Patents Issued in September 24, 2024
  • Patent number: 12097497
    Abstract: A cell accommodating chip is adapted for use in a screening apparatus for searching for a predetermined cell based on optical information emitted from a substance on the cell accommodating chip and selectively collecting the cell searched for. The cell accommodating chip includes a substrate composed of a light-transmitting material, and a plurality of wells capable of accommodating cells, the plurality of wells being provided on at least one of main faces of the substrate. A surface of the cell accommodating chip having the plurality of wells is coated with a specific polymer having a crosslinked structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: YAMATO SCIENTIFIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mariko Matsunaga, Ken Tsukii, Kenichi Kimura, Toru Takahashi, Jie Xu, Takayuki Matsumoto, Kohta Igarashi
  • Patent number: 12097498
    Abstract: An article includes a flexible structured film with a first major surface and a second major surface, wherein a first major surface of the flexible structured film has a plurality of posts separated by land areas, and the posts have an exposed surface. An anti-biofouling layer resides in the land areas, and the anti-biofouling layer has a methylated surface. An inorganic layer is on the exposed surfaces of the posts, wherein the inorganic layer includes a metal or a metal oxide. An analyte binding layer is on the inorganic layer, wherein the analyte binding layer is chosen from a reactive silane, a functionalizable hydrogel, a functionalizable polymer, and mixtures and combinations thereof. An exposed surface of the analyte binding layer includes at least one functional group selected to bind with a biochemical analyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Henrik B. van Lengerich, Caleb T. Nelson, Kayla C. Niccum, Jeffrey L. Solomon, Paul B. Armstrong, Joshua M. Fishman, Tonya D. Bonilla, Phillip D. Hustad, David J. Tarnowski
  • Patent number: 12097499
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system includes a compartment-generating device, a compartment detector, and electronic computing circuitry. The device is configured to generate compartments of a digital assay, at least one of the compartments having a respective volume that is different from a respective volume of each of at least another one of the compartments. The detector is configured to determine a number of the compartments each having a respective number of a target that is greater than a threshold number of the target. And the electronic circuitry is configured to determine a bulk concentration of the target in a source of the sample in response to the determined number of compartments. Because such a system can be configured to estimate a bulk concentration of a target in a source from a polydisperse digital assay, the system can be portable, and lower-cost and faster, than conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventors: Toan Huynh, Bernhard Hans Weigl, Samantha A. Byrnes, Kevin Paul Flood Nichols
  • Patent number: 12097500
    Abstract: A sensor for detecting a target analyte in a sample includes a pair of conducting electrodes that are separated by a gap. An insulator is disposed in the gap between the electrodes. Plural wells are defined by one of the electrodes and the insulator, to expose the other of the electrodes. The wells are configured to receive a sample including a target analyte. The target analyte, when present in the sample received in the wells, modulates an impedance between the electrodes. The modulated impedance, which is measurable with an applied electrical voltage, is indicative of the concentration of the target analyte in the sample. The wells can include antibodies immobilized inside the wells, to bind the target analyte, which can be a cytokine. Also provided are a method for label-free sensing of a target analyte in a sample, and a transcutaneous impedance sensor for label-free, in-situ biomarker detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Pengfei Xie, Mehdi Javanmard, Mark George Allen, Wen Shen, Naixin Song
  • Patent number: 12097501
    Abstract: Described herein are methods, kits and systems for sample enrichment, multi-step library preparation, sample normalization, detection of sample biomolecules and combinations thereof. Enrichment and multi-step library preparation is described in the context of microfluidic workflows. Sample barcoding methods and kits are described for increasing sample throughput while reducing background in negative samples. Integrated microfluidic devices comprising sample processing unit cells coupled to an array of reaction sites are provided for integrated workflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: STANDARD BIOTOOLS INC.
