With Detector, Indicator, Or Control Patents (Class 242/563)
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Patent number: 8684297Abstract: A method of grounding a dispenser. A low impedance path is connected to elements internal to the dispenser. The low impedance path is also connected to a surface contact spring which is adapted to contact an external mounting surface when the dispenser is affixed thereto. Static electrical charge accumulated on the elements is discharged through the low impedance path and the surface contact spring to the external mounting surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LPInventors: John R. Moody, Joshua M. Broehl
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Patent number: 8662003Abstract: A wire level gauge for indicating the level of wire in a wire storage container and a method for determining the level of wire in a wire storage container using the wire level gauge. The wire level gauge has a level indicator with a magnet which is slidably movable on a measuring bar. The level indicator moves on the measuring bar and follows a leading edge of the wire in the wire storage container as the wire is dispensed from the wire storage container.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Inventors: Edward L. Cooper, Brent M. Cooper
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Patent number: 8631967Abstract: A method for preventing recalibration of an automated product dispenser, a sensor protector for a product dispenser, and a product dispenser including a housing having a sensor area, a capacitive sensor adjacent a first surface of the sensor area of the housing, where the sensor has a target sensing area extending through the first surface and beyond a second surface of the housing opposite the first surface in a direction away from the first surface and a sensor protector which includes a plurality of spaced apart projections extending from the second surface in the direction away from the first surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc.Inventor: Dikran Babikian
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Publication number: 20130292506Abstract: A wire electric discharge machining apparatus according to embodiments includes a wire electrode, a wire supplying unit that supplies the wire electrode, a collecting motor that collects the wire electrode at a predetermined speed, a tension motor that controls a tension of the wire electrode between the wire supplying unit and the collecting motor, a speed calculating unit that calculates a traveling speed of the wire electrode at a predetermined time interval, a speed storing unit that stores the traveling speed calculated by the speed calculating unit, a differential speed calculating unit that calculates a differential speed between a current traveling speed output from the speed calculating unit and a past traveling speed stored in the speed storing unit, and a breakage detecting unit that detects breakage of the wire electrode by comparing the differential speed with a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuo Onodera, Takayuki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8575921Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the movement of a piston disposed within a housing comprises a pin which is responsive to the axial movements of a piston in the housing, the pin having an end which is magnetically coupled to a first ring magnet slidably disposed on a magnet carrier of an indicator body, a second ring magnet disposed on the magnet carrier having its poles oriented so as to repel the first ring magnet, and a retainer for holding the first and second ring magnets on the magnet carrier is described. Additionally, a method for operating the cycle indicator apparatus is also provided. The housing is comprised of one or a plurality of ports through which lubricants are delivered to one or a plurality of corresponding points within a machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Inventor: Christopher John Sloan
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Patent number: 8544785Abstract: An automatic product dispenser determines if the roll loaded into the dispenser is approved for use with the dispenser. The core of a roll contains a feature that alters an electromagnetic field created proximate the core. The alteration of the electromagnetic field may then be used to determine if the core, and thus the roll, is usable with the dispenser. The feature is designed such that it is damaged once product is completely dispensed from the roll thereby preventing replenishment and reuse of a spent roll.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: San Jamar, Inc.Inventors: Mike Pelland, Steve Reckamp
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Patent number: 8534593Abstract: A paperboard handling machine includes an alignment mechanism for aligning rolls of paperboard supported by the machine whereby the rolls are aligned with one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Greif Packaging LLCInventors: David W. Casey, Gregg A. Bryan, Karl U. Wuerminghausen
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Patent number: 8528851Abstract: A hybrid towel dispenser is provided that is operable in an automatic dispensing mode and a manual dispensing mode. The dispenser comprises a rotatable drum; a motor; a one-way bearing coupling the motor to the drum such that the motor rotates the drum in the automatic dispensing mode and a user can rotate the drum in the manual dispensing mode separately from the motor. The sensor controlling the motor has a sensing path through the user engagement surface of the manual advance assembly. The dispenser can additionally have a manual advance assembly with a lever rotationally coupled to the cutting drum and operable by the user to rotate the drum in the manual dispensing mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics InternationalInventors: Matthew Friesen, Bradley Friesen, John Friesen, Andrew Jackman, Lockland Corley, Richard Lalau, Michael Severyn, Alex Tramploski, Joel Keily
