Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 12064762
    Abstract: Provided is a gene amplification apparatus. The gene amplification apparatus includes a supply roller, a roll-type film chip which has a plurality of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chambers, with which PCR samples are filled, and is wound around the supply roller, a heating roller configured to rotate after being pressed against the film chip and then induce a PCR, a plurality of heating blocks which are disposed on a circumferential surface of the heating roller at preset intervals and brought into contact with the film chip, and a discarding roller configured to discard the film chip which passes the heating roller and on which the PCR is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Kwang Hyo Chung, Hyo Jeong An, Han Young Yu, Yo Han Choi
  • Patent number: 12064763
    Abstract: A cartridge for providing a target analyte for detection is described. One such exemplar cartridge includes a base portion including: (1) a receiving area disposed at or near a center region of the base portion; (2) multiple reaction wells disposed outside the center region or radially disposed at or near a perimeter of the base portion; and (3) multiple connecting tracks that substantially linearly extend from a region at or proximate to the receiving area to the multiple reaction wells and designed to convey a sample including the target analyte from the receiving area to the multiple reaction wells, each of which are configured to transform the sample to a detectable sample. Systems and methods of reacting and detecting the sample including the target analyte are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Inventors: Alex Dehgan, Paul Bunje, Hallie Holmes, David Baisch, Cifeng Fang, Gareth Fotouhi, Misa Winters, Sam Kelly, Brad Zamft
  • Patent number: 12064764
    Abstract: A heater for a microfluidic test card is disclosed herein. In a general example embodiment, a test card for analyzing a fluid sample includes at least one substrate layer including a microchannel extending through at least a portion of one of the substrate layers, and a printed substrate layer that is bonded to or printed on one substrate layer of the at least one substrate layer. The printed substrate layer includes a heater printed on the printed substrate layer so as to align with at least a portion of the microchannel. The heater includes two electrodes aligned on opposite sides of the microchannel, and a plurality of heater bars electrically connecting the two electrodes. The plurality of heater bars includes a central heater bar disposed between outer heater bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fluxergy, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwin Raghunathan, Steve Lee, Ryan Alan Revilla, Tej Rushikesh Patel
  • Patent number: 12064765
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a concentration of one or more analytes in whole blood is provided. In one aspect of the invention, the system includes a channel configured to carry whole blood. The system further includes a light source configured to emit light on the channel. Additionally, the system includes an actuation module associable with the channel, wherein the actuation module is configured to generate a cell-free plasma layer in the channel. Furthermore, the system includes an optical module associable with the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Kalpesh Mehta, Mohiudeen Azhar
  • Patent number: 12064766
    Abstract: The present application relates to a microfluidic system and its method for use for the separation of motile sperm from immotile sperm or motile bacteria from immotile bacteria. The system includes a housing having a first end, and a second end, with a passage connecting the first and second ends. There is an inlet at the first end of the housing for charging fluids into the passage and an outlet at the second end of said housing for discharging fluids from the passage. There are one or more corrals within the passage, each of the corrals including a closed side and a partially open side. The closed side of the corrals is closer to the first end than the partially open side, with the closed side and partially open side defining between them a confinement region suitable for retaining motile sperm or motile bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Alireza Abbaspourrad, Meisam Zaferani, Soon Hon Cheong
  • Patent number: 12064767
    Abstract: To enable taking in a biological sample at a position a predetermined distance away from an EWOD electrode, a biochemical cartridge, including a droplet passage on which a plurality of EWOD electrodes is arranged along a direction in which a sample droplet that is a droplet including a biological sample is transported, the plurality of EWOD electrodes configured to transport the sample droplet, and a sample take-in unit having a predetermined distance from an EWOD electrode at a tail end of the droplet passage, the sample take-in unit being provided at a position at which the biological sample in the sample droplet is taken in. When the biological sample is taken in, the sample take-in unit is located at a position lower than the droplet passage having the EWOD electrode at the tail end, and an area between the droplet passage and the sample take-in unit is smoothly connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiru Fujioka, Sakuichiro Adachi
  • Patent number: 12064768
