With Manipulation Of Flexible Or Collapsible Receiver Or Supply Patents (Class 141/114)
  • Patent number: 11884428
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a big-bag transfer station for API seed crystals. The transfer station may permit the filling of smaller containers, such as bags or pouches, from a large container, such as a big bag. The transfer station may permit the transfer without contaminating the atmosphere of the room in which the station is housed. Additionally, the transfer station may limit cross-contamination between filling cycles by employing single-use liners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd.
    Inventors: Luca Colonna, Leander Stoffel, Thomas Buchner, Viktor Schnyder
  • Patent number: 11883826
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fragmentation unit including: —a frame in which there extends a region for receiving a bag, the contents of which is to be fragmented, the region being delimited by the ground and by four virtual planar vertical faces, and divided into a front area and a rear area of equal dimensions by a vertical plane, —at least two pressure plates that are able to move towards each other and vertically, each having a front edge and a vertical planar pressing face, having a rear edge, the rear edge being situated behind a plane containing the virtual planar rear face, and the front edge being tangential to a vertical plane parallel to the plane and dividing the front area of the region into two sub-areas. Also disclosed is a fragmentation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ITEKS
    Inventor: Stéphane Labrue
  • Patent number: 11872099
    Abstract: Multi-phase oral care compositions for whitening teeth, including hydrophilic bleaching agent particles in a hydrophobic phase with a melting point of from about 40° C. to about 80° C. The hydrophilic bleaching agent particles can include peroxide compounds and/or hydrogen peroxide adducts. The hydrophilic bleaching agent particle can have a solubility in water of at least about 20 parts, by weight of the particles, in about 100 parts, by weight, of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Albert Sagel, Jayanth Rajaiah, Michael David Curtis
  • Patent number: 11518665
    Abstract: The method relates to a method for filling a container (13, 32) with carbonized liquid filling material and for closing the filled container, in which the filling material is introduced in a filling station (10, 30) by a filling head (11, 33) at defined filling pressure into the container (13, 32), wherein the filling head (11, 33) is firstly moved from an idle position, which permits supplying and inserting a container (13, 32) into the filling station (10, 30), into a working position toward the inserted container, in which an end region (16) of the filling head seals off the opening (14) of the container, the container (13, 32) is then filled, the filling head (11, 33) is moved after completion of the filling phase back out of the working position into an idle position spaced apart from the container (13, 32) and the container (13, 32) is then closed in the filling station (10, 30) using a cap (20) at least enough that filling material can no longer escape, and the container (13, 32) is then removed from t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Linke, Rolf Baumgarte, Michael Litzenberg, Benjamin Jaiser, Frank Berger
  • Patent number: 11484105
    Abstract: Luggage having an integrated compression system where at least one vacuum compression bag is provided and secured within the interior space of the luggage. The bag can be compressed by an attached self-contained vacuum assembly removably secured within the luggage, preferably between the handle tube guides. The air outlet opening of the bag can be provided with a valve or coupling for securement to the air entry inlet of the vacuum assembly. The bag can also be removably secured to other areas within the interior of the luggage. An air outlet of the vacuum assembly can be provided with a valve or coupling for securement to an opening in the back wall of the luggage. Alternatively, the valve or coupling can be provided in the back wall opening. Air removed from the compression bag by the vacuum assembly is expelled through the back wall opening, without the use of any exposed hoses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: OBSIDIAN LUGGAGE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph M. Majhess
  • Patent number: 11299383
    Abstract: A system and method for dispensing beverage from a container, such as wine from a wine bottle. Dispensing may be automatically controlled based on a detected orientation of the container, e.g., dispensing may occur when a bottle is tilted as if to pour from the bottle and stopped when the bottle is oriented upright. Dispensing may be stopped when the container is rotated about its longitudinal axis even while in a pour orientation. A remaining amount of beverage in the container and/or an amount of pressurized gas used to drive dispensing may be detected and beverage dispensing controlled accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Coravin, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rider, Gregory Lambrecht, Andrew S. Sweezey, Chris Vogt
  • Patent number: 11278510
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sterile medical product for parenteral nutrition comprising a polymeric container having at least a first and a second chamber which are separated by a non-permanent peel seal, wherein the first chamber contains a composition of amino acids and optionally electrolytes, and wherein the second chamber contains a dextrose solution, and wherein the product is characterized by a high protein (nitrogen) content per volume. The reconstituted solution is configured to be administered peripherally or centrally for the treatment of patients suffering from malnutrition and/or having a need for increased uptake of amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Vanja Pinoie, Preeti Sharma, Julianna Roth Jakubowski, Mary Hise Brown
  • Patent number: 11131575
