Patents Examined by Brodie Follman
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Patent number: 9266007Abstract: The inventive skate consists of an upper that is designed to accept the foot of the user. Other portions of the upper are preferably constructed using a semi-rigid material, such as fiberglass, nylon, plastic, etc. These semi-rigid portions of the upper decrease the flexibility of the upper in certain sections, thus increasing performance. The inventive skate also includes a blade chassis. The chassis includes a lower portion that is adapted to hold the skate's blade and an upper portion that is adapted to cover a portion of the upper. The inventive skate is configured so that the center of gravity of the skater is disposed generally centrally along the length of the skate chassis. This skate configuration is generally referred to as neutral pitch.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Inventor: Michael A. Vaughn
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Patent number: 9266565Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicular instrument mounting structure in which an auxiliary battery is mounted so as to be as high as a power control device , for protecting the power control device by a protector even when the auxiliary battery interferes with the power control device. The power control device is fastened to the upper surface of a transaxle by a screw via a mounting foot provided in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. The protector for protecting a corner of the power control device is fastened to the power control device and the transaxle by screws for a power control device fastening part and a transaxle fastening part. The power control device has a power cable for supplying power and a discharger for rapid discharge at a time of emergency.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenshi Yamanaka, Kouji Hotta
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Patent number: 9260144Abstract: Disclosed is a lower track for mounting rubber pads on a track shoe to be attachable and detachable after assembling a steel plate which is adhered with divisionally formed rubber pads as a single unit without additionally perforating coupling through-holes in the track shoe when the rubber pad which forms the lower track and the track shoe which is formed of a metal material are coupled.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ABInventor: Kyung-Hyun Park
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Patent number: 9260034Abstract: A fuel cell power plant provided in a vehicle includes a power plant unit, a frame including a front part of the vehicle, and an impact cushioning member having a protective space therein and surrounding the power plant unit. The power plant unit includes a fuel cell stack, a hydrogen supply device to supply hydrogen to the fuel cell stack to generate electric power, and a high-voltage device to receive and manage the electric power generated. A gap is provided between the power plant unit and the impact cushioning member so that the power plant unit moves in a case where a collision load is applied from an outside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideharu Naito, Narihiro Takagi
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Patent number: 9260126Abstract: A nestable shopping cart having a fixed child seat and a tubular frame construction basket providing strong and rigid construction with a reduced number of parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Inventor: V. John Ondrasik
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Patent number: 9260124Abstract: Disclosed is a folding golf cart including a front frame having a bag bottom carrier, two rear wheel frames connected to the front frame via connecting bars, vertical pivot frames installed to the rear wheel frames so as to be pivotable upward and toward a front wheel, a bag support frame connected to the vertical pivot frames via pillars, the bag support frame having a bag support member and a pull handle, a longitudinal prop installed between the front frame and the bag support frame, and a transverse prop installed between the rear wheel frames. The golf cart ensures easy folding thereof, takes the form of a small volume box in a folded state thereof, and is convenient in handling owing to a relatively light weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Hyungsung CorporationInventors: Hyung Jin Yim, Kyung Hee Moon, Tae Hwa Moon
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Patent number: 9254856Abstract: A quick service cart is provided with multiple functionality including a conventional cabinet structure that allow the technician to store tools and instruments for use in servicing or repairing a vehicle. The drawers of the cabinet are configured to prevent the drawers from tipping the cart over when fully extended. The cart also includes features for connecting to electrical and pneumatic tools and instruments, as well as structure for supporting separate tools, instruments and accessories. The cart includes a pair of handles that are ergonomically configured and positioned to facilitate moving the cart with minimal effort and minimal risk of tipping the cart over.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Josh Oachs
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Patent number: 9254434Abstract: A fixation seat for ski shoe includes a seat, a connecting structure, a left support element, a right support element, and an ankle protecting board. The connecting structure is disposed on the seat for connecting with a ski board. The left and the right support elements extend upward and obliquely from two sides of the seat toward the rear side of the seat. At the rear side of the seat, the left support element is distant from the right support element a predetermined distance. The ankle protecting board is connected to tops of the left and the right support elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: TZY SHENQ ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventor: Li-Chen Chang
