Patents Issued in April 30, 2024
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Patent number: 11969894Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus for automated communication between a robot and an artificial intelligence service. The method for automated communication between a robot and an artificial intelligence service is performed by an apparatus for automated communication between the robot and the artificial intelligence service, and includes generating bridge code and a container definition file based on a mapping rule defined between the robot and the artificial intelligence service, running a bridge container having an independent format based on the container definition file, executing the bridge code through the bridge container, and providing an automated communication environment by exchanging a message between the robot and the artificial intelligence service based on the bridge code.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Byoung-Youl Song, Choul-Soo Jang
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Patent number: 11969895Abstract: The present application discloses a highly integrated high-performance robot joint unit, belonging to the technical field of robot apparatuses. When a reducer of an existing robot joint is in overload working state, it causes joint parts such as a reducer gear to be damaged, and a meshing tooth surface of each tooth of the reducer is unevenly worn.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HANGZHOU YUSHU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xingxing Wang, Zhiyu Yang
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Patent number: 11969896Abstract: Robot scheduling, robot path control and robot fire control methods and devices, a server and a storage medium are provided. The robot scheduling method includes: receiving a scheduling instruction; determining a working state and a current position of a robot in a working area in response to the scheduling instruction; wherein the working state comprises an idle state and a non-idle state; and when the working state of the robot is idle and the current position is outside a preset target range, scheduling the robot from the current position into the target range.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kai Liu, Jun Liu
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Patent number: 11969897Abstract: A method for controlling a serving robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring first sensor data on at least one object placed on a support coupled to a serving robot, using at least one first sensor coupled to the serving robot; deciding whether the at least one object is a serving object on the basis of the first sensor data, and when the at least one object is decided to be a serving object, determining properties of illumination of the serving robot to be applied to the serving object on the basis of the first sensor data; and dynamically changing the properties of the illumination of the serving robot on the basis of information on surroundings acquired during travel of the serving robot.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Bear Robotics, Inc.Inventor: John Jungwoo Ha
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Patent number: 11969898Abstract: A predictive system and process that predicts safety system activation in industrial environments when collaborative robots (COBOTs), automated guidance vehicles (AGVs), and other robots (individual or collectively “robots”) are interacting (i) between one another or (ii) between a robot and human. As provided herein, the predictive system is not meant to substitute traditional safety systems, but rather to detect and classify robot-to-robot and robot-to-human interactions and potential interactions thereof so as to limit or avoid those interactions altogether, thereby increasing safety and efficiency of the robots.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DATALOGIC IP TECH S.R.L.Inventors: Francesco D'Ercoli, Marco Cumoli, Claudio Saporetti
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Patent number: 11969899Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for generating a novel impedance configuration for a three-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) leg of a hydraulically-driven legged robot. The method includes: separately determining variations of input signals of an inner position-based control loop and an inner force-based control loop of a hydraulic drive unit of each joint based on an obtained mathematical model; generating a novel impedance configuration in which position-based control is performed on a hydraulic drive unit of a hip joint, and force-based control is performed on hydraulic drive units of a knee joint and an ankle joint in a hydraulic drive system of the leg of a to-be-controlled robot; and performing forward calculation by using the leg mathematical model, to obtain an actual position and a force variation of the foot of the leg of the to-be-controlled robot to control motion of the foot of the to-be-controlled robot within motion space.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Yanshan UniversityInventors: Kaixian Ba, Yanhe Song, Huashun Li, Bin Yu, Guoliang Ma, Yuan Wang, Xiangdong Kong
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Patent number: 11969900Abstract: A teaching apparatus includes a display unit having a simulation area in which a viewpoint for a virtual robot as a simulation model of a robot is changeably displayed and an operation area in which a plurality of operation signs for moving a control point of the virtual robot by changing a posture of the virtual robot are displayed, and a display control unit that controls actuation of the display unit, wherein the display control unit changes directions of the respective operation signs in the operation area to interlock with a change of the viewpoint for the virtual robot in the simulation area.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yuchi Kokubun