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Publication number: 20130221151Abstract: The invention is a system and method for dispensing T-shirt type plastic bags singly by means of an automated dispenser. At the push of a button or other control means, a single bag is partially ejected from the machine, whereupon the user can take the bag and use it. The device has detectors for detecting fault conditions (such as bag depletion, wrinkled bags, and the like) as well as display means such as an LCD for displaying ads or other information to users.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: HEMED OFAKIM LTD.Inventor: Avi Agayev
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Patent number: 8511599Abstract: Paper towel dispenser apparatus and method wherein one or more targets are connected to a rotatable toweling support roller. A sensor senses capacitance changes caused by the rotating roller and the one or more targets and sends signals to a controller to control rotation of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventors: Richard Lalau, Damir Wallener, Lockland Corley, Andrew Jackman, Alex Trampolski, Matthew Friesen
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Patent number: 8511598Abstract: The invention relates to a system of dispensing a product rolled around an element such as a tube (50), such product defining a structure such as a cylinder, and such system comprising in particular: a frame, a means of support and connection of the roll in the frame. It is claimed for the invention that the tube (50) includes an electrically conductive element (50c) designed to operate in conjunction with an element of the frame so as together to form an electric circuit element.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Georgia-Pacific FranceInventors: Jean-Louis Neveu, Gilles Cattacin
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Publication number: 20130160627Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: YKK CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Sho, Yoshifumi Nakata, Hisashi Yoneshima, Tomonari Yoshida, Takanori Yoshida
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Publication number: 20130146702Abstract: An article and processes and products are related to a paper roll and core including signaling device. The process may, but need not, include positioning a paper roll core comprising a body which is generally cylindrical in shape and having an outer wall spaced from an inner wall with a signaling device between the outer wall and the inner wall, within a circumferentially located paper roll having a width of paper corresponding to the length of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventor: Peter Morello
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Publication number: 20130119183Abstract: A system including a roll formed from a web having at least one characteristic mark of the roll, and a dispenser which has an element for identifying this mark in order to determine whether a new roll installed in the dispenser is a compatible roll. The mark is present on a free end section of the new roll. This marked free end section is followed by at least one section that does not have a characteristic mark of the roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Gilles Cattacin, Nicolas Pommier
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Publication number: 20130112801Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing sheet material pertains to a housing (82) arranged for receiving a supply of sheet material (1), a feed mechanism (2) for advancing said sheet material through a discharge opening (100) of said housing (82), a motor (3) for driving said feed mechanism (2) and a controller (4) for powering the motor (3) to drive the feed mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS ABInventor: SCA Hygiene Products AB
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Patent number: 8434709Abstract: A towel dispenser includes a housing, a sensor, and a motor assembly that causes in response to a hand: a leading edge of the toweling to be extended from the housing a multiple of a predetermined unit length (PUL), optionally plus a further extent that is less than PUL; and then to be retracted. The motor assembly ceases retracting based on sensing the leading edge of the toweling. PUL is set in a length learn sequence by: retracting the toweling until a leading edge of the toweling is sensed; advancing the toweling a preset extended length greater than at least a distance between immediately adjacent lines of perforations in the toweling; retracting the toweling until a leading edge of the toweling is sensed while measuring a length by which the toweling is retracted; and determining the difference between the preset extended length and the measured retracted length.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Innovia Intellectual Properties, LLCInventors: William B. Troutman, William B. Troutman, II, Ian D. Kovacevich, Thomas James Philpott, Christopher Hoy, Lawrence Ober
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Patent number: 8408487Abstract: An automatic dispenser for a rolled material has a sensor that detects the presence of a user in front of the dispenser. When that occurs, a motor is driven by energy stored in a battery or a capacitor and a short length of the material is dispensed from the roll. The user then grasps that short length and pulls more of the material off the roll, thereby causing the roll to rotate. Rotation of the roll drives the motor as a generator producing electrical energy that recharges the battery or capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Inventors: Jeffrey E. Rodrian, James A. Rodrian
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Patent number: 8403251Abstract: A filament winding apparatus detects that a fiber bundle is likely to break and prevents generation of defective products. The filament winding apparatus applies a prescribed winding tension to the fiber bundle unwound from a fiber bundle feeding package and winds the tension-applied fiber bundle around a mandrel. A tension applying portion applies the winding tension to the fiber bundle at a position that is immediately before a side of the mandrel between the fiber bundle package and the mandrel. A tension sensor detects the tension of the fiber bundle between the fiber bundle feeding package and the tension applying portion. A determination means determines a tension abnormality of the fiber bundle by comparing pre-set reference information with the tension measured value measured by the tension sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Murata Machinery, LtdInventors: Tadashi Uozumi, Motohiro Tanigawa