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Patent number: 9255386Abstract: A construction machine includes a condenser 24 for cooling refrigerant for an air conditioner; a fan 21 for cooling the condenser 24 by using forward cooling air produced during normal-rotation drive; other cooled objects such as a radiator 25 and the like disposed under the lee of the forward cooling air with respect to the condenser 24; a refrigerant pressure detector 27 for detecting the pressure of the refrigerant flowing in the condenser 24; and a controller 136 for executing reverse-rotation stop processing for returning the fan 21 to the normal-rotation drive when the pressure P of the air conditioner refrigerant detected by the refrigerant pressure detector 27 reaches a preset normal-rotation return pressure P1 during reverse-rotation drive of the fan 21. Thus, the lowering of the cooling effect of an air conditioner can be suppressed while reducing the burden of cleaning an engine room.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Keigo Kikuchi, Koji Hyodo, Isamu Aoki, Tetsuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 9248697Abstract: An airless tire has a tread ring having a footprint, a hub positioned on a radially inner side of the tread ring and formed to be fixed to an axle, and a spoke connecting the tread ring and the hub and having a tread connection portion connected to an inner-circumferential surface of the ring and a hub connection portion connected to an outer-circumferential surface of the hub. The ring and the tread connection portion of the spoke satisfy 0?E1?0.5, 0<E2?1.0 and 0?E3<0.3, where E1, E2 and E3 represent ratios of first, second and third regions on the inner-circumferential surface of the ring and the first, second and third regions are divided based on a tire axial component length of the tread connection portion measured at a point in a circumferential direction of the ring.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Wako Iwamura
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Patent number: 9241602Abstract: A driving wheel assembly and a robot cleaner having the same includes a main body and a driving wheel assembly including a driving wheel, a housing, a driving motor, a rotary member with rotation around a rotation shaft of the driving motor, where the rotary member includes a first unit and a second unit disposed at a position opposite to the driving wheel with respect to the rotation shaft of the driving motor, and a compression coil spring disposed between the housing and the second unit to apply pressure to the second unit, where a distance between a contact point where the compression coil spring and the second unit contact and the rotation shaft of the driving motor is shorter than a distance between a rotation shaft of the driving wheel and a rotation shaft of the driving motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoung In Lee, Hwi Chan Jang, Hyun Soo Jung, Dong Won Kim
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Patent number: 9242538Abstract: A vehicle drive axle arrangement comprises an electric drive motor (1, 3), a left shaft (20) and a right shaft (23), coaxial with each other, in drive connection with the motor (1, 3), and intended for connection to respective driving half-axles of the vehicle in which the arrangement can be mounted, and a differential mechanism (6-19). The electric drive motor (1, 3) is coaxial with and arranged around the left shaft (20, 23), and the differential mechanism (6-19)—receiving rotary motion from the electric motor (1, 3)—comprises a reduction gearing (6, 7, 12, 13) and a planetary gearing (13-9), operatively connecting the two shafts (20-23).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: BorgWarner TorqTransfer Systems ABInventor: Lars Severinsson
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Patent number: 9242168Abstract: A snowboard boot and binding system is disclosed which facilitates the engagement and disengagement of a snowboard boot and binding. The snowboard boot may include a boot engagement member extending from a rear of the boot. The boot engagement member is moved downwardly into a corresponding binding engagement member to provide an arrangement which prevents forward movement of the boot. The boot engagement member also may include one or more serrations to engage with one or more pawls on the binding to prevent upward movement of the boot. A snap-in arrangement may be provided in a boot toe region. The boot has protrusions extending outwardly from each side of the boot to engage with catches on the binding sidewalls. As the boot is pressed downwardly into the binding, the protrusions splay the catches until reaching recesses, at which point the catches rebound to capture the protrusions against upward movement.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: The Burton CorporationInventors: Raymond Robert Kavarsky, Jr., Christopher M. Doyle, Scott T. Keller