    Abstract: The technology provides arrays of microwells with reversible shape for culture, analysis, and recovery of individual cells or groups of cells. The microwells are reversibly formed by vacuum-induced deflection of an elastomeric membrane into an array of microwell molds formed in a microwell substrate. The shape of each microwell or groups of microwells can be selectively altered by applying or releasing vacuum to individual microwells. The devices, systems, and methods utilizing the technology enable collection of individual cells for further study or therapeutic use without the need for micromanipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Tania Konry, Giovanni Ugolini
  • Patent number: 12064769
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conducting surface-mediated chemical and/or biochemical reactions within an enclosed chamber are disclosed. Systems and methods of the present disclosure may be used in conducting hybridization reactions of biopolymers. In some examples, an improved method for mixing thin films of solutions in a hybridization chamber includes altering the direction of mixing at least once over the course of a reaction. In some examples, an improved method for mixing thin films of solutions in a hybridization chamber includes altering the speed of mixing at least once over the course of a reaction. In some examples, an improved method for mixing thin films of solutions in a hybridization chamber includes altering the speed of mixing and the direction of mixing at least once over the course of a reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SomaLogic Operating Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Paul Cleveland, Jon Monserud, Barry Patrick John Vant-Hull, Alex Kislukhin
  • Patent number: 12064770
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reagent storage include a placement table, a housing, a cover, and a fan. The placement table on which a plurality of reagent containers are placed. The housing configured to contain the placement table. The cover having a probe hole through which a probe is inserted and configured to cover an opening of the housing. The fan configured to send air in a first space defined by an inner bottom of the housing and the placement table into a second space defined by the cover and the placement table and to exhaust the air in the second space through the probe hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Shin Iida
  • Patent number: 12064771
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a device and method for rapidly changing temperatures of a sample. An example of the device include: a first plate; a second plate; and a heating/cooling layer disposed on either the first or second plate. The first plate and the second plate face each other and are configured to receive a fluid sample sandwiched therebetween. The method includes depositing the fluid sample on one or both of the two plates, pressing the plates to form a thin layer of the sample, and changing and/or maintaining the temperature of the sample. The device or method can be used in, for example, PCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Essenlix Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Y. Chou, Wei Ding, Hua Tan
  • Patent number: 12064772
    Abstract: A chemical and/or biochemical apparatus (10) includes a thermal mount (14) having wells (26) for receiving reaction vessels (12), a thermal module (16) having a first side thermally coupled to the thermal mount (14), a first heat sink (18) thermally coupled to a second side of the thermal module, the heat sink (18) having a body and thermally conductive fins (32) extending outwards from the body of the first heat sink (18), and a printed circuit board (54) having electronic components for controlling at least the thermal module (16), an excitation light source (62), and a light sensor (52). A first set of light waveguides (60) delivers excitation light to a reaction vessel, and a second set of light waveguides (38) receives light from a reaction vessel and delivers the light to the light sensor (52). The printed circuit board (54), the excitation light source (62), the light sensor (52) and the light waveguides (38, 60) are arranged within an interior space (5) of the first heat sink (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: IT-IS International Limited
    Inventors: James Richard Howell, Benjamin Masterman Webster
  • Patent number: 12064773
    Abstract: A method and application of accelerating material cleaning with strong magnet particles are provided. The wind airflow enter from the material inlet to accelerate the material, so that the material particles move at a certain speed, and the position and speed of the material can be controlled when it reaches the highest speed; There are internal strong magnetic field units where the material passes, especially when the material reaches the highest speed; Internal strong magnetic field units are used to generate the internal strong magnetic field. According to the method and application, the internal strong magnetic field is used to eliminate the attractive forces such as electromagnetic force, van der Waals force and liquid bridge between the material and the impurities attached to the surface of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LVFEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECH. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tianbo Liu, Huaiming Peng
  • Patent number: 12064774
    Abstract: An electrification apparatus for dust collection includes an electrification module configured to generate ions that are emitted to air. The electrification module comprises: a high voltage tip comprising at least one discharge tip configured to emit the ions in a direction opposite to a flow direction of the air, a conductive plate disposed around the discharge tip and configured to generate an electric potential difference with the discharge tip of the high voltage tip, a lower frame that mounts the conductive plate and the high voltage tip, and an upper frame that is coupled to the lower frame and that covers the conductive plate and the high voltage tip so that the discharge tip is exposed to outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Namgyu Shin, Dong Hyuk Lee, Naehyun Park, Ah Ram Kim, Giseop Lee
