Patents Issued in January 9, 2024
  • Patent number: 11865570
    Abstract: A longitudinally adjustable flow divider situated in the particulate material path of a spinner spreader between the bin and the rotatable disc divides the particulate material so that the particulate material is dischargeable on to the upper surface of the rotatable disc on first and second laterally spaced apart longitudinally oriented drop lines. An actuator operably connected to the flow divider adjusts a longitudinal position of the flow divider to longitudinally adjust drop points on the drop lines at which the particulate material is dischargeable on to the rotatable disc. Longitudinal adjustment of the drop points along laterally spaced apart drop lines on one spinner disc permits control over spread pattern to help achieve uniform distribution of the particulate material on a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salford Group Inc.
    Inventors: Geof J. Gray, Joshua Scott Fields, Steven Ray Owenby, Richard Hagler, Russell Mcever, Brian Hobson
  • Patent number: 11865571
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for applying coatings on a moving web are provided. A coating die and a back-up roll engage with each other. The back-up roll includes a shell rotatably supported by a pressurized air layer. When a coating material is dispensed from the coating die onto the web to form a liquid coating, the pressure of the air layer is controlled such that the shell translates in space to balance forces from the air layer and the coating bead, while the web is being translated to drive the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Tyler J. Rattray, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Shawn C. Dodds, Samad Javid, James N. Dobbs, Kara A. Meyers, Ronald P. Swanson, Robert B. Secor
  • Patent number: 11865572
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to surface treating a substrate, spraying precursor onto the substrate using supercritical carrier fluid, and post-treating the substrate sprayed with the precursor to form a layer with nanometer thickness of material on the substrate. A spraying assembly for spraying the precursor includes one or more spraying modules and one or more radical injectors at one or more sides of the spraying module. A differential spread mechanism is provided between the spraying module and the radical injectors to inject spread gas that isolates the sprayed precursor and radicals generated by the radical injectors. As relative movement between the substrate and the spraying assembly is made, portions of the substrate is exposed to first radicals, sprayed with precursors either one of the spraying modules or both spraying modules using supercritical carrier fluid, and then exposed to second radicals again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nova Engineering Films, Inc.
    Inventor: Sang In Lee
  • Patent number: 11865573
    Abstract: A slurry for electrostatic spray deposition and method for forming a coating film using the same are provided. The slurry comprises a solvent, a first polymer dissolved in the solvent, and polymer particles containing a second polymer and dispersed in the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University
    Inventors: Dong Wook Shin, Se Wook Lee, Sang Ho Park
  • Patent number: 11865574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of coating an article and to a coated article. A method according to the invention comprises: providing a substrate coated with a first powder coating layer; optionally heating the substrate and first layer so as to at least partially melt or soften the first powder coating layer, wherein said first powder coating layer is not or only partially cured; applying a second powder coating layer on said first layer; and curing said first and second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Denis McCormick, Oriol Aixala-Marimon, Frank Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11865575
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a wavelength-converting component includes providing a substrate, providing a wavelength-converting layer and providing a reflective layer. The reflective layer is disposed on the substrate. The wavelength-converting layer is disposed on a surface of the reflective layer away from the substrate. The wavelength-converting layer includes a wavelength-converting material and a second organic adhesive. The wavelength-converting material is mixed in the second organic adhesive. The second organic adhesive includes an aromatic polyimide. The wavelength-converting component manufactured by the method of the invention can improve mechanical properties such as shear strength, tensile strength and fatigue strength, temperature resistance and reflectivity, and can reduce rates of moisture absorption. The projection apparatus including the wavelength-converting component can reduce degradation in image brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Lin Tsai, Wei-Hua Kao
  • Patent number: 11865576
    Abstract: A laminate containing a metallic base layer and a transparent colored layer formed on the metallic base layer, wherein, when X=[(C*45)2+(C*75)2)]1/2, and Y=[(L*15)2+(C*15)2)]1/2+[(L*25)2+(C*25)2)]1/2, X is 64 or more, and Y is 191 or more; and the measured value of graininess (HG value) is 45 or less, with the proviso that C*15, C*25, C*45, and C*75 represent chroma calculated from spectral reflectances of light illuminated at an incident angle of 45 degrees with respect to the laminate and received at respective angles of 15 degrees, 25 degrees, 45 degrees, and 75 degrees deviated from the specular reflection light, and that L*15 and L*25 represent lightness calculated from spectral reflectances of light illuminated at an incident angle of 45 degrees with respect to the laminate and received at respective angles of 15 degrees and 25 degrees deviated from the specular reflection light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ikumi Ono, Nobuhiko Narita, Hirokazu Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11865577