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Patent number: 8382026Abstract: A paper toweling dispenser selectively operable to dispense paper toweling from a roll of paper toweling employing a plurality of alternative operational modes.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Dispensing Dynamics InternationalInventors: Joel P. Keily, Niko Anthony Cvjetkovic, Michel Morand
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Patent number: 8371519Abstract: A cord material dispenser comprising a container including a surrounding sidewall having first and second openings and first and second cord materials disposed in the container. The first and second cord materials are dispensable through their respective first and second openings. The first cord material is preferably wound around a first spool and the second cord material is preferably wound around a second spool. The dispenser may include a first quantity of the first cord material and a second quantity of the second cord material, wherein the first quantity is less than the second quantity. For example, the first quantity may be one fourth of the second quantity. Preferably, the container includes indicia indicative of the ratio of the first quantity to the second quantity. The indicia may be in the form of a graphic representative of the intended use of the spooled materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Garlock Sealing Technologies LLCInventors: Michael W. McManus, Marc E. Semmler, Mari Foley, Matt Tones, Christian Lauzier, Chris Boss, Janet C. Jessen, Timothy James Hurley, David W. Reeves
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Patent number: 8366035Abstract: Supply package and apparatus for dispensing sheet material comprising a housing (82) arranged for receiving a supply of sheet material (1), a feed mechanism (2) for advancing said sheet material through a discharge opening (100) of said housing (82), a motor (3) for driving said feed mechanism (2) and a controller (4) for powering the motor (3) to drive the feed mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products ABInventors: Robert Kling, Anders Olsson
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Publication number: 20130026283Abstract: A conveyance apparatus includes: a supply unit rotatably supporting a roll member around which a sheet is wound in form of a roll and configured to supply the sheet from the roll member; a motor for rotating the roll member; a roller pair configured to convey the sheet supplied from the supply unit while pinching the sheet; and a control unit configured to set the torque of the motor according to sheet information related to the sheet when taking up the sheet on the roll member by driving the motor while the sheet is pinched by the roller pair being stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Ryoya Shinjo, Yuki Igarashi, Haruhiko Tanami, Ryohei Maruyama, Shin Genta, Naoki Wakayama
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Publication number: 20130016168Abstract: A conveyance device has a roll rotating unit that rotates a roll of sheet medium forward and in reverse, and a conveyance path along which is an upstream roller and a downstream roller for conveying the medium and cooperate in a reverse and rewind operation. A control unit controls driving of the upstream roller, the downstream roller, and the roll rotating unit, such that, during the reverse and rewind operation, the control unit (i) drives the upstream roller and the roll rotating unit, (ii) stops driving the upstream roller while continuing to drive the roll rotating unit, first slack being created as a result of (i) or (ii), (iii) causes the medium to be nipped at the downstream roller, and (iv) drives the upstream roller while the medium is nipped at the downstream roller to create second slack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko Noguchi, Hiroshi Hamakawa, Tetsugo Ishida
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Patent number: 8355835Abstract: A system for demarcating an area comprises a first vehicle, an attachment point, a demarcating element, a motor and a vehicle control unit. The demarcating element extends from the first vehicle to the attachment point. The system furthermore comprises a camera, which camera is operatively connected to the vehicle control unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Maasland N.V.Inventors: Iwan Yves Vlaar, Karel Van Den Berg, Jan Martinus Van Kuilenburg
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Publication number: 20130008996Abstract: A reel changer of a printing press has a securing assembly for a safety area. The safety area extends on a receiving end or on a dispensing side of the reel changer at least over the entire width to the end-face side frames. These side frames comprise vertically supported frame parts and optionally also include switch boxes end or side boxes that are arranged directly on the side frames. The safety area is substantially completely enclosed by the reel changer and by one or more connected units and or mechanical blocking devices and by one or more sensor-monitored access assemblies in such a way that operators can enter during operation only by the use of the one or more monitored access assemblies. A control element for controlling functions of the reel changer is physically separate from the reel changer and is arranged at a distance from the side frames at a location that can be reached by an operator positioned outside the safety area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: KOENIG & BAUER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Erwin Paul Josef Lehrieder, Klaus Karl Muller, Josef Herbert Olbort