  • Patent number: 12064775
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner having a cyclone chamber comprising a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet, a cyclone axis of rotation, an axially extending cyclone chamber sidewall extending between first and second axially opposed ends. The cyclone chamber sidewall has a first sidewall portion that is axially moveably mounted with respect to a second sidewall portion of the cyclone chamber sidewall between a closed position in which the cyclone chamber is closed and an open position in which the cyclone chamber is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 12064776
    Abstract: A liquid jetting nozzle-includes a tip body and a tip supported at the tip body. The tip body includes an introduction port which a liquid is introduced. A first and a second ejection port are formed in the tip and each jet out the liquid introduced through the introduction port. A first and a second conduit are formed in the tip. The first conduit structures a downstream side region of a first channel through which the liquid flows from the introduction port toward the side at which the first ejection port is formed. The second conduit structures a downstream side region of a second channel through which the liquid flows from the introduction port toward the side at which the second ejection port is formed. An angle formed between the first and second conduit is specified that the liquid jetting out from the first and second ejection port collide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12064777
    Abstract: A pump dispenser has a pump body and a reciprocable plunger with a lock-down mechanism, including internal or external lock formations of the plunger and body, such as thread formations, by which the plunger can be locked down for shipping and released subsequently by a rotational release movement. To supplement security for demanding shipping conditions the dispenser also has a supplementary catch mechanism in which respective catch formations of the plunger and body engage selectively in the locked-down position to inhibit the rotational release movement. The catch formations may have circumferentially-directed surfaces which engage between the underside of a plunger head having a shroud and a nozzle and the top of the body beneath the plunger head. They can be released by resilient deformation of one or more of the catch formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: RIEKE PACKAGING SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Simon Christopher Knight, Brian Robert Law, Thomas P. Kasting
  • Patent number: 12064778
    Abstract: An aerosol dispensing device includes an atomizer configured to atomize a liquid contained in a cartridge, an actuator configured to actuate activity of the atomizer, a reader configured to read data attached to the cartridge while the cartridge is installed in the device and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data from the reader, verify authenticity of the cartridge based on the data received, initiate activity of the actuator based on verifying that the cartridge is authentic, and block activity of the actuator based on verifying that the cartridge is not authentic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ecological Balancing Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hoffman, Pini Pinhas Gross
  • Patent number: 12064779
    Abstract: A liquid-dispensing system includes at least one nozzle configured to dispense a liquid. The liquid-dispensing system includes at least one sensor module, configured to provide a sensor signal comprising information related to whether liquid is dispensed by the at least one nozzle. At least a part of the at least one sensor is located in proximity of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Christian Illemann, Karl Pilch, Herbert Priess
  • Patent number: 12064780
    Abstract: A liquid object dispenser includes a body, multiple containers (500), a transfer table (110) including multiple container accommodating parts accommodating the multiple containers, the transfer table being able to relatively transfer the container accommodating parts to a replacement position in the body at which the containers are replaced and to a dispensing position in the body at which the stored liquids of the containers accommodated in the container accommodating parts are dispensed, and a liquid object dispensing part configured to cause the stored liquids of the containers accommodated in the container accommodating parts at the dispensing position to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoki Takata, Motoji Aoki, Yohei Kobayashi, Yusuke Okamoto, Takenori Okamura, Kazunari Anai
  • Patent number: 12064781
    Abstract: A robotic arm includes a tool located at an end of the robotic arm that delivers a material to a surface. A hose attachment manifold is mounted to the robotic arm. The hose attachment manifold includes an array of openings that extend through a manifold body of the hose attachment manifold. Fittings are mounted to the manifold body and within the openings. A plurality of upstream hoses are mounted to the fittings at a side of the manifold body. A plurality of downstream hoses are mounted to the fittings at an opposite side of the manifold body. The plurality of downstream hoses are fluidly connected to the tool for delivering a fluid material received from the plurality of upstream hoses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Howard Thompson, Devin Cole Harris
