Plural Operators Patents (Class 220/245)
  • Patent number: 11530506
    Abstract: An inner drum cover is provided at a drum opening of an inner drum of a washing machine, the inner drum cover is used to open or close the drum opening, so that the inner drum forms a closed container after the drum opening is closed by the inner drum cover. The inner drum can perform washing after the inner drum cover is correspondingly fastened to the drum opening, so that clothes only come into contact with washing water in the sealed inner drum in a washing process. In this way, a case in which the clothes are contaminated because washing water between the inner drum and an outer drum flows into the inner drum is avoided, washing cleanliness of the washing machine is greatly improved, and incomplete washing of the clothes caused by contamination of the washing water between the inner drum and the outer drum is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD., QINGDAO HAIER SMART TECHNOLOGY R & D CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Hongxia Sun, Yimin Li, Chunfeng Lao, Xinghui Hao, Di Wu, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 9687922
    Abstract: A power tool assembly includes a workpiece support surface, a throat opening defined in the workpiece support surface, an arbor shaft configured to support a shaping device, the arbor shaft positioned beneath the workpiece support surface and accessible through the throat opening, and a camming device rotatably mounted at a location adjacent to the throat opening, the camming device including a first camming surface portion configured to cam against a second camming surface potion of a throat plate inserted into the throat opening, thereby locking the throat plate within the throat opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Timothy Szweda
  • Publication number: 20140263360
    Abstract: An isolating valve includes a body having a canal for the passage of fluid, which is intended to be shut off by upstream and downstream spherical plugs, that can be actuated independently of one another between positions allowing the passage of fluid through the canal and positions of shutting off the canal, and a sealing checker, opening into the canal and between the two spherical plugs. The upstream plug is equipped with an upstream seat of the “simple piston effect” type and has no downstream seat. The downstream plug is equipped with an upstream seat of the “simple piston effect” type and with a downstream seat of the “double piston effect” type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: TOTAL S.A.
    Inventor: Dominique Malnou
  • Patent number: 7611557
    Abstract: A reversed pressure relief valve that is used in connection with a computer hard disk drive so as to vent pressurized gases contained within the disk drive while not permitting debris to enter the drive mechanism or the valve. More specifically, the present invention is a reversed direction valve which includes at least one passageway defined by at least a lifter ring, a dry strap, a pressure sensitive adhesive (“PSA”)/body film and a filter media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Plitek, LLC
    Inventor: Karl K. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 6539678
    Abstract: A pre-fabricated service bay used for providing service access to the underside of vehicles. The service bay is fabricated as a single monolithic unit and then positioned in an excavated hole within a service building. The service bay has multiple safety cover grids that are hydraulically activated to enclose the bay's opening when not in use. An access stairway is retractable within the bay during use with a deployable safety handrail that collapses upon stairway retraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Inventors: Robert E. Campbell, T. Scott Campbell
  • Patent number: 5989608
    Abstract: A food container for cooking through use of a microwave oven includes a container adapted to contain food and having a hole and a pressure regulation valve attached to the food container to close the hole. The pressure regulation valve includes a cover film having an area sufficient to cover the hole, an adhesive layer applied over the surface of the cover film facing the food container, and a separator film disposed between the adhesive layer and the food container and having an area larger than that of the hole but smaller than that of the cover film. When food contained in the container is cocked in a microwave oven, the food is heated so that moisture is produced from the food. Until the vapor pressure within the food container reaches a predetermined level, the pressure regulation valve remains closed. When the vapor pressure within the food container reaches the predetermined level, the cover film partially separates from the food container in order to relieve the vapor pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Maki Mizuno
  • Patent number: 5074461
    Abstract: A unit (3) for fitting on the open top of a container (1) made of cardboard, corrugated board or similar lightweight semi-rigid sheet material, said unit including securing means (10) arranged to be located and secured in an aperture (15) in a side wall of the container, spaced downwardly from the top thereof, to secure the unit to the container, the said securing means being arranged to extend through the said aperture and to protrude inwardly of the container wall, and being formed as a hollow element to define an outwardly opening but inwardly closed hand hole in the container wall, which hand hole is closed off from the container interior. In an alternative form the hand hole is not necessarily inwardly closed, but the securing member is locked in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Reed Packaging Limited
    Inventors: Alan Parker, Bernard Sams
  • Patent number: 4669628
    Abstract: An automatically openable lid for a receptacle structure has a safety device for preventing any accident in the presence of an obstacle in the range of opening and closing movements of the lid. The device includes a safety guard extending around a front surface of the lid and beyond a rear surface thereof. The guard is mounted on the lid in a semi-fixed manner such that the guard is normally kept immovable relative to the lid during the movement thereof and such that the guard is pivotally movable relative to the lid when the guard is hit by any obstacle during the movement of the lid. Responsive to the movement of the guard relative to the lid, a detecting means is operable to energize a brake for stopping the movement of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
    Inventor: Keizo Hatta
  • Patent number: 4493429
    Abstract: An arrangement for opening and closing a cover of a transport- and treatment container has a toggle closure movable between open and closed positions in which it removes a cover from a container and applies the cover on the container, respectively, and a gripping device arranged to move the toggle closure between the open and closed positions and provided with two cams located at opposite sides of the toggle closure and engageable with the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1985
    Assignee: Schering Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Pistor, Ludwig Mankut