Patents Issued in December 17, 2024
  • Patent number: 12168291
    Abstract: A method, performed by a server device, of controlling a cleaning robot includes: receiving a first user input related to the cleaning robot, through a first home appliance; identifying a first scenario corresponding to the received first user input, from a scenario list defining operations of the cleaning robot; identifying a control command including movement position information indicating a destination of the cleaning robot, based on the identified first scenario; and transmitting the identified control command to the cleaning robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kunyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12168292
    Abstract: An information processing device including: an information obtaining unit that obtains environmental information from sensor information obtained by a sensor with which an autonomous moving body is provided; an extraction unit that extracts, from the environmental information, specific environmental information to be saved; and an action control unit that controls an action of the autonomous moving body so as to output the specific environmental information to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Yokono, Natsuko Ozaki, Sayaka Watanabe, Jianing Wu, Tatsuhito Sato, Midori Kawano
  • Patent number: 12168293
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus (100) for transferring a vial (200) from a first station (301) to a second station (302), comprising a stock (101) of vials in said first station, a mobile arm (1) provided with at least three gripping elements (2a-2d) movable between one another in a controlled way at least between a first and a second position, wherein the free ends of at least part of said gripping elements (2a-2d) have a magnet (5), and wherein the area of the polygon (P) having as vertexes said free ends in said first position is smaller than the area of the polygon (P) having as vertexes said free ends in said second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Thermo Fisher Scientific S.p.A.
    Inventors: Tiziano Bosaglia, Massimo Gherlinzoni, Riccardo Facchetti, Flavio Antoniucci
  • Patent number: 12168294
    Abstract: A modular robot with a drive platform including: a first lateral drive module having at least two wheels and at least one motor for driving at least one of the wheels, a second lateral drive module having at least one wheel and at least one motor for driving the at least one wheel, a front crossmember module connecting first ends of the first and the second lateral drive module, and a rear crossmember module connecting first ends of the first and the second lateral drive module. One of the two lateral drive modules has a control unit for controlling the motors of the two lateral drive modules. The two drive modules have first connecting devices at their respective ends and the two crossmember modules have second connecting devices in the region of their respective ends. The first and the second connecting devices have mechanical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Thiemo Buchner, Andreas Mandl, Antonio Weber
  • Patent number: 12168295
    Abstract: Embodiments of positioning systems and methods are disclosed herein. Embodiments of such positioning systems may include a hierarchy of positioning systems. Each of the positioning systems in the hierarchy may be adapted to move each positioning system lower in the hierarchy along with one or more end-effectors. A control system may control the positioning systems of the hierarchy using a control method comprising a coarse step, a refinement step, or an adaptive step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Building Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Samuel De Bonet, Nicholas Charles McMahon
  • Patent number: 12168296
    Abstract: Implementations are provided for generating a plurality of simulated training instances based on a recorded user-directed robot control episode, and training one or more robot control policies based on such training instances. In various implementations, a three-dimensional environment may be simulated and may include a robot controlled by an external robot controller. A user may operate the robot controller to control the robot in the simulated 3D environment to perform one or more robotic tasks. The user-directed robot control episode, including responses of the external robot controller and the simulated robot to user commands and/or the virtual environment, can be captured. Features of the captured user-directed robot control episode can be altered in order to generate a plurality of training instances. One or more robot control policies can then be trained based on the plurality of training instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Bennice, Paul Bechard, Joséphine Simon
  • Patent number: 12168297
    Abstract: A robot apparatus includes a robot arm, an end effector provided in the robot arm and configured to hold a workpiece, and a controller configured to perform a control process for controlling the end effector to release the workpiece on a basis of a first torque acting on the end effector in a predetermined direction in a state in which the end effector is holding the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12168298
    Abstract: A cable terminal end detection method includes a gripping step for gripping, using a hand including a first gripping section and a second gripping section disposed to be separated on an X axis and configured to open and close in a direction along a Z axis, a cable in two places separated in a longitudinal direction with the first gripping section and the second gripping section, a moving step for, in a state in which the cable is gripped by the hand, moving the cable to the first gripping section side in a direction along the X axis relatively to the hand, and a detecting step for detecting, with a tactile sensor disposed in the second gripping section to be in contact with the cable, that the cable has slipped out from the second gripping section and detecting that a terminal end of the cable is located between the first gripping section and the second gripping section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masato Kobayashi, Daiki Togashi, Takuya Wakayama