  • Patent number: 12064782
    Abstract: A hose-end spreader device includes a hopper configured to contain an amount of granular product, the hopper comprising a hopper inlet and a hopper outlet in communication with the hopper inlet. The device further includes a first chamber in communication with the hopper outlet, the first chamber comprising a first opening through which the granular product exits the device, and a first impeller disposed in the first chamber. Also included are a housing disposed below the first chamber, the housing comprising a fluid inlet, a second chamber in communication with the fluid inlet, and a second opening in communication with the second chamber through which a fluid exits the device, and a second impeller disposed in the second chamber. The second impeller is coupled to the first impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: OMS Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Havlovitz
  • Patent number: 12064783
    Abstract: A connector system for a liquid container system for a spray gun includes a lid that includes a liquid outlet and an adapter. The adapter includes a spray gun end and a lid end. The ends are connected with a liquid-tight passageway. Further, the spray gun end is adapted for releasable engagement with a liquid inlet port of the spray gun and the lid end is adapted for releasable engagement with the liquid outlet. The connector system also includes a plurality of interlocking tab assemblies for releasably attaching the adapter to the lid. Each assembly includes a first tab and a second tab, wherein an end of the first tab is adapted to secure the adapter to the lid when the first tab and the second tab are interlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC., SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIFS
    Inventors: Ronald L. Gerson, Pierre LaPointe, Robert A. Brunell
  • Patent number: 12064784
    Abstract: A paint applicator, kit and methodology for using the same is disclosed. For example, a paint applicator that allows a user to load a desired amount of paint, such as a water based or other low VOC paint, into the paint applicator and an advancement mechanism that dispenses paint at a rate controllable by the user is disclosed. The advancement mechanism can include a system that translates a rotational force applied to an end cap of the applicator into a linear force that advances a piston which in turn applies paint to an applicator portion. The paint applicator may be reusable or may include a ratchet system that allows for only one time use. The methodology and kit can incorporate a syringe for loading paint into the paint applicator, thus reducing the loss of paint through spilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Designing Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Deborah Wiener
  • Patent number: 12064785
    Abstract: A window coating jig includes: a base part and a stage which includes a support part, a first sidewall part surrounding the support part and defining an outer wall, and a second sidewall part disposed between the support part and the first sidewall part, and protrudes from the base part, wherein a blow groove is defined between the first sidewall part and the second sidewall part, a suction groove is defined between the second sidewall part and the support part, the base part has a blow hole and a suction hole passing through the base part, the blow hole and the suction hole being defined therein, the blow hole overlaps the blow groove, the suction hole overlaps the suction groove, and the first sidewall part has a vent opening passing therethrough in a direction crossing the direction in which the blow hole extends, the vent opening being defined therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seoyoung Jang, Boa Kim, Yong-Kwan Kim, Jiin Yoon, Kyungeun Lee, Jinnyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12064786
    Abstract: A transfer and coating apparatus transfers a component from a conveyor to a coating station for application of a coating. The transfer apparatus includes a mast that can move about orthogonal axes in a horizontal plane and a mast having a carriage that can move vertically. The carriage includes a hook that swings about a horizontal axis relative to the mast for movement of the component in the horizontal direction. A sway bar extends between the hook and component to inhibit movement about a horizontal axis. The component is delivered to an upper compartment of a coating apparatus where it can be lowered in to a lower compartment containing coating material. Excess coating material is removed by an array of nozzles in the upper compartment as the component is raised from the coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Automatic Coating Limited
    Inventor: Brad Bamford
  • Patent number: 12064787
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of conducting a coiled tubing operation. In one implementation, a method includes forming a tubing string, the tubing string having an outer surface. The method also includes applying a coating to an application portion of the outer surface of the tubing string. The application portion includes a portion of the tubing string that will be disposed in a horizontal section of a wellbore, and the coating has a surface energy lower than a surface energy of the outer surface of the tubing string to thereby reduce friction between the tubing string and a casing disposed in the horizontal section of the wellbore as the tubing string is lowered into the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: FORUM US, INC.