    Abstract: An anticorrosive coating includes a first curable liquid layer to the associated substrate, the first layer having a thickness of at least about 100 micrometers, wherein the first layer includes at least one polymer or at least one monomer, quasi-one-dimensional particles or quasi-two-dimensional particles, sacrificial metal particles, and a solvent, wherein a percolation threshold of the particles is not reached in the presence of the solvent, wherein the percolation threshold of the particles is reached when between about 1% and about 20% of the solvent evaporates, applying a second curable liquid layer having a thickness of at least 100 micrometers on the top of the first layer after the percolation threshold of the particles is reached and viscosity of the first layer increases more than 50%, and allowing the first layer and the second layer to cure simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jorma Virtanen, Joshua Armstrong, Todd Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11865578
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a panel. of the method may involve supplying a substrate having an upper side. A layer may be provided onto the upper side. The upper side may be irradiated so as to cure at least a part of the layer by irradiation, hence forming the panel. The layer may include a liquid coating on substantially the entire upper side and a substance which is digitally printed locally on the upper side. The substance and the liquid coating may cooperate such that either (1) the coating and the substance react with each other, whereas the substance is a liquid that is printed on the upper side before the coating is applied and wherein the substance and the coating have different surface tensions, or (2) the coating is non-curable or only curable to a limited extent by the irradiation, whereas the substance makes the coating curable by the irradiation at locations where they meet each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventors: Benjamin Clement, Bruno Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 11865579
    Abstract: The invention provides coating processes for producing finished fibrous panels comprising applying a prime coat onto at least one side of the fibrous panel by curtain coating; and applying a finish coat over the prime coat by spray coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: USG INTERIORS, LLC
    Inventors: Deirdre Anne Brockwell, Wanwisa Davis, Adam Warren Keller
  • Patent number: 11865580
    Abstract: A method for producing an at least partially transparent device is provided, including producing, on a first substrate, first and second separation layers one against the other; producing, on the second separation layer, an at least partially transparent functional layer; making the functional layer integral with a second at least partially transparent substrate; forming a mechanical separation at an interface between the separation layers; removing the second separation layer; producing a first at least partially transparent electrode layer on the functional layer; where the materials of the stack are chosen such that the interface between the separation layers corresponds to that, among all the interfaces of the stack, having the lowest adherence force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Gwenael Le Rhun
  • Patent number: 11865581
    Abstract: An ultrasonic MEMS acoustic transducer formed in a body of semiconductor material having first and second surfaces opposite to one another. A first cavity extends in the body and delimits at the bottom a sensitive portion, which extends between the first cavity and the first surface of the body. The sensitive portion houses a second cavity and forms a membrane that extends between the second cavity and the first surface of the body. An elastic supporting structure extends between the sensitive portion and the body and is suspended over the first cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gabriele Gattere, Carlo Valzasina, Federico Vercesi, Giorgio Allegato
  • Patent number: 11865582
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination screening apparatus for screening a mixed material into three graded streams, comprising a disc screen wholly, substantially or partly located within a rotary drum screen. The present invention may be conveniently arranged on a mobile chassis with a simple arrangement of a feed hopper to feed a feed end, and a layered or stacked configuration for the discharge of the so-formed graded streams at a discharge end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Portafill International Limited
    Inventor: Malachy James Rafferty
  • Patent number: 11865583
    Abstract: Systems and methods to effectively sort calcined lime (quicklime) particles to produce products with more consistent size and burn time characteristics after the quicklime particles have been created and without the use of specialized additives. Specifically, such systems and methods sort the quicklime particles below a selected size into a softer burned and harder burned fraction based on their size. The fractions are burned in the kiln together and as a singular product, but can be classified from each other after calcining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Mark DeGenova, Randy J. Griffard, David Venhaus
  • Patent number: 11865584
