Joining Indefinite Length Laminae End-to-end Patents (Class 156/157)
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Patent number: 11958706Abstract: A consumer width sized roll comprising wound web material comprising a tail. The tail may comprise a bonding material. The bonding material may be arranged in a novel pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret A. Sims, Dan T. Anderson, Brent M. Borovskis, Victoria Grace Strain, Gustav Andre Mellin
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Patent number: 11535996Abstract: A flood mitigation barrier comprising a line of central structures wrapped in a flexible heat shrinkable polymer material. The polymer material is configured such that when heat is applied to the material, shrinks to conform around the central structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventors: Andrew Markopoulos, Matthew Lennox, Justin Gallagher
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Patent number: 11472654Abstract: The feeding unit (10) comprises: support means (12) for rotatably supporting a first reel (R1) of two-layer tissue web and a second reel (R2) of two-layer tissue web about respective axes of rotation (x1, x2); cutting means (32, 42) for cutting the two layers (L1_1, L2_1) of the tissue web (W1) of the reel (R1) in use, the cutting means (32, 42) being configured to cut the two layers (L1_1, L2_1) of the tissue web (W1) along two cut lines spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the web (W1); joining means (44_1, 44_2) for joining each of the two layers (L1_2, L2_2) of the tissue web (W2) of the other reel (R2) of said first and second reels (R1, R2), and precisely of the new reel, to a respective layer (L1_1, L2_1) of the tissue web (W1) of the reel (R1) in use; and tissue web accumulation means (30) for accumulating a given amount of web (W1) downstream of the cutting means (32, 42) and the joining means (44_1, 44_2) so as to ensure the feeding of the machine with the tissue web (W1) whType: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: Roberto Perego
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Patent number: 11420838Abstract: A controller includes: an adhesion member position determination unit that determines a position of an adhesion member in a rotation direction of a roll on the basis of the result of detection from an adhesion member detector in a state in which the roll has been rotated by a shaft control unit; and an outer diameter determination unit that determines an outer diameter of the roll in a portion where the adhesion member is positioned, the determination being performed on the basis of the result of detection from an outer diameter detector in a state in which driving of shaft drive sources are controlled by the shaft control unit such that the adhesion member is positioned within a detection range of the outer diameter detector on the basis of the position of the adhesion member determined by the adhesion member position determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ZUIKO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Tsujimoto, Masato Hiroyasu
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Patent number: 11404855Abstract: A method for connecting a first cable to a second cable with an adhesive tape to form a cable chain includes: arranging a free end region of the first cable parallel to and spaced from a first end region of the second cable; providing the adhesive tape folded in its longitudinal direction to form opening tabs at its first and opposite second ends with an adhesively coated side of the adhesive tape partially adhering to itself; and enclosing a part of the first cable free end region and a part of the second cable first end region with the adhesive tape such that the first cable free end region has a greater distance from the first adhesive tape end and the second adhesive tape end than the second cable first end region and is detachably connected to the second cable first end region.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: KOMAX HOLDING AGInventors: Urs Renggli, Thomas Bussmann, René Lehn, Beat Theiler, Tilman Hoss, Conradin Jost
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Patent number: 11225390Abstract: The invention relates to a method for feeding and splicing sheets of material wound in bobbins (20, 21, 22, 23), the method including: providing a rotating wheel (10) having at least a first, a second, a third and a fourth bobbin holder (103, 104, 105, 106) defining a first, a second, a third and a fourth station; unwinding a first sheet of material (201) wound in a first bobbin (20) provided in the first station; detecting the amount of first sheet of material remaining in the first bobbin (20) in the first station; depending on the amount of first sheet of material (201), splicing the first sheet of material (201) unwound from the first bobbin with a second sheet of material (211) unwound from a second bobbin (21) present in the second station; preparing for splicing a third sheet of material in a third bobbin (22) present in the third station including: reading information about the third bobbin (22) contained in a sticker, label or tag; removing the sticker, label or tag from the third bobbin (22); and roType: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Alberto Monzoni, Stefano Malossi
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Patent number: 11155430Abstract: A method for bonding the tail of a convolutely wound log to the body is provided. The method comprises the use of a bonding material to bond the tail to the wound log. The bonding material is applied to application sites arranged in a non-uniform pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Victoria Grace Strain, Gustav Andre Mellin