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Patent number: 9242539Abstract: A mounting structure for an in-vehicle power battery may be provided. The mounting structure may comprise an upper cover (3), a suspension tray (1) and a bracket device (2) for supporting at least a part of a peripheral bottom portion of the suspension tray (1). The suspension tray (1) may be hermetically connected with the upper cover (3), forming a sealed space for receiving the power battery. The bracket device (2) may be detachably fixed to a bottom surface of the body floor. Further, a vehicle (100) comprising the mounting structure described above may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignees: SHENZHEN BYD AUTO R&D COMPANY LIMITED, BYD COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Heping Ling, Bengang Yi, Wei Zeng, Fengshou Huang
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Patent number: 9242560Abstract: An electric vehicle includes: an electric motor; an inverter that supplies electric power to the electric motor; and a cooling system that cools at least one of the electric motor and the inverter, the cooling system having: a main coolant passage configured to circulate a coolant through a radiator and at least one of the electric motor and the inverter; a bypass coolant passage, connected to the main coolant passage, that bypasses at least one of the electric motor and the inverter; and a controller configured to switch from the main coolant passage to the bypass coolant passage when a main switch of the vehicle provided at a driver's seat is turned off while the electric vehicle is travelling, and to switch from the bypass coolant passage to the main coolant passage when the main switch is then turned on.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hironobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9243383Abstract: An upper slewing body includes a rear wall portion covering an engine room from a rear side, a bottom plate disposed so as to cover the engine room from a lower side and having an exhaust opening, and a pair of vertical plates standing upright on the bottom plate. A rear end portion of the vertical plate has proximate rear end surfaces disposed adjacent to the rear wall portion and a cutout portion formed by recessing the rear end surface of the vertical plate toward the front side with respect to the proximate rear end surfaces. A distal end portion of a tail pipe is introduced between the vertical plates and through the cutout portion from the outer position of the vertical plates and extends along the exhaust opening in a state where the distal end portion of the tail pipe faces the exhaust opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Inada, Asuka Ushiroguchi
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Patent number: 9242553Abstract: A vehicle, including: a brake pedal arranged at a right step side, a rotating shaft of the brake pedal being disposed on a transmission case; a clutch pedal arranged at a left step side, a rotating shaft of the clutch pedal being disposed on the transmission case; a right fuel tank disposed below a right step, and at a right side of the transmission case; and a left fuel tank disposed below a left step, and at a left side of the transmission case, wherein a pedal arm of the brake pedal is, in plane view, arranged between the transmission case and the right fuel tank, and a pedal arm of the clutch pedal is, in plane view, arranged between the transmission case and the left fuel tank.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: ISEKI & CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka Tani, Shoji Komoda
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Patent number: 9242369Abstract: A creeper for underneath an automobile dashboard including a platform, a pair of wheels, and a vertical support. The pair of wheels has a right wheel and a left wheel. The pair of wheels is disposed on a bottom surface of the platform proximal a front surface of the platform. The vertical support is continuously disposed on the bottom surface of the platform from proximal a right surface of the platform to proximal a left surface of the platform. The vertical support is disposed proximal a back surface of the platform. A width of the platform substantially conforms to a length of a footwell in a front seat of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Inventor: Prince Richmond, Jr.
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Patent number: 9233582Abstract: A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air tube connected to a tire and defining an air passageway, the air tube being composed of a flexible material operative to allow an air tube segment opposite a tire footprint to flatten, closing the passageway, and resiliently unflatten into an original configuration. The air tube is sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air along the passageway to a regulator device. The regulator device regulates the inlet air flow to the air tube and the outlet air flow to the tire cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Luc Marie Hinque, Anne Therese Peronnet-Paquin, Gauthier Piret, William Alain Talbot, Yannick Raymond Georges Haegel
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Patent number: 9233727Abstract: In a saddle-type vehicle, a first mudguard member is made from resin, and a second mudguard member, made from resin, is a separate component from the first mudguard member. The second mudguard member is attached to the first mudguard member below the first mudguard member. A head of a bolt is sandwiched between the first mudguard member and the second mudguard member. A male screw of the bolt protrudes upward from the first mudguard member. A plurality of nuts, each mutually separate components, include a locking mechanism. The plurality of nuts are tightened onto the male screws of the bolts above an attaching portion to secure a mudguard unit to the attaching portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Mitsutoshi Imamura