    Inventors: Michael L. Phelan, Christopher J. Kubu, Brian Fowler, Gang Sun, Nikita Patel, Naveen Ramalingam
  • Patent number: 12097502
    Abstract: A cartridge for use with chemical or biological analysis systems, as well as methods of using the same, is provided. The cartridge may include a floating microfluidic plate that is held in the cartridge using one or more floating support brackets that incorporate gaskets that may seal against fluidic ports on the microfluidic plate. The floating support brackets may include indexing features that may align the microfluidic plate with the seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: David Elliott Kaplan, Anthony John de Ruyter, Richard Alan Kelley, Ashish Kumar
  • Patent number: 12097503
    Abstract: A grinding media adapted to measure one or more physical characteristics of a comminution apparatus during operation or a charge therein is disclosed. The grinding media includes a freely moving grinding body with a bore disposed in an outer body portion of the body. A sensor body is configured to be received in the bore. The sensor body comprises a rigid sleeve, a resilient core and a sensor array embedded in the core of resilient material. A system for optimizing performance of a comminution circuit is also disclosed. The system includes a comminution apparatus varied in response to one or more physical characteristics of the comminution apparatus or the charge contained therein, measured during operation of the comminution apparatus. The system comprises a plurality of the adapted to measure grinding media. A method of optimizing performance of a comminution circuit is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Moly-Cop USA LLC
    Inventors: Paul Shelley, John Mullholland, Ian Hamilton
  • Patent number: 12097504
    Abstract: An externally serrated rotary shredder and submersible shredder pump having an externally serrated rotary shredder. These are for reducing the size of solids within a liquid which is to be pumped by shredding. An improvement over prior designs employs a cutting assembly and a shredder pump. The cutting assembly has a centrally positioned stationary dual sided plate cutter which engages first and second rotary cutters on alternate sides of a centrally positioned dual sided plate cutter. The first rotary cutter has cutting lobes having upper and lower cutting surfaces. The waste water contents have a finer grind which improves removal and reduces the likelihood of shredder pump clogging. The cutter assembly is configured for mounting to an intake opening of a stationary volute associated with a shredder pump. Many more cutting surfaces are provided which more quickly shred the solid materials within the liquid to be expelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Alfredo A. Ciotola
  • Patent number: 12097505
    Abstract: A system for processing compounds having constituent materials of different mechanical characteristics to extract their constituent materials. The system includes a kinetic impactor configured to impact, via a shockwave, compound particles of a preimpact mixture, thereby creating a postimpact mixture including (i) subparticles of 1st-constituent-material and (ii) reduced-compound particles including a 2nd constituent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Pulse Corp.
    Inventor: Igor Simon Alexandroff
  • Patent number: 12097506
    Abstract: A roller crusher having two generally parallel rollers arranged to rotate in opposite directions, towards each other, and separated by a gap, where each roller has two ends. The roller crusher includes a flange attached to at least one of the ends of one of the rollers, where the flange extends in a radial direction of the roller and has a height above an outer surface of the roller. The roller crusher further includes at least two scrapers arranged consecutive to each other at an end of the roller with a flange for at least partially removing material accumulated on the flange and/or on the outer surface at the end of the roller. A method for operating a roller crusher is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Metso Outotec USA Inc.