    Abstract: A drum-type foreign substance suctional attaching and screening device includes: a screening drum having circular type first and second side plates located on both sides thereof and a sorting screen adapted to surround the space between the first and second side plates; a hood disposed inside the screening drum and open toward a conveyor belt transferring aggregates to be recycled to thus provide a sucking force generated from a suction fan to the conveyor belt; and a rotary shaft coupled to the center of the first side plate and rotating with power received from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DAEJINECOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Young Park
  • Patent number: 11865585
    Abstract: A sorting apparatus, comprising: transportation vehicles for moving, on the basis of a control instruction, along a direction of a transportation row to a target position indicated by the control instruction, such that an object to be sorted is transferred from the current transportation vehicle on which the object is currently placed to a next-row transportation vehicle, wherein the transportation row where the next-row transportation vehicle is located is adjacent to the transportation row where the current transportation vehicle is located in a direction away from a feed inlet. The sorting apparatus occupies a small space, has low requirements on sites, and can be widely applied. Also comprised are a sorting method for a control module of the sorting apparatus, and ac electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium for implementing the sorting method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiaochong Chen
  • Patent number: 11865586
    Abstract: Pieces of luggage are sorted which each carries an identification element with a set of information in the form of plaintext. In order to sort pieces of luggage efficiently, at least a portion of the set of information on the identification element is detected automatically and recognized automatically. During an examination, it is automatically verified whether the recognized portion of the set of information matches at least one set of data stored in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Logistics GmbH
    Inventors: Gisbert Berger, Svetlozar Delianski, Ulrich Dengler, Joerg Rottland
  • Patent number: 11865587
    Abstract: Discussed is a battery cell sorting apparatus including a battery cell pickup member configured to move a battery cell to a desired position; and a guide member configured to guide the battery cell pickup member in a first direction, wherein the battery cell pickup member includes: a pickup body portion, a magnet located at a lower surface of the pickup body portion, the magnet being configured to lift the battery cell, and a voltage measurement unit located at a lower surface of the magnet, the voltage measurement unit being configured to measure a voltage of the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Woo Ku
  • Patent number: 11865588
    Abstract: A probe pin cleaning pad including a release layer or composite plate, an adhesive layer, a substrate layer, a cleaning layer, and a polishing layer is provided. The adhesive layer is disposed on the release layer or composite plate. The substrate layer is disposed on the adhesive layer. The cleaning layer is disposed on the substrate layer. The polishing layer is disposed on the cleaning layer. A cleaning method for a probe pin is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance Material Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Fa Chen, Chi-Hua Huang, Yu-Hsuen Lee, Ching-Wen Hsu, Chao-Hsuan Yang, Ting-Wei Lin, Chin-Kai Lin, Chen-Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 11865589
    Abstract: A system for and method of removing residues, deposits, and debris from a substrate that has been marked by a chemical etching process is disclosed. The system includes one or more upper sprayers that deposit a cleaning solution to a top surface of the product as it passes beneath the one or more upper sprayers. The system further includes at least one upper brush that operates to scrub the top surface of the product after the cleaning solution has been applied thereto. The system optionally includes one or more lower sprayers and lower brushes to clean a bottom surface of the product as it is conveyed through the system. The system further includes an air knife system that assists with drying the product prior to exiting the system. The system further includes a controller that is operable to adjust various system parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Nameplate Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronnie Dwaine Phelps, Preston Cray Smith, Joseph Wayne Deskin, Jon Loshinsky, Allan Stanfield
  • Patent number: 11865590
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning method includes: arranging a substrate within a processing container; spraying gas from a spray port of a gas nozzle arranged within the processing container; causing vertical shock waves, generated by spraying the gas from the gas nozzle, to collide with a main surface of the substrate; and removing particles adhering to the main surface of the substrate, by causing the vertical shock waves to collide with the main surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kyoko Ikeda, Kazuya Dobashi, Tsunenaga Nakashima, Kenji Sekiguchi, Shuuichi Nishikido, Masato Nakajo, Takahiro Yasutake
  • Patent number: 11865591
