Patents Issued in January 2, 2024
  • Patent number: 11858649
    Abstract: A plurality of external power (“EP”) sources can be controlled with a single EP switch. A plurality of EP states can be determined, each EP state of the plurality of EP states being associated with one EP source from the plurality of EP sources. A highest EP state of the plurality of EP states can be determined. An EP indicator of the EP switch can be controlled based on the highest EP state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven M. Walstrom, Sheverria Antony Aikens
  • Patent number: 11858650
    Abstract: A ram air turbine (RAT) restow system includes an actuator assembly with a piston interposed between an upper fluid compartment and a lower fluid compartment. The actuator assembly is configured to selectively move the piston between a deployed position and a stowed position. A hydraulic restow circuit is interposed between the actuator assembly and a hydraulic fluid system that is configured to output fluid. The hydraulic restow circuit includes a restow valve configured to operate in a first position that establishes a first fluid path to deliver the fluid to the upper fluid compartment and a second position that establishes a second fluid path to deliver the fluid to the lower fluid compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Scott Konicek, Stuart T. Gerger, Stephen Michael Bortoli
  • Patent number: 11858651
    Abstract: Subject matter described herein includes generating a visual environment for interactive development of a machine learning (ML) model. The method includes accessing observations of data each of which includes values of independent variables and a dependent variable. The method includes performing an interactive feature construction and selection in which select independent variables are selected as or transformed into a set of features for use in building a ML model to predict the dependent variable. The method includes building the ML model using a ML algorithm, the set of features, and a training set produced from the set of features and observations of the data. And the method includes outputting the ML model for deployment to predict the dependent variable for additional observations of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Seema Chopra, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Arvind Sundararaman, Kaustubh Kaluskar
  • Patent number: 11858652
    Abstract: A system and method is provided that captures command and control string data during an unmanned vehicle operation. The control string includes user inputs (e.g., mouse inputs, keyboard inputs, etc.) and display outputs (i.e., data displaying to the user via displays). The control string data is captured and stored during the sortie (i.e., a flight) and the control string is preserved (also referred to as impounded) when a mishap occurred during the sortie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Zachary W. Spritzer, Vincent J. Sacro, Timothy P. Duston
  • Patent number: 11858653
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to foreign object detection with respect to passenger-accessible stowage compartments are provided. According to one example, sensor data is captured via a sensor subsystem that includes a sensor associated with each of a plurality of stowage compartments. For each of the stowage compartments, a baseline condition is identified in which foreign objects are absent from the stowage compartment. A foreign object is detected within a stowage compartment based on the sensor data received for the stowage compartment and the baseline condition identified for the stowage compartment. An audit of the stowage compartments is conducted, and based on the audit, an indication that the foreign object is detected within the stowage compartment is output. This indication may identify the stowage compartment containing the foreign object among the plurality of stowage compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ralf Rene Cabos, Nils Kneuper, Jennifer Mayer
  • Patent number: 11858654
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for alerting a crew of an aircraft or other mobile platform of a relevant condition associated with the aircraft are disclosed. One exemplary method comprises receiving data indicative of an existence of the relevant condition associated with the aircraft; receiving data indicative of a substantially real-time value of a dynamic parameter associated with the relevant condition; and displaying an awareness-enhancing indication associated with the relevant condition in a display area of the crew alerting system of the aircraft. The awareness-enhancing indication comprises a textual message and a supplemental indication indicative of the substantially real-time value of the dynamic parameter associated with the relevant condition. In various embodiments, the supplemental indication may be textual or graphical. The supplemental indication may also be indicative of a target value of the dynamic parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventor: Benoit Ouellette
  • Patent number: 11858655
    Abstract: An aviation integrated optics and lighting unit for securing to a light receptacle of an aircraft. The aviation integrated optics and lighting unit comprises a housing, a light-emitting device, and an optical sensor. The light-emitting device is secured to the housing. The optical sensor is positioned in the housing and is configured to capture optical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Appareo Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Dondoneau, Kristofer Garberg, Nicholas L. Butts