    Inventors: Vadim Reznitchenko, Keith Harbold, Brian Eric Behm
  • Patent number: 12097507
    Abstract: A reinforced screen cloth for use in a screening device for screening out oversize objects, including oil sand lumps and rocks present in an oil sands slurry, is provided comprising a plurality of anti-wear components affixed to a base plate having a plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD. IN TRUST FOR THE OWNERS OF THE SYNCRUDE PROJECT AS SUCH OWNERS EXIST NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
    Inventors: Hugh Roth, Dan Wolfe, Ron Cleminson
  • Patent number: 12097508
    Abstract: Systems and methods for separating materials and recovery of valuable copper from shredded end-of-life vehicles and appliances are disclosed. The system utilizes a pair of conveyor belts; one for de-watering and removing most of the plastic and glass particles and a second below the first for separating the copper wire bits. The second conveyor belt has a belt with a particular tooth pattern and material softness, and is set at a slight uphill incline angle. Water is delivered from the top down the slope and the belt successfully transports mostly just copper up and over a top edge to a collection bin. A cascading series of pairs of conveyors may be used to ensure nearly complete recovery of the copper. A secondary copper recovery conveyor having a field of nails or spikes may be added subsequent to the last primary conveyor for enhanced yield of copper wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SA RECYCLING LLC
    Inventors: Mike Adams, George Adams, Clifford Glen Newby, Alex Meza, Carlos Alberto Quiroz Guedez, Martin Arredondo
  • Patent number: 12097509
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a flue pipe system comprising a flue pipe, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, and a voltage supply. The flue pipe can define a fluid flow path through an interior volume of the flue pipe. The voltage supply can be connected to the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode. The voltage supply can form a first electrical circuit comprising the voltage supply, the first electrode, and the third electrode and a second electrical circuit comprising the voltage supply, the second electrode, and the third electrode. The first electrical circuit can form a streamer corona discharge between the first electrode and the third electrode in the interior volume such that the fluid flow path flows therethrough. The second electrical circuit can form a flow of ions between the second electrode and the third electrode along the interior surface of the flue pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Baojie Mu, Pratik S. Deokar
  • Patent number: 12097510
    Abstract: An air cleaner includes: a generation unit configured to discharge an electric current by being applied with a high voltage, and generate a plurality of types of discharge products; an air-sending device configured to form a flow of air, and spray the plurality of types of discharge products generated from the generation unit to a space; an estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of dust floating in the space by selecting whether an amount of dust floating in the space is a first estimation amount smaller than a predetermined threshold or is a second estimation amount larger than or equal to the predetermined threshold and larger than the first estimation amount; and a control unit configured to control a generation amount of the plurality of types of discharge products to be generated from the generation unit based on the amount of dust estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Shimizu, Akane Nomura, Yasuhiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12097511
    Abstract: A tribo-electro static separation process and system for the preparation of various food and feed products. A tribo-electric separation process and system for fractionating a feed mixture comprising at least two members of the group of proteins, starches, soluble and insoluble fibers. Namely, supplying a feed mixture comprising at least two of the group of proteins, starches, soluble and insoluble fibers to a tribo-electric separator and simultaneously charging and separating the feed mixture into at least two subfractions, with one of the subfractions enriched in one of protein, starch and fiber and having a composition different than the feed mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Kyle P. Flynn, Abhishek Gupta, Frank J. Hrach, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097512
    Abstract: Several agitators for generating a mixture are described which generally have a housing and an impeller rotatably mounted within the housing. The impeller has a first end with a first end face, and plurality of protuberances and at least one compressed gas channel outlet disposed on the first end face. The agitator also has a mixing chamber that is located adjacent to the plurality of protuberances, a fluid inlet extending through the housing for supplying a mixing fluid to the mixing chamber, and a fluid outlet extending through the housing for discharging the mixture from mixing chamber. When the compressed gas and the mixing fluid are supplied to the mixing chamber, the compressed gas becomes uncompressed gas, and rotation of the impeller agitates the uncompressed gas and the mixing fluid and disperses the uncompressed gas and at least a portion of the mixing fluid to generate the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: FineFlot Inc.