    Inventors: Jessica Lorae Olson Perez, Neal A. Lux, Alex Paul Sheehan, Irma Irais Galvan, Garry F. Mcclelland, Raymond Rowland, Stephen Michael Hejducek
  • Patent number: 12064788
    Abstract: The present invention related to a method of manufacturing of a contamination control sheet, the method comprising the steps of: passing a web of support material from a supply roller to a coating station, and applying a coating of polymeric material to one surface of the support material; passing the coated support material through an oven to cure the polymeric material; and passing the coated support material around a cooling roller to a take up roller; characterised in that a nip roller is provided adjacent to the cooling roller so that the coated surface of the support material is pressed onto the cooling roller by the nip roller, and further characterised in that the cooling roller has a surface roughness of 0.2 to 1 Ra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DYCEM LIMITED
    Inventor: Mark Dalziel
  • Patent number: 12064789
    Abstract: A representative sample of a primer and topcoat formulation (as shown in Table 5, for example) were each examined to compare their rheological behavior, with a blend of the topcoat and primer formulation (85% topcoat, 15% primer) used for comparison. The time and temperature dependence of the viscosity was measured on a strain-controlled rheometer using parallel plate geometry in dynamic mode, with an applied strain of 1% and 1 Hz frequency of oscillation. The data is represented as complex viscosity (Pa-s). For the primer and topcoat formulations, sample discs were prepared by compressing 0.3 g of the powder composition in a 13-mm plug mold at 1000 ram force for 15 seconds. Pressing was done at room temperature to avoid premature curing of the powder. The rheometer was set at 70° C. for sample loading. The gap was then set to 0.05 mm below the thickness of the pressed pellet to ensure contact with parallel plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Owen H. Decker, Thomas E. Reno, Robert D. Breitzman, Carlos A. Concha, Jeffrey D. Rogozinski
  • Patent number: 12064790
    Abstract: A control console for a powered surgical tool. The console includes a transformer that supplies the drive signal to the surgical tool. A linear amplifier with active resistors selectively ties the ends of the transformer primary winding between ground and the open circuit state. Feedback voltages from the transformer windings regulate the resistances of the active resistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Adam D. Downey, Neal R. Butler, Scott A. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 12064791
    Abstract: Examples of portable electronic devices including a piezo actuated vibrator for providing tactile feedback to the user are described. Portable electronic devices according to the present disclosure may include tactile feedback devices, which may be driven by a piezoelectric actuator/vibrator that is operatively coupled to or embedded into the housing of a portable electronic device. In some examples, the housing of the electronic device itself can be made of piezoelectric ceramic material. The piezoelectric element may be coupled to the housing of the product to cause the housing to deflect and/or vibrate. In some examples, the housing of the portable electronic device, which may be a portable media player device, may be configured for placement directly or indirectly in contact with the user's skin such that vibrations of the housing may be felt directly (without audible feedback) by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Zadesky, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Stephen B. Lynch, Martin Auclair
  • Patent number: 12064792
    Abstract: It A waste sorting robot (100) comprises a manipulator (101) moveable within a working area (102). A gripper (103) is connected to the manipulator (101) and arranged to selectively grip a waste object (104, 104a, 104b, 104c) in the working area (102). A controller (108) is in communication with a sensor (107) and is configured to receive detected object parameters, and determine a throw trajectory (109) of the gripped waste object (104) towards a target position (106) based on the detected object parameters of the gripped waste object (104). The controller (108) is configured to send control instructions to the gripper (103) and/or manipulator (101) so that the gripper (103) and/or manipulator (101) accelerates the gripped waste object (104) and releases the waste object (104) at a throw position with a throw velocity and throw angle towards the target position (106) so that the waste object (104) is thrown along the determined throw trajectory (109).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MP ZenRobotics Oy
    Inventors: Harri Holopainen, Tuomas Lukka
  • Patent number: 12064793
