Stephen Ward, Guido Borchers, Uwe Renner, Xaver Pascoe, Markus Buehlmeyer
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Patent number: 10940934Abstract: A floor arrangement for a cabin of a vehicle, in particular of an aircraft or spacecraft, comprises a carrier plate formed with a multiplicity of first fastening perforations and a multiplicity of reinforcing notches. The first fastening perforations are arranged one behind another in fastening rows at a uniform longitudinal distance. The fastening rows are oriented parallel at a uniform transverse distance from one another at an angle of orientation of 45° with respect to a longitudinal direction of the floor arrangement. The reinforcing notches run along the angle of orientation in a manner offset with respect to the fastening rows. A floor panel is formed with a multiplicity of second fastening perforations and is arranged above the carrier plate such that the second fastening perforations are arranged above the first fastening perforations to fasten cabin elements through the floor panel to the carrier plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations, GmbHInventors: Roland Lange, Andreas Heidtmann
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Patent number: 10940935Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel in which each cell includes a plurality of conduits which extend from the porous acoustically resistive structure to the reflective layer of the acoustic treatment panel, each conduit including at least one opening set away from the porous acoustically resistive structure and configured to cause the inside and the outside of the conduit to communicate.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Maud Lavieille
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Patent number: 10940936Abstract: A composite assembly includes a composite skin which includes a plurality of composite plies and a composite stringer secured to the composite skin. A first composite plank ply is positioned between a first pair of composite plies of the plurality of composite plies of the composite skin; the first composite plank ply has a width dimension less than a width dimension of the plurality of composite plies of the composite skin; and the first composite plank ply extends along a length of the composite stringer. At least a portion of the composite stringer is positioned in overlying relationship with the first composite plank ply.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Patrick B. Stickler, Forouzan Behzadpour
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Patent number: 10940937Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
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Patent number: 10940938Abstract: A system for changing the pitch of blades of at least one turbomachine rotor is provided. The system generally includes a control means acting on a connecting mechanism connected to the blades of the rotor and having a body mobile in translation along a longitudinal axis with respect to a fixed body, load-transfer bearing mounted on the mobile body cooperating with the connecting mechanism, and means for lubricating the bearing having a lubricant duct and extending radially above the fixed and mobile bodies. The duct generally includes first and second telescopic tubular parts that slide coaxially with respect to one another, the first part connected to the fixed body and the second part connected to the mobile body, and means for spraying lubricant into the bearing mounted on the mobile body and lubricant supply conduit mounted on the mobile body to connect the duct to the spraying means.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Régis Eugène Henri Servant, Anthony Lafitte, Eddy Keomorakott Souryavongsa, Sébastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Arnaud Martin
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Patent number: 10940939Abstract: A ground spoiler control architecture for aircraft includes a primary control architecture for providing a roll function, a speed-brake function and a ground spoiler function, and a secondary control architecture for providing the ground spoiler function in the event of a failure of the primary control architecture. The primary and secondary control architectures each include multiple actuators for actuating ground spoilers via independent and redundant signaling paths. Redundant hydraulic accumulators provide pressurized hydraulic fluid to the actuators. A ground spoiler control method includes determining whether the aircraft is on the ground based on the throttle-level-angle and whether any two wheels speeds are active or whether the main landing gear is weighted. Deployment of at least a portion of the ground spoiler panels occurs when and when the main landing gear is on the ground and the aircraft is in a landing configuration based on the throttle-level-angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Textron Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Stephen M. Eddy, Scott Stallard, Richard John Scillia