    Inventors: Nessipbay Tussupbayev, Nurzhan Zhantassov, Aitugan Omarov, Baurzhan Kassymbergebayev
  • Patent number: 12097513
    Abstract: The utility model is realized through the following technical scheme: an energy saving dynamic effluent sprinkler, comprises a shell, a water inlet seat, a water outlet device and a water outlet cover, the water outlet device is arranged in the shell, the water outlet cover is connected with the shell, and the water outlet cover is provided with a water outlet hole; Among them, the water outlet device comprises a base, an inclined water body, a swing water component, an impeller component and a driving component, the inclined water body is connected with the base to form a cavity, the cavity has a water outlet, the impeller component is arranged in the cavity, driven by the impeller component, the driving component can drive the swing water component to swing back and forth; The swing water component is mounted on the base and can swing in the base, the swing component is provided with a water passing chamber, the side surface of the swing component is provided with a water passing outlet, he water outlet is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen EASO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Shan Xu, Hai Tao Lu, Rui Fang Du, Zhen Li
  • Patent number: 12097514
    Abstract: A pump having a piston (1) sliding in a body (3) having a chamber (5) between an inlet valve (11) and an outlet valve (12), an outlet valve element sliding during actuation in the chamber (5), and a passage (40) wherein, at end of actuation, the outlet valve element (39) cooperates in a non-sealing manner with the passage to open the outlet valve. The inlet valve has an inlet valve element (10) that slides after closure in a sleeve (9) with reduced diameter and a spring (20) bearing on the inlet valve element and on a bottom of the sleeve. The spring (20) returns the piston into its rest position. The sleeve (9) has an inner diameter of less than 4.2 mm. The spring (20) has a force of at least 20 N, so that the pump delivers the fluid product at a pressure (P) of at least 15 bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SAS
    Inventor: Ludovic Petit
  • Patent number: 12097515
    Abstract: A container for spraying liquid is disclosed, which includes: a tube having a filling space; a body in which the tube is inserted, where the outer perimeter of the tube and the inner perimeter of the body form a body outlet passage, a lower tube hole is formed at a bottom of the tube as an entrance to the body outlet passage, and an upper movement hole is formed at a top of the body as an exit from the body outlet passage; a body cover coupled to the top of the body, where the body cover includes a cover channel connecting with the upper movement hole and a pump insertion space connecting with the cover channel and receiving a pump inserted therein; and a pump support coupled to the top of the body cover and supporting the pump to block outside air from entering the pump insertion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SAMHWA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kyungchang Lee, Byung-Jin Woo, Geun Jang, Ki Sung Lee
  • Patent number: 12097516
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system for controlling irrigation comprises an irrigation control unit comprising: an input configured to receive a user entered number of watering passes for a rotary sprinkler configured to repetitively rotate about an arc and irrigate an area of an irrigation site, wherein each rotation about the arc comprises a watering pass; a memory to store the number of watering passes and arc rotation data for the rotary sprinkler corresponding to a time duration for the rotary sprinkler to make the watering pass about the arc; and a control circuit configured to: receive the number of watering passes; receive the arc rotation data; determine a run time that will result in irrigation by the rotary sprinkler about the arc for the user entered number of passes; and store the run time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick V. Loper, Stuart Hackwell, David E. Colombo
  • Patent number: 12097517
    Abstract: A device for measuring a mass of a body, the device including a support suitable for supporting the body, a frame and an actuator designed to vibrate the support relative to the frame. The device includes an accelerometer designed to measure values of an acceleration of the support upon vibration of the support, and an electronic control module designed to estimate the mass of the support body from the measured acceleration values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Guillaume Foubert, Hervé Brochier-Cendre, Eric Ghio
  • Patent number: 12097518
    Abstract: A fluid discharger includes: a discharge nozzle configured to discharge fluid; a first rotation device configured to rotate the discharge nozzle; and a control device configured to control the first rotation device by remote operation. The control device includes a first mode control unit including a first automatic control unit configured to automatically perform reciprocating control of the discharge nozzle in a first rotation range set for each of the fluid dischargers; and a first switching unit configured to switch between a control signal to be outputted from the first automatic control unit and a control signal to rotate the discharge nozzle by a first rotation angle designated by remote operation. In a dust suppression system, this configuration can control the direction of the discharge nozzle by remote operation, and also can automatically reciprocate the direction of the discharge nozzle within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SUZUKEN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunobu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12097519