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Publication number: 20120312853Abstract: An electronic dispenser for dispensing flexible sheet material. A control circuit in the housing receives a plurality of signals and controls dispensing of the sheet material from the housing. A tear bar is mounted within the housing for severance of sheet material by the user. A pivotally mounted pawl member is located proximate to the tear bar such that movement of sheet material into the tear bar for severance pivots the pawl member from a first position to a second position. A signal means associated with the pawl member is located such that movement of the pawl member to the second position causes the signal means to send a signal to notify the control circuit that the sheet material has been removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: CHARLES A. OSBORNE, Tsu-Ling Chang
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Publication number: 20120292422Abstract: Methods and systems for supplying a web of packaging material to an indexing-motion packaging machine include rotating a roll of a web of packaging material, sensing changes in position of a dancer caused by rotation of the roll, rotating the roll at a starting speed of rotation that is based upon sensed changes in position of the dancer, and then maintain substantially constant tension in the web of flexible packaging material during indexing motion of the packaging machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: Alkar-RapidPak-MP Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Craig R. Bonneville, Ian Thornley Eisele
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Patent number: 8270152Abstract: There is provided a method and apparatus for storage of cable, comprising: a cable reel, said cable reel being rotatable about an axis and having a surface spaced from said axis, said surface being arranged to store wound cable thereon, the cable reel further comprising: a first receiving portion for receiving a first part of the cable; a second receiving portion for receiving a second part of the cable; and a guide for guiding the cable between the first and second receiving portions, wherein the guide is arranged to guide the cable along a path extending in three dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Xyratex Technology LimitedInventor: David C. Haigh
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Publication number: 20120224905Abstract: A paper roll remaining amount detecting device includes a paper roll receiving unit including first and second recesses to receive a paper roll with a cylindrical core dropping by its weight, depending on a printer mounting posture, when the paper roll is consumed to have a predetermined diameter. An attachment frame is pivotably supported on a sidewall of the paper roll receiving unit having an arc-shaped hole portion extending along a pivot movement trajectory of a pivoting end portion of the attachment frame. An arm is pivotably supported on the attachment frame, with a projection formed in a pivoting end portion thereof and inserted into the arc-shaped hole portion. When the paper roll becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined size, the projection of the arm is moved toward the cylindrical core of the paper roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kiyotaka Nihashi
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Publication number: 20120217337Abstract: A modular element of creel including a structure having at least one support suitable to support a reel or yarn spool; the structure is in the form of a solid polygon and includes a feeder device suitable to allow the feeding of the thread developed by such spool with at least one characteristic, selected from the characteristics of tension and speed, maintained constant and equal to a preset fixed value or function of the operational phase of the machine. The structure is able to be modularly coupled to other similar structures to allow the feeding of more yarn to a textile machine. Every yarn fed by every modular element having its own selected characteristic defined by the feeder device associated with such modular element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: B.T.S.R. International S.P.A.Inventor: Tiziano Barea
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Patent number: 8248776Abstract: There is provided a storage reel for storage of cable. The storage reel comprises a first cable reel having a first reeling surface arranged to store wound communication cable thereon, a second cable reel having a second reeling surface arranged to store wound communication cable thereon and a connecting member arranged to connect said first and second cable reels. The storage reel is rotatable about an axis such that, in use, the storage reel is operable to wind cable across both the first and second reeling surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Xyratex Technology LimitedInventor: David C. Haigh
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Patent number: 8240593Abstract: A paper feeding device that feeds a sheet of a paper roll to a printing device includes two spaced-apart side plates having opposed first notches for rotatably bearing-supporting a first paper roll and opposed second notches for rotatably bearing-supporting a second paper roll that may have a different diameter in an unused state from that of the first paper roll. A near end sensor for detecting the remaining amount of the paper rolls is slidably positioned in a linear groove formed in one of the side plates. The linear groove having a longitudinal axis that passes through a midpoint of a straight line connecting a rotation center of a first paper roll bearing-supported in the first notches and a rotation center of a second paper roll bearing-supported in the second notches. When first and second paper rolls of different sizes are used, if both paper rolls are wound on paper tubes of the same size, the position of the near end sensor need not be changed, which is a great convenience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.Inventor: Akihiko Ito
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Publication number: 20120193467Abstract: Methods are provided for operating a web medium supply for a printer and or operating a printer having a web medium supply to which any of a plurality of different cores can be mounted, each core having a web. In one aspect, a core data condition is detected indicating that an automatic core data acquisition process is to be executed and conditions are sensed from which a difference in the rotational positions of a first engaged surface at a first end of the core and a second engaged surface at a second end of the core can be determined. Data regarding the web on the core is determined based upon the sensed conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2011Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventor: Gary P. Lawniczak