    Abstract: A method of cleaning a stage in a plasma processing apparatus including the stage on which a substrate is placed, a lifting mechanism configured to raise and lower the substrate with respect to the stage, and a high-frequency power supply connected to the stage, includes: separating the stage and the substrate from each other using the lifting mechanism; and after the separating the stage and the substrate from each other, removing a deposit deposited on the stage with plasma generated by supplying a high-frequency power from the high-frequency power supply to the stage. In the separating the stage and the substrate from each other, a separation distance between the stage and the substrate is set such that a combined impedance formed around an outer peripheral portion of the stage is lower than a combined impedance formed immediately above a central portion of the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Takamitsu Takayama, Junichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11865592
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a protection cover, a vibrator, a piezoelectric driver, and a signal processing circuit. When the signal processing circuit determines that foreign matter is adhered to a surface of the protection cover, it controls the piezoelectric driver such that vibration of the protection cover has a vibration acceleration of about 1.5×105 m/s2. When the signal processing circuit determines that the foreign matter is adhered to the surface of the protection cover when control of the driver such that vibration of the protection cover has a prescribed vibration acceleration, the protection cover is warmed with a warmer. After the protection cover is warmed, the signal processing circuit controls the piezoelectric driver such that vibration of the protection cover has a resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 11865593
    Abstract: This invention discloses a mechanical boost type cup spray-washing unit integrated with temperature-adjustment and press-control. This unit may regulate the mixing proportion of the cold water and hot water. It in combination with the boosting spray-wash effectively dissolves and washes the residues and juice on the inner wall of cup. This unit is clever in structure, integrates the temperature-adjustment and flush-washing, is directly hidden in the intermediate of the desk installation holes, never occupies surplus space of the kitchen desk, and may be installed in the standard small-hole of the kitchen water-trough desk without extra-opening, or may be directly fixed above the bottom of the water-trough after removal of the drain-panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Boyuan Ding
  • Patent number: 11865594
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling extraction of landfill gas from a landfill via a gas extraction system comprising a plurality of wells are provided herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises obtaining a concentration of a greenhouse gas measured a distance above a surface of a region comprising the plurality of wells; determining whether the measure of the concentration of the greenhouse gas is greater than a first threshold; and in response to determining that the measure of the concentration of the greenhouse gas is greater than the first threshold, increasing a flow rate of landfill gas being extracted from at least one well of the plurality of wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Loci Controls, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Quigley, Ian Martin, Nicole Neff, Jack Rowbottom
  • Patent number: 11865595
    Abstract: A device for wholly treating urban and rural mixed household refuse at low temperature on site is provided. The device includes a vibration sieving and crushing system, a magnetic separator, conveyor belts, a magnetic pulse mineralization reactor and a tail gas purifying device. By using the device, urban and rural mixed household refuse is continuously fed; the mixed household refuse is sieved by the vibrating sieve according to viscosity, weight and size; nonferrous metal is sieved through a magnetic field; and organic substances are conveyed to the magnetic pulse mineralization mixed household refuse treatment device for terminal treatment. So, efficient reduction and harmlessness of the organic substances in the mixed household refuse are realized, and the pollution of organic wastes on the environment is effectively eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Nankai University, Chifeng Environmental Science Research Institute, Tianjin Shangyusheng Technology Dev., Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Weizun Li, Peng Ji, Tianliang Xia, Yuandong Xia, Ruifeng Zhang, Xunwei Wang, Mingyan Yu
  • Patent number: 11865596
    Abstract: A method for restoring a contaminated site comprising the steps of: undertaking an amendment of a contaminated site by applying a first catalyst and a second catalyst to the contaminated site; and incorporating the first catalyst and the second catalyst into a soil on the contaminated site to form an amended contaminated site, wherein the contaminated site has excessive acidity, alkalinity and/or sodic contamination, wherein amending the contaminated site with the first catalyst and the second catalyst assists in the restoration of the amended contaminated site by transferring a biological energy generation mechanism to the amended contaminated site which improves the capacity of the amended contaminated site to balance a hydrogen cycle and hydrogen exchange between biotic and abiotic sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: VRM International Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenneth Michael Bellamy
  • Patent number: 11865597
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions of matter directed to removing heavy metals, such as lead, from aqueous solutions by bioremediation. The methods use bacteria, which thrive in the presence of heavy metals to precipitate the heavy metals from the aqueous solution. In some embodiments, the bacteria comprise Bacillus licheniformis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seed Health Inc.