    Abstract: An exemplary dispenser includes a housing and a refill unit. The refill unit being removable and replaceable. The dispenser also includes a processor, memory, a dose count stored in memory that is indicative of the number of doses in a full refill unit, a level sensor for detecting a predetermined level the refill unit and a dispense count indicative of the number doses of product dispensed from the refill unit. In addition, the dispenser includes memory and has logic stored in the memory for recalibrating the number of doses remaining in the refill unit as a function of the dose count, the number of doses of product dispensed and the predetermined level of product. The number of doses of product remaining in the refill unit may be displayed on the dispenser, on a remote station, or on both the dispenser and a remote station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark W. Moore
  • Patent number: 11111124
    Abstract: A method for filling with a filling product, for example for filling with a beverage in a beverage filling plant by the free jet method, includes supplying a flow of filling product through a filling product supply line by opening a filling valve disposed in the filling product supply line and opening an associated regulating valve for regulating a volume flow, and closing the regulating valve and the filling valve in order to end the flow of filling product at the end of filling. The closing of the regulating valve and the filling valve are synchronized. A corresponding device is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Anton Huber, Josef Doblinger, Florian Angerer
  • Patent number: 11072477
    Abstract: A closing device is described for a container for fluids, comprising a valve unit provided with a passage aperture for the fluid and a body, wherein the body comprises shutter means and is mobile with respect to the passage aperture to alternatively define at least a closed configuration in which the shutter means close the passage aperture, and an open configuration in which the shutter means are distanced from the passage aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Emanuela Covi
  • Patent number: 11066229
    Abstract: A set of preforms to make a container for beverages comprises an external preform and an internal preform, each intended to form respectively an external keg and an internal bag of the container. The internal preform is associated internally with the external preform so as to define with the external preform a hollow space and also has at least one through hole, made in a neck portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Emanuela Covi
  • Patent number: 11039542
    Abstract: A display device including a main body and a support assembly is provided. The main body includes a first body and a second body that are pivotally connected to each other. A first display surface is located on the first body, and a second display surface is located on the second body. The first body and the second body are adapted to relatively pivot, so that an edge of the first body and an edge of the second body substantially jointly constitute a bending segment. The support assembly is movably connected to the main body. When the support assembly is unfolded from the main body, one end of the bending segment and the support assembly are adapted to jointly support the main body on a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Hsuan Yu
  • Patent number: 10994919
    Abstract: A package for dispensing a fluent material contained in the package. The package can include a first polymeric sidewall having a first perimeter and a second polymeric sidewall having a second perimeter, the first and second polymeric sidewalls being joined at least along a portion of the first and second perimeters to define a flexible pouch having an interior compartment for a contained fluent material in an equilibrium pressure state. An opening permits fluid communication through the first opening upon the contained fluent material being in a positive pressure state greater than the equilibrium pressure state. The opening can have a magnetic valve, the magnetic valve having a first magnetic region and an opposing second magnetic region. The first magnetic region and second magnetic region can be in a separable magnetically contacting state to alternately permit and prevent fluid communication of the fluent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott David Hochberg, Kenneth Stephen McGuire
  • Patent number: 10899487
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle for inflating a spout film bag, the lateral surface of which nozzle is designed in such a way that the nozzle can be inserted at least partially into the spout of the spout film bag and also at least partially into the interior of the spout film bag, wherein the lateral surface of the part of the nozzle that can be inserted has a bulging design. The invention further relates to a method for inflating a spout film bag by using said nozzle, comprising the following steps: providing the nozzle; inserting the nozzle into the spout of the spout film bag and lowering the nozzle in the spout to a first position; after the first position has been reached, wherein the lateral surface of the inserted nozzle interacts with the internal form of the spout in such a way that the interior of the spout film bag is substantially sealed, introducing flushing or inflating air into the interior of the spout film bag by means of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INDAG POUCH PARTNERS GMBH
    Inventors: Rolf Harth, Frank Lechert
  • Patent number: 10780660
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tire sealant that excels in injectability while maintaining sealing performance and storage performance at an excellent level, and to provide a tire repair kit. Provided are a tire sealant containing a rubber latex and an anti-freezing agent, wherein the anti-freezing agent contains glycerin and at least one type of glycol-based compound selected from the group consisting of glycols and glycol ethers; the content of the glycerin is from 2 to 50 mass % of the total amount of the anti-freezing agent; and a tire repair kit that includes the tire sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Naruse