  • Patent number: 11858656
    Abstract: A system is provided that guides aircraft driven with landing gear wheel-mounted electric taxi drive systems without reliance on airport ground personnel to park the aircraft parallel to an airport terminal with connections to multiple passenger loading bridges, automatically docks the aircraft, and connects the multiple loading bridges to multiple forward and rear doors. Cooperative on-aircraft monitoring systems, airport docking systems, loading bridge and terminal monitoring systems, and processors are integrated to use real time information and guide the aircraft to safely maneuver into and automatically dock in a parallel orientation at a parking location with multiple aircraft forward and rear doors connected to multiple loading bridges. The system may automatically undock the aircraft and retract the loading bridges and guide the electric taxi drive system-driven aircraft out of the parking location without reliance on airport ground personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS TECHNICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Jan Vana, Isaiah W. Cox, Joseph J. Cox
  • Patent number: 11858657
    Abstract: A method of making a roadbed, including paving an area with foamed glass bodies to define a bed and covering the bed with a layer of cementitious material to define a composite bed. The composite bed is at least 85 percent foamed glass bodies. The composite bed has a cementitious surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EARTHSTONE INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventor: W. Gene Ramsey
  • Patent number: 11858658
    Abstract: Examples include an apparatus for restraining an aircraft during engine acceleration, the apparatus including: a collet shaft that is configured to attach to the aircraft, a rod that is configured to attach to a runway, and a release mechanism that is configured to restrain the collet shaft to the release mechanism and configured to release the collet shaft in response to the release mechanism receiving an electric current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Tim Bower, Donald R. Burns, Mellyssa Mulero, John P. Schnieders, Roger W. Bedell
  • Patent number: 11858659
    Abstract: An integrated pushback guidance system and method is provided for guiding pushback travel of electric taxi system-driven aircraft. The pushback guidance system may be integrated with existing ramp monitoring systems to monitor reverse pushback travel of pilot-controlled electric taxi system-driven aircraft along an optimum pushback path from a stand to a pushback end location. Visual signals relating to pushback travel safety as the pilot drives the aircraft along the pushback path are generated in real time by the system and transmitted to a range of display devices viewable by the aircraft pilot and airport personnel responsible for guiding aircraft pushback. The pilot may be guided by visual signals on only display devices or with guidance from airport personnel also viewing the visual signals on display devices to drive the aircraft safely in reverse with the electric taxi system along the pushback path to the pushback end location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS TECHNICAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Jan Vana
  • Patent number: 11858660
    Abstract: A translating drive unit (TDU) may comprise: a housing; a plurality of guide rollers coupled to the housing; a drive system coupled to the housing, the drive system configured to translate the housing in a longitudinal direction; and a retractable pawl coupled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dustin Scheer, Aaron Roberts
  • Patent number: 11858661
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a panel assembly includes supporting the panel assembly in a free state using a holding fixture. The panel assembly has a skin panel, and sacrificial material coupled to a skin panel inner surface. The method includes acquiring a free state outer surface contour of the panel assembly by scanning a skin panel outer surface while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture. The method also includes developing a numerically controlled (NC) machining program having cutter paths configured for machining the interface locations to an inner surface contour that reflects nominal thicknesses of the panel assembly based off of the free state outer surface contour. In addition, the method includes machining the sacrificial material at the interface locations by moving a cutter along the cutter paths while the panel assembly is supported by the holding fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Merrit, Hsien-Lin Huang, Mark Abdouch, Nathan A. Secinaro, Daniel Bracy
  • Patent number: 11858662
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for autonomously performing and/or facilitating drone diagnostic functions. Prior to a mission of a UAV, an inspection station comprising at least one imaging sensor and at least one directional force sensor may be used to perform a plurality of air worthiness inspections and/or maintenance checks with little to no human intervention. Once the UAV has been determined to be air worthy, it is approved for a subsequent mission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Julio Gil
  • Patent number: 11858663