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Patent number: 11020930Abstract: Stock material units that may be used in a dunnage conversion machine. For example, stock material units include sheet material that may be fed into the dunnage conversion machine and may be converted thereby into dunnage. The stock material unit includes a continuous sheet of material including a tapered sheet section defined by a plurality of slanted folds and positioned adjacent to at least one face of the three-dimensional body, and a splice member. The splice member includes a base having a first side attached to a portion of the continuous sheet of foldable material that is positioned adjacent to the tapered sheet section and has an opposite, second side. The splice member also includes a connector that has a first portion non-removably attached to the tapered sheet section and a second portion removably attached to at least a portion of the second side of the base.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging LLCInventors: Thomas D. Wetsch, Eric Charles Wright, Michael Edward Ferringer
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Patent number: 11021282Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping device configured to carry out a strap-attachment check cycle. After attaching leading and trailing strap ends of a strap to one another to form a tensioned loop of strap around a load, the strapping device is configured to carry out the strap-attachment cycle to test the strength of the attachment between the leading and trailing strap ends and to provide feedback as to whether the strap attachment is satisfactory.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventor: Dustin D. Elliott
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Patent number: 10875733Abstract: A supply of stock material for a dunnage conversion machine includes two plies of sheet stock material wound into a roll or fan-folded into a stack. Each ply has disposed on a corresponding leading or trailing end thereof an adhesive layer and a removable release liner covering the adhesive layer. When applied to a leading end of the supply, the adhesive layer is applied to opposing, outwardly-facing surfaces of the respective plies. When a supply of stock material is almost spent, the operator removes the release liners from both plies to expose respective adhesive layers, and then interposes the leading end of a new supply between the plies of the trailing end of the almost-spent supply and presses the layers together to attach the plies of the new supply to respective plies of the almost-spent supply, for conversion into dunnage.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Ranpak Corp.Inventors: Stephen Louis Dominak, Alexandra Snijders
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Patent number: 10843427Abstract: Disclosed is joining device for joining a trailing end of a first strip to a leading end of a second strip to form a tire component. The joining device includes a support member with a support surface and a retaining member with a retaining surface for retaining the second strip. The joining device is arranged for positioning the leading end of the second strip in a joining orientation in which said leading end is closer to the support plane than the rest. The joining device also includes a control unit for controlling a relative movement between the support member and the retaining member with a first component in a placement direction to place the leading end of the second strip and a second component in a joining direction to bring the leading end of the second strip into contact with the trailing end of the first strip.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Inventors: Gerrit Roy Nijland, Jeroen Van Tienhoven, Hugo Bart Zandbergen, Cornelis-Jan Otto, Karel Johannes Van Assenbergh, Otte Haitsma, Pieter Cornelis Meijers
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Patent number: 10821756Abstract: A printer includes a paper roll holder having a shaft, a paper roll storage section, and a print unit. The paper roll storage section has a first support configured to rotatably support the shaft of the paper roll holder when the paper roll holder is inserted into a shaft core of a paper roll, and a second support configured to rotatably support the shaft of the paper roll holder when the paper roll holder is not inserted into the shaft core of the paper roll and at a position where the paper roll holder abuts an outer circumference of the paper roll when the shaft of the paper roll holder is rotatably supported by the second support. The print unit is configured to form an image on paper to be supplied from the paper roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kiyotaka Nihashi
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Patent number: 10821624Abstract: In a sheet processing method for sheets of paper or cardboard, a sheet for processing is, in the processing station, firstly brought to a standstill and then set down, whereas the processed sheet is, in the output station, set down from a moving state. A punching or stamping machine has an input station, a processing station and an output station arranged one behind the other in a sheet transport path, and a sheet gripping device which is designed to set down a sheet for processing in the processing station when the sheet gripping device has come to a standstill in a second reversal position, and to set down a processed sheet in the output station as the sheet gripping device approaches the second reversal position.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KAMA GMBHInventors: Steffen Pieper, Jan Gockel, Raik Freudenberg
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Patent number: 10669113Abstract: Disclosed is a feedstock device (1) to deliver film (2) to a bundle-wrapping machine and including, on the one hand, at least one reel (3) to receive a roll (4) of the film (2) to be delivered, and, on the other hand, a joining unit (5) to attach the next film (2) to the film (2) that is currently being fed. This device includes a support (6) on which the at least one reel (3) is mounted, with the support (6) being mobile in relation to the joining unit (5) to bring the delivered film (2) to the latter. The invention also has as its object a machine and a corresponding method.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SIDEL PACKING SOLUTIONSInventor: Gregory Choplin
