By Insertion Or Application Of A Preform Patents (Class 264/516)
  • Patent number: 12090704
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for cooling heated molds from a machine for molding containers from thermoplastic material by stretch-blow molding hot preforms using at least one pressurized fluid. The cooling method includes, in order to cool the molds, at least one cooling step that involves selectively feeding at least one cooling fluid into the molding cavity of at least some of the molding units that, after the carousel has been stopped in order to immobilize the molding units at least during the cooling step, are located in a predetermined cooling region in which the molding units are in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventors: Nicolas Chomel, Damien Fournier
  • Patent number: 12059852
    Abstract: A composite material molding method includes a first disposition step for disposing a prepreg on a jig molding surface of a molding jig; a first sealing step for airtightly sealing the prepreg by covering the prepreg with a first resin bag; a second disposition step for disposing a breather so as to cover the first resin bag; a second sealing step for airtightly sealing the breather so as to cover the breather with a second resin bag; a first depressurization step for depressurizing a first space sealed by the first resin bag; a second depressurization step for depressurizing a second space sealed by the second resin bag; and a heat-curing step for heat-curing the prepreg by supplying the internal space of a pressure vessel with a steam with a predetermined temperature and a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yui, Akihisa Okuda, Masahiko Shimizu, Yuki Kani, Akihiro Terasaka
  • Patent number: 12054857
    Abstract: Articles of wear having one or more textiles that include a low processing temperature polymeric composition and a high processing temperature polymeric composition, and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The low processing temperature polymeric composition and the high processing temperature polymeric composition can be selectively incorporated into a textile to provide one or more structural properties and/or other advantageous properties to the article. The textile can be thermoformed to impart such structural and/or other advantageous properties to the article of wear. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nike, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni Adami, Sam Amis, Sergio Cavaliere, Jessica Green, Stephen Hipp, John Hurd, James Molyneux, Thomas J. Rushbrook, Timothy J. Smith, Christianna Wincek
  • Patent number: 12030555
    Abstract: A method of making a roof assembly includes bringing first and second adhesive beads into contact with a roof panel and a roof stiffener to thereby define a chamber. The first adhesive bead forms a continuous perimeter around a first vacuum aperture in the roof stiffener to thereby define a first vacuum chamber. The second adhesive bead defines a second continuous perimeter around a second vacuum aperture in the roof stiffener to thereby define a second vacuum chamber. A vacuum is created in each of the first and second vacuum chambers. An outer periphery of each of the first and second adhesive beads is in direct fluid communication with the surrounding atmosphere through a perimeter opening of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew K. Swayne, Eric J. Boettcher
  • Patent number: 12023844
    Abstract: A method for producing a tube arrangement (1) for the transport of tempering medium, in which base body sections (6, 7) are provided, which have congruently configured separating surfaces (8), wherein at least one functional element (3) on at least one base body section (6, 7) is arranged in such a way that it can be in contact with the tempering medium, whereafter the base body sections (6, 7) are joined along the separating surface (8) and bonded to one another to form the tube arrangement (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TI AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Albert Boecker, Matthias Winter, Thorsten Schaefer, Florian Deibel
  • Patent number: 11885463
    Abstract: A pressurized gas accumulator has a hollow body which extends along a longitudinal axis and at least one connection piece. The hollow body has at least one layer of a weave structure with a plurality of warp threads running next to one another and a weft thread woven with the warp threads and oriented perpendicular thereto. The warp threads are oriented essentially parallel or essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the hollow body. A method for producing a pressurised gas accumulator and to a device for carrying out said method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Audi AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventor: Maik Kraus
  • Patent number: 11780146