    Abstract: A method for producing a satellite to facilitate the inclusion of one or more reflector antennas on a surface of the satellite is disclosed. A reusable generic configuration is determined in advance separately from the satellite mission. The generic configuration generally features the following parameters for each reflector: diameter, focal distance, offset distance of the reflector in the deployed position, position of the deployment device, position of the radiofrequency source. The generic configuration is determined such that an antenna points by default towards the centre of the earth when its reflector is in a deployed position. A specific configuration step then consists of defining a limited number of specific parameters depending on the satellite mission. The specific configuration is rendered possible in particular by controlling the deployment device, i.e., by changing the direction in which the antenna points, once the reflector has been deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: Jérôme Strzelecki, Yann Bappel
  • Patent number: 11858664
    Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing a Jupiter aerospace mission can enable delivery of a science payload to a Jupiter orbit on a direct Earth-to-Jupiter trajectory. Solar power and use of avionics also allow a fast assembly, integration, and test process compared to past outer Solar System missions. The spacecraft can include an aerodynamic forebody, a shell, and a thermal protection system. The spacecraft can manage the radiation environment, generate solar power, and return data to Earth with a robust radio-frequency (RF) amplification and antenna gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Shoer, Jeffrey Allen Lewis, Brian Michael Sutter, Emily Elaine Boster, Timothy Michael Linn, Mark Andrew Johnson, Jarvis T. Songer, Edward Boneau Bierhaus, Weyman Albert Weems
  • Patent number: 11858665
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an integral, additively manufactured, actuation device having a rigid portion comprising a shaped structural member and a flexible portion comprising a helical torsion spring. In a spacecraft application, a spacecraft appendage may be coupled with a deployment mechanism, the deployment mechanism including at least one integral, additively manufactured, actuation device having a rigid portion comprising a shaped structural member and a flexible portion comprising a helical torsion spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Maxar Space LLC
    Inventors: Jillian Gorsuch, Gregory Dudder
  • Patent number: 11858666
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a propulsion method based on liquid carbon dioxide phase change and a propulsion device. The method includes the following steps of: accommodating carbon dioxide in a thermally insulated container in a liquid phase form; transiently heating to convert the carbon dioxide from a liquid phase to a gas phase; and jetting carbon dioxide gas after the phase change in a predetermined direction by a predetermined jet-out amount so as to obtain a propulsion force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhengshi Chang, Cong Wang, Guanjun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11858667
    Abstract: Systems for satellite dispensing from a second stage of a launch vehicle are described. In an example, a satellite dispenser ring includes a circular ring, a vertical stanchion, and a truss. The vertical stanchion has an interface to couple with an adjacent satellite dispenser ring. The vertical ring is also coupled to a perimeter of the circular ring perpendicular to a place of the circular ring. A satellite attachment interface at an edge of the vertical stanchions couples and releases a satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Michael O'Brien, Aaron Oliver Carey
  • Patent number: 11858668
    Abstract: A method for filling a receptacle (7), which is at least partly gas-permeable with bulk filling material (2), includes subjecting the receptacle (7) at the outer side to an underpressure, in order to generate a feed of filling material through a filling material conduit (4) into the inside of the receptacle (7). The filling procedure is assisted by way of subjecting the filling material conduit (4) to pressure after completion of a first filling time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Greif-Velox Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Tillack, Jan Lorenzen, Janis Feye, Alexander Mildner, Alexander Boje
  • Patent number: 11858669
    Abstract: A device for applying top sheets on palletised loads, including at least one support for at least one palletised load, of the feeding means of top sheets (C) to be applied on the palletised loads, suitable to unwind at least one film reel (B) from which a plurality of such sheets (C) can be obtained, and at least one applicator member suitable to place, one by one, the top sheets (C) obtained from the reel (B), over the top of respective palletised loads. The applicator member includes at least one robotic arm, having at least one operating end, and at least one winding and unwinding member, associated with such operating end; the winding and unwinding member is able to wrap the sheet (C), taken from the reel (B), on a wrapping surface to take a substantially tube-shaped configuration, and then to unwind it over the top of the palletised load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: B80 GROUP S.P.A.