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Patent number: 10632694Abstract: This invention relates to a creel structure integrated on the fiber placement head of the automated placement equipment, comprising: fiber placement head mounting base, fixed yarn box component fixed and mounted on fiber placement head mounting base, and revolving yarn box component mounted on fiber placement head mounting base, the said revolving yarn box component is coupled with the fiber placement head mounting base through revolving shaft. This creel structure can avoid intervention that arise due to equipment maintenance and spindle replacement, making equipment maintenance and spindle replacement more convenient and swift.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Yinglin Ke, Junxia Jiang, Zhenzheng Ke, Jiangxiong Li, Weidong Zhu, Weiwei Qu, Liang Cheng
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Patent number: 10625484Abstract: Methods and structures are provided for a dunnage system to facilitate efficient coupling together of supply units of pre-configured sheet stock material, such as, for example, separate units of fanfold stacks of pre-configured sheet stock material, in a manner of continuous supply with a continuous pocket extending longitudinally between the separate supply units, so that they can interact with an expander of the dunnage system without disruption as one supply unit is depleted and a next supply unit is fed through the dunnage system. Also, various methods, apparatus, and systems are provided to facilitate smooth operation of a dunnage machine of the dunnage system to reduce a tendency of the pre-configured sheet stock material to jam and to increase the tendency of dunnage product generated to reflect a desired shape and stability.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Nuevopak Technology Company LimitedInventor: Simon C. S. Chan
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Patent number: 10618228Abstract: A manufacturing arrangement realized for manufacturing a rotor blade, including a pair of tracks arranged along the longitudinal sides of a blade mold; a first gantry assembly realized to span the track pair and to carry a first tool arrangement including at least a fiber distributor for distributing a fiber material into the blade mold; a second gantry assembly realized to span the track pair and to carry a second tool arrangement realized to carry a supply of fiber material and to provide the fiber material to the fiber distributor; and a control arrangement realized to effect a coordinated movement of the gantry assemblies along the track pair and to coordinate the operation of the second tool arrangement with the operation of the first tool arrangement is provided. A fiber mat magazine; a manufacturing line; a method of manufacturing a rotor blade; and a rotor blade, is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/SInventor: Karsten Schibsbye
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Patent number: 10611589Abstract: A splicing assembly for rolled sheet material, including first and second shafts for support of sheet material and a drive assembly for selectively dispensing sheet material. The assembly further includes a splicing apparatus for uniting a replacement with a winding down roll, and an egress guide assembly for receipt of dispensed sheet material exiting the splicing apparatus and passage of same intermediate the shafts. The splicing apparatus includes first and second sealing elements, and first and second carriages adapted and disposed for translation towards their respective sealing elements, a free end portion of sheet material of the replacement roll supported upon the first/second shaft for selective retention by the second/first sheet material carriage, and for translation to, and thereafter with, a portion of sheet material of the winding down roll supported upon the second/first shaft for urged combined engagement with a corresponding sealing element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Douglas Machine Inc.Inventors: Corey S. Sundheim, Adnanul Haq, Matthew D. Toyli
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Patent number: 10518996Abstract: The splicing device for splicing a trailing edge of a first web material to a leading edge of a second web material includes members defining a feed path of the web material. The device also includes a first cutting member and a second cutting member, cooperating with the first cutting member. One of the two cutting members is provided with a movement transverse to the feed path of the web material, to move the cutting member from an operating position, in which it is in front of the other cutting member, to an idle position, withdrawn with respect to the feed path of the web material.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Guangdong Fosber Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mauro Adami
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Patent number: 10507996Abstract: The disclosed supply roll (5) comprises a roll core (6); flat material and/or strip material (8) being carried on the roll core (6) in a multitude of windings; and at least one functional marker (2). The at least one functional marker (2) is placed in a specified relative position at an externally arranged free end section (7) of the flat material and/or strip material (8) such that information about the relative position of the free end section (7) is optically identifiable by way of the at least one functional marker (2).Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Krones AktiengesellschaftInventor: Thomas Wimmer