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Patent number: 11969901Abstract: A building monitoring system includes a first sensor configured to detect a first condition in the space, a second sensor configured to detect a second condition in the space, and a robotic sentinel. The robotic sentinel includes a memory for storing one or more rules each configured to identify an alert condition for the space based on the first and/or second conditions in the space, a communications module configured to communicate with a remote device over a network, and a controller operatively coupled to the sensors, the memory, and the communications module. The controller is configured to apply the one or more rules to the first and second detected conditions in the space to identify one or more alert conditions and determine what action is required by the robotic sentinel, and if action is required, command the robotic sentinel to travel to a location of the alert condition.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ADEMCO INC.Inventors: Christopher Heintzelman, Soumitri Kolavennu, Warren Young, Joseph Bodkin, John Cronin
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Patent number: 11969902Abstract: Included is a method for a first robotic device to collaborate with a second robotic device, including: actuating, with a processor of the first robotic device, the first robotic device to execute a first part of a cleaning task; transmitting, with the processor of the first robotic device, information to a processor of the second robotic device upon completion of the first part of the cleaning task; receiving, with the processor of the second robotic device, the information transmitted from the processor of the first robotic device; and actuating, with the processor of the second robotic device, the second robotic device to execute a second part of the cleaning task upon receiving the signal; wherein the first robotic device and the second robotic device are surface cleaning robotic devices with a functionality comprising at least one of vacuuming and mopping.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AI IncorporatedInventor: Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi
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Patent number: 11969903Abstract: Provided is a control method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first target image collected by a first collection device and a second target image collected by a second collection device, in a case of it is determined that characteristic information of a mechanical gripper satisfies a first preset requirement; detecting a first center position of the mechanical gripper in the first target image and a second center position of a target spindle with yarn in the second target image; and generating a calibration instruction, in a case of it is determined that a target position relationship between the first center position and the second center position does not satisfy a second preset requirement, where the calibration instruction is used to calibrate a center position of the mechanical gripper or to calibrate a center position of the target spindle with yarn.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: Zhejiang Hengyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Shuangtu New Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiantao Peng, Peng Wang, Dake Li, Feng Xu, Zheng Teng, Jianjun Sheng
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Patent number: 11969904Abstract: A registration system for robot-oriented augmented reality teaching system, comprising: a physical robot unit, a registration unit, a virtual robot generation unit and a computer; the physical robot unit comprising a physical robot, a physical robot controller and a robot point-to-point intermittent movement control program; the physical robot provided thereon with a physical robot base coordinate system; the physical robot controller connected with the physical robot and the computer respectively; the robot point-to-point intermittent movement control program installed in the computer; the registration unit comprising a registration marker, a camera and a conversion calculation unit; the registration marker arranged on the physical robot body; the camera fixed in a physical environment except the physical robot; the camera connected with the computer, and the conversion calculation unit arranged in the computer; the virtual robot generation unit arranged in the computer and used for generating a virtual roboType: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Cheng Jun Chen, Xu Tong Ding, Yong Pan, Dong Nian Li, Jun Hong
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Patent number: 11969905Abstract: A control method for a robot performing a task on a workpiece conveyed by a belt conveyor having a moving belt is provided. The control method includes: causing a first image pickup device to detect an inclination between a first direction serving as a reference for traveling of the belt and a direction in which the belt is traveling, and a first distance that is a distance between the belt and a first reference position in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction at the first reference position; calculating a position of the workpiece as of when the workpiece is moved by the belt conveyor from a first position to a second position away from the first position by a second distance in the first direction, based on the inclination and the first distance detected by the first image pickup unit; and causing the robot to perform a task on the workpiece at the second position that is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Masato Yokota