  • Patent number: 12168299
    Abstract: The information processing device 1B includes an acquisition unit 51A, a potential function synthesizing unit 53A, and an objective function outputting unit 54A. The acquisition unit 51A acquires a task logical expression in which an objective task to be performed by a robot is expressed by a combination of a plurality of atomic tasks. The potential function synthesizing unit 53A synthesizes atomic potential functions, each of which is a potential function corresponding to each of the atomic tasks, based on the task logical expression. The objective function output unit 54A outputs an atomic potential function synthesized based on the task logical expression as an objective function for controlling the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manao Machida, Masumi Ichien
  • Patent number: 12168300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining movement of a robot are provided. A computing system of the robot receives information including an initial state of the robot and a goal state of the robot. The computing system determines, using nonlinear optimization, a candidate trajectory for the robot to move from the initial state to the goal state. The computing system determines whether the candidate trajectory is feasible. If the candidate trajectory is feasible, the computing system provides the candidate trajectory to a motion control module of the robot. If the candidate trajectory is not feasible, the computing system determines, using nonlinear optimization, a different candidate trajectory for the robot to move from the initial state to the goal state, the nonlinear optimization using one or more changed parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: C. Dario Bellicoso, Logan W. Tutt, Neil M. Neville, Alexander D. Perkins
  • Patent number: 12168301
    Abstract: A robot calibration system includes a calibration fixture configured to be mounted on a substrate processing chamber. The calibration fixture includes at least one camera arranged to capture an image including an outer edge of a test substrate and an edge ring surrounding the test substrate. A controller is configured to receive the captured image, analyze the captured image to measure a distance between the outer edge of the test substrate and the edge ring, calculate a center of the test substrate based on the measured distance, and calibrate a robot configured to transfer substrate to and from the substrate processing chamber based on the calculated center of the test substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Blank, Aravind Alwan, Behnam Behziz, Peter Thaulad, Mark E. Emerson
  • Patent number: 12168302
    Abstract: A grasping device includes: a grasping part module including a first surface and a second surface and configured to grasp an object between the first surface and the second surface; an arm part configured to change a position of the grasping part module; an imaging unit provided at a position that moves together with the grasping part module and configured to capture an image of at least a part of the object; and a control unit configured to control, based on specified amount information indicating a contact state in a case where a specified amount of the object and the first surface are in contact with each other, and information indicating a contact state captured by the imaging unit, at least one of the grasping part module and the arm part such that an amount of the object that is grasped approaches the specified amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Akihiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12168303
    Abstract: A rotary electric shaver includes a head connected to a blade setting base of a main body. The blade setting base has a setting part in which a plurality of blade units are disposed, and a blade frame that holds the setting part. An inner blade part of the blade unit has an inner blade member, and a base part joined to the inner blade member. An outer blade part of the blade unit has an annular outer blade member having a sliding contact surface and a plurality of slits formed in the circumferential direction, a disk-shaped cover, a ball, and a support. A part of the ball surrounded by the cover and the support protrudes from the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL IZUMI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Iwakura, Koichi Odagiri, Yuta Sugiura
  • Patent number: 12168304
    Abstract: A hair clipper cover assembly includes a sleeve for insertably receiving a hair clipper. The sleeve is comprised of a friction enhancing material thereby facilitating the sleeve to frictionally engage a surface upon which the hair clipper is placed. In this way the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from traveling on the surface as a result of vibration produced by the hair clipper when the hair clipper is turned on. Thus, the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from falling off of a table. The sleeve has a pair of lever slots that is each integrated into the sleeve thereby facilitating a respective one of the lever slots to accommodate a blade adjustment lever on the hair clipper. The sleeve has a power button opening and a power cord opening to accommodate a respective power button and a power cord of the hair clipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventor: Tanesha Fennell
  • Patent number: 12168305
    Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine comprising an apparatus for cutting food packagings to size along a longitudinal direction, wherein the apparatus defines an inner space and an outer region, said apparatus having a first shaft, which extends in the inner space and on which at least a first cutting blade is arranged, and a second shaft which extends in the inner space and on which at least a second cutting blade is arranged, said second cutting blade forming a cutting unit arranged in the inner space together with the first cutting blade during operation, wherein the first cutting blade is axially displaceably supported on the respective shaft to change an axial spacing and an axial contact pressure between the first cutting blade and the second cutting blade of the cutting unit, and said apparatus having an adjustment mechanism, wherein the adjustment mechanism is coupled to the axially displaceable first cutting blade to displace the displaceable cutting blade in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: WEBER FOOD TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan Clössner