    Inventors: Sunil Kumar Channarayapatna Ramesh, Emmanuel Stephen Victor, Kishore Babu Naripogu, Geetha Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 11865598
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing flexible rolling of metal strips, in which a metal strip with pre-definable material thickness is guided through a mill stand by at least two operating steps, which includes several rolls, the metallic strip is during the rolling operation set to lead through a roll gap, where a curve bending line is steered to achieve a defined profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Outokumpu Oyj
    Inventors: Thorsten Piniek, Andreas Zeidler, Stefan Schuberth
  • Patent number: 11865599
    Abstract: A method for adjusting an inlet guide of a peeling machine controls a peeling material using the inlet guide in relation to a peeling head carrying peeling tools in such a way that the volume per unit length of the peeling material, which volume is to be machined by the peeling machine, is minimized while producing a bright steel having excellent surface quality. Furthermore, a peeling machine provides appropriate measuring equipment in order to be able to carry out the method described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Bartz, Joerg Lindbuechl
  • Patent number: 11865600
    Abstract: A hollow preform impact extruded from a metal billet to produce a progressing wall at a transition wall thickness. An axially forward portion of the progressing wall is ironed by extrusion past an extrusion point to form a sidewall portion of a lesser thickness. Extruding is stopped while some of the billet remains to form the closed bottom end. The preform has a bottom portion, a sidewall portion and a transition wall portion extending between the bottom portion and the sidewall portion. The transition wall portion is thicker than the sidewall portion and can be formed into at least part of the rim of an expansion shaped container. An impact extrusion punch has a central axis, an axially forward, impact surface for impacting metal to be extruded, a transition region for directing material displaced by the impact surface and a rear extrusion point for ironing material extruded past the transition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: MONTEBELLO TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LTD., 1949467 ONTARIO INC.
    Inventors: Betty Jean Pilon, Peter Stathopoulos, Georgi Georgiev, Benjamin Joseph Pilon
  • Patent number: 11865601
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drawing die (10) for working depressions(76) of a sheet-metal component (26), in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a load-bearing structure (12), at least one supporting portion (16), which is fastened or can be fastened on the load-bearing structure (12) and with which the drawing die (10) can be placed on the sheet-metal component (26), characterized by a drawing means (28) which can be connected to the sheet-metal component (26) and is mounted on the load-bearing structure (12), and a moving device (36), which is mounted on the load-bearing structure (12) and by means of which the drawing means (28) can be moved in relation to the sheet-metal component (26), wherein at least the load-bearing structure (12) is formed from a fiber-reinforced plastic (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Siegbert Müller
  • Patent number: 11865602
    Abstract: A paintless dent removal system, tool and method is disclosed. The handle assembly includes an ergonomic grip having a top, a bottom and an exterior profile. The handle assembly includes a detachable tool connector for detachably connecting a paintless dent removal tool to the handle assembly. The detachable tool connector detachably connected to the exterior profile of the ergonomic grip. The handle assembly further includes an adjustable paddle detachably connected to the bottom of the ergonomic grip. The adjustable paddle having a blade, a shaft and a tip. The blade configured to support a user's forearm during use and the tip detachably connected to the bottom of the ergonomic grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Chris White, Jonathan Vandenfontyne, Reggie Ayers, William J Bickel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11865603
    Abstract: A device for incrementally forming a plurality of workpieces includes a frame configured to receive a workpiece, at least one clamp configured to secure the workpiece to the frame, a first sacrificial material layer configured to be secured to at least one surface of the workpiece, and a first forming tool configured to impart a first force directly to the first sacrificial material layer and incrementally form the workpiece to a desired geometry based on a tool path of the first forming tool. The frame, the at least one clamp, the first sacrificial material layer, and the first forming tool are configured to impart a first force directly to the first sacrificial material layer secured to at least one surface of a first workpiece with the first forming tool and incrementally form the first workpiece to a desired geometry based on a tool path of the first forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies
    Inventors: Andrey M. Ilinich, S. George Luckey, Jr., Alan John Gillard, Vijitha Senaka Kiridena
  • Patent number: 11865604