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Patent number: 10940940Abstract: An aircraft flight control system comprises a set of primary computers, each configured to compute a flight order dependent on at least one aircraft flight parameter and intended for an aircraft control surface actuator remote controller. Each computer participates in command mode within a first virtual command/monitor pair and in monitor mode within a second virtual command/monitor pair. Each computer determines a consolidated flight parameter value as a function of a flight parameter value acquired by this computer and of flight parameter values received from the other computers, using a consolidation algorithm commonly used by all primary computers to each determine a consolidated flight parameter value, and compute the intended flight order for the remote controller as a function of the consolidated flight parameter value, according to a unique computation whose result is used by the computer both when acting in command mode and when acting in monitor mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventor: Patrice Brot
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Patent number: 10940941Abstract: A method for increasing the effective value and extending the economic life of aircraft is provided. When older or new aircraft are enabled and controlled to move autonomously on the ground without reliance on aircraft engines or external tow vehicles by equipping the aircraft with cost-saving wheel drive systems controllable to move the aircraft autonomously on the ground, substantial reductions in aircraft operating costs can be realized, and the value of aging airline fleets, as well as new aircraft, can be increased significantly. Unexpected reductions in aircraft effective economic age and increases in value can be achieved, particularly when aircraft equipped with cost-saving wheel drive systems experience large numbers of short flights and a large amount of taxi time.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Borealis Technical LimitedInventor: Joseph J. Cox
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Patent number: 10940942Abstract: A method of engaging a drive system with a rotating wheel of an aircraft landing gear is disclosed. A motor is operated to apply torque to a pinion so the pinion rotates and moved from a neutral position to a contact position in which it contacts a rotating driven gear at an initial contact time, the rotating driven gear being mounted to a rotating wheel of an aircraft landing gear. After the initial contact time the pinion is moved further to a meshing position where the pinion meshes with the driven gear. A centre-to-centre distance between the pinion and the driven gear reduces as the pinion moves to the contact position and to the meshing position. The driven gear contacts the pinion in a series of impacts as the pinion moves from the contact position to the meshing position, each impact induces a spike in electromotive force or angular velocity at the motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITEDInventor: James Morris
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Patent number: 10940943Abstract: A float has a front-to-back length, a width, and a height where the front-to-back length of the float is strictly greater than the height of the float which in turn is strictly greater than the width of the float. At least a bottom portion of the float is watertight. The float includes an access panel to access the inside of the float. A battery is inside the float and is accessible via the access panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Kitty Hawk CorporationInventors: Cameron Robertson, Todd Reichert
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Patent number: 10940944Abstract: A transmission tilt control device includes a transmission rotatably coupled to an airframe of a helicopter, a rotor mast coupled to the transmission, and an actuator coupled between the transmission and the airframe. The actuator being configured to rotate the transmission fore and aft about a tilt axis that is perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the rotor mast.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Andrew Paul Haldeman, Zachary Edwin Dailey, Charles Owen Black, Dalton T. Hampton, Aaron Alexander Acee
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Patent number: 10940945Abstract: There is provided a rotorcraft, including a body, including a front portion and a tail portion; a main rotor system coupled to the front portion of the body, the main rotor system operable to provide a lifting force on the body; and an anti-torque system coupled to the tail portion of the body, the anti-torque system including a primary tail rotor system and a secondary tail rotor system; wherein the primary tail rotor system and the secondary tail rotor system are operable to provide a first anti-torque force and a second anti-torque force. In other aspects, there are methods of providing anti-torque force in a rotorcraft.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.Inventors: Levi C. Hefner, Frank B. Stamps
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Patent number: 10940946Abstract: A system for disposing waste in a transportation system includes a collection device for collecting waste in the cabin of the transportation system, a separate receptacle device for receiving collected waste from the collection device, and a connection device for selectively connecting the collection device to the receptacle device in order to deliver collected waste from the collection device into the receptacle device. The receptacle device is arranged in a lower deck region underneath the cabin floor. The connection device extends into the receptacle device from the cabin floor and includes a closure that is arranged on or in the cabin floor. The collection device is mechanically couplable to the connection device, and includes a closable output opening aligned with the closure of the connection device in the coupled state. The closure and/or the output opening can only be opened when the collection device is coupled to the receptacle device.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Ralf Schliwa, Marc Spille