  • Patent number: 12168306
    Abstract: A method for forming grooves in a board element. An exemplary method includes arranging the board element in contact with a support member, and forming at least one groove in a rear side of the board element by removing material, such as chips, from the board element by rotating one or more cutting devices including a plurality of tooth elements configured to rotate around a rotational axis. A method further includes counteracting, such as preventing, a displacement of the board element away from the support member during forming of the at least one groove, wherein the counteracting, such as preventing, includes arranging at least a portion of the board element between an obstruction element and the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Per Josefsson, Richard Jolfson
  • Patent number: 12168307
    Abstract: A wood preservative composition and method for preserving wood by contacting wood with said composition comprising a polyurethane polymer, non-aqueous solvents, and a wood preservative active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Nutrition & Biosciences USA 2, LLC
    Inventors: Selvanathan Arumugam, David A. Laganella, Randall W. Stephens
  • Patent number: 12168308
    Abstract: The veneer lathe comprises rotatable spindles for engaging the ends of a block, a centering device for measuring dimensions of the block for determining optimal centering of the block, the centering device comprising centering spindles for engaging each end of the block, transfer arms moveable in the axial direction of the spindles for engaging the ends of the block and in a direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction for transferring the block from the centering device to a peeling position, a knife assembly comprising a knife and a nose bar, which is in the form of a rotatable roll, and a support device comprising a lower roll and an upper roll at a distance from the lower roll for supporting the block during peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: RAUTE OYJ
    Inventors: Mikko Vesterinen, Jussi Auvinen, Ilpo Lyytikäinen, Timo Nietosvuori, Antti Pennanen, Matti Poikela, Seppo Vartiainen
  • Patent number: 12168309
    Abstract: A method is provided for casting a component. Accordingly, data indicative of at least one location of a unitary core-shell mold which is susceptible to a stress concentration is received. An additive manufacturing process is employed to form the unitary core-shell mold defining a casting cavity. The unitary core-shell mold includes a shell wall defining an outer component shape and a core wall positioned inward of the shell wall. The core wall defines an inner component shape. The core wall and/or the shell wall defines at least one reinforcement recess adjacent to the at least one location which is susceptible to the stress concentration. Following the forming of the unitary core-shell mold, at least one support member is positioned within the reinforcement recess in contact with the at least one location. With the support member in place, the component is cast within the casting cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Brian David Przeslawski, Xi Yang, Joseph Edward Hampshire
  • Patent number: 12168310
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include dissolvable and intentionally degradable objects that are useful for hydraulic fracking operations. Such objects are at least in part manufactured using materials that are soluble in certain fluids including water. The dissolvable and intentionally degradable fracking objects can be manufactured from one or more materials, including composite materials. In one embodiment, dissolvable fracking objects are manufactured from ceramic materials that are soluble in fluids such as water. Such dissolvable fracking objects include fracking balls and plugs. These fracking balls and plugs are arranged to seal a well for a predetermined period of time and dissolve over that predetermined period of time until the well is no longer sealed. In another embodiment, tools generally useful in fracking operations are manufactured to have desirable elastomeric properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Victory Elements, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Howard, Ajit Yeshwant Sane
  • Patent number: 12168311
    Abstract: A machine and method for compacting a powder material; the machine comprises a compacting device, which is adapted to compact the powder material; a conveyor assembly to convey a layer of powder material, along a portion of a given path, to the compacting device; and an adjusting assembly, which is adapted to change the width of the layer of powder material along the portion of the given path and consequently the thickness of the layer of powder material at its longitudinal edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA
    Inventors: Marco Salieri, Alan Babini, Mauro Bertozzi
  • Patent number: 12168312
    Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement for granulating polymer material, having a housing with a gas supply line, connected opposite the latter to the housing, having a rectangular cross-section, a granulating unit located at least partially in the housing and having a perforated plate of a feed or plasticising unit feeding into the housing, and a scraper which crushes or separates the material emerging through the recesses of the perforated plate, wherein in a plane running parallel to the plane of the perforated plate, the two lateral wall surfaces of the gas discharge line perpendicular to this plane include an angle ?2 with one another, and the two lateral wall surfaces of the gas supply line perpendicular to this plane include an angle ?1, wherein the two angles ?1, ?2 open towards the housing and wherein the angle ?1 is greater than the angle ?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: EREMA Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Gesellschaft M.B.H.