  • Patent number: 10737861
    Abstract: A spout for use with a flexible bag and a flexible bag having a spout. The spout includes a threadform that extends about the outer surface. The threadform includes opposing threadforms that are of different configurations. Additionally, the insert member includes a poppet and a spring member to maintain the poppet in a configuration that precludes the passage of fluid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Scholle IPN Corporation
    Inventor: Kyle Erickson
  • Patent number: 10689190
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus of the present invention generally include a trash can clip system which includes a substantially vertically-oriented lip, wherein one or more voids are disposed along the lip, and one or more substantially u-shaped clips, wherein each clip is slidingly movable along the lip, such that each clip can be provided in an engaged position with respect to the lip, or provided in a disengaged position within a lip void, and outwardly rotated in the disengaged position. A method of utilizing an embodiment of trash can clip system of the present invention is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Inventor: Billie Toba Hale, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10676230
    Abstract: Multi-barrier bottles having tabbed preforms, as well as methods of forming the same are disclosed. A tabbed preform includes an elongate body extending into a cavity of a first barrier, where the cavity is defined by at least one piece having a recess therein. The tabbed preform further includes at least one preform extension piece extending from the elongate body at a predetermined distance from a top surface of the elongate body. The at least one preform extension piece is sized and shaped to correspond to a size and a shape of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Double Double D, LLC
    Inventor: Jim F. Warner
  • Patent number: 10661318
    Abstract: A process for the solidification of liquid waste prior to disposal in a landfill, and an impermeable container in which the liquid waste is solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jose L Urrutia, William D Lewis
  • Patent number: 10611542
    Abstract: A quick connection device for an aseptic bag may include: a mouth; a mouth sealing cover; and a mouth connection piece. To prevent flow through the mouth, the mouth sealing cover is mountable at the mouth. To allow the flow through the mouth, the mouth connection piece is mountable at the mouth. The mouth can include arc-shaped grooves on an upper surface of the mouth. When the mouth sealing cover is mounted at the mouth, a lower surface of the mouth can be sealed with laminate compound film. The mouth sealing cover can include arc-shaped heaves on two sides. When the mouth sealing cover is mounted at the mouth, the arc-shaped heaves can be fastened with the arc-shaped grooves on the upper surface of the mouth for sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: GOGLIO (TIANJIN) PACKAGING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Grant Carling
  • Patent number: 10525854
    Abstract: This invention is a seat with an adjustable back and/or an adjustable base. The adjustable back and/or base can be adjusted in response to rough terrain or water encountered by a vehicle in which the seat is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Dowco, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Alexander, Dana Homb, Bradley Prey
  • Patent number: 10513387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pouch reservoir for a pressurized dispenser casing, including a dome, a valve-carrying cup and a pouch, such that the dome includes a base for receiving and tightly fixing a neck of the pouch, and a bowl for receiving the valve-carrying cup, the base and the bowl communicating via a central hole for filling the pouch and for discharging the product. The invention is especially applicable to refillable dispenser casings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: INOSPRAY
    Inventors: Thibault De Maillard, Jean-Luc Beurcq
  • Patent number: 10500326
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for opening and emptying a bag of material includes a base having a pair of opposed sides and a central aperture through which material may flow. The system includes a pair of opposed doors rotatably mounted on a pair of door shafts, the edges of the pair of opposed doors forming an opening and a plurality of piercing blades pivotally mounted to the base on a pivot rod, the blades capable of pivoting to pierce said bag. The system further includes a cutting blade mounted transversely below the opening of the opposed doors, the cutting blade capable of linear motion across the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ISOPURE, CORP.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Gillespie, Zachary Patrick Ford, Guillermo J. Cohen Freue
  • Patent number: 10448778
    Abstract: A beverage apparatus, system and methods for use are provided. The apparatus includes a pressure vessel configured to receive a flexible bag for containing a beverage. A pressure release valve is connected to the bag, and a pressure source connected to the pressure vessel. A temperature adjustment device is also provided to adjust temperature within the pressure vessel. A controller controls the temperature adjustment device and the pressure source to achieve a desired temperature and pressure within the pressure vessel according to a current mode of the apparatus, where the current mode is selected from a plurality of modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Watsonbrew IP Limited
    Inventors: Brian Wayne Watson, Richard George Cutfield, Mario Lanz
  • Patent number: 10414549