    Inventor: Gianluca Sforacchi
  • Patent number: 11858670
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl forming unit configured to form a path along which the wire fed by the wire feeding unit is to be wound around a to-be-bound object; a butting part against which the to-be-bound object is to be butted; a cutting unit configured to cut the wire wound on the to-be-bound object; a binding unit configured to twist the wire wound on the to-be-bound object and cut by the cutting unit; and a tension applying part configured to apply tension to the wire to be cut at the cutting unit with a force higher than a force applied in a loosening direction of the wire wound on the to-be-bound object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Shinpei Sugihara, Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida, Ichiro Kusakari
  • Patent number: 11858671
    Abstract: A mold configuration for forming a pocket in a film comprising: a film support surface; a perimeter edge at said film support surface; wall surfaces inward of the perimeter edge defining a mold cavity; the wall surfaces including transition wall surfaces extending to a bottom wall surface; and a plateau surface inward of the perimeter edge. In one form, the perimeter edge includes sharp corner profile perimeter edge portions defining at least one sharp corner profile. A method of forming a pouch, includes using the disclosed mold configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mespack Cloud, LLC
    Inventors: Donn D. Hartman, Alexander J. Waterman, Michael Gregory Alcazar, Anthony Crivolio
  • Patent number: 11858672
    Abstract: A cartridge fluid filling system and method for the cannabis and hemp industry. The system comprises a gas-pressurized sanitary reservoir sub-assembly holding material to be dispensed. A spool valve sub-assembly lies in fluid communication with the reservoir sub-assembly and has a spool valve that moves to permit or block fluid flow to a metering rod. Effluent material may pass through an outlet port to a tray sub-assembly for locating cartridges into which metered amounts of the effluent material may be delivered. A robot moves a tray and the outlet port so that material is delivered in precisely metered amounts to cartridges in the tray without waste and in the absence of air bubbles. A human-machine interface includes controllers that supervise related process parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DETROIT DISPENSING SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Joseph, Michael Joseph
  • Patent number: 11858673
    Abstract: A doser mechanism includes a cylindrical shell, an auger conveyor, and a check valve. The cylindrical shell includes a hollow cylinder and an end plate. The hollow cylinder at least partially defines an internal enclosure extending between first and second ends of the hollow cylinder, a first opening at the first end, and a second opening through a thickness of the hollow cylinder. The end plate covers the second end. The auger conveyor includes an auger at least partially extending through the internal enclosure through the first end. The check valve has a valve member configured to selectively cover the second opening. The check valve may cause the valve member move between a rest position and an open position to cover or expose the second opening in response to a magnitude of a force applied to the valve member from the internal enclosure through the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Dwight David Williams
  • Patent number: 11858674
    Abstract: A method for laying multiple conductors in a container may be provided. The method may comprise receiving the multiple conductors at a monitoring station; receiving the multiple conductors at a drive; and receiving the multiple conductors at the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Temblador, Allan W. Daniel, John D. Moore, Daniel Irvin, Franklin Calhoun, Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11858675
    Abstract: A terminally sterilized medical procedure kit includes a recovered item and a new item packaged together as a single stock keeping unit. A method for processing at least a portion of a first medical procedure kit includes the steps of receiving a recoverable item of the first kit, performing a processing operation on the recoverable item, providing a new item, combining the recoverable item and the new item in a second kit, and terminally sterilizing the second kit. A method for recovering at least a portion of a terminally sterilized medical procedure kit includes the steps of purchasing a recoverable item of the first kit from an owner and receiving the recoverable item by the purchaser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Glen Coleman, Michael Chad Hollis, Vernon Raymond Hartdegen
  • Patent number: 11858676
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods relating to assembling unpacked merchandise in containers. In one form, the system includes an order of merchandise items to be assembled in containers, and a predetermined set of containers defining different sizes and including at least two different types of containers. The system also includes a control circuit configured to: receive notification of the order, select a first type of container, determine a first subset of the plurality of merchandise items to be received in the selected type of container, select a size of the selected type of container to receive the first subset of merchandise items, and instruct the disposition of the first subset of merchandise items within the selected type and size of container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sunada S N Chakravarthy, Rei E. Siew Hew Sam
  • Patent number: 11858677
    Abstract: A packaging apparatus for small piece goods, the use of the packaging apparatus, and a method for producing a blister tube are provided. The packaging apparatus includes a packaging material guiding device for providing a shaped packaging material web suitable for receiving small piece goods, a longitudinal joining device which is arranged downstream of the packaging material guiding device and a transverse joining device which is arranged downstream of the packaging material guiding device. The transverse joining device joins the shaped packaging material web together at predetermined intervals transversely to the direction of travel to form a transverse joining area. The transverse joining device includes two joiners, a first joiner having a plurality of embossers that are individually movable transversely to the direction of travel and are arranged so that they can be extended from the first joiner and retracted into the first joiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Torben Schüttfort