    Abstract: A fuel tank manufacturing apparatus for a fuel tank, the fuel tank having therein a built-in component with a head portion, a neck portion, and a shoulder portion, and having the built-in component anchored to a tank body with a part of a parison wrapped around the neck portion during molding the tank body, includes: a pair of molding dies to have the parison transferred to the built-in component by blow molding; and shaping devices respectively provided in the pair of molding dies, wherein the shaping devices each include: an end surface to contact the parison; a recess provided in the end surface to receive the head portion and the neck portion and covered by the shoulder portion during molding; and an air hole provided in an area of a bottom surface of the recess corresponding to the head portion through which air pressure is applied toward the head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Nakaya, Masaki Aono, Kunihiko Kondo, Kazuhiro Otaki
  • Patent number: 11755792
    Abstract: The disclosure presents processes for improving the design phase of plastic material lined tubular structures used downhole of a borehole. A plastic material lined tubular structure model is utilized for tubular structures that have a metal layer, a grout layer, and a plastic material layer. The model can use a modified wall thickness for the metal layer. A strength model can be applied to the modified critical dimensions, e.g., wall thickness parameters. A thermal model can be applied to the tubular structure to determine pressure and temperature parameters. The strength model and the thermal model outputs can be utilized by a stress analyzer to determine loads, safety factors, and design limit parameters. The plastic material lined tubular structure model can enable more efficient use of tubular structures, designing a longer operational lifetime, such as in acidic environments, or the use of thinner structures while maintaining a satisfactory operational lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengchun Liu, Robello Samuel, Adolfo Gonzales, Yongfeng Kang
  • Patent number: 11725779
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high-pressure fluid vessel includes forming a first portion of a high-pressure fluid vessel with a molding process. The high-pressure fluid vessel includes a stack of capsules. Each capsule includes a first domed end, a second domed end, and a semicylindrical portion extending between and connecting the first domed end to the second domed end. The method further includes forming a second portion of a high-pressure fluid vessel with the molding process. The second portion of the high-pressure fluid vessel is positioned adjacent to the first portion of the high-pressure fluid vessel. The second portion of the high-pressure fluid vessel is welded to the first portion of the high-pressure fluid vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenping Zhao, Ellen Y. Sun
  • Patent number: 11717386
    Abstract: The invention relates to a computer program for specifying a material color of a dental restoration for which the desired tooth color is entered as a target tooth color (56) by the user, said target tooth color being the tooth color of a neighboring tooth, wherein upon specification of the material color of the dental restoration starting from the target tooth color (56) the material color of the dental restoration material is changed based on parameters such as the color of a stump and/or an abutment, the layer thickness of the dental restoration, the type of the dental restoration as well as the processing technique, wherein the specification of the material color of the dental restoration is controlled by the computer program, and wherein, once a parameter is selected, the next parameter is offered automatically, wherein the selection is limited based on parameters which are dependent on one another, such as the layer thickness, the restoration type, that is to say the indication, and the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Tobias Specht, Oliver Voigt, Michael Mueller, Harald Kerschbaumer
  • Patent number: 11655071
    Abstract: A container having a container body and a handle mounted thereto. The handle has a grip portion and a mounting bracket, a gripping area being left free between said grip portion and said mounting bracket for gripping the grip portion. An anchoring portion is arranged on a side of the mounting bracket facing away from the grip portion. The anchoring portion and the grip portion are elongate in a first, horizontal direction. The anchoring portion has a single wall stem portion oriented in a plane in said first direction and in a second direction away from the grip portion and a hooking portion projecting from the stem portion in a third direction transverse to said plane. A method for manufacturing such a container is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Dethapak Innovation B.V.