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Patent number: 10940947Abstract: A waste compaction system includes a trolley for collecting waste and a docking station that is integratable into a cabin monument of a vehicle. The trolley includes a housing with chambers for waste, an opening for introducing waste, a vacuum compaction mechanism assigned to a chamber, and a suction port accessible from outside the housing and couplable to the compaction mechanism. The compaction mechanism includes a compaction sheath extending from a bottom of the housing to a frame arranged opposite the bottom, and is fillable through the opening, and a rigid plate is arranged on or in at least one lateral surface of the compaction sheath and moves together with the compaction sheath during the evacuation thereof. The docking station and the trolley mate with each other. The docking station includes another suction port that is couplable to a suction line in the vehicle and the first suction port.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Ralf Schliwa, Marc Spille
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Patent number: 10940948Abstract: A seat for cabin crew, intended to be installed in an aircraft, includes a seat structure intended to be fixed to a fixed portion of the aircraft, a seat slide provided with two arms positioned on either side of the seat portion, and a seat portion mounted slidably relative to the seat slide between a retracted position and an extended position. One of the elements among the seat portion and the seat slide includes rollers capable of sliding along corresponding rails provided in the other one of the elements among the seat portion and the seat slide. The rails have a curved shape so that the seat portion forms, in the extended position, an angle of more than 10 degrees, preferably of around 14 degrees, relative to a floor of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Safran SeatsInventors: Christian Verny, Brice Lebegue, Alexandre Mesaros
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Patent number: 10940949Abstract: A multi-function lever actuation system includes a control lever having a neutral position and configured to be actuated in a clockwise direction and in a counterclockwise direction. The system further includes a bell crank coupled to the control lever and configured to rotate in an opposite direction from the control lever and to actuate a first controlled component in response to a first rotation of the control lever in a first direction corresponding to the clockwise direction or the counterclockwise direction. The system further includes a first cable coupled to the control lever and configured to actuate a second controlled component in response to a rotation of the control lever in a second direction corresponding to the other of the clockwise direction or the counterclockwise direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: AMI INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Douglas E. Hoover, Kyle David Doughty
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Patent number: 10940950Abstract: An aircraft cabin comprising a credenza and a lounge chair disposed above the credenza is disclosed. The lounge chair is adjustable between a first configuration defining a first seating arrangement and a second configuration defining a second seating arrangement. Also disclosed is a mechanism to facilitate the adjustment of the lounge chair.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.Inventors: Seung Joon Bang, Louis Gagnon-Seguin, Philippe Erhel, Tim Fagan, Alexandre Curthelet, Vincent Dumais, René Bardier, Paul Fromont, Gradyn Ladd, Jean-Philippe Guimond, Mario Brunet
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Patent number: 10940951Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes an inlet providing a first medium; an inlet providing a second medium; a compressing device including a compressor and a turbine; a motor operating on an input power that is less than or equal to 0.5 kilowatts per pound per minute of the first medium compressed; and at least one heat exchanger located downstream of the compressor. The compressing device is in communication with the inlet providing the first medium. The turbine is downstream of the compressor. An outlet of the at least one heat exchanger is in fluid communication with an inlet of the compressor and an inlet of the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATIONInventor: Louis J. Bruno