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Patent number: 11969906Abstract: A collaborative robot system having high safety when executing tasks in collaboration with operators and which can be finely adjusted at a site is achieved. A collaborative robot system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is assembled by an operator for executing a task in collaboration with the operator. The collaborative robot system includes a driving unit, an operation unit configured to operate by a driving force of the driving unit to execute the task, a control unit configured to control the driving unit, a program executed by the control unit, a safety securing unit including a cover covering the operation unit or a sensor configured to detect contact of the operator with the operation unit, and an interface, an input apparatus of the operator being connected to the interface in order to modify the program.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Satoru Ohno
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Patent number: 11969907Abstract: A handle for razor is made of polylactic acid (PLA) and another bioplastic polymer such as polybutylene adipate terephtalate (PBAT), bio-polyethylene (bio-PE), and polybutylene succinate (PBS), combined with mineral fillers selected from the group of calcium carbonate and shells of shellfish, such as oyster shells or scallop shells.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: BIC VIOLEX SINGLE MEMBER S.A., SOCIETE BICInventors: Nikolaos Chatzigrigoriou, Julien Gouerec
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Patent number: 11969908Abstract: A razor blade is provided comprising a substrate comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may comprise first and second generally parallel outer surfaces. The second portion may comprise first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section may comprise a first facet extending directly from the first outer surface of the first portion and an end facet extending directly from the first facet. The second section may comprise an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. The split line may pass through the tip and is generally parallel with and extends between the first and second outer surfaces of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
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Patent number: 11969909Abstract: A utility blade includes a first blade retention feature positioned on a proximal edge of a tang of the utility blade. The proximal edge is angularly offset from a longitudinal axis of the utility blade. The first blade retention feature is associated with an engagement axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the utility blade. The utility blade is configured to translate along the engagement axis to cause the first blade retention feature to engage with a first blade engagement component of a blade holder. The utility blade further includes a second blade retention feature positioned on a second edge of the tang of the utility blade. The second blade retention feature is positioned along the longitudinal axis of the utility blade and between the first blade retention feature and a distal tip of a cutting portion of the utility blade.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DAREX, LLCInventor: Daniel T Dovel
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Patent number: 11969910Abstract: A large format table-top cutting apparatus includes a cutter bar assembly configured to in use support and guide a cutting head to cut material located below the cutter bar assembly; a lifting mechanism configured to raise and lower the cutter bar assembly between an upper position and a lower position The cutter bar assembly includes an elongate upper and lower supports connected by a link assembly so that these are arranged substantially parallel to one another and can move relative to one another along their longitudinal axes, and a raising assembly configured for adjustment by a user to exert a variable force on the lower part of the upper support at one end so as to place the upper support in tension and raise the free-hanging central portion of the upper support.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KEENCUT LIMITEDInventor: Andrew Maurice Roberts
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Patent number: 11969911Abstract: A tool device for a hand-held power tool, which can be operated such that the tool device is rotated about an output shaft of a tool-holding device, has at least one connecting device, which is detachably connected to an output shaft of the power tool. The connecting device is fastened to the tool-holding device so that a drive axis of the output shaft and a tool axis of rotation substantially coincide. The connecting device has a cut-out and at least one clamping wing, which at least partly bounds the cut-out in the radial direction of the tool axis of rotation and which is bounded substantially in the direction radial to the tool axis of rotation by a first bounding edge, which lies on a first bounding circle around the tool axis of rotation. The clamping wing extends at least substantially along a plane orthogonal to the tool axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Willi Fellmann, Bruno Luescher, Andreas Zurbruegg, Aldo Di Nicolantonio, Bruno Sinzig, Laurent Quebatte, Marcus Schuller