    Inventor: Nicola Louis Dethmers
  • Patent number: 11608154
    Abstract: A process for producing a polymeric stiffened sheet-like component, for example a panel, for aircraft construction. Production includes integration of hollow stiffening profiles, for example closed omega stringers, onto a sheet-like component, for example an external skin, where the stringers and external skin are produced from thermoplastic composite material. The stringers are integrated onto the external skin by establishing contact between the stringers and the external skin and melting thermoplastic composite material with exposure to heat and pressure at the areas of contact between external skin and stringers. Melting of the other sections of the stringers is avoided with a pressurized cooling fluid with a temperature significantly below the melting point of thermoplastic composite material, the fluid flowing through the airtight enclosed space in the stringers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Jörn, Remo Hinz
  • Patent number: 11598473
    Abstract: A cured-in-place pipe rehabilitation device launcher having a launcher assembly and a liner assist chamber, the launcher assembly includes a nozzle, an air feed chamber above the nozzle to pressurize a cured-in-place liner to aid in urging it into a pipe to be rehabilitated, and an attachment plate is disposed above the adapter. The liner assist chamber includes a base plate to attach to the attachment plate, a liner assist frame coupled to the base plate, a plurality of rollers rotationally attached to the liner assist frame, and a motor operably attached to at least one of the plurality of rollers and configured to aid in urging the cured-in-place liner into the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Pipe Restoration LLC
    Inventors: Richard Andrew Fast, Christopher Mark Finnell
  • Patent number: 11524441
    Abstract: The invention relates to the manufacture of hollow objects made of plastics material by way of an extruder. In order to improve the quality of the manufactured objects and the regularity of manufacture, the extruder that is fed at least with the initial metered quantity and to which at least a part of the molded blanks and/or of the molded and heated blanks used for manufacturing said objects and/or of the finally manufactured objects will be recycled is a twin-screw extruder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS
    Inventor: Yves-Alban Duclos
  • Patent number: 11506335
    Abstract: A plastic tank liner for the storage of a pressurized fluid includes: two ends; two elongated cylindrical sections, the two cylindrical sections having different diameters; and one connecting section connecting the two cylindrical sections. The connecting section has a concave portion connected to the cylindrical section of smaller diameter, and a convex portion adjacent to the cylindrical section of larger diameter. The convex portion has an isotensoid shape. Two convex domes are located on both ends of the plastic tank liner so that each of the domes is connected to a different cylindrical section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: PLASTIC OMNIUM NEW ENERGIES FRANCE
    Inventors: Axel Seifert, Geert Nouwen
  • Patent number: 11486544
    Abstract: A high-pressure tank includes a liner, a fiber layer, and a protective layer. The liner has an internal space to store a fluid. The fiber layer includes fibers wound around an outer surface of the liner, and a thermosetting resin that has been cured and covers surfaces of the fibers. The protective layer includes a porous member disposed on the fibers, the porous member having a plurality of pores extending through the porous member in a thickness direction of the porous member. The thermosetting resin has entered the pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Manabu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11484467
    Abstract: A sealing method and corresponding compensation ring, or alternately called a load washer, for use in portable spas or bath tubs that can be installed as part of an assembly when attaching fittings that go through a hole in a spa wall. The method and ring are used to compensate for the uneven surface of spa walls and the necessity that the fitting assembly provides that the fitting chosen sits parallel with the inside of the spa wall regardless of the shape of the surface of the wall, whether it is uniform or not. The fitting fits between a nut and the back/plumbing side of the spa wall with the fitting of choice and securing gasket being inserted into the assembly on the front/aesthetic/water side of the spa wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Waterway Plastics
    Inventor: Jason Hillyard
  • Patent number: 11390227
    Abstract: A protector includes an accommodating portion. The accommodating portion includes a bottom wall portion, a pair of side wall portions that extend from the bottom wall portion, and an opening that is open in a direction opposing to the bottom wall portion, the accommodating portion being capable of accommodating an electric wire therein. The protector further includes a regulation belt portion that is provided as an article integrally molded with the side wall portion, which is one of the pair of side wall portions, and that regulates movement of the electric wire to the outside from the opening, and a belt fastening portion that is arranged at the side wall portion, which is the other of the pair of side wall portions, and that fastens the regulation belt portion in a state in which the regulation belt portion spans between the pair of side wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kota Onodera