    Abstract: A liquid-dispensing container may include a vessel, lid body, valve assembly, selector and/or straw. The selector may be movable between a first position that allows fluid disposed within the container to be discharged through a straw, and a second position that allows fluid within the container to be discharged by inverting and/or squeezing the container. The selector may be movable into a closed position that restricts fluid from being discharged from the container. The selector may be movable into a detachment position that allows for detachment of the selector from a remainder of the container, disassembly of the valve assembly, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Runway Blue, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan K. Hirst, Jim A. Colby, David O. Meyers, Joseph O. Jacobsen
  • Patent number: 10370237
    Abstract: The combination of a container of a first volume and a fluid containment and dispensing apparatus includes a flexible bag having an inner wall, an outer wall and a collar. The collar comprises a plurality of components, including a collar body, a flange that is attached to the bag, and a top plate having a first aperture therein configured to for connection to a first fluid carrying conduit, the fluid carrying conduit providing for egress of fluid from the bag. The container comprises walls the walls having inner and outer surfaces, and the collar body extends from a wall of the container. The container provides at least one second aperture providing for ingress and egress of fluid to and from a space situated between the outer surface of the bag and the inner surface of the container and the apparatus further comprises a fastener, such as a clamp, to fasten the collar components together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Inventor: Raymond Wilson Blackburn
  • Patent number: 10357790
    Abstract: A device for withdrawing and dispensing a viscous product includes a pumping member and a dip tube that includes an upper end connected to a corresponding portion of the pumping member. The dip tube includes a lower portion having a free lower end, with a circumference of the lower portion opened by at least one longitudinal slot formed parallel to a longitudinal axis of the dip tube, wherein the longitudinal slot forms a gutter with a bottom, the lower portion includes pins arranged inside the gutter and extending transversally to the longitudinal slot and away from the bottom of the gutter, the pins being dispatched along the longitudinal slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: PROMENS SA
    Inventors: Pascal Hennemann, Gwénael Doulin
  • Patent number: 10329136
    Abstract: A filling adapter for a container to be filled with media, in particular for the filling of containers on assembly lines for the production of motor vehicles where the filling adapter is equipped with a hose pack, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic lines. The filling adapter is equipped with a clamping drive housing with a stationary part and a receiving part for clamping claws. The receiving part can be operatively connected with a union nut such that, after loosening the union nut, the position of the clamping claws can be rotationally adjusted, allowing rotation of the filling adapter with respect to the container to be filled. A clamping drive housing includes a toothing, with which the receiving part for the clamping claws engages by way of a locking pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: DÜRR SOMAC GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Achatz, Eric Selbmann, Frank Wieland
  • Patent number: 10272639
    Abstract: A biocontainer film enhanced with an abrasion resistant or “cut-proof” substrate. Such substrates can be combined with current biocontainer materials, via various techniques of embedding, coextrusion or laminating, to maintain the cleanliness and low extractables already validated for biotech manufacturing. The substrate of choice may be constructed from materials known to be more resistant to abrasion and sharp razor type cuts or from materials oriented in such a way to prevent puncture to occur. The new substrate must also be flexible to allow for typical folding as demonstrated by current packaging practices. The new substrate may be constructed from materials other than polymers such as metal, glass or carbon or in combination with polymers. A non-constrained pressure test is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: David DeCoste, Joseph Cianciolo, Michael Furbush, John Saragosa
  • Patent number: 10265737
    Abstract: A pouch cleaning assembly that includes a treatment chamber and a guide assembly. The treatment chamber includes an elongated central channel extending therethrough. The guide assembly having a first side guide bar and a second side guide bar. The guide bars defining a channel therebetween that is structurally configured to facilitate the retention of spouts of a plurality of pouches in slidable engagement along the first and second guide bar. Any abutment of adjacent portions of the plurality of pouches within the treatment chamber define relative points of contact. The channel is positioned within the elongated central channel, wherein the channel is undulating in at least one of a vertical and a horizontal direction along the length thereof sufficient so as to substantially expose the relative points of contact between adjacent ones of the plurality of spouts so as to expose the same to the cleaning preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Scholle IPN Corporation
    Inventors: Sean M Fitzgerald, Jeroen Pieter Fiere, David Bellmore
  • Patent number: 10167102