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Patent number: 11969912Abstract: A modular press suitable for use in the manufacture of EWC products may include a plurality of frame modules coupled together and aligned along a feed path axis. Each frame module may have a generally planar body supported on a corresponding pair of bases, an elongate aperture, an upper and a lower platform within the aperture, and a platen between the platforms. Optionally, the ends of the aperture may be curved. A first actuator system may be operable to move the platen from a raised position to an intermediate position, and a second actuator system may be operable to press the platen downwardly from the intermediate position onto a workpiece within the aperture. Some modular presses include conveyor rolls and a third actuator system to raise and lower the conveyor rolls. In some embodiments, the actuator systems may be pneumatic actuator systems. Corresponding methods and systems are also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: USNR, LLCInventors: Samuel Taylor Pope, Laura Hart Meeker, Conrad Bullion, Kevin K. O'Connell
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Patent number: 11969913Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing at least one monolithic inorganic porous support (1) having a porosity comprised between 10% and 60% and an average pore diameter ranging from 0.5 ?m to 50 ?m, using a 3D printer type machine (I) to build, in accordance with a 3D digital model, a manipulable three-dimensional green structure (2) intended to form, after sintering, the monolithic inorganic porous support(s) (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TECHNOLOGIES AVANCEES ET MEMBRANES INDUSTRIELLESInventors: Philippe Lescoche, Jérôme Anquetil
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Patent number: 11969914Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a scraper component of a three-dimensional printing device, which includes a scraper, a fixing frame, a pulley and a sliding rail, the scraper is installed on the fixing frame, and the pulley is set on at least one end of the fixing frame; the sliding rail has a horizontal first rail and a tilted and movable second rail, and a first end of the second rail is connected to the first rail and a second end is located on the first rail; when the pulley slides from a middle to an end of the first rail, the pulley enters the second rail from the first end and leaves the second rail from the second end then comes back to the first rail; when the pulley slides from an end to a middle of the first rail, the pulley passes through the second rail from below.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PRISMLAB CHINA LTD.Inventor: Feng Hou
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Patent number: 11969915Abstract: The present application disclosures a double production line and a rapid prefabrication process of a segmental beam. The double production line including two production machine and a track system provided on the construction ground; the production machine includes a fixed end mold, two side molds, a bottom mold trolley, a middle internal mold trolley and two side internal mold trolley; two side molds are positioned on two sides of the fixed end mold respectively, the fixed end mold and two side molds together define a pouring position with an end opening, two openings of the pouring position are arranged facing each other; the track system includes a transverse track and a longitudinal track communicated with each other, two pouring positions are both positioned in the extension path of the transverse track, and the longitudinal track is positioned between two pouring positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: CHINA RAILWAY GUANGZHOU ENGINEERING GROUP CO., LTD., China Railway Guangzhou Engineering Group Real Estate Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiao Zhou, Xiaofeng Deng, Yongguang Chen, Zhouyu Xie, Gaofei Wei, Jiawei Yang, Ping Zhang, Beibei Cheng, Wenqiang Zheng, Ying Wang, Yuan Xu
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Patent number: 11969916Abstract: A wafer forming method includes a modified layer forming step of applying a laser beam of such a wavelength as to be transmitted through an ingot to the ingot with a focal point of the laser beam positioned inside from a side surface at a position corresponding to the thickness of a wafer to be formed, to form a modified layer over the whole circumference of the side surface, a peeling-off layer forming step of exerting an external force from an upper surface of the ingot and concentrating a stress on a crack extending from the modified layer to the inside, to cause the crack to develop from the side surface side toward the inside and form a peeling-off layer, and a wafer forming step of peeling off a wafer to be formed, from the ingot, with the peeling-off layer as a start point, to form the wafer.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Keiji Nomaru
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Patent number: 11969917Abstract: A silicon carbide wafer manufacturing method includes: a bending measuring step of measuring a first edge having the greatest degree of a bending at one surface of a silicon carbide ingot having one surface; a cutting start step of starting a cutting at a second edge having a distance of r×a along an edge of the one surface from the first edge in a direction parallel to or with a predetermined off angle with respect to the one surface through the wire saw, a cutting speed being decreased to a first cutting speed in the cutting start step; a cutting proceeding step in which the first cutting speed is substantially constant within a variation of about ±5% of the first cutting speed; and a finish step in which the cutting speed is increased from the first cutting speed and the cutting of the silicon carbide ingot is completed.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SENIC Inc.Inventors: Jung-Gyu Kim, Kap-Ryeol Ku, Jung Doo Seo, Jung Woo Choi, Jong Hwi Park