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Patent number: 8220141Abstract: It is intended to allow for efficiently performing a feeder replacement operation. A feeder 50 is formed in a shape elongated in one direction to allow a replacement operation therefor to be performed in such a manner that it is inserted and pulled out relative to a feeder installation section 150, along a longitudinal direction thereof. A rear end 111 which is a trailing one of longitudinally opposite ends of each of a plurality of feeders 50A, 50B, - - - , in an insertion direction, is provided with a guide portion for guiding one 50C of the feeders to be installed in adjacent relation to ones of the remaining feeders. For example, the guide portion can be formed by rounding corners of the rear end 111 of the feeder 50.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Yonemitsu, Tomokazu Ohnuki
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Publication number: 20120175454Abstract: A tape cassette is provided with a cassette case, a tape, a tape discharge portion, a first indicator portion, a first indicator member and a first attachment portion. The cassette case includes a bottom case and a top case. The tape is a print medium. The tape discharge portion discharges the tape from the cassette case. The first indicator portion includes at least one indicator hole and indicates a type of the tape. The first indicator member is provided with the first indicator portion. The first attachment portion is provided on an upstream side of the tape discharge portion and to which the first indicator member is attached.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kengo NODA
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Publication number: 20120104141Abstract: A towel dispenser includes a housing for receiving toweling. The housing includes a main body; a loading door that is configured to rotate relative to the main body between a closed position and an open position; and a guide system that includes a first roller attached to the main body and a second roller attached to the loading door. The towel dispenser may include a motor for driving dispensing of the toweling from the housing and an associated sensor. The towel dispenser can be mounted to an underside of a cabinet. In an aspect, the front wall of the main body and a lip of the loading door collectively define a gap to which the guiding system guides the toweling and through which towels are dispensed when the loading door is in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: William Bryant Troutman, William Bryant Troutman, II
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Publication number: 20120109366Abstract: An automatic product dispenser determines if the roll loaded into the dispenser is approved for use with the dispenser. The core of a roll receives a plug that engages a hub within the dispenser. The plug has a feature that alters an electromagnetic field created proximate the hub. The alteration of the electromagnetic field may then be used to determine if the plug, and thus the roll, is usable with the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Morgan J. Lowery, Gregory J. Hallingstad, Michael J. Pelland, Steven R. Reckamp
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Publication number: 20120097785Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material to transport the web material away from the parent roll at a web takeoff point where the feed rate variations are induced by parent roll geometry variations. The method utilizes both calculated and measured data to make suitable adjustments in the driving speed for an out-of-round parent roll to maintain a relative constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: Paul Alan Binner, SR.
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Publication number: 20120097788Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material. The apparatus includes a rotational position and speed determining device for determining the rotational position and speed of the parent roll, a drive system for imparting rotational movement to the parent roll, a device for measuring the radius of the parent roll, and a logic device. The logic device generates an ideal speed reference signal and utilizes calculated and measured data to establish a corrected speed reference signal to make adjustments in the driving speed based upon the corrected speed reference signal to maintain a relatively constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: Paul Alan Binner, SR.
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Publication number: 20120097787Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material. The apparatus includes a rotational position and speed determining device for determining the rotational position and speed of the parent roll, a drive system for imparting rotational movement to the parent roll, a device for measuring the radius of the parent roll, and a logic device. The logic device generates an ideal speed reference signal and utilizes calculated and measured data to establish a corrected speed reference signal to make adjustments in the driving speed based upon the corrected speed reference signal to maintain a relatively constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: Paul Alan Binner, SR.
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Publication number: 20120097786Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material. The apparatus includes a rotational position and speed determining device for determining the rotational position and speed of the parent roll, a drive system for imparting rotational movement to the parent roll, a device for measuring the radius of the parent roll, and a logic device. The logic device generates an ideal speed reference signal and utilizes calculated and measured data to establish a corrected speed reference signal to make adjustments in the driving speed based upon the corrected speed reference signal to maintain a relatively constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventor: Paul Alan Binner, SR.