    Abstract: A fume hood control system includes a fume food. The fume hood includes a first baffle, a sash and a hood enclosure positioned within an environment. The hood enclosure includes a plurality of sidewalls forming a work chamber, a first aperture configured to permit an airflow between the environment and the work chamber, and a second aperture configured to permit the airflow between the work chamber. The sash is configured to at least partially cover the first aperture. The first baffle is configured to direct a path of the airflow within the work chamber. The first baffle is transitionable between a first number of positions. The fume hood control system includes a controller configured to determine, via a sash sensor, a current position of the sash. The controller is further configured to determine, via a baffle position sensor, a current position of the first baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventor: Aurimas Aniulis
  • Patent number: 12064794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a handheld high-pressure cleaning machine, including: a main machine housing, allowing detachable attachment of a battery pack, where the main machine housing includes a main body portion; a liquid outlet; a first handle; a motor; and a pump, where a battery pack mounting portion includes a first battery pack mounting portion and a second battery pack mounting portion, and the battery pack includes a first battery pack and a second battery pack; and the first battery pack mounting portion and the second battery pack mounting portion are respectively disposed on left and right sides of a middle plane in a manner that a distance W2 between a leftmost edge of the first battery pack mounting portion and a rightmost edge of the second battery pack mounting portion is not greater than a width W1 of the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Qiao, Qibin Wang, Haohua Dong
  • Patent number: 12064795
    Abstract: A method for conditioning a component of a wafer processing chamber is provided. The component is placed in an ultrasonic conditioning solution in an ultrasonic solution tank. Ultrasonic energy is applied through the ultrasonic conditioning solution to the component to clean the component. The component is submerged in a megasonic conditioning solution in a tank. Megasonic energy is applied through the megasonic conditioning solution to the component to clean the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Amir A. Yasseri, Hong Shih, John Daugherty, Duane Outka, Lin Xu, Armen Avoyan, Cliff La Croix, Girish Hundi
  • Patent number: 12064796
    Abstract: A pipeline descaling tool includes a milling tool, a roller assembly and a motor. The milling tool can rotate about a longitudinal axis of the assembly and is sized to fit within an inner volume defined by a pipeline. The milling tool can mill, by rotating, solid obstructions protruding from an inner surface of the pipeline into the inner volume. The roller assembly includes multiple rollers. The roller assembly is axially coupled to the milling tool. The roller assembly can transport the pipeline tool assembly including the milling tool within the inner volume. The motor is connected to the roller assembly and to the milling tool. The motor can rotate the milling tool and power the roller assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Fahmi Aulia, Abdulrahman F. Almuaibid, Surajit Haldar
  • Patent number: 12064797
    Abstract: A waste disposal system (30) with a waste receiver (32) for receiving pharmaceutical waste material. A locking assembly (34) is secured to a fixed surface and actuated from a locked configuration to an unlocked configuration. A lock cylinder of the locking assembly may extend forward of a front wall (44) of a receiver body (36) of the waste receiver to engage a locking feature of a cover (82) in the locked configuration. A cover retention feature (124) may prevent axial decoupling of the cover from the receiver body. The receiver body may be formed from two shells (62,64). A reaction agent (150) is positioned within the container volume and spaced apart from a bottom wall of the receiver body. The reaction agent may be positioned within the container volume between the lock passageway (94) and/or a solid receiver volume, and opposing sidewalls of the receiver body. A support may maintain the position of the reaction agent within the container volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Brian James VanDerWoude, David A. Maness, Bryan Matthew Ulmer, Dennis Meyer, Lucas Wade, Stephen Myers, Logan Castillo, Heather Benoit
  • Patent number: 12064798