  • Patent number: 11858678
    Abstract: The invention discloses a container, comprising a base and a side panel, the base or the side panel is provided with a discharging port, the discharging port is provided with a covering door, and the covering door is connected to the base or the side panel through a connecting device, wherein the connection device includes a transmission member and an elastic member. During the opening or closing process of the covering door, the transmission member can be driven to move outwardly, so that the elastic member is compressed. When the covering door is completely opened or closed, the elastic member springs back and drives the transmission member to move inwardly, the covering door automatically keeps open or closed. The overall structure of the invention is novel and reliable, and the operation is simple, and it is not necessary to confirm whether the covering door is attracted in place during the opening or closing process of the covering door, which can effectively avoid human operation errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HOREN CORTP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanli Jian, Long Feng
  • Patent number: 11858679
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method comprising, as method steps, a) providing a container blank comprising a blank wall at least partly surrounding a blank interior, comprising i) a multitude of particles, and ii) a liquid in a first proportion of liquid; and b) shaping the container blank thereby obtaining a container comprising a container wall which at least partly surrounds a container interior and comprises a container layer comprising i) the particles of the multitude of particles, and ii) the liquid in a further proportion of liquid; wherein the further proportion of liquid is less than the first proportion of liquid. The invention further relates to a container obtainable by the above method; to a container having a container layer; to a method of filling and closing one of the aforementioned containers; to a closed container obtainable by said method; to an apparatus; and to uses of a filling machine, of one of the aforementioned containers, of the apparatus and of a multitude of fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SIG Technology AG
    Inventor: Volker Appel
  • Patent number: 11858680
    Abstract: A container may comprise a tubular body having a longitudinal axis and a rounded sidewall; a base portion; a rim portion; a vertical portion defined, in part, by the rounded sidewall, aligned along the longitudinal axis, and extending between the base portion and the rim portion; a plurality of grooves defined within the vertical portion, each of the grooves comprising a width defining opposing sides of each of the plurality of grooves, wherein: each of the plurality of grooves is aligned parallel with the longitudinal axis; the valley of each of the plurality of grooves is radially inset a distance from the vertical portion perimeter; and opposing sides of adjacently positioned ones of the plurality of grooves define a peak that is radially aligned with the vertical portion perimeter. The container may also comprise a set of base transition grooves extending between the base portion and the vertical portion and aligned parallel with the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ALTIUM PACKAGING LP
    Inventors: Joe Palmer, Dena Wade
  • Patent number: 11858681
    Abstract: Provided is a can body in which a skirt part of the cap attached to a curl part certainly wraps to fixable and pressure resistance can be improved. A cylindrical part and a mouth part connected with a neck part with a smaller diameter than the cylindrical part are provided with; the mouth part has a curl part at an outer peripheral part which is made by folding a tip outward in a radial direction to round up; and in a vertical cross section on a can axis, a concave part is formed toward a lower side in the can axis direction, between an outer peripheral-lower side bent part which is convex diagonally downward on an outer peripheral part of the curl part and a curl end part having the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL CAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Tomoaki Iimura
  • Patent number: 11858682
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to containers, particularly to cans (14), for example, for beverages, to a container opening device (9), a container (14), a closure arrangement (12) for a container (14), and a blank for a container opening device (9). The container (14) is typically sealable and has closure (16) attachable thereto to seal the container (14), wherein the closure (16) has a peripherally weakened zone (20), or a partly peripherally weakened zone (20). The container opening device (9) comprises an actuator tab (22) operatively attachable to the closure (16) adjacent the zone (20) such that actuation of the actuator tab (22) between first and second positions causes shearing or detachment of the zone (20) from its weakened periphery thereby to provide an opening to an interior of the container (14), in use; and a pull member (10) attached or attachable to the actuator tab (22) to facilitate actuation of the tab (22) between the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Roland Andrews
  • Patent number: 11858683
    Abstract: A reclosable metal lid of a beverage can comprising a centre panel in which scorelines are made, allowing to tear out an aperture, a circumferential panel connecting the centre panel with the neck of the can, and a pull-tab attached by a rivet, and a collar for connecting the lid with the can body, equipped with a closing rotatable panel rotating around the rivet axis is, wherein the centre panel (4) is above the circumferential panel (3) and has in the connection spot with the circumferential panel (3) an additional embossing forming a guide-rail, and the rotatable panel (5) is mounted on the lid on this guide-rail, while the pull tab (7) is affixed to the rotatable panel (5) by the rivet (6), wherein the size of the rotatable panel (5) corresponds to the size of the centre panel (4), and the rotatable panel (5) comprises an aperture which corresponds to a drinking opening of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CANPACK S.A.