  • Patent number: 11350812
    Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscope shaft 1 having a layered structure. In this shaft 1, formed as a curved or non-curved hollow cylinder, various layers succeed and enclose one another radially over the entire length or a substantial part of the length of the shaft. The shaft has an inner layer 2 of plastic, and an outer layer 3 of plastic enclosing the inner layer 2, and a structuring layer 4 in the transition region 5 of the inner layer and the outer layer 3. The plastics of the inner layer and of the outer layer 3 are different, and the inner layer and the outer layer 3 mesh together in the transition region 5. Thus, the inner layer and the outer layer 3 can connect to each other particularly well, and a delamination of the inner layer and of the outer layer 3 can thus be prevented. This is specifically because the interface between the inner layer and the outer layer 3 is enlarged, in relation to the prior art, by the mutual meshing 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Juerg Attinger
  • Patent number: 11346106
    Abstract: A pre-compression system for pre-compressing a concrete structure, the system comprising a first tubular element (31) that is expandable in a longitudinal direction and interposed between the first and the second head (21, 22). The first tubular element (31) is movable between a longitudinally elongated configuration, in which a pressurized fluid is placed inside the first tubular element (31), and a contracted configuration, in which said fluid is at least partly removed, the passage from the elongated configuration to the contracted configuration bringing about a compression on the concrete which at least partly envelops the first tubular element (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: FSC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Claudio Subacchi, Giovanni Ferri
  • Patent number: 11235504
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin container part includes: injection-molding of a bottomed resin preform including, on a bottom portion thereof, a thick bulging portion that retains residual heat by which the bulging portion is deformable by being pressed to follow a shape of a blow cavity mold; and a blowing including stretching a body portion of the preform by applying a blow pressure to the preform and forming a joint portion by pressing the bulging portion of the preform with an upper bottom mold to deform the bulging portion to follow the shape of the blow cavity mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daizaburo Takehana
  • Patent number: 11021279
    Abstract: Manufacturing capsules, comprising preparing a first and a second capsule element, at least the first element containing a cavity, each element, being provided with a peripheral ring, bringing the elements together, so that the rings are superimposed, placing the two elements between a sonotrode and an anvil, the anvil containing an anvil recess and a striking surface, surrounding the anvil recess, the sonotrode including a sonotrode recess, with the same cross-section as the anvil recess, and a working surface surrounding the sonotrode recess, wherein the striking and working surfaces are configures to come into contact with each other on a working area, extending around the recesses, clamping the rings between the working surface and the striking surface by the proximity of a sonotrode and the anvil, activating the sonotrode and directing the ultrasound towards the anvil, whilst maintaining the clamping action, wherein the rings are detached from the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MELCHIOR MATERIAL AND LIFE SCIENCE FRANCE
    Inventor: David Delhaye
  • Patent number: 11002301
    Abstract: Material flow modifiers as disclosed herein overcome drawbacks associated with known adverse flow conditions (e.g., surface erosion, head losses, particulate drop-out, and the like) that arise from flow of certain types of materials (e.g., fluids, slurries, particulates, flowable aggregate, and the like) through a material flow conduit. Such material flow modifiers provide for flow of flowable material within a flow passage of a material flow conduit (e.g., a portion of a pipeline, tubing or the like) to have a rotational flow profile. Advantageously, the rotational flow profile centralizes flow toward the central portion of the flow passage, thereby reducing magnitude of laminar flow to overcome the aforementioned adverse flow conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Vortex Pipe Systems LLC
    Inventors: Paul Wayne Schmidt, Avijit Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10994464
