Patents Assigned to Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220140504
    Abstract: A connector assembly for providing electrical connection from an electrical device ground wire to a vehicle chassis ground comprises a wire connector, a cable, and a surface connector. The wire connector is configured to receive the electrical device ground wire. The cable is electrically connected to the ground wire. The surface connector is coupled to the cable and configured to attach to a vehicle chassis. The surface connector includes a conductive disc, an outer insulating ring, and an inner insulating ring. The conductive disc is electrically connected to the cable and includes a central opening configured to receive a fastener which attaches the surface connector to the chassis. The inner insulating ring, a portion of the lower surface of the conductive disc, and the outer insulating ring form a hermetically sealed chamber with the chassis when the surface connector is attached to the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Reed
  • Publication number: 20220112998
    Abstract: A modular tailgate light for a vehicle having an auxiliary lighting plug, the modular tailgate light broadly including a left section, a right section, a middle section, and a power connector. The left section, the right section, and the middle section each include a set of red lights and a set of white lights. The red lights of the middle section include left red lights and right red lights. The modular tailgate light can be used in a small vehicle configuration in which the left and right sections are connected together with the middle section omitted and a large vehicle configuration in which the middle section is connected between the left and right sections. In the large vehicle configuration, the left red lights activate identically to the red lights of the left section and the right red lights activate identically to the red lights of the right section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: HOPKINS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iqbal Singh, Chris Connington, Eric Li
  • Patent number: 11300266
    Abstract: A modular tailgate light for a vehicle having an auxiliary lighting plug, the modular tailgate light broadly including a left section, a right section, a middle section, and a power connector. The left section, the right section, and the middle section each include a set of red lights and a set of white lights. The red lights of the middle section include left red lights and right red lights. The modular tailgate light can be used in a small vehicle configuration in which the left and right sections are connected together with the middle section omitted and a large vehicle configuration in which the middle section is connected between the left and right sections. In the large vehicle configuration, the left red lights activate identically to the red lights of the left section and the right red lights activate identically to the red lights of the right section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Iqbal Singh, Chris Connington, Eric Li
  • Patent number: 11084517
    Abstract: A steering wheel cover has an inner core and an outer casing. The inner core has a tubular body portion and a pair of spaced-apart spines. The tubular body portion and spines together define an open-ended hollow channel that can be placed over a vehicle steering wheel via a gap between the spines. The inner core also has a plurality of crush ribs extending inwardly from an inner surface of the body portion. The crush ribs allow the inner core to be easily placed over multiple different sized steering wheels without slipping or otherwise moving on the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn Curtis Strong, Kyle M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 11059353
    Abstract: An air freshener includes a housing; scented beads contained within the housing; and a mounting clip for attaching the housing to a source of pressurized air. The housing has several air flow slots or openings and is rotatably coupled to the mounting clip so it can be rotated relative to the mounting clip and the air source to which it is attached to provide several “levels” of fragrance, including a “burst” of fragrance achieved by manually rotating the housing relative to the mounting clip to tumble and stir the scented beads in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle M. Bennett, Yafah Johnson, Pieter Schouten, Lynn Curtis Strong
  • Patent number: 11027707
    Abstract: A portable inflation device having a pump, a control device, a user interface, and an inflation indicator. The pump includes an elongated hose with an inflation nozzle. The control device controls operation of the pump and is configured to sense a current pressure of an object, calculate the estimated remaining time to inflate the object to a target pressure, and display the remaining time using the inflation indicator. The user interface is configured to allow a user to enter the target pressure into the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn Curtis Strong, James Kingsbury, Chris Auerbach, Patrick Lee Ohm, Stephen Leveau, Michael Williams
  • Publication number: 20210129802
    Abstract: A portable inflation device having a pump, a control device, a user interface, and an inflation indicator. The pump includes an elongated hose with an inflation nozzle. The control device controls operation of the pump and is configured to sense a current pressure of an object, calculate the estimated remaining time to inflate the object to a target pressure, and display the remaining time using the inflation indicator. The user interface is configured to allow a user to enter the target pressure into the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: HOPKINS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lynn Curtis Strong, James Randolph Kingsbury, Chris Auerbach, Patrick Lee Ohm, Stephen LeVeau, Michael Williams
  • Publication number: 20210132475
    Abstract: A mount is provided for attaching a camera to a support surface of a towed vehicle. The support surface is configured for supporting a light housing and has a hole for receiving a fastener for securing the light housing to the support surface. The mount broadly comprises a flange and a bracket extending below the flange. The flange comprises a light housing hole for receiving the light housing therethrough, and a fastener hole for receiving the fastener. The bracket is configured to engage the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: HOPKINS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vicki Sickler, Damien DeLucco
  • Patent number: 10898040
    Abstract: An ice scraper comprising a handle and a scraper head connected to the handle. The scraper head includes a proximal end, a distal end having a scraping edge, a scraping side, a chipping side, and at least three chipping teeth for chipping ice, hard snow, or frost from a curved surface. The chipping teeth extend outwardly from the chipping side. Each chipping tooth has a contact edge. At least one of the contact edges is offset forward or rearward of contact edges of two of the other chipping teeth so that at least one point of each contact edge can simultaneously contact the curved surface regardless of the scraper's position relative to the curved surface and regardless of a direction of the scraper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn Curtis Strong, Kyle M. Bennett
  • Patent number: 10773620
    Abstract: A seat cover comprises a seat bottom overlay configured to cover a seat bottom of a seat; a seat back overlay configured to cover a seat back of the seat; and an anchor system the keeps the seat bottom and back overlays in position on the seat. The anchor system comprises a rigid anchor; a drawstring sleeve on the seat bottom overlay or the seat back overlay; and a drawstring connected to the anchor and passing through the drawstring sleeve. When tightened, the drawstring urges the anchor against a rear of the seat to help hold the seat bottom overlay and seat back overlay in place on the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn Curtis Strong, Vicki Sickler
  • Patent number: 10775255
    Abstract: A pressure gauge broadly comprising a conduit, a pressure indicator, and a tip assembly. The tip assembly extends from the distal end of the conduit and includes an inner shaft, an annular seat, and an outer tip. The inner shaft engages a valve stem core of a valve. The annular seat cradles and provides support to the outer tip. The outer tip forms a seal against a valve stem tube of the valve and has an outer surface having a semi-spherical, dome, or frusto-conical shape for ensuring that the seal is formed regardless of the angle at which the tip engages the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Lynn Curtis Strong
  • Patent number: D892185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Kyle M. Bennett
  • Patent number: D902970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: David D. McCormick
  • Patent number: D913698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Kyle Bennett
  • Patent number: D914791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Vicki Sickler
  • Patent number: D935782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Kyle M. Bennett
  • Patent number: D936976
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Gooden, Pieter Schouten, James R. Kingsbury
  • Patent number: D942150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Kyle M. Bennett
  • Patent number: D949024
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Gooden, Pieter Schouten, James R. Kingsbury
  • Patent number: D952564
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: William Kring Blalock, Kyle M. Bennett