    Abstract: A method disclosed herewith is a method for producing a first seamless metal tube with a first wall thickness and a second seamless metal tube with a second wall thickness by using a three-roll-type inclined rolling mill, and the method includes a first inclination rolling step (#5), a setting changing step (#10), and a second inclination rolling step (#15). At the first inclination rolling step, a first workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill. At the setting changing step, a setup condition of the inclined rolling mill is changed in a manner (a) or (b) as described below. At the second inclined rolling step, a second workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill under the changed condition. (a) When the second wall thickness is smaller than the first wall thickness, the cross angle of each of the inclined rolls is made greater than the cross angle set for the first inclination rolling step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Kouji Yamane, Koichi Kuroda, Yuji Inoue, Shusuke Shimooka, Kazuyuki Murakami, Kota Shindo
  • Patent number: 12064799
    Abstract: Method for the production of flat metal products, in particular coils of strip, in endless and/or semi-endless mode, in which a metal product is continuously fed to a rolling mill consisting overall of at least 4 stands. The rolling stands are, in sequence, roughing stands, and finishing stands. It is provided to perform a flying gauge change of the metal product exiting from the rolling mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Martinis, Paolo Bobig
  • Patent number: 12064800
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a flat metal blank as a workpiece in a forming die. The method may include providing a forming die with at least one cavity, and providing at least one blankholder for fixing a flat metal blank to the at least one cavity during the forming. The method may also include heating the flat metal blank to a solution heat treatment temperature specific to the flat metal blank while maintaining the forming die at the solution heat treatment temperature. The method may also include forming the workpiece from the flat metal blank at the solution heat treatment temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HODFORMING GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Amborn
  • Patent number: 12064801
    Abstract: Novel systems and methods for an incremental forming process to manufacture a product are disclosed herein. The system and method generally involves continuously modifying the toolpath in real-time based upon the forming force of the forming tool compared to a predicted springback error established offline from a series of simplified simulations. The system and method disclosed herein are effective to form products with complex geometries and minimizes the costs and time requirements associated with prior art techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Huaqing Ren, Jiaxi Xie, Shuheng Liao, Dohyun Leem, Jian Cao, Kornel F. Ehmann
  • Patent number: 12064803
    Abstract: A crimper analyzer system is disclosed. The crimper analyzer system also includes a network interface. The crimper analyzer system also includes a memory storage. The crimper analyzer system also includes one or more processors configured to: receive hose specifications and fitting specifications from the network interface, generate crimp parameters based on the received hose specifications and crimp operation data, obtain additional crimp operation data for a hose assembly operation, update the crimp operation data with the additional crimp operation data and store in the updated crimp operation data in the memory storage, and generate a unique assembly identification (UAID) for the hose assembly operation subsequent to the hose assembly operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ContiTech USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Banga, Jaroslaw Zakrzewski, William Lambert
  • Patent number: 12064804
    Abstract: A machine handling device for handling a sheet-metal workpiece includes a control device that comprises two sensing elements, and a testing station that includes a testing device configured to test functional capability of the control device. The testing device includes a respective electrically conductive testing-contact body for each of the two sensing elements of the control device. The testing station further includes a testing-evaluation device configured to apply a testing voltage between the respective sensing element and the corresponding testing-contact body. The testing-evaluation device includes a testing-measuring unit and a testing-comparing unit. The testing-measuring unit is configured to measure an actual value of a contact-dependent electrical variable that is dependent on a state of an electrically conducting contact between the sensing element and the testing-contact body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: TRUMPF WERKZEUGMASCHINEN SE + CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Mathias, Florian Raichle, Frederik Koepp, Stefan Foerster, Hagen Jacob
  • Patent number: 12064805