    Inventors: Michael Aigner, Christian Wagner, Roland Huber, Klaus Feichtinger
  • Patent number: 12168313
    Abstract: A method for producing an elastomeric skin having visually spotted appearance may include providing a liquid skin forming composition having solid spot forming particles having a longest dimension that is at least 40 ?m and spraying the liquid skin forming composition in the form of a spray of droplets onto a mold surface. The provision of solid spot forming particles that are comparable in size to the droplet size may aid in projecting the solid spot forming particles forward upon impact on the mold surface such that a percentage thereof appear visible on the front face of the elastomeric skin after demolding thereby resulting in a front face with a spotted appearance without having to use multiple liquid skin forming compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: RECTICEL AUTOMOBILSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Yvan Vanluchene, Linda Dedoncker
  • Patent number: 12168314
    Abstract: Methods and systems for consolidating an additively manufactured piece. In one embodiment, methods include the step of combining the additively manufactured piece with another piece, for example with another additively manufactured piece or with a piece that is not additively manufactured (e.g. an insert, foam, etc.), so that during a consolidation step, those pieces are assembled or connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: 9T Labs GmbH
    Inventors: Chester Houwink, Giovanni Cavolina
  • Patent number: 12168315
    Abstract: Molded articles having a decorative effect include at least 75% by weight neutralized acid copolymer. The molded articles include from 0.1% to 5% by weight polyamide-based pigment masterbatch. The polyamide-based pigment masterbatch includes from 30% to 95% by weight polyamide and from 5% to 70% by weight of a first pigment associated with the polyamide. The molded articles further include from 0.1% to 5% by weight of a second pigment derived from a liquid-based pigment masterbatch; and from 0.1% to 0.7% by weight of oil-based carrier derived from the liquid-based pigment masterbatch. Methods for preparing the molded articles include dry blending a neutralized acid copolymer, a polyamide-based pigment masterbatch, and a liquid-based pigment masterbatch to form an initial mixture; feeding the initial mixture to an injection molding apparatus; and molding the initial mixture with the injection molding apparatus to form the molded article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sara Luisa Reynoso, Jorge Caminero Gomes
  • Patent number: 12168316
    Abstract: An injection molding apparatus comprising: An actuator having a driver receiving electrical energy or power from an electrical drive, the electrical drive comprising an interface, the electrical drive being housed within or by and actuator housing or being mounted on or to the housing, the housing and the electrical drive being mounted on, to or in close proximity to the heated manifold, a cooling device disposed between the heated manifold and the housing adapted to substantially isolate or insulate at least the electrical drive from communication with heat emanating from the heated manifold or to heat sink or absorb heat communicated or communicable to the electrical drive from the heated manifold or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SYNVENTIVE MOLDING SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Deven Hansen, Jared Wright, Vito Galati, Paul Savoie
  • Patent number: 12168317
    Abstract: The present disclosure prevents load from being produced in an injection molding machine. The control device for an injection molding machine according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has a determining part that is configured to determine, based on information detected in accordance with a movement of a measurement motor provided in the injection molding machine, whether or not an operation of removing or attaching a screw that rotates in accordance with the measurement motor has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hajime Ono
  • Patent number: 12168318
    Abstract: A nozzle tool system for extrusion blow molding has an intermediate module and at least first and second nozzle outlet units, each forming an adjustable nozzle outlet gap between a mandrel extending axially and a deformable sleeve. The units can be connected with the intermediate module as replacements for one another, and have a first outlet diameter and a larger second outlet diameter different from one another. At least one setting drive for reversible deformation of the sleeve is arranged on the intermediate module and can be connected with the deformable sleeve by way of a releasable coupling arrangement. The first nozzle outlet unit delimits a first setting path of the setting drive, using at least one inner mechanical stop, and the second nozzle outlet unit delimits a second setting path of the setting drive, greater than the first setting path, using at least one inner mechanical stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventor: Max Feuerherm
  • Patent number: 12168319
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for applying a material containing a meltable polymer comprising the step of applying a filament of the at least partially molten material from a discharge opening of a discharge element onto a substrate. The meltable polymer has the following properties: —a melting point (DSC, differential scanning calorimetry; second heating with a heating rate of 5° C./min) in a range from ?40° C. to ?120° C.; —a glass transition temperature (DMA, dynamic mechanical analysis in accordance with DIN EN ISO 6721-1:2011) in a range from ??70° C. to ?30° C.; —a storage modulus G? (parallel plate oscillation viscometer in accordance with ISO 6721-10:2015 at a frequency of 1/s) at 20° C. above the melting point of ?1·104 Pa; —a storage modulus G? (parallel plate oscillation viscometer in accordance with ISO 6721-10:2015 at a frequency of 1/s) at 10° C. below the melting point with prior heating to a temperature of 20° C. above the melting point and subsequent cooling with a cooling rate of 1° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Achten, Thomas Buesgen, Joerg Tillack, Peter Reichert, Nicolas Degiorgio, Martin Melchiors, Wolfgang Arndt
