Self-sealing Type Patents (Class 206/324)
  • Patent number: 11109845
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a urine test container, Specifically, the present invention relates to a container capable of readily separating first urine while receiving whole urine in order to remove the inconvenience of discarding the first urine and putting the remaining urine in a container in a medical institution such as a hospital and a health care institution, because the quality of a test is decreased due to a plurality of epithelial cells included in the first urine in a urine test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: The Catholic University of Korea Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventor: Chang Uk Kim
  • Patent number: 10947729
    Abstract: A roofing shingle (20) comprises a web (22) of roofing material configured with a first series of sealant material sites (60) and a second series of sealant material sites (62) provided on the roofing shingle (20). The web (22) of roofing material is configured with a length dimension (L) and a width dimension (W). The sealant material sites 60 of the first series are provided along a first axis (66) which is essentially parallel to the length dimension of the web. The sealant material sites (60) of the first series are discontinuous along the first axis (66) and separated from one another along the first axis by a first interval (70). The sealant material sites of the second series (62) are provided along a second axis (68) which is essentially parallel to the length dimension of the web and spaced apart from the first axis (66) with respect to the width dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Atlas Roofing Corporation
    Inventors: Meldrin Collins, Brad Parten, Hazem Shanab, Dale Rushing, Walid Amad
  • Patent number: 10640979
    Abstract: A prefabricated offset shingle kit includes a first shingle packet, a second shingle packet, and a third shingle packet. The first shingle packet has a first wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face, and a left face. The second shingle packet has a second wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a rear face, and a right face. The third shingle packet has a wrap portion disposed around only a top face, a bottom face, a front face, and a rear face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Jerome Grubka, John Childers
  • Patent number: 9545695
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for inserting angle plates in transverse duct flanges. The apparatus is especially useful in inserting angle plates into transverse duct flanges of duct fittings. Packages for holding angle plates are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: HVAC Inventors/Systemation, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Daw, Cody B. Umberger
  • Patent number: 8413809
    Abstract: A package of specialty shingles is provided, preferably for containing hip, ridge or rake shingles, with support in the bottom of the package for the shingles that is complementary to the lower ends of nested, stacked shingles in the package. Shaped constraining devices are provided, for retaining the shape of shingles in the package. An assembly of packages of the specialty shingles is provided, in a tray arrangement, and a pallet assembly of various levels of such packages disposed on a pallet are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: CertainTeed Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen A. Koch, Robert L. Jenkins, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Gregory F. Jacobs, Barbara A. McDonough, Paul J. Batt
  • Publication number: 20030136692
    Abstract: A tool box has box which pivotally installed with a transparent cover. A hook extends from the cover toward the box. The box has a concave portion corresponding to the hook for being buckled by the hook. The box has a spacer. The spacer spaces the interior of the box into an upper receiving chamber and a lower receiving chamber. The lower receiving chamber has an opening penetrating the box at a side with respect to the concave portion. A disk is placed into the lower receiving chamber from the opening. The concave portion of the disk corresponding to the box has a stop plate. The thickness of the stop plate is smaller than the depth of the concave portion. Thereby, the hook of the cover buckles the concave portion and at the same time it resists against the stop plate for fixing the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Kun-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 5581446
    Abstract: A housing structure of an electric appliance has an upper case and a lower case. The upper case is provided with a plurality of logic holding portions arranged on inner sides of left and right side face portions of the upper case. An interior one of the logic holding portions has a protrusion engagement portion which is defined by a slant face and a front face of the interior holding portion. The lower case is provided with a lower case side engagement portion which engages releasibly with the protrusion engagement portion. The lower case side engagement portion has a resilient half portion in a half support which is formed on a bottom face of the lower case and on which an extrusion portion that engages releasibly with the protrusion engagement portion and a threaded hole for a screw are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi Telecom Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Sanpei, Tatsuo Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 5461543
    Abstract: An upper case 1 and a lower case 2 are fixed by no screw, so that assemblage workability is improved. An electric appliance can be divided into plastic upper case 1, metal-plate-made lower case 2, and logic package 9 having print substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi Telecom Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Sanpei, Tatsuo Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 4621731
    Abstract: A package of foam sealing strip of delayed rebound and of foam held in compressed state by the wall of the package. The wall of the package is formed of two flexurally rigid panels which protrude on both sides of the sealing strip and are held together by a plurality of hoops arranged spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Irbit Holding AG
    Inventor: Rolf Tschudin-Mahrer