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Patent number: 11969918Abstract: Sacrificial additively manufactured molds having a dissolvable material for use in thermoplastic injection molding processes at plastic melt temperatures in the range of 70-450 degrees C. and injection pressure in the range of 0.2-400 MPa. A method of producing a molded article using said sacrificial additively manufactured molds is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NEXA3D APSInventors: Jon Jessen, Lasse Guldborg Staal, Tanya H. Olsen, Thore Langholz
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Patent number: 11969919Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a sensor. The sensor has a casing having an opening portion, a clamp having a recessed part on its outer periphery and having one end inserted into the opening portion, and a sealing ring attached to the recessed part and disposed between the casing and the clamp. The method includes using a first divided mold to form a first component of the clamp, the first component including a main body portion and a first part located at one end side of the main body portion and forming a part of the recessed part. The first divided mold is divided so that a dividing surface intersects the main body portion and separates in an axial direction of the main body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yusuke Nakayama, Daisuke Inoue, Yuki Ushiro, Takaaki Sanda, Hiroto Katsura
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Patent number: 11969920Abstract: A method of moulding (10; 20) and apparatus (108; 208; 308) therefor, in which a workpiece (100) is preheated and/or post-cooled before and/or after a moulding process, allowing optimal use of the tool for high precision moulding operations.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SURFACE GENERATION LIMITEDInventor: Ben Halford
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Patent number: 11969921Abstract: Described is a system for controlling the sizing of a rising foam emulsion web travelling on a conveyor. The system includes a plate arrangement and an actuating arrangement. The plate arrangement includes at least a first and a second plate, each having a web-facing lower side and an opposite upper side. The second plate is configured to be located downstream of the first plate with respect to the direction of travel of the foam emulsion web. The actuating arrangement includes a base portion and a top portion. The top portion is movable relative to the base portion and operatively connected to the plate arrangement. The actuating arrangement is configured to individually adjust for each plate a separating distance relative to the base portion, for controlling the rising of the foam emulsion web along at least a part of its travel.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Mölnlycke Health Care ABInventors: Fred Libby, Tyler Kennedy
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Patent number: 11969922Abstract: Provided is a resin molding apparatus that can reduce a variation in a thickness of a resin to be molded. A resin molding apparatus includes: a molding mold having one mold and the other mold; one mold wedge mechanism; and one mold cavity block driving mechanism. In a state that one mold cavity block is moved to a preset height position using the one mold cavity block driving mechanism and a position in a direction away from the other mold in the one mold cavity block having been moved to the height position is fixed to be limited using the one mold wedge mechanism, a resin is injected into one mold cavity, and thereafter resin molding can be performed by changing a depth of the one mold cavity using the one mold wedge mechanism and the one mold cavity block driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOWA CorporationInventors: Yoshito Okunishi, Fuyuhiko Ogawa
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Patent number: 11969923Abstract: There are provided a method and a device for manufacturing an iron core product, including: holding first and second inserts by first and second holding portions provided in a holding unit; and then displacing at least one of the first holding portion and the second holding portion such that a posture of the first insert corresponds to an opening of a first receiving portion provided in a first main surface of a first receiver and a posture of the second insert corresponds to an opening of a second receiving portion provided in the first main surface; thereafter inserting the first insert from the first holding portion into the first receiving portion and inserting the second insert from the second holding portion into the second receiving portion in a state where the holding unit is arranged to face the first main surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.Inventor: Kenyu Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11969924Abstract: The present invention relates to a waterproof component that is an insert molded body formed from a thermoplastic resin composition and a metal component, wherein the thermoplastic resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin (A) and an inorganic fibrous reinforcement (B); the content of the inorganic fibrous reinforcement (B) is 8 to 130 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin (A); and the inorganic fibrous reinforcement (B) has an average fiber diameter of 10 ?m or less and an average fiber length of 300 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoto Sugai, Yuki Ito, Takaharu Shigematsu
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Patent number: 11969925Abstract: Improved injection molding methods and molds, for forming TPU layers, especially thin TPU covers, into golf ball constructions, and having improved number, shape and placement of both the injection gates and the cold slugs within the mold in order to minimize/eliminate damage to dimples strategically positioned close to the parting line of a mold in order to maximize aerodynamic properties of the resulting golf ball.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Ajay Vora, John M. Thornton
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Patent number: 11969926Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a self-sufficient sequential locking device and an injection molding tool. The self-sufficient sequential locking device comprises an elongate body having two ends which are provided with first and second inner engagement elements respectively; first and second outer engagement elements selectably engageable with the first and second inner engagement elements respectively for alternatively establishing a first or a second connection by rotation of the elongate body between a first position in which the first connection is secured and the second connection is simultaneously releasable, and a second position in which the second connection is secured and the first connection is simultaneously releasable, and first and second locking element respectively cooperable with the first and second inner engagement element for securing the first connection when the elongate body is in the first position or the second connection when the elongate body is in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: FOREFRONT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PTE LTDInventor: Pierre Todesco
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Patent number: 11969927Abstract: An injection arrangement for a moulding machine includes a moulding compound reservoir and an injection unit. The moulding compound reservoir is configured to provide a plasticized mass and to push out the plasticized mass through a discharge opening, and a connecting device is coupled to the discharge opening of the moulding compound reservoir and a feed opening of the injection unit, and is configured to direct the plasticized mass from the moulding compound reservoir to the injection unit. The connecting device includes an articulated element, and a relative movement between the moulding compound reservoir and the injection unit can be performed with the articulated element.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ENGEL AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Christoph Balka, Friedrich Pernkopf
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Patent number: 11969928Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a plastic film (i.e. preferably a thermoplastic film), particularly a (thermo)plastic food packing film, especially a detectable (thermo)plastic film, which plastic film comprises detectable particles incorporated therein, as well as to the plastic film thus produced and to its applications and usages (i.e. its use).Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: VISKASE COMPANIES, INC.Inventors: Myron D. Nicholson, Francois Bargeot
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Patent number: 11969929Abstract: Described herein is a multilayer microporous film or membrane that may exhibit improved properties, including improved dielectric break down and strength, compared to prior monolayer or tri-layer microporous membranes of the same thickness. The preferred multilayer microporous membrane comprises microlayers and one or more lamination interfaces or barriers. Also disclosed is a battery separator or battery comprising one or more of the multilayer microporous films or membranes. The inventive battery and battery separator is preferably safer and more robust than batteries and battery separators using prior monolayer and tri-layer microporous membranes. Also, described herein is a method for making the multilayer microporous separators, membranes or films described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Celgard, LLCInventors: Kang Karen Xiao, Stefan Reinartz, Takahiko Kondo, Hisaki Ikebata, Eric J. Penegar, Robert Nark, Changqing Wang Adams, Masaaki Okada, Brian R. Stepp, Eric Robert White, Allen M. Donn, Katharine Chemelewski
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Patent number: 11969930Abstract: An extrusion process for creating a roof ditch molding including forming a main body from a plastic material in a first stage extrusion, conveying the main body through a stacked array of die plates and into a first stage cooling tank, and communicating the main body from an outlet of the first stage cooling tank to a second stage extruder with crosshead die for applying a skim film bonding layer to the main body. Additional steps include applying a decorative layer over the skim bonding layer, communicating the main body to a third stage extruder with cross head die for applying wing portions in partially overlapping fashion along opposite side edges of the decorative layer and drawing the completed ditch molding through a second stage cooling tank prior to conducting one or more finishing operations.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Bank of America, N.A., As Administrative AgentInventors: Timothy John Brown, Kevin Charles Baxter, Gerald N. Strich
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Patent number: 11969931Abstract: One embodiment of a method according to the present disclosure may use an outer member having the required structural rigidity and/or structural integrity such that no thermoforming tool, no support base, no fixture, no cover, no caul plate, no bag, and/or no table are required to make the part as desired. Substrate lay-up may be placed around all or a portion the outer member. A cover may be positioned over the outer member and the pressure within an interior portion of the outer member and cover may be reduced to less than ambient pressure and resin may be introduced to interact with the substrate lay-up and allowed to cure.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Plastics Unlimited, inc.Inventors: Travis Kieffer, Terry Kieffer