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Patent number: 10427905Abstract: An accumulation device is provided with a loading unit, a tensioning unit, an accumulation unit, and unloading unit and a controller. The tensioning unit comprises multiple fixed rollers capable of rolling, and movable rollers capable of rolling and arranged so as to be capable of moving with respect to the fixed rollers. Substrates are conveyed so as to move back and forth alternately between the fixed rollers and the movable rollers in a wrapped state, and a prescribed tensile force is applied to the substrates by a force acting on the moveable rollers in the direction away from the fixed rollers. The controller performs control so as to maintain the positions of the movable rollers in the tensioning unit constant.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.Inventors: Tsukasa Shigehara, Tsutomu Iwakawa, Takanori Tanaka, Masanobu Tatsumi
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Patent number: 10369615Abstract: A method of joining strip-shaped sheets includes a support step of placing a support member in contact with a reverse feed direction end of a strip-shaped sheet fed to a pressing machine and a feed direction end of a new strip-shaped sheet, and a joining step of joining the new strip-shaped sheet to the strip-shaped sheet by attaching a tape on the reverse feed direction end of the strip-shaped sheet and the feed direction end of the new strip-shaped sheet, wherein in the joining step, the tape is attached from a side opposite the support member with the support member placed in contact with the reverse feed direction end of the strip-shaped sheet and the feed direction end of the new strip-shaped sheet. The problem of the variation in welding quality encountered when welding thin and wide strip-shaped sheets together is resolved and the strip-shaped sheet is fed smoothly.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corp.Inventors: Yoshihiro Tsukamoto, Kouichi Mizutani, Chidai Isaka
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Patent number: 10351377Abstract: An apparatus for securing the tail end of a spirally wound roll of nonwoven, polymer-based material to the roll to preclude unintended unwinding of the roll, the apparatus comprising a winding assembly for forming about a winding axis a spirally wound roll with a tail end, a fixture for a roll tacking assembly with an ultrasonic tool oscillating on an oscillating axis, and a fixture for moving the tool into momentary tangential contact with an outermost winding layer of the roll in a manner that orients the oscillating axis orthogonally to the winding axis. The apparatus implements a method of locating the tail end of the spirally wound roll and orienting the tail end in relation to the securing tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Inventors: John Madden Mathy, Jr., Michael Carl Chase, Zakari Hinton Snell, John J. Markle, II
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Patent number: 10329111Abstract: A joining unit includes: a suction holding member having a suction surface configured to suction an end section of a sheet; a moving mechanism configured to move the suction surface toward an intermediate section of a sheet of a delivery-side original material roll along a path set in advance so that tension is applied to the sheet; and a regulating mechanism that is configured to switch between a regulated state in which a movement of the end section of the sheet with respect to the suction holding member due to the tension is regulated and an allowable state in which the movement of the end section of the sheet with respect to the suction holding member is allowed. The controller switches the regulating mechanism to the regulated state during the movement of the suction surface toward the intermediate section of the sheet of the delivery-side original material roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: ZUIKO CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Sato, Yosuke Nishimura, Shinichiro Nagafuchi
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Patent number: 10252486Abstract: One example includes a utility mat. The utility mat includes a first material layer comprising a rubber material. The utility mat also includes a second material layer overlying the first material layer and comprising a geotextile material. The utility mat further includes an adhesive material configured to bond the first material layer and the second material layer together.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: B & JFM LLCInventors: James Eberts, Robert Beadnell
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Patent number: 10195836Abstract: Provided are splices comprising honeycomb cores and adhesive layers with tie clips supporting the honeycomb cores. Also provided are methods of forming such splices. Each tie clip includes two legs and a bridging portion joining the legs. When forming a splice, an adhesive layer is positioned between two honeycomb cores. One leg of the tie clip is inserted into the full cell of one honeycomb core, while the other leg is inserted into the full cell of the other honeycomb core. The bridging portion extends across the adhesive layer. While curing the adhesive layer, the tie clip supports the honeycomb cores with respect to each other and maintains their orientation. The tie clip becomes a part of the splice. The tie clip may be buried in the honeycomb cores without extending above the first face of the splice.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Evan F. Pierce, Mikel D. Marty, Francis W. Moore, Roger A. Bown, Megan E. Bliss