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Patent number: 10940952Abstract: A method of monitoring for the in-flight accretion of matter involves an electric field sensor applying a time-varying electric field to an engine surface of an aircraft while the aircraft is in flight. The electric field sensor is thermally-coupled and thermally-matched to the engine surface. A sensor monitor receives, in substantially real-time from the electric field sensor, at least one measurement set that includes a measurement of a phase and a magnitude of a current detected by the electric field sensor and resulting from the time-varying electric field. The sensor monitor generates an assessment, in substantially real-time, of an instantaneous accumulation of matter on the engine surface from the at least one measurement set. The sensor monitor activates an alarm upon the assessment indicating an accumulation of matter on the engine surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: Stuart Inkpen, Chris Nolan, Bill Conway, Dana Linfield, David Bonnell, Joshua Swamidas, Ruth Abraham
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Patent number: 10940953Abstract: The Invention is a self-rescue system for an aircraft. The aircraft may be a flight module, a mission module, or a combined flight module and mission module of a modular and morphable air vehicle, or may be any other aircraft. The self-rescue system is modular and interchangeable and provides selectable capability to protect the flight module, the mission module, and any crew or cargo of the mission module in the event that the flight module or mission module suffers mishap or system failure during flight.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: John W. Piasecki, Frederick W. Piasecki
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Patent number: 10940954Abstract: An aircraft engine system configured with a high pressure stage turbocharger assembly and a supplemental stage turbocharger assembly disposed in series with respect to said high pressure stage turbocharger, wherein the supplemental stage turbocharger assembly provides a compressor unit of the high pressure stage turbocharger with substantially constant critical altitude pressure input.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Yehuda Fass, Jacob Feldman
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Patent number: 10940955Abstract: A sound attenuation device includes an acoustic panel having a first end and a second end spaced from the first end. The first end is configured for attachment to a first mount and the second end is configured for attachment to a second mount. The acoustic panel comprises a permeable skin and a septum, the septum having a length extending between the first end and the second end.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Rohr, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Lacko, David Edward Pierick, Wentaur Eugene Chien, Song Chiou
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Patent number: 10940956Abstract: A suspension system for an aircraft auxiliary power unit (1) located in a fuselage structure (2) including: auxiliary power unit attachment brackets (3) arranged to be attached to the auxiliary power unit (1); fuselage attachment brackets (4) attached to the auxiliary power unit attachment brackets (3) and coupled to the fuselage structure (2); two longitudinal elements (5) arranged to be attached to the fuselage structure (2) in the longitudinal direction of the aircraft for supporting the auxiliary power unit (1), the two longitudinal elements (5) and the plurality of fuselage attachment brackets (4) being connected such that the two longitudinal elements (5) support the plurality of fuselage attachment brackets (4), being the fuselage attachment brackets (4) slidably movable along the longitudinal elements (5) for introducing or extracting the auxiliary power unit (1) into the fuselage structure (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.Inventors: Guilherme Barsali, Víctor Barreiro Rodríguez
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Patent number: 10940957Abstract: A haptic alert mechanism. The mechanism includes an actuator. At least one arm of a movable stopping piece is connected to the actuator. A spring box is provided with an enclosure containing a pre-stressed torsion spring, said spring box being mounted to be movable in rotation about the axis of rotation. The enclosure includes at least one lug that is mounted to be movable in rotation about said axis of rotation. A finger of the torsion spring passes through an elongate orifice in a front flank of the enclosure to form a movable, resilient stop that is overridable.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS, AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Boris Grohmann, Christophe Tempier, William Lagrevol, Marc Salesse-Lavergne
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Patent number: 10940958Abstract: Embodiments of the presently disclosed system include a thin thermoplastic or thermosetting polymer film loaded with non-polymeric inclusions that are susceptible to heating under a time-varying magnetic field. Insertion of this additional heating layer into a structural or semi-structural heterogeneous laminate provides an “on-demand” de-bonding site for laminate deconstruction. For example, in some embodiments when the heating layer is inserted between a cured Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) layer and a Polymeric/Metallic film stackup layer, the heating layer can be selectively heated above its softening point (e.g., by using energy absorbed from a locally-applied time-varying magnetic field) to allow for ease of applique separation from the CFRP layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Daniel J Kovach, Gary E Georgeson, Robert J Miller, Jeffrey D Morgan, Diane Rawlings