    Abstract: A sealing element seals a transition between a body of a spray gun, in particular a paint spray gun, and an attachment of a spray gun, in particular a paint spray gun, in particular a paint nozzle. The sealing element is configured so that it forms an axially acting sealing surface and a radially acting sealing surface with the body and/or the attachment when the attachment is arranged in body. An attachment, in particular a paint nozzle arrangement for a spray gun, in particular a paint spray gun, and a spray gun, in particular a paint spray gun can each have such a sealing element. Due to the axially acting sealing surface and the radially acting sealing surface, the sealing element provides a significantly improved sealing effect relative to sealing elements of the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SATA GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eva Volk, Norbert Maier, Stefan Gehret
  • Patent number: 12097520
    Abstract: A battery-operated ultrasonic diffuser includes a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and a liquid management system that allows a user to safely move the diffuser when it is full.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Vitruvi Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Panton, Sara Panton, Harpeet Gill
  • Patent number: 12097521
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optical article (10) includes supplying a first coating composition (A) and supplying one or more additional coating compositions (B) to an ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of a coating apparatus (100). At least one of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) is a photochromic coating composition. The method includes mixing the first coating composition and the one or more additional coating compositions at the ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of the coating apparatus (100), and applying the mixture (C) of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) to at least a portion of the optical article (10) so as to provide a pattern (24) on the optical article upon exposure to actinic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Transitions Optical, Ltd.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Ann Zezinka, Cathy Ann Taylor, Michael Frank Haley, Brian Smyth, Anil Kumar, David J. Park, David B. Knowles
  • Patent number: 12097522
    Abstract: A mechanism is described to resist or prevent rotation of portions of an irrigation sprinkler riser when in its lowered or popped-down position. Hence, when a pedestrian walks over a lowered sprinkler or a lawn mower rolls over a sprinkler, for example, the riser will remain fixed in its rotational orientation relative to its outer body and surroundings. By resisting or preventing this rotation, this rotational locking mechanism prevents damage to the internal transmission, gears, and arc trip mechanisms of the sprinkler, as well as prevents the watering arc from being accidentally adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Toro Company
    Inventor: Travis L. Onofrio
  • Patent number: 12097523
    Abstract: A misting fan includes a nozzle, a fan assembly, and a support assembly. The nozzle is configured to spray water. The support assembly is formed with a coupling portion for detachably coupling a battery pack. The nozzle is disposed on the fan assembly or the support assembly and includes a nozzle body and a second part. The nozzle body includes a first part formed with a first surface and the second part is detachably installed to the nozzle body and formed with a second surface. When the second part is installed to the nozzle body, a water flow channel is formed between the second surface and the first surface. When the second part is detached from the nozzle body, the first surface is at least partially exposed for cleaning access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keqiong Zhong
  • Patent number: 12097524
    Abstract: A battery powered fluid sprayer includes a shelter that the battery is mounted in to provide power to the electric components of the sprayer. The shelter protects the battery from falling fluid droplets. The shelter extends above the battery and projects outward laterally and longitudinally to protect the battery. The battery can move vertically downward to dismount from the fluid sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Earles, Brian M. Mulgrew
  • Patent number: 12097525
    Abstract: The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a head unit configured to discharge an ink to a substrate; a supply unit configured to supply the ink to the head unit and including a reservoir having an inner space; and a pressure adjusting unit configured to adjust a pressure of the inner space, and wherein the pressure adjusting unit comprises: a first pressure adjusting unit; and a second pressure adjusting unit in which a size for changing a pressure of the inner space per unit time is greater than the first pressure adjusting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheon Su Cho
  • Patent number: 12097526
    Abstract: Work-saving improvements for food-process lines include (1) mounting alternate machines of a food process line on pivot hardware to speed up washing and maintenance operations, (2) mounting the machines on rolling riding gear in order to speed up the activities of building and re-building food process lines of a different series of machines, or (3) isolate the food process line in its own tunnel and hence its own climate-controlled atmosphere to reduce conflicts with running two food process lines side by side where one food process line is a source of air borne allergens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Robert G. Nothum, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097527
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for modifying an aspect of an exterior polymer material or polymer type material of a linear substrate with a fluid. The apparatus include a variable exposure gap within which the linear substrate is exposed to the fluid. The width of the exposure gap is varied with the speed of the linear substrate traversing the exposure gap to maintain a constant exposure time of the linear substrate with the modifying fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 12097528
    Abstract: A repaired area on a work surface is presented. The repaired area includes a repairboundary. Within the repairboundary, the work surface has a repair texture and, outside of the repair boundary, the work surface has a work surface texture. The repaired area also includes a repair depth distribution within the repair boundary and a concealing feature. The repaired area is a result of a robotic repair executed on the work surface to remove a defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Brett R. Hemes, Mark W. Orlando, Daniel M. Bodily, Jonathan B. Arthur, Nathan J. Herbst, Thomas J. Strey, Aaron K. Nienaber
  • Patent number: 12097529
    Abstract: There are provided a decorative object and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes: an object to be decorated; a printed layer covering at least a part of a surface of the object to be decorated; and a color clear layer covering the printed layer. In accordance with changes in a transmission distance by which light is transmitted through the color clear layer, a slight change in appearances of the decorative object can be caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Nakagawa, Hiroaki Matsumiya, Yuuki Manabe, Kengo Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 12097530
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of protecting value documents and value commercial goods against counterfeit and illegal reproduction. In particular, the present invention provides processes for producing optical effect layers (OELs) comprising non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable particles and comprising a motif made of at least two areas made of a single applied and cured layer, said motif being obtained by using a selective curing performed by irradiation with an actinic radiation LED source (x41) comprising an array of individually addressable actinic radiation emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Evgeny Loginov, Mathieu Schmid, Edgar Mueller, Claude-Alain Despland
  • Patent number: 12097531
    Abstract: A method for forming an antislip material. A flexible thermoplastic carrier is provided. A hot release surface is provided. Provided is a first layer of discrete thermoplastic particles, sifting on the hot release surface. The discrete particles are above their softening temperatures, providing in the first layer a tackiness. The method includes contacting the carrier with the tacky first layer for sticking the first layer to the carrier, and thereafter removing the carrier, and therewith the tacky first layer stuck to the carrier, from the release surface. Thereby the carrier is provided with a hot, preferably discontinuous and/or elastomeric antislip coating. With a heat energy of the hot coating a bond is formed between the carrier and the coating. The removing of the carrier includes pulling the carrier out of the contact with a pulling-out force. The temperature of the hot release surface is above the melting temperature of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: FLEXINNOVA KFT
    Inventors: Jozsef Mandzsu, Sr., Zoltan Mandzsu, Jozsef Mandzsu, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097532
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film, comprising applying a base paint (X) having a solids content ratio of 30 to 62 mass % to a substrate to form a base coating film having a cured film thickness of 6 to 45 ?m; applying an effect pigment dispersion (Y) having a solids content ratio of 0.1 to 10 mass % to the base coating film to form an effect coating film having a cured film thickness of 0.1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Sakai
  • Patent number: 12097533
    Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer device comprises a controller and a differential piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer with a membrane later, a bottom electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a top electrode layer comprising a first electrode with a positive voltage to displacement coefficient and a second electrode with a negative voltage to displacement coefficient. During a first period, the controller electrically decouples a first output of a first driver from the first electrode, electrically decouples a second output of a second driver from the second electrode, and electrically couples the first and second electrodes to equalize charge between them. During a second period, the controller electrically decouples the first and second electrodes, electrically couples the first output with the first electrode, and electrically couples the second output with the second electrode; where waveforms on the first and second outputs during the second time period are out of phase with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: InvenSense, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell H. Kline, Richard J. Przybyla
  • Patent number: 12097534
    Abstract: A device for separation and removal of light impurities from granular material has a cylindrical body, in the upper part of which is located a motor-driven fan that sucks air and an outlet channel for light impurities, below which there is axially mounted a feed channel connected to a container of granular material, and in the lower part of the body there is axially located a cylinder with an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter (d) of the body, containing a centrifugal guide located under the outlet of the feed channel, whereas below the centrifugal guide, on the inner wall of the cylinder are fixed uniformly spaced directing plates at a certain distance from each other, their ends being pointed towards the axis of the device, and between the body and the cylinder there is a chute for purified material. There is a plurality of openwork hinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Wlodzimierz Sosnowski
  • Patent number: 12097535
    Abstract: Provided are a sorting vehicle, a goods sorting system and a goods sorting method. The sorting vehicle includes a vehicle body, a belt-type conveying mechanism, an enclosing mechanism and a processor. The belt-type conveying mechanism includes a roller-type drive mechanism disposed on the vehicle body and an endless conveyor belt disposed on a roller of the roller-type drive mechanism. The moving direction of the endless conveyor belt is perpendicular to the traveling direction of the vehicle body. The enclosing mechanism is partially or entirely disposed on the endless conveyor belt, and is configured to form at least one enclosing region above the vehicle body. The processor is configured to control the roller-type drive mechanism to drive the endless conveyor belt to move a preset distance to complete unloading of the goods within the enclosing region; and control the roller-type drive mechanism to complete resetting of the enclosing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wenjun Shan
  • Patent number: 12097536
    Abstract: A biplanar cleaning tool includes adjustable spacers having nested, telescoping or concentric bosses providing for adjustability of the spacing between planar elements of the biplanar cleaning tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Micronova Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip LeCompte, Robert Emmons
  • Patent number: 12097537
    Abstract: A solvent containment and solvent handling process interlocking system is described that can be used as a ventilation and spill management system for the storage and use of hazardous and volatile chemicals and solvents in an ordinary or non-hazardous location. The vented solvent containment system has a containment tray for secondary solvent containment and air regulatory to supply negative air pressure to draw in any evaporated solvent from the containment tray to a safe exhaust location. A safety sensor in the solvent containment system is interlocked with the solvent handling and solvent control system to slow or stop solvent flow in the event of a potentially hazardous solvent leak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Vitalis Extraction Technology Inc.
    Inventors: James Anthony Seabrook, Raymond Brown, Chelsea Walker
  • Patent number: 12097538
    Abstract: A uniform oleophobic or oleo- and hydrophobic film is applied to equipment used in the petroleum industry. The methods can be applied to new equipment or equipment pulled from service, with the application process being performed in a controlled environment or the field. Applicator tools for efficient delivery and application of cleaners, solvents, and films used in the coating process are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventor: Charles A. Frerman
  • Patent number: 12097540
    Abstract: A modular power washer contains a power washing system (10), containing a base unit (20) and an accessory unit (34), wherein the accessory unit (34) is removably-attached to the base unit (20). The base unit (20), contains a housing (22), a pump (26), a motor (24), a power source (28), an input valve (64), and an output valve (32). The housing (22), contains the pump (26), and the motor (24), therein, and the housing (22), at least partially contains the power source (28), therein. The motor (24), is operatively-connected to the power source (28). The pump (26), is operatively-connected to the motor (24). The pump (26), is fluidly-connected to the input valve (64), and the output valve (32). The accessory unit (34), is selected from a hose storage unit (68), an additive tank (88), a handle (36) a roll bar (50), a frame (72), a wheel (74), and a combination thereof. A kit and a method of use are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Todd Rickey, Sven Eschrich
  • Patent number: 12097541