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Patent number: 10189218Abstract: Thermal curing of a potting material within a hole in a surface of a composite material is described utilizing a flexible vacuum compression device that includes a chemical-based heating pack. The vacuum compression device includes an internal compartment within a cavity that retains the chemical-based heating pack, and a vacuum port having a passage into the cavity. An end of the vacuum compression device includes an interface that forms an air-tight seal between the cavity and the surface when applied to a surface of the composite material. Drawing a vacuum via the vacuum port collapses the vacuum compression device and positions the chemical-based heating pack proximate to the surface, enabling heat from the chemical-based heating pack to thermally cure the potting material.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Alex Zhu
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Patent number: 10179975Abstract: The invention relates to ultrasonic welding of industrial fabrics. Specifically, the invention relates to methods for ultrasonically welding the seam area of industrial fabrics using a textured horn and/or anvil. The fabric edges are overlapped as woven or one or both edges can have some warp or weft yarns raveled out. The method involves ultrasonically bonding the overlapped fabric edges, reducing the caliper of the two stacked edges to match the body caliper of the fabric itself. The bonded area can then be perforated using laser or other mechanical means to produce a seam having the same woven texture and permeability (air and/or water) as the body of the fabric.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Joseph P. Botelho, Victor P. Laskorski, James P. Mastin, Jennifer L. Rademan
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Patent number: 10166738Abstract: Provided are adhesive tapes and methods of use. The adhesive tape provides a flying splice of fibrous materials. An example adhesive tape comprises an adhesive layer, a backing adjacent to the adhesive layer, and a non-adhesive mechanical fastener.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: TESA SEInventor: Metin Ozsobaci
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Patent number: 10156052Abstract: A liquid resistant containment membrane and which is durable enough to remain in place during the drilling and fracking phases to eliminate the delay and cost of replacement or can be relocated from site to site, has a slip resistant top surface, is a flexible membrane, and/or which top portion of the containment membrane does not absorb liquids. The containment membrane comprises a polymer waterproof layer and a reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer is connected to a bottom side of the polymer waterproof layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Garland Industries, Inc.Inventor: Michael D. Huber
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Patent number: 10150155Abstract: A method for repairing rivet tape includes steps of cutting portions of the rivet tape on each side of a break to define at least three aligned coplanar rivet tape edges, abutting the at least three aligned coplanar rivet tape edges to define a seam, and joining the at least three aligned coplanar rivet tape edges to one another. The seam may define a Z shape. One or more rivets may be removed to expose rivet apertures on each side of the break before the steps of cutting, abutting, and joining. The step of joining is accomplished by at least one adhesive strip disposed on a surface of the rivet tape and dimensioned to overlie the at least one or more exposed rivet apertures. Adhesive strips may be disposed on each opposed surface of the rivet tape length. In other aspects, workstations comprise devices for practicing the described methods.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Kevin Leon Haddix, Michael Poniewierski, William Kenneth Vincent, Michael R. Polarolo
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Patent number: 10150252Abstract: A method of recoupling components of a medical device in a desired orientation during reprocessing of the medical device. The method uses a binder to return the components to an adhered condition from a separated condition. The method comprises receiving the components of the medical device in the separated condition with the component spaced from the desired orientation. The components of the medical device are cleaned and arranged in the desired orientation. The binder is applied to recouple the components in the desired orientation to return the components to the adhered condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Stryker Sustainability Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Chuanzhe Song
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Patent number: 10131091Abstract: A yarn or thread may include a plurality of substantially aligned filaments, with at least ninety-five percent of a material of the filaments being a thermoplastic polymer material. Various woven textiles and knitted textiles may be formed from the yarn or thread. The woven textiles or knitted textiles may be thermal bonded to other elements to form seams. A strand that is at least partially formed from a thermoplastic polymer material may extend through the seam, and the strand may be thermal bonded at the seam. The woven textiles or knitted textiles may be shaped or molded, incorporated into products, and recycled to form other products.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Bhupesh Dua, Carrie L. Davis
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Patent number: 10099881Abstract: Splicing method and unit for a packaging machine, whereby a first film is spliced to a second film which is a spare film. The splicing is performed by means of an adhesive element with two opposing adhesive surfaces, one for each film, and a longitudinal adhering element. First an adhesive surface is adhered to the adhering element and said adhering element moves so that the other adhesive surface comes into contact with the second film and adheres to it. Then the adhering element is separated from said second film, the adhesive element being adhered to said second film, and the first film is caused to come into contact with said adhesive element already adhered to the second film.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: ULMA Packaging Technological Center, S. Coop.Inventors: Aritz Murgia Mendizabal, Juan Jesús Urcelay Ezquibel, Eneko Izquierdo Ereño