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Patent number: 10940959Abstract: Provided are embodiments for techniques for monitoring components of a system, where the techniques include determining an operational status of one or more processing modules, wherein the one or more processing modules comprise one or more local memories, and configuring the one or more local memories with threshold values for configuration parameters for one or more components. The techniques also include sensing sensor data for the one or more components, determining the health status of the one or more components by comparing sensor data for the configuration parameters to the threshold values for the configuration parameters, and transmitting the sensor data and the health status of the one or more components to a central server for storing the sensor data and the health status.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: SIMMONDS PRECISION PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Rajendra S. Kekan, Sanat Kumar Choudhury, Steven M. Levy, Skanda Gopalakrishna
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Patent number: 10940960Abstract: A satellite dispenser door release mechanism is disclosed. In various embodiments, a satellite door dispenser as disclosed herein includes a wire or cable having a first end configured to be secured in a structure comprising or coupled to a dispenser body of a satellite dispenser and a second end configured to be secured in a structure comprising or coupled to a dispenser door of the satellite dispenser; and a pyrotechnic cutter configured to receive the wire or cable in a position to cut the wire or cable upon firing of the pyrotechnic cutter.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Rocket Lab USA, Inc.Inventors: Peter Beck, Peter Barlow, David Yoon, Ben Malcolm
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Patent number: 10940961Abstract: A small satellite propulsion system using a gaseous oxidizer and a gaseous fuel as primary propellants with a liquid as a film coolant for the inner surface of the rocket motor. The gaseous fuel is also used as a pressurant for the coolant and as a cold gas propellant for attitude control system (hereinafter “ACS”) thrusters. The oxidizer, fuel, and coolant tanks, as well as most valves and plumbing, are integrated into a single core unit along with the rocket motor, rocket motor plumbing, and safety valves. Attitude control thrusters may be remotely located with plumbing to the fuel tank. The core unit is four inches high and less than four inches deep and wide. The small satellite propulsion system uses no pyrotechnics and no hazardous toxic materials.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Lloyd J. Droppers
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Patent number: 10940962Abstract: A device is provided for producing a tubular container which is able to be filled with granular, pulverulent, pourable and flowable materials, wherein the container can include webs manufactured from geotextile material. The device includes a displaceable frame with at least one unwindable geotextile web, wherein the frame includes a filling trough with an outlet hopper for the material, and wherein the filling trough has a conveying device for the filled material, the conveying device acting counter to the direction of movement of the frame, which, at the rear end of the filling trough, surrounds the material in an enveloping manner, in the region of the outlet hopper, by the unwindable geotextile web, as the frame is advanced, so as to form a tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TOPOCARE GMBHInventor: Roland Draier
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Patent number: 10940963Abstract: A device for filling a container, such as a dispensing tip, with a powdered or liquid material, and methods of use of the device are disclosed. The device generally includes a vacuum manifold having at least one port, and a vacuum source for creating a negative pressure in the vacuum manifold. The device may further include at least one container having an axial bore therethrough, a proximal end, and a distal end which includes a stop positioned therein. The negative pressure created in the vacuum manifold by the vacuum pump is sufficient to pull the powdered or liquid material through the distal end into the axial bore of the at least one container. A clearance between an outer surface of the stop and an inner wall of the container is configured to prevent passage of the powdered or liquid material.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Profounda Health and Beauty Inc.Inventor: Todd Ewen MacLaughlan
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Patent number: 10940964Abstract: The invention discloses a device for filling an electric cigarette, more specifically for filling a consumable-material tank of an electric cigarette wherein the device has a first tank for accommodating a consumable material and a second tank for accommodating air, wherein the device is designed such that the volumes of the tanks can be altered inversely by means of an actuating device, and therefore a pressing action and an intake action can be established at connections of the tanks. By virtue of the device being connected to a consumable-material tank of an electric cigarette, it is thus possible, while the consumable-material tank is being filled with consumable material, for the air displaced by the consumable material to be simultaneously extracted from the electric cigarette.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Fontem Holdings 1 B.V.Inventor: Andreas Beer