    Abstract: The apparatus for transferring process material between a first container and a second container has, as its essential constituent parts, at least one first tensioning unit, which has a first tensioner and a second tensioner, which can be actuated independently of one another, and also a tubular liner piece, which extends indirectly between the containers in order to seal off the transition between the containers from the exterior. The tensioning unit has fixed in it, temporarily, the near end portion of the liner piece and the near end portion of a tubular liner remainder left over from a previous transfer operation. In specific applications, a transfer means is installed between the containers. The process material is usually of a sensitive nature e.g. a pharmaceutical component and must be neither contaminated by the exterior surroundings nor pass into the surroundings. The containers are typically constituent parts of a production installation, such as big bags, steel containers or drums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Rubitec AG
    Inventor: Christoph Rubitschung
  • Patent number: 9913562
    Abstract: A dispensing system comprises a first electronic sensor and a controller. The first electronic sensor may be configured to detect a first change from a first amount of a fluid product in a dispensing system reservoir to a second amount of the fluid product in the dispensing system reservoir. The controller may be coupled to the first electronic sensor and configured to receive a first signal from the first electronic sensor indicative of the first change. The dispensing system reservoir may be disposed in the dispensing system. A method for determining a remaining service interval for a dispensing system reservoir is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: GOJO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jackson William Wegelin, Nick Ermanno Ciavarella, Scott Theodore Proper, Richard E. Corney
  • Patent number: 9902516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making pouches providing a continuous web; folding the web to provide confronting side surfaces joined along a bottom edge; forming a vertical seal between the confronting side surfaces, thereby providing a series of adjacent pockets having opposite side walls with each pocket having an unsealed opening along a top edge; filling the pockets through the unsealed opening with material; sealing the unsealed opening. In the inventive method, which facilitates handling of the continuous web forming the pouches, the web is perforated by a perforation between a leading length piece of the web adapted to form a leading pocket and a trailing length piece of the web adapted to form a trailing pocket, and the distance between a trailing edge of the leading length piece and a leading edge of a trailing length piece is increased for tearing the leading and the trailing lengths pieces apart at the perforation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmBH & Co. KG, Molins PLC
    Inventors: Phil Haddow, Peter Whitlock, Bradley Wiggett, Stefan Lambertz
  • Patent number: 9868420
    Abstract: An air compressor includes a box and a compressor unit installed in the box. The box is provided with a connection socket. The compressor unit has an air outlet exposed to the connection socket of the box. An external device, such as a hose or a sealant bottle, can be firmly and detachably assembled onto the connection socket of the box, and can be connected between the outlet of the compressor unit and the air nozzle of a tire, so that the tire can be inflated or repaired safely and effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: Wen-San Chou
  • Patent number: 9828082
    Abstract: A solar-powered airship with a hull configured to contain a gas and at least one propulsion assembly with a propulsion device and electric motors configured to drive the propulsion device. The airship may also include a power supply system including solar panels operatively coupled to the electric motors and configured to supply power to the electric motors. The power supply system may also include batteries operatively coupled to the solar panels and configured to receive and store electrical energy supplied by the solar panels, the batteries being further operatively coupled to the electric motors and configured to supply power to the electric motors. The batteries may each be located within an outer envelope of the airship defined by the hull of the airship in a position selected to provide ballast. The solar-powered airship may also include a cargo system configured to contain passengers or freight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: John Goelet
  • Patent number: 9567123
    Abstract: Rotary filling machine comprising a rotating infeed starwheel, configured to supply packages, a rotating filling carrousel, upon which a plurality of filling stations are located and; a rotating outfeed starwheel, configured to remove the packages. Each filling station comprises dosage devices; vertical displacement devices configured to vary the relative distance between the package and the dosage devices in the direction of a vertical axis; rotation devices configured to provide relative rotation movement between the package and the dosage devices, around the vertical axis and; horizontal displacement devices configured to vary the relative distance between the package and the dosage devices on a horizontal plane, perpendicular to the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ANTONIO MENGIBAR S.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Mengibar Rivas
  • Patent number: 9095983
    Abstract: A vacuum device for a material handling system includes a vacuum device body and a sealing element. The vacuum device body has a vacuum passageway in which a vacuum is generated in response to activation of a pressurized air supply that forces pressurized air through a venturi device. The sealing element moves to a sealing position to substantially seal the vacuum passageway when the air supply is activated, and is urged toward the sealing position via pressurized air that is diverted from an inlet of the vacuum device to the sealing element. The sealing element moves to substantially vent the vacuum passageway when the air supply is deactivated. The vacuum passageway may be in fluid communication with vacuum cup, which seals against the object when the sealing element is at the sealing position and the vacuum generating device generates at least a partial vacuum in the vacuum passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.