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Patent number: 10001150Abstract: The invention relates to a screen for a hydraulic valve including a band plate with screen openings wherein the screen openings form etched functional contours. The invention also relates to a hydraulic valve with the screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Hilite Germany GmbHInventors: Michael Bierkoch, Thomas Jacob, Juergen Peiler
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Patent number: 9950469Abstract: A device for welding plastic tubes includes a pair of tube holders each of which has a tube clamp which includes an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The jaws in both of the tube clamps of both tube holders have smooth tube contacting walls to permit the tubing to slip through either side when the tube holders and tubes are being moved from a loading station to a stripping station to increase the length of fluid free area in the clamped tubes. A cutting/welding station provides for cutting the tubes and welding them together.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Geness BPS, LLcInventors: Ivars V. Ivansons, Dudley W. C. Spencer
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Patent number: 9878865Abstract: A method for securing a web end of a paper web on a first drum during a change of drum, the method includes passing the web end through a nip between a Pope roller and the second drum and applying adhesive to an area of the web end on a downward-rotating area of the Pope roller after the web end is passed through the nip.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: PAPRIMA INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Wolfgang Kowalewski, Roman Caspar
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Patent number: 9862158Abstract: A tire manufacturing method to obtain a base tire superior in uniformity when the base tire has a cushion gum applied thereon. In this process of tire manufacture, the thickness from a belt, which is located in the outermost layer of the base tire having an application surface for the cushion gum, to the application surface is measured along the circumference of the base tire so as to detect a maximum thickness position. Then the circumferential winding of the cushion gum extruded from an extrusion molding unit is started from the maximum thickness position.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Murase
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Patent number: 9829068Abstract: An endless conveyor belt loop includes a conveyor belt that has an elongated body and a substantially uniform width. The ends of the conveyor belt each include a splice formation extending across the width of the conveyor belt that are each configured to mate with the other. A thermoplastic connector is thermally engaged between exposed surfaces formed by the splice formation at the ends of the conveyor belt. When the splice formations are aligned, the thermoplastic connector is thermally engaged and continuously interconnected between the ends for conveyor belt to form a seamless end connection. The thermoplastic connector comprises a thermoplastic copolyester elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: UniBand USA, LLCInventor: Franco Milco Marchetti
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Patent number: 9796133Abstract: A welding tool for joining at least two workpieces at a joining region by friction stir welding includes a tool pin arranged along one axis of the welding tool, for applying frictional heat to the workpieces. The welding tool also includes a shoulder surrounding the tool pin, for separating the joining region from the surrounding area. The shoulder is moveable essentially parallel to the axis of the welding tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbHInventors: Juergen Silvanus, Erich Forster, Eric Tauscher
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Patent number: 9751257Abstract: A device for joining thermoplastic workpieces includes an ultrasonic welder including an ultrasonic transducer, a booster and a horn having a welding tip. A clamping mechanism attaches to the ultrasonic welder and includes an upper frame coupled to a boot. The welding tip of the horn of the ultrasonic welder projects into an aperture in the boot of the clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism exerts a clamping force on the workpieces that differs from a welding force exerted on the workpieces by the ultrasonic welder when the ultrasonic welder is operating to join the thermoplastic workpieces.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Yongqiang Li, Saul S Lee, Bradley J. Blaski, Jorge F. Arinez
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Patent number: 9744746Abstract: The invention relates to an edge material for panels, the edge material being constructed from a plurality of bonded layers. The edge material comprises a first layer, which is non-metallic, and a core layer, which is made of at least one metal layer. The edge material also comprises a second layer, which is non-metallic. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding sandwich panel and to a corresponding cover layer for panels.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AGInventor: Moritz Reifferscheid