    Abstract: An assembly module, an assembly apparatus, and a method of operating the assembly module are introduced. The assembly module includes a first assembly die, a second assembly die and at least one engagement die. The first assembly die has a plurality of first fitting portions. The second assembly die has a plurality of second fitting portions and corresponds in position to the first assembly die. The engagement die is removably disposed at a related point of at least one first fitting portion, at a related point of at least one second fitting portion or at related points of at least one first fitting portion and at least one second fitting portion. Therefore, the assembly module is effective in fitting a component and an assembly target together, easy to operate, and conducive to quick assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Ting-Jui Wang
  • Patent number: 11865605
    Abstract: Apparatus for handling bars including a support plane configured to support a plurality of bars having an oblong development, and handling devices configured to remove a bar from a removal zone of the support plane and to deliver it to a delivery zone. Movement devices are associated with the support plane which are configured to distribute the bars on the support plane and to move them toward the removal zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: M.E.P. MACCHINE ELETTRONICHE PIEGATRICI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Del Fabro
  • Patent number: 11865606
    Abstract: This manufacturing method for a link part is a method of manufacturing a link part having one end portion having a connecting hole and provided on one side in one direction from an intermediate part which is long in the one direction and has a first side wall and a second side wall each having a pilot hole at least at one end portion and disposed to face each other and a connecting wall connecting one side edge of the first side wall and one side edge of the second side wall, and the other end portion provided on the other side therefrom in the one direction. The method includes a reinforcing process of inserting a metal core into the pilot hole, and an O-bending process of O-bending the first side wall and the second side wall so that the other side edge of the first side wall and the other side edge of the second side wall are brought into contact with each other after the reinforcing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Sato, Masaaki Mizumura
  • Patent number: 11865607
    Abstract: Method to obtain a continuous casting apparatus to cast, through the casting cavity of a crystallizer of a mold, a cast product with a polygonal cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPA
    Inventors: Nikolas Salvador, Luca Entesano, Andrea De Luca
  • Patent number: 11865608
    Abstract: A manufacturing efficiency of the wire rod made of the cast alloy including the additive element having the high activity to the oxygen is improved. An apparatus of manufacturing a wire rod includes: a tundish storing a molten metal; a mold for use in continuously casting the molten metal fed from the tundish; and an additive-element feeding unit continuously feeding an additive element (wire) to a feeding port of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Fujito, Takayuki Tsuji, Shohei Hata
  • Patent number: 11865609
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a powder-modified magnesium alloy chip for thixomolding includes a drying step of heating a mixture containing an Mg chip containing Mg as a main component, a C powder containing C as a main component, a binder, and an organic solvent to dry the organic solvent contained in the mixture, and a stirring step of stirring the mixture heated in the drying step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ozaki, Tadao Fukuta, Yasutoshi Hideshima, Makoto Kato
  • Patent number: 11865610
    Abstract: A method for joining an aluminum material includes, in the following order, arranging a first wrought aluminum alloy material along a first jig in an internal space defined between the first jig and a second jig that is arranged to face the first jig and has a pouring port, pouring molten aluminum toward the first wrought aluminum alloy material through the pouring port under pressure to cause the molten aluminum to collide with a surface of the first wrought aluminum alloy material, thereby digging down the first wrought aluminum alloy material at a collision position between the molten aluminum and the first wrought aluminum alloy material, and flowing the molten aluminum together with a fraction of the first wrought aluminum alloy material removed by digging within the internal space along a surface of the first wrought aluminum alloy material around the collision position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihaya Imamura, Chieko Imai
  • Patent number: 11865611
    Abstract: A production method for a component having integrated channels for internal fluid guidance, having a first region, which is connected to a second region, and wherein the channels extend both through the first region and through the second region. The geometry of the component is modified to the technological characteristics of both production methods. The first region is produced by a method for casting using lost models without undercuts, and proceeding from the first region, the second region is built up using an additive manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sören Fenske, Thorsten Mattheis, Martin Schäfer
  • Patent number: 11865612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal powders which are suitable to be employed in 3D printing processes as well as a process for the production of said powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: TANIOBIS GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Weinmann, Holger Brumm, Christoph Schnitter, Melanie Stenzel