    Inventors: Maurice Perlman, Keith S. Attee
  • Patent number: 9042778
    Abstract: A powder refilling device includes a refill powder chamber to accommodate a powder bag containing powder, an opener to open the powder bag inside the refill powder chamber, and a squeezer to squeeze the opened powder bag to discharge powder therefrom and reduce a volume of the opened powder bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Saitoh, Akio Kosuge, Hirokatsu Suzuki, Ryuji Yoshida, Takuya Suganuma, Tetsuto Ueda, Taichi Urayama, Sho Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 9027877
    Abstract: High-altitude balloons and apparatuses for filling such high-altitude balloons are provided. As an example, an apparatus for filling a high-altitude balloon includes a tube extending through envelope material of the balloon is provided. The apparatus also includes a flange connected to a first end of the tube. The flange is connected to an interior surface of the balloon. A fitting is connected to a second end of the tube. The fitting is configured for attachment with an apparatus for filling the balloon with lift gas. In addition, methods of filing high-altitude balloons with lift gas and methods of manufacturing balloons are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kyle Brookes
  • Patent number: 8978719
    Abstract: A fitting and a coupled bag and fitting. The coupled bag and fitting is provided wherein (a) the bag's opening is attached to the lower side of the fitting; (b) the fitting designed to easily connect and disconnect, the bag and fitting, on and out of a dispenser or a dispensers mounting-shoe; and (c) the fitting has at least one passage that enables material to pass from the dispenser into the bag. Further embodiments can also contain a mechanism for cleaning leftover from the dispensers outlet, an identification means enable recognizing the existence of the bag and bag's characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventors: Shlomo Nevo, Moshe Malik, Jonathan Knann
  • Patent number: 8967558
    Abstract: A method and device of inserting a food stuff into a food stuff bag is disclosed, with the method involving providing a substantially flexible resilient food stuff support that is generally “U” shaped when viewed from its operative position on a countertop, inserting at least a first end of the device a short depth into an opening of a pliable bag, such first end having an edge that is curved and opposing sides that are substantially straight. A bending mechanism bends so that at least the first end deforms from a first configuration to a second configuration for insertion of the first end through the bag opening and into an interior of the bag, wherein when the forces are reduced, the first end changes shape toward the first configuration for holding a portion of the bag and for providing an open volume within the bag for transferring a food stuff to the interior of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Inventor: Brad Blessman
  • Patent number: 8939181
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a kit for recovering puncture repair liquid, which have made it possible to easily and quickly dispose of spent puncture repair liquid. The method for recovering puncture repair liquid according to the present invention uses a kit for recovering the puncture repair liquid which is provided with a coagulant for coagulating the puncture repair liquid and a flexible bag containing the puncture repair liquid, and includes injecting the puncture repair liquid drawn from the inside of a tire into the bag, mixing the puncture repair liquid and the coagulant in the bag, and recovering the puncture repair liquid in a coagulated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Takahiro Okamatsu
  • Publication number: 20150008235
    Abstract: A plurality of balloons are disposed inside a liquid container to take up space as liquid is removed from the container. The balloons can be connected to a gas injection system to inject gas into the balloons to keep the liquid fill level in the container to a filled level. This results in little or no sloshing of the liquid inside the container. The balloons can be secured in place by one or more positioning boxes disposed along the container's inside periphery. One or more strings can interconnect the balloons to the positioning boxes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Esmaeil Khoshsepehr
  • Patent number: 8919731
    Abstract: A valve for inflation and deflation of an air bag that is operable to allow air pressure to open the valve to allow air to enter the air bag with subsequent sealing of the valve upon removal of the air pressure source. For deflation, a common coin is insertable into the valve insert which is subsequently turned into a locked-open position, allowing egress of the air within the air bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: International Dunnage, LLC
    Inventors: Lonnie Langston, Cengiz Cesur