  • Patent number: 12168320
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods of constructing a structure and related non-transitory computer readable medium. In an embodiment, the method includes (a) defining a vertical first slice and a second vertical slice of the structure. A lateral cross-section of the structure within the first vertical slice is different than the lateral cross-section of the structure for the second vertical slice. In addition, the method includes (b) depositing a plurality of first vertically stacked layers of an extrudable building material with a printing assembly to form the first vertical slice. Further, the method includes depositing a plurality of second vertically stacked layers of the extrudable building material atop the first vertical slice with the printing assembly to form the second vertical slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: ICON Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ford, Alex Le Roux
  • Patent number: 12168321
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for limiting build plate expansion in a 3D print environment. The apparatus, system and method may include a decoupling leveler associated with mounts for a build plate in the print environment; and a plurality of adjustments passing substantially through and mounted within the decoupling leveler. The leveler may be decoupled from the mounts during heating and cooling of the print environment, and recoupled via a positional clamped by the plurality of adjustments during printing on the build plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventors: Scott Klimczak, Luke Rodgers, Darin Burgess
  • Patent number: 12168322
    Abstract: A consumable assembly for a 3D printer includes a spool carrying wound filament. The spool is configured to be installed into a spool cabinet to maintain the filament in a controlled environment. A filament key fob that carries a spool chip programmed with identification data for the consumable assembly is tethered to the spool. The filament key fob is configured to be received in a dock of the 3D printer outside of a controlled environment of a chamber of the spool cabinet while remaining tethered to the spool installed in the chamber of the spool cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: STRATASYS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Anderson, Dang Yang, Ross Michalkiewicz
  • Patent number: 12168323
    Abstract: A 3D printer includes a nozzle and a cleaning system. The cleaning system includes a gas source configured to introduce a gas at least partially into the nozzle. The cleaning system also includes a cleaning tool configured to remove solidified metallic dross from within the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: David K. Biegelsen
  • Patent number: 12168324
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping device includes an ejection unit configured to eject a shaping material from a nozzle; a stage; a drive unit configured to change a relative position between the ejection unit and the stage; a cleaning mechanism provided with a brush and a blade; and a control unit. The control unit executes a cleaning operation of bringing at least one of the brush and the blade into contact with the nozzle by causing the nozzle to reciprocate in a manner in which the nozzle crosses the cleaning mechanism for a plurality of times in a cleaning processing. The control unit causes the nozzle to reciprocate such that the nozzle comes into contact with the brush or the blade at different positions in the cleaning operation. The control unit records at least one of material information on a type of the plasticizing material, a cumulative ejection amount of the shaping material ejected from the nozzle, and a use time of the nozzle in association with the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Keigo Ishikura
  • Patent number: 12168325
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method for forming a three-dimensional structure. The method includes determining one or more locations for positioning a sensing device based on structural coordinate information relating to a three-dimensional structure to be formed. The method further includes forming a portion of the three-dimensional structure based on the structural coordinate information. The method further includes positioning the sensing device at a location of the one or more locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BELLASENO GMBH
    Inventors: Mohit Prashant Chhaya, Navid Khani, Jonas Alexander Thiele
  • Patent number: 12168326
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a test body (30) for mechanically destructively testing a materially bonded joining connection, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing an areal fiber composite substrate formed from a fiber composite material which has a fiber material and matrix material in which the fiber material is embedded, applying at least one test fabric and an adhesive to a substrate surface of the areal fiber composite substrate, and curing the adhesive, and therefore a materially bonded joining connection is produced between the test fabric and the substrate surface by way of the cured adhesive, wherein a Dutch-weave fabric and/or a square-mesh fabric is provided as the test fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.