    Inventors: Tomasz Latos, Leszek Wierzchowski
  • Patent number: 11858684
    Abstract: A dispensing system (40, 40A) includes a body (54, 54A) having an outer wall (56, 56A) defining a volume for storing a substance, the outer wall (64, 64A) having a top end (66, 66A) and a sealed bottom end (70, 70A). The top end (66, 66A) is covered by a flexible lid (56, 56A) that is connected to the body (54, 54A). The lid (56, 56A) has a press portion (88, 88A) for being engaged to move the lid (56, 56A) from a first position into a second, deflected position. A post (58, 58A) is connected to the lid (56, 56A) and is configured in the second position of the lid (56, 56A) to breach the sealed bottom end (70, 70A) to form a dispensing orifice (80, 80A) to accommodate movement of a substance out of the body (54, 54A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AptarGroup, Inc.
    Inventors: James Hammond, Timothy Mazurkiewicz, Anna Frolova-Levi
  • Patent number: 11858685
    Abstract: A shipping crate is provided having multiple walls. In each wall, a first wall layer has sides and a first thickness and a second wall layer has sides extending past each of the sides of the first wall by the first thickness. The crate also has a back panel having a first back panel layer and at least a partial second back panel layer. The first back panel layer has sides and a thickness substantially similar to the first thickness and the second back panel layer extends past each of the sides of the first back panel layer by the first thickness. When assembled, the first wall layers of each of the walls combine to form a post and lintel assembly. The second wall layers of each of the plurality of walls combine to form a second post and lintel assembly distinct from the first post and lintel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DELAWARE NATIONAL ART COMPANY, LLC.
    Inventors: Justin Cary Goldner, Michael Stephen Brand
  • Patent number: 11858686
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying palleted items includes a generally flat main panel under the palleted items, having flaps with the palleted items positioned along fold lines, and with separable side panels configured to engage the flaps at the fold lines. When folded away from the palleted items and engaged together, the side panels securely hide a stack of multiple pallets under the palleted items, and present printed sides for advertising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: John R. Brendlinger
  • Patent number: 11858687
    Abstract: A storage device which has a plurality of storage containers, which include at least one first storage container and at least one second storage container. The container housings have, on the outer faces thereof, an identical, uniform housing fastening interface, to which a first handle is attached in order to form a first storage container, and to which a second handle is attached in order to form a second storage container. The first handle is a pivotable carrying handle, around which a hand can grip. The second handle is designed as a pull handle which cannot be gripped, which has a grip strip behind which the fingers of a hand can grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TANOS GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Barabeisch, Patrick Schmittmann, Edwin Bunnik
  • Patent number: 11858688
    Abstract: Multi-vessel drink containers. In examples, a multi-vessel drink container includes a primary vessel, a secondary vessel, a primary closure configured to close the primary vessel, and a secondary closure configured to close the secondary vessel. In examples, the primary closure includes a primary closure base portion that defines a storage compartment and a compartment closure configured to close the storage compartment. In examples, the secondary vessel is configured to be selectively transitioned between a nested configuration, in which the secondary vessel is operatively coupled to the primary vessel, and a drink configuration, in which the secondary vessel is removed from the primary vessel. In examples, the secondary closure is configured to be selectively transitioned between a stowed configuration, in which the secondary closure is received within the storage compartment, and a use configuration, in which the secondary closure is operatively coupled to the secondary vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CAMELBAK PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Kelsey O. Hammond, Benjamin E. Vierck
  • Patent number: 11858689
    Abstract: There is provided a packaging for a container wherein the packaging is formed from a plurality of shell pieces that are hinged together to wrap around the container. When wrapped around the container, a first shell piece is secured to a second shell piece using a two-point locking feature. The shell pieces are formed with a substantially constant wall thickness such that the packaging substantially conforms to the shape of the container. Thus, advantageously, any distinctiveness in the shape of the container is not lost when wrapped by the packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Rowan Nowell
  • Patent number: 11858690