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Patent number: 9708511Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive composition including: a butyl-based rubber; and a tackifier having a softening point of 90° C. or more.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Tae-Yi Choi, Eun-Kyung Park, Ju-Hyeon Paeng, Jang-Soon Kim
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Patent number: 9624586Abstract: An electrolysis cell, having an anode, a cathode, and a membrane that is situated between the anode and the cathode and contacts the anode via an anode contact area and contacts the cathode via a cathode contact area, wherein the cathode contact area is greater than the anode contact area, the membrane has a surface oriented toward the cathode that is greater than the cathode contact area, and the electrolysis cell has cathodically polarized surfaces that are in direct contact with the electrically conductive water. This invention also relates to a method for operating an electrolysis cell in natural water and a use of such an electrolysis cell for disinfecting water are also proposed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Innovatec Gerãtetechnik GmbHInventors: Samuel Stucki, Dirk Schulze
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Patent number: 9537166Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for the production of electrochemical cells, in particular individual cells for fuel cells and stacks, in which the individual components of a membrane electrode assembly are compressed and bonded by use of ultrasonic waves and the absence of any further additional heating. The method according to the invention allows faster cycles during the lamination of the membrane electrode assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Todd Snelson, Raymond Puffer, Daniel Walczyk, Jake Pyzza, Lakshmi Krishnan
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Patent number: 9365377Abstract: A splicing tape and a method of using such tape to equip a wound roll for flying splice. The tape includes a first and second carrier and two strips of laminating composition disposed between them, each strip joining the first carrier to the second carrier. The carriers have a first and a second layer of pressure-sensitive, laminating composition and a first and a second layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive. The strips of laminating composition are disposed such that they are not in direct contact with one another. They form a predetermined breakage point. The splicing tape is adhered to the roll such that part of the first layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive forms a first bonding area, the end region of the uppermost ply of the wound roll, and the second layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive forms a second bonding area to the roll, which is located partly below the first bonding area.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: tesa SEInventors: Christoph Nagel, Niels Czerwonatis, Stefan Wulf, Jens Nootbaar
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Patent number: 9260263Abstract: A substrate aligning unit includes a first driving roll, a second driving roll, a web guider, an encoder roll, and a controller. The first driving roll transfers a substrate in a first direction. The second driving roll is disposed spaced apart from the first driving roll in the first direction and transfers the substrate in the first direction. The web guider controls a position of the substrate in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The encoder roll senses the position of the substrate to generate a sensing signal. The controller controls the first driving roll, the second driving roll, and the web guider based on the sensing signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyeong-Min Yeo, Min-Uk Kim, Hyun-Seok Kim, Sin Kwon, Jae-Hyuk Chang, Sung-Hee Lee
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Patent number: 9221215Abstract: For continuous welding of plastic components (1, 2) of a product along a join region extending over the circumference, the plastic components (1, 2) to be welded are first positioned in the join position thereof and fixed therein. Then, for the welding process, the product is transported past a fixed heat source (5) and is subjected to its own rotary movement in the region of the fixed heat source (5), in addition to the transport movement, in order to insert the welding energy into the join region.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: bielomatik LEUZE GMBH & CO.KGInventors: Franz Hepp, Oliver Roehl
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Patent number: 9193095Abstract: Systems and methods for introducing hook fastening elements into a mold traveling along a mold assembly line are disclosed. The system can be configured to cut hook fastening tape into strips having a predetermined length based on information received from the mold assembly line, and to drop the cut strips directly into the mold at the appropriate intervals as the mold travels along the mold assembly line. Also disclosed is a system for facilitating the continuous feeding of hook fastening tape through the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: YKK CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Sho, Yoshifumi Nakata, Hisashi Yoneshima, Tomonari Yoshida, Takanori Yoshida
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Patent number: 9145684Abstract: A design and fabrication technique whereby a coping cap and/or transition can be supplied with mitered corner sections and other transitional components which utilize the identical prefinished or bare sheet metal material(s) without any reliance on exposed mechanical fasteners, welding, soldering, or post-applied paints. This is essentially accomplished by joining the pre-finished sheet material(s) together using a mesh screen and adhesive on the underside (non-exposed) face of the sheet material(s).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Garland Industries, Inc.Inventors: Frank Resso, Ron Nelson