    Inventor: Lennert Heilmann
  • Patent number: 12168327
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a counter-tool for an ultrasonic welding machine, wherein the counter-tool comprises two separate sealing surfaces which are intended to come into contact with a material to be processed, characterized in that the counter-tool is formed in two parts, wherein the two parts of the counter-tool are movable relative to one another, and each of the two parts comprises one of the two sealing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HERRMANN ULTRASCHALLTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Runck, Jürgen Pfrommer
  • Patent number: 12168328
    Abstract: An automated production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses comprises: a production line front end (1) comprising: a first injection-molding machine (10) and a second injection-molding machine (12) a casting module (14) comprising a filling station (144) and a capping station (145); a stacking module (15) and a curing module (16); a destacking module (17) and a demolding and delensing module a production line back end (2) comprising: a scalable treatment module (20) comprising a number of liquid baths for a liquid bath treatment of the cured lenses (CL) carried by the treatment carrier tray (200) to obtain the ophthalmic lenses, wherein the number of liquid baths are reduced or increased pending on the number of ophthalmic lenses concurrently produced by the production lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Braun, Roger Biel, Matthias Schwab, Thomas Leibold, Nicholas Gollas, Shu Zong
  • Patent number: 12168329
    Abstract: A lens positioning mechanism includes: a member holding unit that has a function of holding a second surface of a lens member having a first surface, which is a convex optical surface, and the second surface, which is an optical surface facing the first surface, and biasing the held lens member toward a side of the first surface; and an attitude control unit that regulates edge positions of a plurality of portions on the first surface of the lens member biased by the member holding unit to position the lens member in a predetermined attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hamanaka, Shinichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12168330
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are automated systems and methods utilizing a plurality of specialized RFID tags incorporated within various tire manufacturing components (e.g., mold segments, mold container, bladder plates, tire presses, and extrusion dies) that are able to readily track tire manufacture and identify defect source(s) while concurrently being configured to the harsh processes and temperatures of tire manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: FineLine Technologies
    Inventors: Jos Uijlenbroek, Jan Svoboda
  • Patent number: 12168331
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade is provided, including the steps of: a) arranging a fiber lay-up on a mandrel tool, the mandrel tool including a frame and, as seen in cross-section, at least two mandrel portions connected to the frame, and wherein at least a portion of the fiber lay-up is supported by an outer surface of the at least two mandrel portions, b) reducing a cross-section size of the mandrel tool by retracting at least one of the mandrel portions towards the frame, c) arranging the mandrel tool inside adjacent blade sections, d) increasing the cross-section size of the mandrel tool by extending at least one of the mandrel portions away from the frame, and e) infusing at least a portion of the fiber lay-up with a resin and curing the resin to obtain a cured joining portion joining the blade sections inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventors: Allan Biegel, Gabriele Chiesura, Allan Hurup, Karsten Krarup, Simon Vestphael Russek, Steffen Steffensen
  • Patent number: 12168332
    Abstract: A method for sampling both layers of a bi-layer tablet, comprising forming a first layer of a first pharmaceutical powder of the bi-layer tablet in a tablet press machine, performing weight compensation for forming a second layer of a second pharmaceutical powder of the bi-layer tablet based at least on the formed first layer, performing height compensation for forming the second layer of the second pharmaceutical powder of the bi-layer tablet based at least on the formed first layer, and forming the second layer of the bi-layer tablet based on the performed height compensation and weight compensation, in the tablet press machine, for individually sampling both the first and second layers of the bi-layer tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: Scitech Centre, ACG Pam Pharma Technologies PVT. LTD.