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a stage having a substantially disc-shaped form and including a hole in a center thereof; a roller that contacts a side surface of the stage and rotates the stage; a first liquid nozzle that supplies a first liquid to a first surface of the substrate; a first driver that moves a position of the first liquid nozzle; a second liquid nozzle that supplies a second liquid from the hole of the stage to a second surface of the substrate; a second driver that moves a position of the second liquid nozzle; a cooling nozzle that supplies a cooling gas from the hole of the stage to the second surface; a third driver that moves a position of the cooling nozzle; and a controller that controls the first driver, the second driver, and the third driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHIBAURA MECHATRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensuke Demura, Daisuke Matsushima, Masaya Kamiya
  • Patent number: 12097542
    Abstract: A pneumatically driven fluid pump apparatus is disclosed which includes a pump casing having an inner wall, a pump cap secured at a first end of the pump casing, and a liquid discharge tube in communication with the pump cap and extending at least partially within an interior area of the pump casing toward a second end of the pump casing, and where fluid is admitted into the pump casing at the second end. The pressurized airflow causes a swirling flow of the liquid within the interior area of the pump casing that helps to clean the interior area of the pump casing by liquid scrubbing action to dislodge debris adhered within the interior area of the pump casing and remove the debris up through the liquid discharge tube and out from the fluid pump apparatus during a liquid eject cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John F. Schaupp, Donald Lee Schultz, Matthew Thomas McKeown
  • Patent number: 12097543
    Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning an object having a peripheral edge defining a tubular portion of the object that is open at least one of its ends. The cleaning device has a cleaning enclosure, a first fluid feed duct for feeding fluid to the enclosure, and a first fluid discharge duct for discharging fluid from the enclosure. The cleaning enclosure has first and second enclosure portions. When the device is in its closed configuration at least one central zone of the second enclosure portion extends inside the first enclosure portion in order to define a reception space for receiving the object between the first enclosure portion and the central zone, which reception space extends all around the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUUM
    Inventors: Mathieu Bourhis, Thomas Munoz, Clément Houllier, Maxime Prieto
  • Patent number: 12097544
    Abstract: A washing device for washing objects for stalling animals includes: a rod extending along a main axis and connectable to a source of pressurized washing fluid; a fluid conveying device connected to the source and associated with the rod; nozzles for emitting jets of the fluid, the nozzles being connected to the device and supported by the rod; a translation mechanism for translating the rod along a stroke extending along a translation axis transversal to the main axis, and a rotation mechanism for alternately rotating the rod about a rotation axis parallel to the main axis. The translation and rotation mechanisms are selectively operable for moving the rod inside an operating plane defined by the main axis and by the translation axis to direct the jets against the surfaces to be washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: IWT SRL
    Inventors: Matteo Borghi, Michele Vitali
  • Patent number: 12097545
    Abstract: Methods and systems for the efficient collection and destruction of plastic waste and debris found in bodies of water, such as oceans. In particular, a plastic destruction system can include an insulated chamber having a base containing a heat source and an air source, a bed of a fluidizable media supported above the base, a support tray suspended in the insulated chamber above the fluidizable media, and a humidification compartment located outside of and connected to the insulated chamber to humidify the plastic waste before it enters the insulated chamber. Systems and methods can also utilize a salt wash station to apply a salt solution to the waste for enhanced reaction in the insulated chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Peter Metropoulos
  • Patent number: 12097546
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for treating a contaminated environmental medium. In one example, the treatment includes adding a first jarosite-group mineral to the contaminated environmental medium to form a wet mixture under a set of conditions. The set of conditions is maintained over a duration of time to expedite precipitation of a second jarosite-group mineral, the second jarosite-group mineral incorporating contaminant cations and contaminant anions into a structure of the second jarosite-group mineral. The first jarosite-group mineral is added in situ at a contamination site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. EPA
    Inventors: Kirk Gerald Scheckel, Ranju R. Karna, Charles R. Partridge, Karen D. Bradham, David James Thomas, Matthew R. Noerpel, Jennifer Lynn Goetz, Todd Peter Luxton, Tyler Dale Sowers
  • Patent number: 12097547
    Abstract: An extrusion press including a ram having a ram body configured for movement along a ram axis, and a compaction container defining a compaction compartment and having a compaction container axis. The compaction container is rotatable between a first orientation wherein the compaction container axis is not aligned with the ram axis and a second orientation wherein the compaction container axis is aligned with the ram axis such that the ram body is movable into the compaction compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GrafTech International Holdings Inc.
    Inventor: Guillermo Urrutia