  • Patent number: 11865613
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for Structured Light Part Quality Monitoring for Additive Manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Additive Monitoring Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Niall O'Dowd, Christopher John Sutcliffe
  • Patent number: 11865614
    Abstract: According to the present invention a method is provided for feeding a gas flow to an additive manufacturing space during a manufacturing process wherein the gas flow is established by a pump connected to the manufacturing space wherein the pump is controlled by a set differential pressure, and wherein the gas flow consists of Helium or the gas flow consists of a gas mixture comprising 30 Vol.-% Argon and 70 Vol.-% Helium or the gas flow consists of a gas mixture comprising 50 Vol.-% Argon and 50 Vol.-% Helium or the gas flow consists of a gas mixture comprising 70 Vol.-% Argon and 30 Vol.-% Helium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LINDE GMBH
    Inventors: Camille Pauzon, Tanja Arunprasad, Andres Torres
  • Patent number: 11865615
    Abstract: Techniques for depowdering additively fabricated parts are described. The techniques utilize various mechanisms to separate powder from parts. For instance, techniques for depowdering described herein may include fabrication of auxiliary structures in addition to fabrication of parts. Certain auxiliary structures may aid with depowdering operations, and may be fabricated along with parts during an additive fabrication process. The auxiliary structures may be shaped and/or have positional and/or geometrical relationships to the parts during fabrication. For instance, an auxiliary structure may include a cage structure fabricated around one or more parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.
    Inventors: Jamison Go, Emanuel M. Sachs, Michael Goldblatt, Jeffrey von Loesecke
  • Patent number: 11865616
    Abstract: In one example, a decaking system for 3D printing includes a platform to support multiple green parts in unbound powder surrounding the green parts, a decaking tool to remove unbound powder from around the green parts, a camera to photograph green parts on the platform as unbound powder is removed from around the green parts, and a controller operatively connected to the camera. The controller is programmed to detect a pattern of light intensity in the photographs and, in response to a determination a detected pattern matches a reference pattern, modulate or stop the decaking tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jorge Diosdado Borrego, Michel Georges Encrenaz, Sergio Puigardeu Aramendia, Rocio Munoz Moreno
  • Patent number: 11865617
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for identifying an additive manufacturing process for unused output material of an atomization process are described. The method comprises determining a set of characteristics of output material that is unused in a first additive manufacturing process. The method further comprises determining a respective set of parameters associated with respective input material of each of a set of other additive manufacturing processes. The method of further comprises identifying one of the set of other additive manufacturing processes that accepts the output material as input material based on the characteristics of the output material and based on respective sets of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Kenworthy, Prabir Chaudhury, Michael Hoganson
  • Patent number: 11865618
    Abstract: An example sinter system includes a sinter gas inlet at a sinter furnace for a sinter gas, a tracer gas inlet at the sinter furnace for a tracer gas different from the sinter gas, and an outlet at the sinter furnace to output the sinter gas and the tracer gas. The example sinter system further includes: a support structure to support a sample green object in the sinter furnace, an opening at the support structure connected to the tracer gas inlet, the opening to output the tracer gas into the sinter furnace, and a detector to: determine an amount of the tracer gas flowing through the outlet during a sinter process as a sample green object positioned on the support structure changes shape during the sinter process with respect to the opening and modifies a flow rate of the tracer gas to the outlet; and determine when to stop the sinter process based on a determined amount of the tracer gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David A. Champion, John Gary Liebeskind
  • Patent number: 11865619
    Abstract: A structure is provided. The structure defines a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction, the three directions orthogonal to each other. The structure includes a first section, a second section, and a third section. The first section includes a plurality of unit cells joined together, wherein the first section has a first average tensile strength and a first average crack growth resistance. The second substantially solid section is within and surrounding each unit cell of the plurality of first section unit cells, wherein the second section has a second average tensile strength and a second average crack growth resistance, the second average tensile strength different from the first average tensile strength and the second average crack growth resistance different from the first average crack growth resistance. The third section surrounds the first section and the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Evan John Dozier, Rajendra Madhukar Kelkar