    Abstract: A tray includes a main body portion including a bottom surface portion and a sidewall portion; and a plurality of first guide portions disposed on the bottom surface portion and arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a first direction. Each of the first guide portions includes a first main protruding portion, a first sub-protruding portion which protrudes from the first main protruding portion in the first direction, and a second sub-protruding portion which protrudes from the first main protruding portion in a direction opposite to the first direction, and the first sub-protruding portion and the second sub-protruding portion are alternately arranged in a direction the first main protruding portion extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Dae Song, Kyeong Min Kim, Eui Young Kim, Hong Ju Kim, Jung Gil Oh
  • Patent number: 11858691
    Abstract: A method of producing flexible polypropylene fabric bags with heat fused seams comprising providing fabric pieces, wherein each fabric piece has a coated side and an uncoated side; positioning fabric pieces so that a coated side of one fabric piece faces a coated side of another fabric piece; selecting an area of fabric to be joined for forming a seam or joint; applying heat to the area to be joined that is less than the melting point of the fabrics, for forming one or more seams or joints and wherein the heat fused seams or joints of a resulting polypropylene bag retains at least 85% of the fabric strength without using sewing machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AMERIGLOBE, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford Dunlap, Daniel R. Schnaars, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11858692
    Abstract: An alignment button for easy resealing of zipper bags is provided. One or more alignment buttons facilitate closure of resealable storage bags possessing zipper lock, zip fastener, or press seal closures, such as sandwich bags and plastic food storage bags. Each alignment button has a raised feature and a corresponding socket feature on opposing sides of the bag's seal or closure. When the two parts of each alignment button are pressed together, the socket feature captures an apex part of the raised feature and aligns opposing tracks of a zipper lock or seal for easy closure. One of more of the alignment buttons may be manufactured as an integral feature of the seal or closure, or may be located in a line or pattern, above or below the seal or closure. Likewise, multiple alignment buttons may be placed above and below the seal or closure in a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Donald G Webster, Holli Ruddell
  • Patent number: 11858693
    Abstract: A hinged zipper assembly includes first and second zipper members each having a facing side, an opposite side, an upper edge, and an opposite lower edge. Each of the zipper members has a profile protrusion that extends from the facing sides and are located between the upper and lower edges. The profile protrusions mesh with each other to interlock with each other. A living hinge is formed in the first zipper member and/or the second zipper member between the lower edge and the profile protrusion. The zipper members are formed with flanges that extend from the lower edges. The flanges are configured to be affixed to panels of an enclosure that is closed by meshing of the profile protrusions of the first and second zipper members with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Lars Wihlborg, Jose Septien, Clifton Howell, Marion Johnson, Marco Aguilar
  • Patent number: 11858694
    Abstract: A bottle includes a body and an overcap that covers the shoulder and neck of the bottle. The overcap includes an outer skirt and an inner skirt. The inner skirt engages the closure for the bottle. The outer skirt extends outwardly from the inner skirt. The inner skirt includes a first engaging lip and a second engaging lip that secure the overcap to the body of the bottle. The first engaging lip is located below the cover of the closure while the second engaging lip is located below the tamper-proof band of the closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Core Nutrition, LLC
    Inventor: Lance Collins
  • Patent number: 11858695
    Abstract: A breathing assistance apparatus has a lid and latch assembly configured for one-handed operation. The apparatus also includes a hinge assembly that separates when over-rotated but that reengages upon closing of the lid onto the main body of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Jeremy Livingston Miller, Arjen David Kat
  • Patent number: 11858696
    Abstract: A device may include a dispensable substance container to hold a dispensable substance; a dispensing nozzle attached to the dispensable substance container to dispense the dispensable substance out of an opening in the dispensing nozzle; and a frangible obstruction encompassing the dispensing nozzle and obstructing the opening of the dispensing nozzle wherein the frangible obstruction is to slide along the dispensing nozzle to uncover the opening when broken free from the dispensing nozzle by a wall of a receiving container during an engagement between the dispensable substance container and the receiving container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeff Luke, Dean Richtsmeier, Mathew Lavigne, Sean Daniel Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 11858697
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens, Kerry Lloyd Weaver
  • Patent number: 11858698
    Abstract: A coupling shell including a top wall, a shell wall, a front aperture in the top wall, a dispensing opening in the top wall, and a neck fitment projecting into the shell interior of the shell wall. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens