Patents Issued in May 14, 2024
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Patent number: 11982046Abstract: A ramp bridge assembly to arrange with various models of washer and dryers, or other possible appliances. The assembly provides ease of transfer of washed clothes from washer to dryer. The assembly also helps prevent washed clothes from falling on the ground, and provides easy and quick transfer of washed clothes from the washer to dryer to avoid back pain for the user. The assembly is also portable.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Vishnu Vardhan Chakravaram
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Patent number: 11982047Abstract: The invention provides a silver-plated conductive nylon fiber and a preparation method thereof. The method includes: immersing a nylon fiber in an aqueous solution containing a polyphenolic compound at 60° C. to 70° C., adding a water-soluble oxidant into the solution, continuously reacting at 70° C. to 80° C., and obtaining a polyphenol grafted nylon fiber, where the polyphenolic compound contains a catechol group; immersing the polyphenol grafted nylon fiber into a solution containing silver ions at 15° C. to 25° C. for reaction, and raising the temperature to 70° C. to 80° C. for continuous reaction to obtain a surface-activated nylon fiber; and carrying out chemical silver plating treatment on the surface-activated nylon fiber to obtain the silver-plated conductive nylon fiber. The method does not require a heavy metal sensitizer and therefore is non-toxic and environment-friendly, and the fiber strength is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SOOCHOW UNIVERSITYInventors: Tieling Xing, Xin Ai, Ailing Xie, Shenzhou Lu, Guoqiang Chen
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Patent number: 11982048Abstract: A water repellent composition containing: (A) water repellent particles in which the number of surface alkyl groups on the water repellent particles is 600×1018-50,000×1018 per 1 g of water repellent particles; (B) a water-repellent resin which is a polymer having a long-chain C7-40 hydrocarbon group; and (C) a liquid medium. The water-repellent particles preferably have an average primary particle size of 1-100 nm. Also disclosed is a method for treating a fiber using the water repellent composition, a method for producing a treated textile product, a film formed from the water repellent composition, and a textile product treated with a treatment liquid containing the water-repellent composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Rena Inamasu, Yuko Shiotani, Shouta Shibutani, Masahiro Higashi, Tomohiro Yoshida, Norimasa Uesugi
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Patent number: 11982049Abstract: The present disclosure describes a polyester fabric for airbags formed from a polyester fiber, which can reduce costs, and the polyester fabric for airbags has high restraint performance for receiving the occupant during deployment and maintains the performance at high levels even after aging, while maintaining the mechanical characteristics as a fabric for airbags. A polyester fabric for airbags has a resin provided on at least one surface wherein the polyester fabric has an optimized crimp ratio and has a scrubbing test count of 400 or more after aging treatment at 70° C. at 95% RH for 408 hours.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: TOYOBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuhei Takeuchi, Masahiro Sakai
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Patent number: 11982050Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable using cold-drawn shape memory alloy wires, which facilitates concrete prestressing or other operations, and has excellent adhesion to concrete and manufacturability. The cable using cold-drawn shape memory alloy wires includes: a core wire configured by a cold-drawn shape memory alloy deformed by cold drawing to have an increased length; and a plurality of peripheral wires configured by cold-drawn shape memory alloy wires which are deformed by cold drawing to have an increased length and are couple to the core wire while being wound in a same direction along the circumference of the core wire.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Hongik University Industry-Academia Cooperation FoundationInventor: Eun Soo Choi
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Patent number: 11982051Abstract: A process to delignify biomass, said process comprising the steps of: providing a vessel; providing biomass comprising lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose fibers into said vessel; providing a aqueous acidic composition comprising a sulfuric acid component; providing a peroxide component; exposing said biomass to said sulfuric acid component and peroxide component, creating a reaction mass; allowing said sulfuric acid component and peroxide component to come into contact with said biomass for a period of time sufficient to a delignification reaction to occur and remove over 90 wt % of said lignin and hemicellulose from said biomass; and controlling the temperature of the delignification reaction to maintain it below 55° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SixRing Inc.Inventors: Markus Weissenberger, Emhemmed Youssef, Markus Pagels
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Patent number: 11982052Abstract: Method of delignification of plant material, said method comprising: providing said plant material comprising cellulose fibres and lignin; exposing said plant material requiring to a composition comprising: an acid; a modifying agent selected from the group consisting of: sulfamic acid; imidazole; N-alkylimidazole derivative; taurine; a taurine derivative; a taurine-related compound; alkylsulfonic acid; arylsulfonic acid; triethanolamine; and combinations thereof; a metal oxide; and a peroxide; adding an organic solvent to the resulting mixture; allowing a delignification reaction to occur for a period of time sufficient to remove at least 80% of the lignin present on said plant material.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SIXRING INC.Inventors: Clay Purdy, Markus Weissenberger, Markus Pagels, Kyle G Wynnyk, Matthew Dewit, Andrew M Corbett
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Patent number: 11982053Abstract: The problem of increased energy usage in refiners over the working life of a refining assembly is mitigated by the use of a refiner plate segment having a refiner side and a back side distally disposed from the refiner side, refiner bars engaged to a substrate of the refiner side, wherein the refiner bars have a refiner bar height, and wherein adjacent refiner bars and the substrate define grooves between the adjacent bars, and protrusions disposed in the grooves, wherein the protrusions have a protrusion height, wherein the protrusion height is 30% or less of the refiner bar height.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ANDRITZ INC.Inventors: Luc Gingras, Tobias Michel
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Patent number: 11982054Abstract: A refining member including a refining body with a refining surface including first and second refiner bars separated by first and second refiner grooves. The first and second refiner bars extend from respective first and second radially inward positions to respective first and second radially outward positions. The first and second refiner bars have a respective first and second height extending upward from a floor of a respective, adjacent first or second refiner groove. The second height is a minimum height of the second refiner bars and is spaced apart from the second radially inward position, with the second height being at least about 0.35 mm less than the first height. The first refiner bars are adapted to refine wood fibers and the second refiner bars are adapted to break up fiber bundles.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANYInventor: Dwight Edward Anderson
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Patent number: 11982055Abstract: Creping adhesives and processes for making and using same. In some embodiments, the creping adhesive can include a solvent, a modified polyvinyl alcohol, and a crosslinked resin. The crosslinked resin can include polyamidoamine backbones crosslinked by primary crosslinking moieties and propanediyl moieties, where the primary crosslinking moieties can be derived from a functionally symmetric crosslinker. In other embodiments, the crosslinked resin can include polyamidoamine backbones crosslinked by primary crosslinking moieties and secondary crosslinking moieties, where the primary crosslinking moieties can be derived from a first functionally symmetric crosslinker and the secondary crosslinking moieties can be derived from a second functionally symmetric crosslinker. In other embodiments, the crosslinked resin can include polyamidoamine backbones crosslinked by primary crosslinking moieties, where the primary crosslinking moieties can be derived from a functionally symmetric crosslinker.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ECOLABS USA INC.Inventors: Ashish Dhawan, David J. Castro, Gary S. Furman, Christopher Kaley
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Patent number: 11982056Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic correction of the position of individual faults (H(n)) of a track formed by rails (16) and sleepers (9) with a track tamping machine (2). After the left and right rails have been surveyed independently by means of an inertial measuring unit (11), the length and position of the individual fault (TAMP, S, E) to be corrected is determined by taking into account a limit value of the individual faults (FLIM) and a maximum extension (smax) in the longitudinal direction of the track (s). The tamping units (7) of the tamping machine (s) are positioned exactly at the starting point (S) and end the tamping at the end point (E) of the determined track correction section (TAMP). Both track sections (FLI,FRE) are tamped and corrected simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HP3 Real GmbHInventor: Bernhard Lichtberger
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Patent number: 11982057Abstract: A method and apparatus for singulating and transferring railroad tie plates is disclosed. The singulating system includes a front chute configured to collect one or more articles, a singulating frame, a pickup assembly operably engaged with the singulating frame, a magnetic roller of the pickup assembly and a roller belt of the pickup assembly wrapped, at least in part, around the magnetic roller. The magnetic roller and the roller belt are configured to pick up the one or more articles from the front chute and transfer the one or more articles to a different location.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Sperling Railway Services, Inc.Inventors: Fred S. Sperling, Chad H. Sperling
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Patent number: 11982058Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-propelled ground milling machine and a method for operating a ground milling machine in an emergency mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BOMAG GmbHInventor: Jens-Martin Zehbe
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Patent number: 11982059Abstract: A bracket attachable to a top side of a parapet on a bridge to support a platform positioned on a horizontal element of the bracket. Vertical adjustment of the bracket allows the horizontal element to be positioned a small distance beneath the bridge deck so that the platform positioned thereon can catch falling materials, such as from demolition during bridge repair. After demolition, vertical adjustment of the bracket brings the horizontal element supporting the platform to a level directly under the bridge deck for use as a formwork for construction of a new roadway.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Swank Construction Company, LLCInventors: William DelSignore, Louis R. Schultheis, Gregory Stahl, Andrew R. Swank
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Patent number: 11982060Abstract: A barrier structure for bearing a high-energy impact and construction method thereof are provided. The barrier structure includes a supporting pile array arranged between two opposite mountain slope surfaces. The supporting pile array is arranged in a straight line and includes two or more supporting piles. The two or more supporting piles are fixed at a lower part of a mountain. A barrier net is connected to the two or more supporting piles. The barrier net passes through the supporting pile array and extends to the two opposite mountain slope surfaces. The barrier net is fixed on the two opposite mountain slope surfaces. Pull plates are disposed on the two opposite mountain slope surfaces, and one side of each of the pull plates is fixed to a corresponding slope surface of the two opposite mountain slope surfaces through reverse prestressed anchor cables.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignees: Railway Construction Research Institute, China Academy of Railway Science Group Co., Ltd., China Academy of Railway Sciences Group Co. , Ltd.Inventors: Yufang Zhang, Yong Yao, Kun Yuan, Junli Wan, Wenchao Zhang, Jian Li, Mengjia Liu, Zhongmin Yang, Zhenhua Yin, Guozhuang Song, Yafei Xuan, Peng Zhang, Gongming Chen, Changheng Chen
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Patent number: 11982061Abstract: A method for the operation of a cleaning vehicle, in particular a street sweeper capable of being operated in automated fashion, by a control device. A trajectory is calculated and control commands are produced for a longitudinal guiding and transverse guiding of the cleaning vehicle during travel of the calculated trajectory. Measurement data are received from at least one sensor in order to ascertain a cleaning region. At least one actuator is controlled, based on the received measurement data, in order to position a cleaning device of the cleaning vehicle in the longitudinal direction and/or transverse direction relative to a direction of travel of the cleaning vehicle, in order to clean the cleaning region. A control device, a computer program, and a machine-readable storage medium are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Holger Mielenz
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Patent number: 11982062Abstract: A sweeping blade assembly for attachment to a vehicle for sweeping a ground surface. The sweeping blade assembly comprises: a blade support for receiving a plurality of blades, a first row of blades and a second row of blades. Each row of blade comprising a plurality of blades which are separated from each other by a gap. The first row of blades and the second row of blades are provided beside (and parallel to) each other and positioned so that a given gap in a given row corresponds to a blade in the other row. In an embodiment, the gap is dimensioned to be smaller in width than the blades whereby a given blade in one row can have a partial overlap of two different blades in the other row. Whereby, the blades can freely move vertically and/or angularly when hitting uneven surfaces, and can be rectangular in shape, and thus reversible when the carbide on one of the edges is worn out.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: USINAGE PRO24 INC.Inventors: Hugo Michel, Marco Bergeron, Stephan Michel
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Patent number: 11982063Abstract: A system for levelling and gripping a jacket leg into a hollow foundation pile has a levelling assembly for adjusting the longitudinal axis of a jacket leg partially inserted in a hollow foundation pile with an actuation group arranged about the jacket leg and configured to exert a force parallel to the longitudinal axis between the upper edge of the hollow foundation pile and the jacket leg and selectively attachable to the jacket leg and recoverable for further use in another levelling assembly; and a gripping assembly for locking the jacket leg in a designated position with respect to the hollow foundation pile once leveled.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAIPEM S.P.A.Inventors: Vincent George McCarthy, Benjamin Lloyd Stokes, Christopher James Sexton
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Patent number: 11982064Abstract: A method for treating soil is provided. The method comprises supplying a tube; making a borehole having a borehole depth in the soil; positioning the tube in the borehole at a first predetermined depth less than the borehole depth; introducing at least one first blocking element into the borehole at a second predetermined depth between the first predetermined depth and the borehole depth, the at least one first blocking element being configured to block the borehole in order to define an injection zone; and injecting an injection fluid into the injection zone while removing cuttings located between the tube and the lateral wall of the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Francisco Da Costa
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Patent number: 11982065Abstract: A method for reinforcing soft ground by post-grouting combined with pressurized vacuum preloading is proposed, by pre-burying prefabricated vertical drains and air-boosted pipes in granular material piles, and the air-boosted pipes are used as grouting pipes to reduce the number of times of piling, which not only improves the construction efficiency, but also reduces the structural disturbance of the soil and the influence of smear effect, thus reducing the impact on the radial permeability and the radial consolidation coefficients. The method does not use geotextile bags for granular materials, which can avoid the problem of forming a localized clogging area around the geotextile bags, and the method not only improves the efficiency of vacuum transfer in a pre-consolidation stage, but also improves the grouting effect in the later stage, effectively enhances the strength of soft soil and makes granular material piles and the surrounding soil form composite ground.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteInventors: Binhua Xu, Ning He, Yanbin Jiang, Zhangchun Wang, Zhikun Yan, Yanzhang Zhou, Guirong Zhang, Yajun Qian, Xinjie Zhan, Zhongliu Zhang, Bin He, Denghua Li, Yang Kong, Yuting Xie, Xiang Yin
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Patent number: 11982066Abstract: A helical pile including a heat exchanger is described. The pile is formed from a lead section and one or more extension sections. The interior of the lead and extension sections are hollow and form a heat exchanger cavity. At the lower end of the lead section is a helical blade. Rotation of the lead section causes the helical blade to screw into the ground, thus pulling the lead section downward. Extension sections are added to the lead section and the pile is rotated until it is installed to a desired depth. The pile includes an inflow tube extending a predetermined distance into the heat exchanger cavity and an outflow port connected with the heat exchanger cavity. In operation, a heat carrying fluid is pumped into the inflow tube from a heat source or sink, for example, a heat pump for a building heating and cooling system. The fluid exits the tube at a point near the bottom of the heat exchanger cavity. The fluid flows upward through the heat exchange cavity and exchanges heat with the surrounding soil.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventor: Timothy Michael Kemp
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Patent number: 11982067Abstract: Disclosed is a bucket for an earth-working or materials-handling machine having a top portion, a first and a second side wall, a bucket floor extending from a front cutting edge up to the top portion, wherein the front cutting edge, the first and second side walls and the top portion form a bucket opening, seen from a front view of the bucket, the bucket floor has an inside facing towards the bucket opening and an outside facing away from the bucket opening, characterized in that the bucket floor comprises a first and a second rail section, wherein each one of the rail sections has at least one detachable wear component connected to the bucket floor, the bucket floor further has at least one inverted keel section with a trough portion on the outside of the bucket floor and a ridge portion on the inside of the bucket floor.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SSAB TECHNOLOGY ABInventor: Brian Coulson
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Patent number: 11982068Abstract: A working machine includes a traveling device having a traveling frame, a turn base plate supported on the traveling frame and configured to turn around an axis extending in a vertical direction, the turn base plate having an opening portion through which the axis extends, and a swivel joint including an outer sleeve fixed to the turn base plate, and an inner shaft inserted to the opening portion and inserted to the outer sleeve so as to rotate about the axis, the inner shaft being configured to restrictively rotate with respect to the traveling frame. The outer sleeve has a flange portion fixed to the turn base plate on a periphery of the opening portion and covering the opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi Horii
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Patent number: 11982069Abstract: This invention provides a work vehicle in which operating switches are easy to operate even in a situation where the vehicle is shaken.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Nakayama, Tsukasa Ikeuchi, Atsushi Ninomiya, Katsumi Usami, Yusuke Daimon
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Patent number: 11982070Abstract: An electric work vehicle includes a hydraulic actuator and a pump configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator, with the pump being operable within an operating speed range extending between a minimum operating speed value and a maximum operating speed value. Furthermore, the electric work vehicle includes a sensor configured to capture data indicative of a temperature of the hydraulic fluid and a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. As such, the controller is configured to monitor the temperature of the hydraulic fluid relative to a predetermined minimum fluid temperature as the pump is operating within the operating speed range. In addition, the controller is configured to adjust the operating speed range of the pump by increasing at least one of the minimum operating speed value or the maximum operating speed value when the monitored temperature of the hydraulic fluid falls below the predetermined minimum fluid temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Christopher Alan Andreuccetti, Joseph R. Shoemaker, Nicholas Chibucos
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Patent number: 11982071Abstract: According to the present invention, a display system of a turning work vehicle is used for the turning work vehicle in which a work machine having a bucket 8 can be offset relative to a revolving superstructure in the horizontal direction. The display system includes: an arithmetic unit that calculates the position of the bucket on the basis of a detection result obtained by a position detecting device provided on the turning work vehicle, and calculates a necessary revolving amount of the revolving superstructure and a necessary offset amount of the work machine that are needed to align a side section of the bucket with a side edge of a predetermined excavation area; and a display device that displays the positional relationship between the bucket and the predetermined excavation area.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Okazaki
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Patent number: 11982072Abstract: A wall installation connection box unit including a box housing body having a rear-side base portion and a sleeve portion projecting forward from the base portion, which sleeve portion peripherally surrounds a sanitary component mounting space, which space is accessible via an open front end face of the sleeve portion, a functional surface body including a functional surface, and a connection device which is configured for releasable fastening of the functional surface body to the base portion in different axial levels of the functional surface and includes at least one connection structure on the base portion radially outside the sleeve portion and a connection body cooperating with the connection structure, which connection body is user-operable via an actuation interface to be movable relative to the connection structure and to the functional surface body between a released position and a fastened position.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Hansgrohe SEInventors: Günther Lehmann, Jürgen Schorer
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Patent number: 11982073Abstract: A faucet includes an internal waterway at least partially formed of a first material. The internal waterway includes a valve seat, a conduit, and a unitary body. The valve seat is configured to receive water. The conduit is coupled to the valve seat. The conduit is in fluid communication with the valve seat and configured to receive the water from the valve seat. The unitary body is formed of a non-metallic material having a processing temperature less than a temperature at which the first material forming the internal waterway is undesirably affected, wherein the unitary body is molded around the internal waterway.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KOHLER CO.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Kohler, David J. Macon, Mark W. Schibur, Thomas Manoni, Vindhya K. Tiwari, Jeffrey A. Schumacher
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Patent number: 11982074Abstract: A faucet assembly that includes a base from which a spout is coupled to and protrudes from, wherein the spout is operably configured to emit a stream of liquid therefrom an offset length, b, from a spout support axis spanning through the base of the spout. The faucet assembly includes a lever handle member operably configured to rotate about a fulcrum that is offset a length, a, from the spout support axis. The lever handle member defines a length, c, separating the end of the lever handle member and the fulcrum in which the handle rotates, wherein the lever handle member is of a sufficient length, c, and operable configured to rotate a sufficient angle underneath the stream of liquid to wash and clean the handle when being utilized by the user. In one embodiment, the faucet assembly includes a relative geometric spacing configuration of ?{square root over (a2+b2)}?c.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Freeman Wilks
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Patent number: 11982075Abstract: Fluid-dispensing systems and methods relating thereto are described. A method of dispensing an output fluid stream includes: (i) receiving a temperature setting for a desired temperature of the output fluid stream and a mechanical disturbance for a desired flow rate of the output fluid stream; (ii) converting each of the temperature setting and the mechanical disturbance to a first valve PWM signal and a second valve PWM signal; (iii) conveying the first PWM signal to a first motor and the second PWM signal to a second motor; and (iv) activating the first motor to open the first valve to produce a first fluid flow at a first fluid flow rate and second motor and the first motor to open the second valve to produce a first fluid flow at a first fluid flow rate. The combination of the first fluid flow and the second fluid flow produces the desired output fluid stream.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventors: Andrew Gilbert Schimandle, John Oliver Porteous, Matthew Dale Wall
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Patent number: 11982076Abstract: Disclosed are devices, methods, and systems for generating and applying a magnetic field in a toilet. A toilet including a bowl having a discharge outlet, a trapway in fluid communication with the discharge outlet, and at least one magnet configured to generate a magnetic field to alter a flow of liquid through the trapway is described.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: Jason Kwacz, Yunjie Zhang
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Patent number: 11982077Abstract: The invention relates to a device for arranging a seal on a collecting tray of a drain, such as an outlet drain or shower drain, which device includes: a fixing plate for fixing under a collecting tray of a drain, which fixing plate has at least two straight edges lying at an acute angle, preferably an angle of 90 degrees. The fixing plate includes at least one fastening opening through which a fastening means such as a threaded end and nut can protrude for the purpose of fastening the fixing plate against a bottom of a collecting tray and a watertight, flexible membrane which is arranged with an edge zone on the fixing plate. The free part of the membrane is upright and extends substantially perpendicularly of the fixing plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Easy Sanitary Solutions B.V.Inventor: Jurgen Hendrik Peter Joseph Keizers
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Patent number: 11982078Abstract: Various decoupler tools are described for disengaging drain cleaning equipment couplings. Such couplings typically include a component secured at an end of a drain cleaning cable and a cutter or other accessory used in a drain cleaning operation. The decoupler tools include one or more pins which are used to retract a spring-actuated plunger in one of the coupling components.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Ridge Tool CompanyInventors: Robert Skrjanc, Benjamin R. Azzam, Scott Kruepke, Glen R. Chartier, Brandon Moherman
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Patent number: 11982079Abstract: An exemplary axial joint includes a planar member having a first plurality of joined sections and a second plurality of joined sections perpendicular to the first plurality of joined sections. Each section of the first plurality of joined sections and the second plurality of joined sections has a pattern of apertures therein, and each section is foldable approximately perpendicular to an adjacent section. The pattern of apertures in a first section after folding is congruent with the pattern of apertures in a second section after folding, wherein the second section is parallel to the first section, after folding. An elongate member is arranged through the apertures of one or more sections of the planar member, after folding the sections of the planar member.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Lee Foltz
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Patent number: 11982080Abstract: A one-piece joint including a first member, a second member, and a third member is disclosed. Each member has a length and includes its own internal region. The second member is unitary with the first member and is disposed transverse to it. The third member, unitary with each of the first and second members, is disposed transverse to the other two members. Each member has an opening communicating with its interior region.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: James Tiner
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Patent number: 11982081Abstract: A temporary radiotherapy facility for use during renovation, upgrading, and/or modernization of an existing facility. The radiotherapy facility includes a central vault room containing a radiation emitting device and a platform for holding a quantity of radiation shielding material above the central vault room. The platform is supported by shear walls that are disposed outside the sidewalls of the central vault room such that the radiation shielding material is supported and suspended above the central vault room without being in contact with or bearing upon the central vault room or affecting the height or level of the central vault room.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventors: John J. Lefkus, III, Cheri A. Oquist, Eric Landau
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Patent number: 11982082Abstract: An internal splice joint that facilitates coupling of a pair of joist members together is provided. The internal splice joint includes a main wall, first and second side flanges, and first and second end flanges. The first side flange extends upwardly from the main wall. The second side flange extends upwardly from the main wall and is spaced from the second side flange. The first end flange extends from the first side flange. The second end flange extends from the second side flange. The first end flange and the second end flange extend inwardly towards each other and are spaced from each another. A joist assembly that includes the internal splice joint is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Leisure Time Products, LLCInventors: Stuart L. Meether, Jess R. Bogle
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Patent number: 11982083Abstract: Wall system for composing a flat wall, in particular a wall, floor, ceiling, roof or the like, the wall system is composed of wooden beams which extend parallel to each other lengthways and the side edges of which are mounted opposite each other breadthways by means of anchoring elements which are mounted in or on the beams and which in mounted condition of the wall are kept apart at a fixed defined distance by means of spacers which extend through passages in the beams, said passages extending and connecting breadthways of the beams and in each other's extension, whereby the anchoring elements are anchored relative to the passages in an axial and radial direction as well as against rotating around the axial passage direction of the passages.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: WOV, BESLOTEN VENNOOTSCHAP MET BEPERKTE AANSPRAKELIJKHEIDInventor: Wolfgang Pol Jozef Verraes
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Patent number: 11982084Abstract: An insulation system for use with a sandwich wall panel is disclosed. The insulation system reduces the risk of flame spread through the sandwich wall panels. The insulation system provides a balance between good insulating properties and reduced flammability, without detrimentally increasing the cost of the sandwich wall panel.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Van Sloun, Tiffany Coppock
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Patent number: 11982085Abstract: A set of building panels including a first mechanical locking system at respective first and second opposite edges. The first mechanical locking system including at one of the first or second opposite edges a tongue groove configured to receive a locking tongue of the other of the first or second edges, for vertical locking of adjacent essentially identical panels in an assembled position. The locking tongue includes an essentially horizontal and/or upwards-facing upper surface. A second mechanical locking system is formed on respective third and fourth opposite edges. The second mechanical locking system includes at one of the third or fourth edges a wedge groove configured to receive a displaceable locking tongue, for vertical locking of essentially identical adjacent panels in an assembled position. The displaceable locking tongue is configured to displace in a displacement groove provided in the said other of the third or fourth edge.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Välinge Innovation ABInventor: Christian Boo
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Patent number: 11982086Abstract: Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC), owing to its superior mechanical and durability properties, presents a unique opportunity for innovative use in unbonded post-tensioned floor systems. In unbonded post-tensioned (PT) slabs and beams, the use of cast-in-place steel confined UHPC Bond Anchors (UBA) can be used to anchor steel prestressing strands for better durability, increased strand ductility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of installation. A conical, steel confining device is used as part of the UBA. The device resists hoop tension and eliminates splitting cracks in the UHPC during prestress transfer. It also helps to reduce the anchorage length. High average bond stress helps reduce the UBA length, and consequently, the material consumption. The bond stress at the strand-UHPC interface can be increased by intentionally roughening or indenting the strand.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Sivalingam Sritharan, Satish Hansmukhlal Jain
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Patent number: 11982087Abstract: In one aspect of a bottom indexing tile and support structure, a bottom indexing support structure may be engaged with a top portion of a pedestal. The bottom indexing support structure may be formed with a generally vertical spine having at least one rail extending outward from a distal end thereof and may also include one or more ridges extending upward in a direction parallel to the spine. The spine and rail(s) may be configured to secure one or more bottom indexing tiles, which tiles may be formed with a groove on at least one edge thereof, and wherein one or more rails may be positioned within the groove. The bottom indexing tile may be formed with one or more channels on a bottom surface thereof, wherein each channel may correspond with a ridge of the bottom indexing support structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: MBRICO, LLCInventors: Mark A. McManus, Jason McManus, Nicholas McManus
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Patent number: 11982088Abstract: A gutter guard device is described, comprising: a bridge member composed of a sheet or micro-mesh decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side; at least one girder spanning a bottom surface of the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge member's gutter lip side; a roof attachment member attached to an end section of the roof side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a roof; and a gutter attachment member attached to an end section of the gutter lip side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a gutter lip, wherein the device is self-supporting.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Gutterglove, Inc.Inventor: Robert Lenney
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Patent number: 11982089Abstract: An awning assembly is provided which provides a push and lock assembly thereby removing the need for additional fastening structures. This also provides for improved assembly of the structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Dometic Sweden ABInventor: Clayton Meyers
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Patent number: 11982090Abstract: A method for bending a vinyl floor plank to form a stair nose plank. A first bending gap and a second bending gap are established. Heat is applied to a vinyl floor plank along a first bend location. The vinyl floor plank is then placed into the first bend gap. A user presses downward on the vinyl floor plank to form a first right angle bend. Heat is applied to a vinyl floor plank along a second bend location. The vinyl floor plank is then placed into the second bend gap. The user presses downward on the vinyl floor plank to form a second right angle bend. The first right angle bend and the second right angle bend combine to form a U-shaped bend to form a stair nose plank. In a preferred embodiment the stair nose plank includes a locking mechanism along its edges. In a preferred embodiment, the first bending gap is established between two blending blocks and the second bend gap is established between two second bending blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Asaad Alkhafaji
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Patent number: 11982091Abstract: A mineral-based floor panel including a mineral-based core, wherein the panel includes at least one groove. The at least one groove may be provided in a rear side of the panel. There is also disclosed other such mineral-based panels, such as a building panel, a wall panel, a ceiling panel or a furniture panel. There is also disclosed a method for forming such grooves in a mineral-based panel. Furthermore, there is disclosed a mineral-based panel including a mineral-based core and polymer-based lower layer(s) attached to the core. A locking system of the panel includes a strip extending horizontally beyond an upper portion of the panel, wherein at least a horizontal portion of the strip is entirely formed in the polymer-based lower layer(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Ceraloc Innovation ABInventors: Per Josefsson, Pontus Gamstedt, Per Nygren
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Patent number: 11982092Abstract: The invention relates to a decoupling sheet that can be disposed between a floor covering and the floor and comprises a multi-layer structure that includes a central core and respective outer layers attached to larger surfaces of the central core, the central core being made of elastic foam material.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIETOS DE MIGUEL MARTINEZ RAMIREZ, S.L.Inventor: Ramon Martinez Gil
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Patent number: 11982093Abstract: A leveling shim (1) for building is described, comprising a plastic plate (2), coupling means and through holes. The coupling means comprise flexible coupling means (5) able to be housed in at least one cavity (6) of the plate (2), and at least one coupling through hole (4).Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DAKOTA GROUP S.A.S DI ZENO CIPRIANI & C.Inventor: Zeno Cipriani
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Patent number: 11982094Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including securing a trailer visor to a camping trailer forming a water proof and fire retardant awning for providing cover from sun and rain in proximity of a camping trailer door, connecting the trailer visor to the camping trailer using a trailer visor main body coupled PVC cord and camping trailer structure coupled PVC rail, supporting the trailer visor using a fiberglass pole coupled to the trailer visor and at least one main structure support pole coupled to the camping trailer structure using at least one pole pocket/insertion points and the trailer visor, stabilizing the trailer visor using at least one guyline coupled to the camping trailer structure and the trailer visor main body, and integrating at least one electronic component to the trailer visor for providing exterior lighting and exterior camera viewing using a digital trailer visor application installed on a user digital device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventor: Jeffrey Basford
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Patent number: 11982095Abstract: A canopy with a deployable structure is provided. An apparatus can include a canopy that includes a structure. The structure can be deployed over at least one portion of an object. The apparatus can include a fabric that is coupled to the structure. The structure can deploy the fabric over the at least one portion of the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Philipp Josef Wolf, Raghav Jaswal, Mark Andrew Jones