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Patent number: 11969932Abstract: A puller apparatus has a path through which an extrusion travels downstream from an outlet of an extruder and upper and lower extrusion puller members that define a portion of the path. At least one of the extrusion puller members is a drive member to provide forward motion to an extrusion. A mounting arm is moveably mounted to the puller apparatus at a mounting location. The mounting arm has a first portion on one side of the mounting location and a second portion on an opposed side of the mounting location. The upper extrusion puller member is mounted to the first portion of the mounting arm. The mounting arm is movable from a lowered position in which the upper extrusion puller member is positioned to engage an extrusion in the path and a raised position in which the upper extrusion puller member is spaced upwardly from the lowered position.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
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Patent number: 11969933Abstract: A preformer (1) is designed to extrude jointly a plurality of elastomer mixes in a direction of flow (X1), in order to form a profiled element, the preformer comprising for this purpose, superimposed in a direction of stacking (Z1), transverse to the direction of flow (X1), a first channel (11), a second channel (12) which is separated from the first channel (11) by a first partition (15), then a third channel (13), separated from the second channel (12) by a second partition (16), the preformer also comprising a stiffener (20) formed integrally with the first partition (15) and the second partition (16), and extends through the second channel (12), having a leading edge (21) which splits the flow of elastomer material following the second channel (12).Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventor: Christophe Goarant
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Patent number: 11969934Abstract: An apparatus for producing an object by additive manufacturing layer by layer in a layer sequence. The apparatus includes a process chamber for receiving a bath of powdered material, a support for positioning the object in relation to a surface level of the bath of powdered material, a solidifying device for solidifying a selective layer-part of the powdered material, and a control unit for adjusting for individual layers in the layer sequence, a setting of at least one process parameter, during the manufacture of the object. A method, performed by the apparatus, including the step of adjusting, by the control unit, for individual layers in the layer sequence, the setting of at least one process parameter, during the manufacture of the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ADDITIVE INDUSTRIES B.V.Inventors: Mark Herman Else Vaes, Adrie Boverhof
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Patent number: 11969935Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a nozzle for a 3D printing system. The nozzle may include a flowpath with a material inlet and a material outlet. The nozzle may further include a valve in fluid communication with the flowpath between the material inlet and the material outlet, where the valve includes a closed state and an open state, where in the closed state the valve obstructs the flowpath between the material inlet and the material outlet, and where in the open state the material inlet is in fluid communication with the material outlet. The nozzle may further include a compensator in fluid communication with the flowpath, where the compensator includes a contracted state associated with the open state of the valve and an expanded state associated with the closed state of the valve.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Jennifer A. Lewis, Mark A. Skylar-Scott, Jochen Mueller
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Patent number: 11969936Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a first vertically-extending support leg, a second vertically-extending support leg, and a gantry supported on the first and second support legs. The additive manufacturing apparatus also includes a work table movably supported beneath the gantry, a print head supported on the gantry, and a trim head supported on the gantry with the print head.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Thermwood CorporationInventors: Kenneth J. Susnjara, Brian S. Smiddy, John Fuquay
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Patent number: 11969937Abstract: An apparatus for producing a three-dimensional object includes a support assembly having a build platform, a track extending through a build area, and a deposition mechanism mounted on the track and configured for producing the three-dimensional object in a layer-by-layer technique. The deposition mechanism includes a carriage movable along the track, a supply of a flowable material mounted on the carriage, a roller in communication with the flowable material, where the roller is rotatably mounted on the carriage and configured for rotating to carry the flowable resin to an application for application to produce the object, and an exposure device mounted on the carriage. The exposure device emits electromagnetic waves to an exposure site to solidify the applied flowable material to produce the object. The roller is permeable to the electromagnetic waves, such that the waves pass through the roller in traveling from the exposure device to the exposure site.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PAXIS LLCInventors: Frederick Knecht, Michael G. Littrell