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Patent number: 10940965Abstract: A device and a method for assembling items for shipment are described, that facilitate positioning the assembled items, e.g., in a pre-folded cardboard box having at least an open top and an open side or on a conveyor transporting the items. The device may include; a bottom panel, two side panels, a first and a second end panel, wherein the bottom panel is substantially orthogonal to the side panels and the end panels, wherein the first end panel is arranged on the device to be movable with respect to the bottom panel, the first end panel being movable in a direction substantially orthogonal to the bottom panel and wherein the second end panel is arranged on the device to be movable towards and away from the first end panel in a direction substantially parallel to the bottom panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Quadient Technologies FranceInventors: Herman Sytema, Fokke De Boer
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Patent number: 10940966Abstract: A machine for producing cushioning material comprises: a frame; at least a first supply assembly preferably mounted on said frame, the first supply assembly supplying a first web-type feed material; and at least a first transformation assembly mounted on said frame which transforms the first web-type feed material into a first cushioning material. It is suggested that it further comprises: at least a second supply assembly preferably mounted on said frame, the second supply assembly supplying a second web-type feed material; and at least a second transformation assembly mounted on said frame which transforms the second web-type feed material into a second cushioning material.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Storopack Hans Reichenecker GMBHInventor: Vicentina Pereira
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Patent number: 10940968Abstract: Provided are a banknote-sorting production line and device thereof for banknote-bundle stamping and code-spraying, comprising a bundle stamping apparatus, a bundle code-spraying apparatus, and a banknote-supporting platform provided with a banknote inlet and a banknote outlet; the bundle stamping apparatus comprises a conveyor belt and a stamping mechanism located above the conveyor belt; the bundle code-spraying apparatus comprises a banknote-pushing mechanism and a code sprayer located directly above the banknote-supporting platform; the side of the banknote-supporting platform that is adjacent to the banknote inlet is provided with a gap matching the shape of the conveyor belt; the outlet end of the conveyor belt extends into the gap; the banknote-pushing mechanism comprises a banknote-pushing plate and a first drive mechanism that drives the banknote-pushing plate by moving reciprocatingly from the banknote-inlet side to the banknote-outlet side.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: GRG BANKING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Heng Liu, Maoling Chen, Heng Zhang, Shang Yin, Yuxuan Xie
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Patent number: 10940969Abstract: A band spooling machine (1) including a small arbor (19) with protrusions (21) that rotate with the arbor. In an embodiment, the machine includes a table (3) having side rails (7) and a single rotating arbor (19) carrying two spaced-apart pins (21) having blocks (23) that rotate freely on the pins. The arbor is preferably mounted close to one end of the machine and substantially closer to one of the side rails than to the other. The blocks prevent the blade from kinking. The machine forms the band into a pretzel having a circle part (C) divided by a central reach (R) into two lobes, and a teardrop shaped tail (T).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: EDGE MANUFACTURING, INC.Inventor: James P. Campbell
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Patent number: 10940970Abstract: A packaging kit is composed of a sheet member. A target object to be packaged is to be placed on the sheet member. The sheet member includes a placement surface, a standing side, and a tongue piece. The placement surface allows the target object to be placed thereon. The standing side is elongated from the placement surface. The standing side is raised relative to the placement surface. The tongue piece includes a protrusion edge. The placement surface and the standing side are provided with the tongue piece. The tongue piece is located on a side of at least one side edge of the standing side.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: TAIYO SHIGYO CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihiro Morizane
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Patent number: 10940971Abstract: Packaging for an attachable unit for a smoking article The invention relates to packaging (300) for an attachable unit (3) for a smoking article (2) comprising a receiver (301) to receive an attachable unit and a guide (306) for aligning the smoking article with the attachable unit when the attachable unit is received by the receiver such that the attachable unit can be attached to the smoking article. The invention also relates to packaging for an attachable unit for a smoking article comprising a receptacle or receiver in which the attachable unit is receivable and a gripping mechanism (307) to releasably hold the attachable unit within the receptacle or receiver when the attachable unit is received in the receptacle or receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITEDInventors: Richard Young, Paul Hodges, Karl Kaljura, Benjamin Taylor, Darren Hubbert, Victoria Brown