    Abstract: A fabric coated or impregnated with an elastomeric material may include a polyurethane dispersion layer combined with a sealant. The fabric may be applied in such a fashion so as to enable the elimination of solvent or fluid that is associated with the elastomer. The polyurethane dispersion layer generally comprises an elastomeric material dispersed or dissolved in a liquid medium, such as, but not limited to, water. At the same time, the integrity of the elastomeric composite which is formed from the dispersion and sealant layers may be maintained in order to minimize the presence of air voids and pockets. It has thus been realized that in doing so the performance of the self-sealing volume is dramatically improved. This method of construction usually may be accomplished without significantly adding to the weight or thickness of the volume and without affecting the outer dimension of the self-sealing volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ROBERTSON FUEL SYSTEMS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Matthew Whipple, Davis Lee
  • Patent number: 10974368
    Abstract: A table tennis assembly apparatus is provided. The table tennis assembly apparatus may provide a base substrate and an overlaying cutting substrate. Along at least one peripheral of the base substrate may be a bar panel and or one or more clamps. Each clamp is for urging a first force distributor to sandwich a table tennis blade, in a uniform manner, against a glued table tennis rubber supported by the base substrate. After a predetermined amount of time a user may swap the first force distributor for a smaller second force distributor, enabling the user to trim the table tennis rubber around the perimeter of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Inventor: Todd Guay
  • Patent number: 10722682
    Abstract: A catheter includes an inner layer, a reinforcement layer at least partially inside the inner layer or on an outer periphery of the inner layer, and an outer layer covering the inner layer and the reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer has a wire wound so that a gap is present between adjacent portions of the wire. The inner layer has an uneven outer peripheral surface on which a protruded portion is formed in a location of the wire, and in which a depressed portion is formed in a location of the gap. The outer layer has a protrusion part that extends into the depressed portion of the inner layer, the protrusion part entering deeper than the reinforcement layer through the gap and extending in an axial direction of the catheter. The outer layer is not easily detached from the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kubo, Moritaka Ogido, Takeharu Katsurada
  • Patent number: 10500946
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel container (1) of thermoplastic plastics material having an upper base (2) and a lower base (3) which are supported against each other by means of at least one column-like support element (4), wherein the support element (4) is connected in a positive-locking manner and/or materially engaging manner to a wall (6) of the upper base on the one hand and to a wall (6) of the lower base on the other hand in such a manner that it can absorb tensile forces and/or pressure forces, wherein the support element (4) is constructed in several pieces and the support element is divided longitudinally and comprises at least two segments (8) which complement each other in cross-section and which form a common support face at the end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KAUTEX TEXTRON GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Gebert, Frank Quant
  • Patent number: 10471676
    Abstract: A fabric coated or impregnated with an elastomeric material may include a polyurethane dispersion layer combined with a sealant. The fabric may be applied in such a fashion so as to enable the elimination of solvent or fluid that is associated with the elastomer. The polyurethane dispersion layer generally comprises an elastomeric material dispersed or dissolved in a liquid medium, such as, but not limited to, water. At the same time, the integrity of the elastomeric composite which is formed from the dispersion and sealant layers may be maintained in order to minimize the presence of air voids and pockets. It has thus been realized that in doing so the performance of the self-sealing volume is dramatically improved. This method of construction usually may be accomplished without significantly adding to the weight or thickness of the volume and without affecting the outer dimension of the self-sealing volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERTSON FUEL SYSTEMS, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Matthew Whipple, Davis Lee
  • Patent number: 10193214
    Abstract: A method and a mobile device that provides near field communication and wireless powering capabilities by coupling a one-piece metal back and a metal band to a device housing to form a device. The device is configured to provide at least one antenna keep-out area. The metal band is adapted to be a dual-band antenna that is coupled to a coil. The coil, operable as one of a near field communication coil and a wireless power transmission coil, forms an overlapping trace with the dual-band antenna along at least one physical area. The coil and the dual-band antenna are positioned in the antenna keepout area and around the perimeter of the device. The method further includes forming at least two turns in the coil. At least one diplexing component is coupled both to the coil and to the dual-band antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Slater