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Patent number: 11969938Abstract: A three-dimensional object comprises stacked substrate layers infiltrated by a hardened material comprising engineered powder that is transformed into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions, and does not infiltrate negative regions, in the substrate layers. The powder may be emulsion aggregation powder, chemically-produced toner powder, or a combination. It may be a thermoplastic or thermosettable polymer and may include nylon, elastomers, polyolefins, polyethylene, polyether ether ketone, polyimide, polyetherimide, polyphenylene sulfide, polystyrene, polypropylene, polymethyl methacrylate, and polyaryletherketone, or a combination. The powder particles may have a pre-specified controlled shape and/or a non-homogenous composition. Surface treatments and/or additives may be used to control powder flow and charge distribution. Each substrate layer may be a sheet-like structure comprising fibers held together by binder.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Impossible Objects, Inc.Inventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, Buckley Crist, Michael Vasquez, John Bayldon
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Patent number: 11969940Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a nozzle body discharging a powder and a carrier gas from an opening, a powder supply supplying the powder and the carrier gas to the nozzle body, a flow rate adjuster provided in a supply path of the powder supply to cause a part of a flow of the carrier gas containing the powder to flow into a branch flow path branching from the supply path to adjust a flow rate of the carrier gas containing the powder to be supplied to the nozzle body, and the branch flow path connected to the flow rate adjuster. The branch flow path is connected to a flow path leading to the nozzle body and has a separator for separating the powder and the carrier gas. The carrier gas separated from the powder by the separator is supplied to the nozzle body through the branch flow path.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: DMG MORI CO., LTD.Inventor: Masakazu Soshi
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Patent number: 11969941Abstract: Provided is a binder jetting 3D printer capable of continuous printing, wherein a box assembly is supplied by a horizontal movement guide means, a 3D object is built with binder jetting within a build box, and the box assembly in which the 3D object is built is withdrawn, thereby printing 3D objects continuously. In particular, provided is a binder jetting 3D printer capable of continuous printing, wherein a box assembly including a powder supply box and a build box is simplified by integrating the boxes and a lifting and lowering process of a supply plate and of a build plate is facilitated, thereby reducing the time taken for a 3D printing process and thus improving productivity.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KLABS.INCInventors: Won Hyo Kim, Do Young Kim
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Patent number: 11969942Abstract: Component carrier for an additive manufacturing device, wherein the component carrier comprises a construction surface, on which a component to be manufactured is disposed during the operation of the manufacturing device, wherein the component carrier comprises a sealing surface which radially surrounds the construction surface, and method for post-processing a component manufactured according to an additive manufacturing process using such a component carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.Inventors: Christian Schmidt, Thomas Hasenzahl
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Hot bed deformation tolerance structure for large-sized continuous fiber high-temperature 3D printer
Patent number: 11969943Abstract: A hot bed deformation tolerance structure for a large-sized continuous fiber high-temperature 3D printer is provided. Size changes caused by thermal expansion of a hot bed are compensated through motion coordination of a secured hot bed support assembly and a motion device, especially for an aluminum alloy material. A Z-direction motion structure of this structure is fixedly mounted with a frame and works at room temperature. A compensation motion module is fixedly mounted with a Z axis and incompletely secured with the hot bed support assembly, and works at room temperature with the Z axis. The hot bed support assembly is incompletely secured and partially in a high-temperature chamber, with a maximum working temperature of 300° C. The hot bed support assembly retains motion redundancy in a direction of thermal expansion deformation, tolerates thermal deformation through a linear motion module, and compensates for metal deformation through horizontal motion coordination.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICSInventors: Yiwei Chen, Jinghua Zheng, Zhongde Shan, Wenzhe Song, Congze Fan, Hao Zhang -
Patent number: 11969944Abstract: The invention discloses a 3D printer based on liquid-solid chemical reaction deposition and operating methods thereof, comprising a sealed forming chamber, a powder container, a forming container, a powder spreading mechanism, and a three-axis linkage mechanism in the sealed forming chamber. The three-axis linkage mechanism moves a nozzle in the sealed forming chamber according to a movement path planning of a control system of the 3D printer. A liquid supply device is provided outside the sealed forming chamber. The liquid supply device contains a gel-like reactant. The nozzle is a liquid nozzle. The liquid nozzle communicates with the liquid supply device through a following conduit.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yongqiang Yang, Yuchao Bai