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Patent number: 10940972Abstract: A configurable container assembly is described. Embodiments of the configurable container assembly can include a container having a plurality of slots located around a perimeter of a top of the container. The slots can be configured to receive protrusions of one or more accessories. The configurable container assembly can be implemented in a closed configuration and an open configuration.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Ron Johnson
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Patent number: 10940973Abstract: A packaging scheme for identifying consumer goods affiliated with, made and/or sold by a company and/or brand. The packaging scheme provides for a first product and a second product where the first product and the second product are different products, and a first package containing the first product and a second package containing both the first product and the second product. A first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue are associated with the first product. A second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue are associated with the second product, such that the first package has a first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, while the second package has both a (i) first visual cue and/or a first packaging construction cue, and (ii) a second visual cue and/or a second packaging construction cue.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: EDGEWELL PERSONAL CARE BRANDS, LLCInventors: Ilona Bergquist, Sezen Buell, Ricardo de Oliveira, Anna Dietrich, Danielle Kay Gerlach, Adebimpe Ogunade, Richard Timmers, Pankaj Nigam, Kyle Hillegass, Robert F. Rosasco, III
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Patent number: 10940974Abstract: A package includes a carton (10) and a plurality of articles (B). The carton includes carton walls (14, 16, 26b/30b) and at least one handle structure (HA2) formed from at least one (26b/30b) of the carton walls. The at least one handle structure includes a tab (44b) formed from the at least one of the carton walls. The tab is hingedly connected, by a hinged connection (42b), to the at least one of the carton walls and arranged to fold at least in part about an article disposed within the carton to form at least a portion of a handle opening (40b) so as to allow a user (U) to grasp a portion of the article and the carton disposed adjacent to the article.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: WestRock Packaging Systems, LLCInventors: Bradford J. Walling, Brandon L. Ramsuer, Caleb S. Loftin
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Patent number: 10940975Abstract: A display ready container having an outer front wall panel and an inner front wall panel. The outer front wall panel has a display opening formed therein and a display edge defining at least a portion of the display opening. The inner front wall panel has a removable inner cover section disposed against the front wall panel to cover at least a portion of the display opening, and overlapping at least a portion of the display edge. An area of weakness is formed in the removable inner cover section that is configured to deform when pulled outwardly to decrease in at least one of the width and height dimensions in a desired manner to effect removal of the removable inner cover section.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Royal Box Group, LLCInventors: Matthew A. Nixon, Jonathan M. Genord, Carl Jeffrey Jolley
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Patent number: 10940976Abstract: The container has a lid structure comprising two lid panels. The first lid panel forms at least a part of the top wall. The second lid panel forms at least part of one of the side walls. When the container is in the erected condition the lid structure can have one of, and be moved between, a closed configuration; top load configuration; and, front load configuration. The front load configuration has two variants. In a first front load configuration the first and second lid panels remain connected to each other and are moved so that they are in a substantial face to face relationship. In the second front load configuration the second lid panel is pivoted to lie on top of the first lid panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: UNISEG PRODUCTS PTY LTDInventor: Earl Fenton Goddard
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Patent number: 10940977Abstract: A multi-vessel reservoir assembly is provided. The multi-vessel reservoir assembly comprises a first fluid vessel, a second fluid vessel, and at least one linkage positioned between the first and second fluid vessels. The at least one linkage serves to maintain the first and second fluid vessels in fixed and spaced-apart relationship relative to one another. The first and second fluid vessels are independent and separately operable.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: ABC TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventor: Richard Allan