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Publication number: 20120037746Abstract: Dispensers and dispensing systems and methods having communication abilities are provided. Various embodiments include the ability to communicate reminders and other messages to users and maintenance personnel. An embodiment of the present invention has two sensors, one for detecting when to dispense a product and the other for detecting when to communicate pre-recorded messages. Another embodiment also includes the ability to record multiple messages into the dispenser for later playback upon triggering events. Still yet other embodiments provide messages upon dispensing of product.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LPInventors: Antonio M. Cittadino, J. Daniel Silk
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Publication number: 20120001012Abstract: A TIP drive unit that calculates a cable drive torque stably is provided. In accordance with the invention, Traversing In-core Probe (TIP) drive unit includes a housing, a storage reel configured to storage the probe cable, a drive mechanism including a motor, and configured to feed the probe cable form the storage reel and spool the probe cable onto the storage reel, a motor controller configured to drive the motor at a predefined rotating speed, a processor configured to calculate a cable drive torque that is a torque necessary for moving the TIP and the probe cable by using a value of supply power necessary for driving the motor, a value of the predefined rotating speed of the motor, and a loss torque that is a torque necessary for driving the drive mechanism, and a noise filter configured to remove noise included in a signal indicating the value of the supply power.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Hidehiko YASUTA, Hiromi Kato
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Patent number: 8082828Abstract: A hands-free dispenser has a body and a cover connected to the body. A sensor element is attached to the body. The cover has an opening that enables the sensor to protrude through the cover and extend beyond a plane of the cover when the cover is closed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: SCA Tissue North America LLCInventors: John S. Formon, Russell G. Wieser
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Patent number: 8066217Abstract: Dispensers and dispensing systems and methods having communication abilities are provided. Various embodiments include the ability to communicate reminders and other messages to users and maintenance personnel. An embodiment of the present invention has two sensors, one for detecting when to dispense a product and the other for detecting when to communicate pre-recorded messages. Another embodiment also includes the ability to record multiple messages into the dispenser for later playback upon triggering events. Still yet other embodiments provide messages upon dispensing of product.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LPInventors: Antonio M. Cittadino, J. Daniel Silk
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Patent number: 8025251Abstract: A wire reel containing portion 3 of a reinforcing bar binding machine 1 is provided with a rotation detecting lever 8 and a photosensor 7. When a wire reel is rotated in starting to bind a wire, rotation thereof is detected by the rotation detecting lever switched ON/OFF by a projected portion formed at a side face of the wire reel, the photosensor detects a reflection mark of the wire reel to determine a kind of the wire from a number of the marks, and a twist torque or the like is controlled. Wire information is detected not in an initializing operation (in setting wire) of rotating the wire reel at low speed but in a binding operation of rotating at high speed and therefore, an amount of swinging the rotation detecting lever is large and wire information can firmly be detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Ichiro Kusakari
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Patent number: 8011844Abstract: A printer is disclosed. The printer includes a main body which contains a paper roll container where a paper roll is loaded, a lid for closing an opening section of the main body through which opening section the paper roll is loaded in the paper roll container, a letter printing mechanism which is formed when the lid is closed, and a detecting arm disposed on a rear surface of the lid for detecting a near-end state of the paper roll. When the paper roll is loaded in the paper roll container and the lid is closed, an arm main body of the detecting arm contacts an outer circumferential surface of the paper roll. When the paper roll reaches the near-end state, the detecting arm does not contact the outer circumferential surface of the paper roll and is moved, and a switch disposed at the main body becomes OFF.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu Component LimitedInventors: Yuji Yada, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Masaru Kihara, Fumio Sakurai, Yukihiro Mori
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Publication number: 20110205278Abstract: A conveying apparatus includes a holding part that holds a recording medium in the form of a roll and rotates, a clamping unit that clamps the recording medium downstream from the holding part along a conveying route, a regulating member that regulates a position of a side end of the recording medium in a width direction intersecting the conveying direction between the holding part and the clamping unit in the conveying route, a drive unit that rotatably drives the holding part in a forward direction to unwind the recording medium and a reverse direction to rewind the recording medium, and a controller that controls a drive state of the drive unit. The controller controls the drive unit so that, after the holding part is driven forward, the holding part is driven in reverse.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji HABA
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Publication number: 20110133010Abstract: An automatic product dispenser determines if the roll loaded into the dispenser is approved for use with the dispenser. The core of a roll contains a feature that alters an electromagnetic field created proximate the core. The alteration of the electromagnetic field may then be used to determine if the core, and thus the roll, is usable with the dispenser. The feature is designed such that it is damaged once product is completely dispensed from the roll thereby preventing replenishment and reuse of a spent roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2008Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Mike J. Pelland, Steve Reckamp
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Patent number: 7946522Abstract: An electronic dispenser for dispensing a measured sheet from a roll of web material includes a passive, self-discharging static charge dissipating material configured with at least one component of the dispenser that stores static charge generated by operation of the dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard P. Lewis, Paul Tramontina