    Abstract: A welding installation with a calibration tool is provided in a device for producing container shells. The force exerted by the container shells on the calibration tool is measured and evaluated as information for the overlapping width of the respective container shell. This allows adjusting the calibration tool during configuration of the device and allows the removal of container shells welded with too large or too small overlapping during production of container shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventors: Carsten Krocker, Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 12064806
    Abstract: A binding machine including a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a cutting unit configured to cut the wire wound on an object, a binding unit configured to twist the wire wound on the object and cut by the cutting unit, at least one motor configured to drive one or more of the wire transfer unit, the cutting unit and the binding unit, and control circuitry configured to limit a current flowing through the motor, in response to a battery voltage of a battery, in a section in which a large amount of current flows through the motor, as compared with a section in which a small amount of current flows through the motor, while the current flows from the battery to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tashima, Hikaru Mizukami
  • Patent number: 12064807
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing molds and cores suitable for producing fiber composite bodies or cast parts of metal or plastic from a mold base material and a multicomponent binder by 3D printing includes pretreating the particulate mold base material with at least one silicon-organic compound having a polar hydrophilic end and a nonpolar hydrophobic end, forming a layer of the pretreated particulate mold base material, and applying the binder or at least one component of the binder in liquid form to the layer, wherein b. and c. are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Reinsicht GmbH
    Inventor: Ivo Herzog
  • Patent number: 12064808
    Abstract: A diecasting mold, comprising a first mold plate which is hot in operation and comprising at least one diecasting nozzle with an outlet point for a melt, and a second mold plate which forms a cold side. A mold cavity is formed between the first and second mold plates in a closed state of the diecasting mold, in which mold cavity a molded part can be produced from solidified melt introduced into the mold cavity via at least one melt channel, at least one diecasting nozzle and the at least one gate. The diecasting mold further comprises a demolding system, the demolding system comprising an ejector assembly, a drive device, and a force transmission device. A hot chamber system for diecasting metal melt according to the hot chamber method is also taught, a method for diecasting metal, and a use of a diecasting mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ferrofacta GmbH
    Inventor: Igor Kusic
  • Patent number: 12064809
    Abstract: The invention includes apparatus and methods for instantiating precious metals in a nanoporous carbon powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Quantum Elements Development Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher J Nagel
  • Patent number: 12064810
    Abstract: A dip-coat binder solution comprises a dip-coat metallic precursor and a dip-coat binder. The dip-coat binder solution has a viscosity greater than or equal to 1 cP and less than or equal to 150 cP. A method of forming a part includes providing a green body part comprising a plurality of layers of print powder and a print binder, dipping the green body part in a dip-coat binder solution, and heating the dip-coated green body part. The dip-coated green body part is heated to form a coated green body part having a metallic precursor coating on an outer surface of the coated green body part. The coated green body part has a strength greater than or equal to 10 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arunkumar Natarajan, Carlos H. Bonilla
  • Patent number: 12064811
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a powdery filament composition for 3D printing, a 3D printer, and a method of additively manufacturing an object by the 3D printer, and more particularly to a powdery filament composition for 3D printing, which is suitable for home use because it does not produce toxic substances, a 3D printer, the size of which is suitable for home use because it does not require high power energy, high-temperature processing and the like conditions for additive manufacturing, and a method of additively manufacturing an object by the 3D printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University
    Inventors: Jeong Ho Cho, Soo Young Cho, Dong Hae Ho
  • Patent number: 12064812
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing method for producing moldings comprising or consisting of an element selected from the group of refractory metals, wherein refractory metal powder having an oxygen content of at least 500 mol ppm is used for the additive manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HERAEUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Vera K. Jüchter, Bernd Spaniol