  • Patent number: 10137811
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat frame made of metal; and a reinforcing member that is locally attached to a portion in which stress concentration occurs in the seat frame, the reinforcing member being attached in a state in which the reinforcing member disperses a stress, the reinforcing member having specific gravity smaller than specific gravity of the seat frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Mizobata
  • Patent number: 9908271
    Abstract: In order to produce a plastic container (1,2) having a planar electronic element (15), a planar electronic element (15) is introduced into a recess (29) of an inner face of a mold. The mold comprises an outer mold part (10) and a mold core (11), which form a mold cavity (12). Molten plastic material is injected into the mold cavity (12). After the subsequent cooling of the plastic material, mold removal is carried out. The recess (29) is arranged on an inner face (26) of the outer mold part (10). The molten plastic material is injected into the mold cavity in such a way that the molten plastic material flows substantially parallel along a surface (25) of the planar electronic element (15) facing the mold cavity (12). The planar electronic element (15) is an RFID inlay, for example. The planar electronic element does not require a protective casing and can be sprayed directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Weidman Medical Technology AG
    Inventors: Kurt Eggmann, Karl Mazenauer, Michael Akermann
  • Patent number: 9724872
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for forming a lining in a pipe is disclosed. A pumpable material capable of curing is dispensed about an interior wall of a damaged section of pipe between an inflatable bladder and the pipe. The pumpable material is compressed between the bladder and the pipe and allowed to cure. An assembly for forming the lining in the pipe includes a feeding pump, a static mixer, a dispensing unit and a bladder. The pumpable material is preferably dispensed rearward of an inverting face of the bladder and the dispensing unit and the bladder move substantially in sync along the interior of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: LMK Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Larry W. Kiest, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9511532
    Abstract: A blow molding device and a blow molding method are disclosed that can blow-mold a container with a handle without requiring a handle inserter that inserts a handle into a blow molding section. A blow molding method for blow-molding a container with a handle includes heating a preform (2) that is held by a heating transfer jig (370), transferring the preform from the heating transfer jig to a blow transfer jig (420), and transferring the blow transfer jig in a state in which a handle (500) is held by the blow transfer jig to be adjacent to the preform in a transfer direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Shuichi Ogihara
  • Patent number: 9498929
    Abstract: A bag-in-box assembly apparatus comprising a frame, an insertion assembly and assembly urging arms. The bag-in-box assembly apparatus is configured for use in association with a bag-in-box package having a box with an opening and a bag having a spout. A collar is coupled to the spout of the bag and the also interfaces with the opening of the box. The assembly apparatus is utilized to couple the collar to the bag, inserting the bag into the box and coupling the collar to the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Scholle IPN Corporation
    Inventor: John Brooks
  • Patent number: 9346211
    Abstract: Process for manufacturing a fuel tank equipped with an internal accessory and having a plastic wall produced from a parison, the process including, in order, the following steps: a) the accessory and the molten parison are introduced into a mould so that the accessory is surrounded by the parison, the mould including cavities equipped with at least one moving part; b) a pressurized gas is introduced inside the parison to carry out a pre-blow moulding of the parison; c) the pre-blow-moulded parison is pressed locally against the accessory using the moving part in order to firmly attach the two without piercing the parison; d) the mould is closed and the final blow moulding of the parison is carried out by flattening it against the mould cavities using the pressurized gas; and e) the tank is removed from the mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Sylvain Roos, Manuel Bretnacher
  • Patent number: 9221219
    Abstract: A method of producing a composite structure comprising fiber reinforced material and having a longitudinal direction is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: LM GLASFIBER A/S
    Inventor: Henrik Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 9216550