    Inventors: Karan Singh, Amulya Kumar Pati
  • Patent number: 12168333
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to separate substances comprising: a frame structure; a hollow drum, wherein the hollow drum is driven in rotation and comprises a perforated circumferential surface and an at least partially open end side; a press belt wrapped around the perforated circumferential surface; a product intake wedge, wherein the product intake wedge guides a product flow into the apparatus; a support apparatus comprising a support element, wherein the support element is located on a side of the press belt opposite the hollow drum; and a device configured to discharge separation material pressed through the perforated circumferential surface, wherein: the separation material is pressed into a hollow space of the hollow drum, the separation material is pressed from the end side of the hollow drum, and a cooling device cools the separation material with a cryogenic cooling medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: NORDISCHER MASCHINENBAU RUD. BAADER GMBH + CO. KG, LINDE GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Tobey, Pia Meinlschmidt, Joachim Härtlein, Michael Fuchs, Friedemann Hanf, Laszlo Dolezsaj
  • Patent number: 12168334
    Abstract: According to some illustrative embodiments, a system and method is provided that includes, e.g., means for continuously conveying an assembly of layered sheets including a first paper sheet, at least one expanded sheet and a second paper sheet in a conveying flow between, e.g., a rotary mandrel or member at an upstream position in a direction of conveyance and a rotary die crushing and cutting tool, with said rotary mandrel or member and said rotary die crushing and cutting tool maintaining the at least one expanded sheet in an expanded state, said rotary tool having a crushing component that crushes a portion of the at least one expanded sheet such as to form a flap forming region of an envelope and a cutting component that cuts the assembly of layered sheets such as to separate individual envelope units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HexcelPack, LLC
    Inventor: David Paul Goodrich
  • Patent number: 12168335
    Abstract: A window pane for a motor vehicle has a first pane and a second pane arranged parallel to the first pane, at least one intermediate adhesive layer arranged between the first and second panes for forming a laminate therewith, wherein the intermediate adhesive layer comprises at least one layer opening or recess which is surrounded by an inside opening wall of the intermediate adhesive layer, and a reinforcing adhesive material provided in the layer opening of the intermediate adhesive layer which shows a higher strength or hardness than the intermediate adhesive layer wherein the reinforcing adhesive material is coplanar to the intermediate adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: ISOCLIMA S.P.A., Lode MAES
    Inventors: Lode Maes, Daniele Santi
  • Patent number: 12168336
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MASONITE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza Barzegari, James P. Pfau, Bei-Hong Liang
  • Patent number: 12168337
    Abstract: A floor plank having a rigid, composite core having an upper side and a underside, the core being thermally stable and formed of PVC and calcium carbonate material that does not include ortho-phthalates, a wood veneer having a lower surface on the upper side of the core and further including an exposed surface, a protective coating on the exposed surface of the wood veneer, the protective coating formed of catalyzed polyurethane having aluminum oxide particles, and a thermo-acoustic cushion coating on the back surface of the core. A method of making is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Pet Decorator, LLC
    Inventors: Tamar Michaels Rosbrook, William M. Friend, Eda Shu
  • Patent number: 12168338
    Abstract: An inverted roof membrane assembly (IRMA) includes decking, a waterproofing membrane above the decking, a layer of polymer foam insulation board above the waterproofing membrane, and ballast above the polymer foam insulation board layer. The polymer foam insulation board includes a polymer foam layer that includes an alkenyl aromatic polymer and an infrared radiation attenuator, and first and second facer layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: DDP SPECIALTY ELECTRONIC MATERIALS US, LLC, DUPONT SAFETY & CONSTRUCTION, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Rofrano, Valentina Woodcraft, Brian Deshano, Mark Barger
  • Patent number: 12168339
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide an interior member for an aircraft, a manufacturing method of the member and a replacement method of the member in which replacement cost can be reduced. An interior member for an aircraft according to the present disclosure includes a substrate, a decorative layer that covers the surface of the substrate, and an adhesive layer that adheres to the decorative layer to the substrate, and the decorative layer is peelably pasted to the surface of the substrate via the adhesive layer in a range that meets a required adhesive strength and that does not affect the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hirai, Hiroshi Taneda, Toshio Kozasa, Masayuki Kanemasu, Yukari Sakuragi, Kensuke Sakaki, Kazuhiro Okada
  • Patent number: 12168340
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a blister package having a laminate structure that is heat-sealable to a lacquer layer on strain-hardened aluminum foil. The blister package includes a lid layer comprising a strain-hardened aluminum foil, a lacquer layer on a sealing surface of the strain-hardened aluminum foil and a laminate structure sealed directly to the lacquer layer. The laminate structure includes a multilayer film and a plurality of wells formed therethrough. The multilayer film includes a first formable layer of a thermoplastic material and a sealing layer of a copolyester material. The sealing layer overlies the first formable layer and has an outer surface opposite the first formable layer. The sealing layer has crystallinity from 5% to 20% as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The outer surface of the sealing layer is sealed directly against the lacquer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Flex Films (USA), Inc.
    Inventors: Ashok Chaturvedi, Steven Sargeant, Sudhir Naik, Sanjeev Gupta, Dipak Boral, Pramod Sirsamkar