  • Publication number: 20140373974
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pouch injector made from a flexible and/or collapsible material. The pouch could contain a gusset that allows the pouch to free stand and allows for a greater pouch interior volume. The pouch and dispensing adapter(s) are used to dispense and/or inject a liquid, for example, into a tire through the valve stem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Brandon Ragan, Philip Ragan
  • Publication number: 20140373975
    Abstract: A coinfusion apparatus including a coinfusion operation section; a coinfusion processing room; a supply section; and a transfusion bag retention section. The coinfusion operation section consists of first and second robot arms. The first robot arm retains a medical agent container. The second robot arm performs an operation to insert a syringe needle of a syringe to a mouth section of the medical agent container and an operation to insert the syringe needle of the syringe to a coinfusion mouth of the transfusion bag. The coinfusion processing room holds the coinfusion operation section. The supply section supplies the medical agent container and the syringe into the coinfusion processing room. The transfusion bag retention section retains the transfusion bag at the outer side of the coinfusion processing room and positions the coinfusion mouth of the transfusion bag at the coinfusion communication mouth formed in the coinfusion processing room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki KOIKE, Akifumi TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8910673
    Abstract: A bottle shape is provided that allows for volume-reducing deformation of a peripheral wall of the body, while maintaining stable posture of the bottle by making use of a combination of a refill container and a regularly used container having an upright discharge cylinder segment. The body is formed to have a thin peripheral wall so that volume-reducing deformation would take place along with the depressurization going on inside the bottle. The peripheral wall has three ridge lines formed in a mountain fold at approximately equal intervals in the vertical direction and has three panel walls connected to one another. Each panel wall is bordered by two adjacent ridge lines, and has a valley fold line that diagonally connects an upper end of one ridge line to a lower end of another adjacent ridge line so that three valley fold lines are disposed obliquely in parallel along a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Yoshino Kogyosho Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Tsuda, Tsuyoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8905086
    Abstract: A machine for the preparation of pharmaceutical products is provided with a gripping and carrier device to transfer at least one container between a magazine and a dosage station for the preparation of a pharmaceutical product, and a box-type holding frame defining a chamber for the housing of magazine, gripping and carrier device, and dosage station; the chamber displaying an access aperture to magazine and being crossed by a sterile air flow adapted to avoid the entry of air from the external environment through aperture itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Health Robotics, S.R.L.
    Inventors: Paolo Giribona, Werner Rainer, Daniele Baldassari, Alferino Gabbarrini, Pietro Paluselli
  • Publication number: 20140352844
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for filling bags (34) with granules. The invention also relates to a support element (1) for supporting a bag (34, 36) during filling, the support element (1) being in the form of a pitched roof, and means (24) for fastening to a transporting belt (10) being arranged on the underside of the support element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Norbert Page, Karsten Alexander Daunke
  • Patent number: RE46250
    Abstract: Provided is a system for sampling and pretreating biological fluid. It comprises: a piercing unit having at a lower portion a capillary tip which is to be inserted into skin to a predetermined depth to take biological fluid therethrough; a dropper, connected to an upper portion of the piercing unit, having an injection tube at an upper portion thereof, the injection tube communicating with the capillary tip; and a reagent container, designed to accommodate the piercing unit therein in an airtight manner so as to seal an outer circumference of the piercing unit, functioning to contain a reagent for treating the biological fluid of the capillary tip of the piercing unit. The system allows even a novice to sample and pretreat biological fluid with high accuracy without the use of expensive precision devices. The system employs fewer expendable supplies, thus providing higher convenience for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: BODITECHMED INC.
    Inventors: Eui Yul Choi, Kie Bong Nahm, Sang Yeol Park, Joung Dae Moon, Young Min Kim, Ae Kyung Park, Byeong Chul Kim