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a plastic fuel tank including at least one component, by molding a parison using a mold including two impressions and a core, the process including: introducing a parison into the mold impressions; introducing a core inside the parison, the core having a moving device including the at least one component closing the mold so that the impressions come into leaktight contact with the core; pressing the parison against the impressions by blowing through the core and/or applying a vacuum behind the impressions; fastening the at least one component on an inner wall of the parison; opening the mold to withdraw the core; and final molding the parison by blow-molding and/or thermoforming; and to enable its fastening to the parison, the component is moved away from the core by the moving device through a combination of a rotational motion and a linear motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventors: David Hill, James Edward Thompson, Bjorn Criel
  • Patent number: 9168830
    Abstract: Plastic fuel tank comprising a noise reduction baffle and interference sections for suppressing tank deformation in the case of application of negative pressure to said tank, the interference sections projecting inward in the tank from an upper surface and a lower surface thereof respectively, and being disposed so as to be substantially opposed with a specified interval between them, one of these sections being part of a fixation device which secures the baffle to the tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: INERGY AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS RESEARCH (Societe Anonyme)
    Inventor: Se-Hyung Park
  • Patent number: 9145997
    Abstract: A mold for manufacturing a sound-absorbing duct, may include an inner mold made of an elastic material and having a channel therein, a sound-absorbing pad disposed outside the inner mold, and an outer mold disposed outside the sound-absorbing pad and having at least one first injection groove on an inner circumferential surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Young Hak Jang, Young Ho Han, Woomin Jung
  • Patent number: 9090034
    Abstract: An improved chair back is formed of a molded construction uses multiple mold shots of mold materials to develop different performance characteristics in selected areas of the chair back. The chair back has the appearance of a unitary molded panel, but is formed from multiple mold shots which preferably are performed at multiple stations on a mold tool. By providing multiple mold shots and selected materials to form different areas of the chair back, different performance characteristics are generated including the provision of a peripheral frame providing structural rigidity to the chair back, a lumbar support panel which provides localized support to the lumbar region of the chair occupant, and a thin sheet-like support panel extending between the frame and enclosing the interior region defined between the peripheral frame to provide a more flexible and pliant surface providing more comfortable contact with the occupant's back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Fookes, Keith Shoemaker, Pete Beyer, Mark Sherman
  • Publication number: 20150114976
    Abstract: A polymer blend concrete CNG tank comprising a liner member composed of a high density polymer, the tank being preferably disposed within a concrete vault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: R. Keith Barker
  • Publication number: 20150091221
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a balloon catheter in which an extruded tubular balloon parison is attached to a component of a catheter shaft prior to blow molding a balloon from the extruded tubular balloon parison. A distal end region of the tubular balloon parison is attached to the outer surface of the elongate catheter shaft component to form a distal bond region between the tubular balloon parison and the catheter shaft component, and then the assembly is positioned in a balloon mold. An annular space between an inner surface of the tubular balloon parison and the outer surface of the elongate tubular member is pressurized to expand the tubular balloon parison in the cavity of the balloon mold to form an inflatable balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: PATRICK CONNOLLY
  • Patent number: 8985157
    Abstract: Provided is a restoration pipe pulling-in method which can easily determine whether pilling-in of a restoration pipe is possible wherein the restoration pipe has a diameter as much as large relative to a deteriorated drainage channel, and which can pulling a restoration pipe into a sewer pipe wherein the gap between the restoration pipe and the sewer pipe is shorter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kanaflex Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeki Kanao
  • Patent number: 8980161
    Abstract: A process for making a reservoir including steps of positioning a hollow extrudate at an elevated temperature in a mold cavity, inserting a fitting into an end of the extrudate, sealing an outer surface of the fitting with an interior surface of the extrudate using latent heat within the extrudate, and forming at least a portion of the extrudate against the mold cavity forming a reservoir with the fitting sealed into the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mercury Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: William W. Rowley, Grandin A. Rushlander, Robert Yunk, Earl Christian, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8951461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a plastic article and a blow molding tool for performing the method. The method comprises extruding an approximately tube-shaped preform, dividing the melt flow within the extrusion head or separating the extrudate exiting or already exited from the extrusion head, such that a preform having an approximately C-shaped cross section is obtained, forming the preform into a hollow part within a multipart blow molding tool using differential pressure, wherein an expansion and partial preforming of the preform first takes place with the blow molding tool partially closed, then in a further step at least one insert is inserted into the interior of the partially preformed article between the not completely closed blow molding tool and through the open side of the preform, and in a further step the blow molding tool is completely closed; wherein the article is completely formed, forming at least one at least partially circumferential pinch-off seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Kautex Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Heim, Andreas Lichtenauer, Jurgen Moitzheim, Stefan Walbroel
  • Patent number: 8951375
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a composite part, such as a fuselage or internal stiffener, with a shape memory polymer (SMP) apparatus usable as both a rigid lay-up tool and a bladder. The SMP apparatus may be heated until malleable, shaped, and then cooled in a desired rigid tool configuration. For example, cavities may be formed into the SMP apparatus for nesting components therein to co-bond or co-cure with the composite part. Next, composite material may be applied onto the SMP apparatus and then placed into a rigid external tool and heated to composite cure temperatures at which the SMP apparatus is malleable. A pressure differential may be induced which urges the SMP apparatus to compress the composite material against the rigid external tool. When the composite material is cured, the SMP apparatus may be urged away from the cured composite material and removed from within the composite part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Havens, Matthew C. Everhart, Randy Rex Kysar, Carl Ray Fiegenbaum, Jeffrey W. Priest, Delbert Leon Strelow, Kevin John Ford, Kristin Dru Pickell
  • Patent number: 8945325
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating a composite part, such as a fuselage or internal stiffener, with a shape memory polymer (SMP) apparatus usable as a rigid lay-up tool. The SMP apparatus may be heated until malleable, shaped, and then cooled in a desired rigid tool configuration. For example, cavities may be formed into the SMP apparatus for nesting components therein to co-bond or co-cure with the composite part. The composite material and/or nested components may be heated and compressed against the SMP apparatus. The SMP apparatus may be configured to remain rigid during the composite cure cycle. Once the composite material is cured, the SMP apparatus may be triggered to a malleable state and urged away from the cured composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Spirit AreoSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew C. Everhart, David E. Havens, Randy Rex Kysar, Carl Ray Fiegenbaum, Jeffrey W. Priest, Delbert Leon Strelow, Kodi Elizabeth Ann Caster
  • Patent number: 8940378
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of manufacturing a hollow fiber reinforced structural member, in particular for air vehicles, comprising the steps of providing a first circular braiding layer, positioning a flat strengthening body comprising at least one fabric layer having warp fibers and a woof fiber against a part of the surface of the first braiding layer, providing a second braiding layer around the first braiding layer and the strengthening body, positioning the combination of the first braiding layer, the strengthening body and the second braiding layer in a mold, impregnating the combination with resin, removing the combination as impregnated with a resin from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Fokker Landing Gear B.V.
    Inventors: Tjaard Sijpkes, Peet Vergouwen, Bert Thuis
  • Patent number: 8920704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a ducting for a fluid transfer pipeline for an aircraft or spacecraft, an aeronautical structure incorporating it and a method for producing this ducting. The ducting (1) comprises a pipe (2) with a thermoplastic or thermoplastic elastomeric layer (4) and a reinforcing layer (5) surmounting it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hutchinson
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Ciolczyk, Marc Dolez, Bertrand Florentz
  • Patent number: 8916014
    Abstract: Method for producing a fuel tank provided with internal accessories and having a wall made of plastic made in a single piece by molding a split parison or a parison in at least two parts, said method comprising the following steps: a) the parison is introduced in the heat-softened state into a mould comprising dies; b) a core on which the accessories are placed is introduced inside the parison; c) the parison is pressed onto the dies of the mould; d) the accessories are fastened to the parison with the aid of the core in an ideal layout; e) the core is withdrawn and the mould is closed; f) the tank is molded from the parison; and g) the tank is removed from the mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Inergy Automotive Systems Research
    Inventors: Bjorn Criel, Nadja Walling, Fabrice Laborde, Hervé Lemoine