Patents Examined by Darnell M Jayne
  • Patent number: 7845745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a domestic appliance that includes a first and a second housing that are juxtaposed and fastened to each other sidewall to sidewall. A hinge hinging one housing to the other housing is fastened to respective edges of the sidewalls of the housings facing each other. A blocking element is fastened to the housings at a distance to the respective edges of the sidewalls and blocks the freedom of motion of the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Görz, Philipp Reitz
  • Patent number: 7845744
    Abstract: A slide member and a slide assembly having the slide member are provided, in particular to a reinforcing structure of the slide member and the slide assembly. The slide member further comprises an automatic retractable device therein and may be in conjunction with a single-section or two-section slide to from a slide assembly in a stronger structure and a steady sliding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: King Slide Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, Hsiu-Chiang Liang, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 7845501
    Abstract: A device to be mounted permanently or removably to the side wall of a rolling tool cart for the carrying of tools and other shop paraphernalia such as extension cords, solder rolls, masking tape, and hand tools. The device has a peripheral rectangular frame of four framing segments, which frame is integrated with and surrounds a forwardly raised portion with an inclined surround interposed there between. The panel has a series of rows and columns with ?-inch spaced bores for the conventional mounting of tools and other shop items. The top of the frame has a flange that fit over a lip of a rolling tool cart. Two legs, vertically adjustably mounted outside of the central portion on the side framing, each have a bottom flange to engage a downward depending edge of a tool cart side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: GMF Labs
    Inventors: Gary L Fosburg, Mark A. Fisher
  • Patent number: 7832569
    Abstract: An adjustable clothing display rack includes a base, a waist attached to the base, first and second laterally-spaced adjustable sides, and first and second shoulders. The adjustable sides have respective upper and lower ends. The lower ends are pivotably attached to the waist, such that the lateral spacing of the upper ends is adjustable independent of the lateral spacing of the lower ends. The first and second shoulders are formed at respective upper ends of the first and second sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Inventor: Stefan Nemenz
  • Patent number: 7823518
    Abstract: A desk for use in supporting a computer and/or computer-related devices includes a base adapted to rest on a support surface such as a floor, in combination with an upwardly extending support that defines a lower end interconnected with the base and an upper end spaced vertically above the lower end. A desk top member is secured to the upper end of the support. The upwardly extending support and the desk top member are configured and arranged such that the desk top member is located forwardly of the rear area of the base, and to define an open area below the desk top member between the desk top member and the base. The base can be moved on the support surface to position the desk top member over a user's lap when the user is in a seated position. The desk may include a base pivot connection between the base and the upwardly extending support, and a desk top pivot connection between the desk top and the upwardly extending support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Conceptual Furniture, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas L. Phillips
  • Patent number: 7823733
    Abstract: An article display tray is provided with a movement guide device, wherein cylindrical articles can move more smoothly in a communication portion of the article display tray, via which the pair of storage chambers are communicatively connected to each other, and further wherein an increase in size of the article display tray can be avoided. A pair of left-right force-applied portions and an arraying guide surface positioned between the pair of force-applied portions are formed on a rocking member positioned inside the rear-end communication portion of an article display tray. When one of the pair of force-applied portions is pushed rearward by a cylindrical article that is placed in one of a pair of left-right storage chambers, the other force-applied portion pushes forward a cylindrical article that is placed in the other storage chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: System Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Minoru Futori
  • Patent number: 7823516
    Abstract: A very practical table apparatus is provided that can be made smaller and thinner without the need to stack a first table that moves in a first direction and a second table that moves in a second direction as in prior art. The table apparatus has a table (1) on which work is disposed, a first actuator (4) for moving the table (1) in the first direction a, and a second actuator (7) that is disposed on substantially the same plane as the first actuator, and that moves the table (1) in the second direction b, thereby allowing a single table (1) to be moved in the first direction a and second direction b without the need to stack two tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nippon Bearing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Yamazaki, Toyoshi Kazama, Yusuke Ueki
  • Patent number: 7819488
    Abstract: A door opening device decreasing operational stages of a driving motor when opening a door and a refrigerator having the door opening device are disclosed. The door opening device selectively opens a first door and a second door and includes an operating member which selectively pressurizes the first door and the second door to be opened by rotation, a rotating cam including a plurality of protruding portions which contact the operating member to rotate the operating member and a plurality of depressed portions which are spaced apart from the operating member, the protruding portions and the depressed portions being formed alternately along a rotational direction of the rotating cam, a driving motor rotating the rotating cam in a forward direction and a reverse direction, and a return part returning the operating member to an initial position after at least one of the first door and the second door is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Lee, Jin Ho Kim, Jae Koog An, Young seok Cho
  • Patent number: 7815060
    Abstract: A case flow bed for the handling of merchandise. The case flow bed including (a) a loading end and, opposite thereto, an unloading end; (b) a roller bed positioned between the loading end and unloading end for supporting and permitting sliding movement of merchandise from the loading end to the unloading end; and (c) apertures associated with at least the loading end for removably receiving at least one lane divider in any of a plurality of laterally extending positions for delimiting lanes of travel for the sliding movement of the merchandise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Frazier Industrial Company
    Inventor: Domenick Iellimo
  • Patent number: 7815058
    Abstract: A tool rack includes a frame having two sidewalls and two slots are defined through the two sidewalls. A plurality of first recesses are defined in the frame and a rod having second recesses is connected between the two sidewalls. A restriction member is connected to the frame and two distal ends of the restriction member are movably engaged with the slots of the frame. The restriction member includes third recesses which are located in alignment with the first recesses so that the tools are engaged with the first, second and third recesses. A stop plate extends from a distal end of an inside of each third recess so as to prevent the tools from disengaging from these recesses. When shifting the restriction member, the stop plates are moved away from the first recesses so that the tools can be picked out from the tool rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Inventor: Chin-Shun Cheng
  • Patent number: 7815264
    Abstract: A stackable modular personal computer structure comprises a lowermost frameworks, a plurality of intermediate frameworks, an uppermost framework and an upper cover; the frameworks and the upper cover stacked with each other in a sequence; all the frameworks have the first internal engaging structure inside the tops thereof respectively, the intermediate frameworks, the uppermost framework and the upper cover each have the second internal engaging structure inside the bottoms thereof respectively; the bottoms of each of the intermediate and the uppermost frameworks has a hole especially for electric wires to pass through to enable the modular personal computer so that a consistent outlook for the computer structure can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Aopen Inc.
    Inventors: Te-An Lin, Chih-Hsiung Chen, Wu-Nan Wang, Cheng Tu, Ching-Tang Lin
  • Patent number: 7806280
    Abstract: A deployable rod for hanging clothes after removal from a dryer. The apparatus is a circular rod with a hinge mechanism that is attached to a vertical wall surface. In a retracted state, it folds compactly up against the wall. In a deployed state, it extends perpendicularly outward. The apparatus is supported in the extended outward position by a cable that extends from the outer end back to the wall surface at a 45° angle. This cable support system provides strength for holding clothes. A user could remove clothes from a dryer, immediately place them on hangers and then hang them from the employed apparatus in the extended position; however, other articles may be supported in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventors: Roger A. Perkins, Marvin E. Perkins
  • Patent number: 7806491
    Abstract: A storage container for a refrigerator, which is configured to mount the storage container for storing articles therein to a storage container seating portion formed in a rear surface of a refrigerator door by using a mounting protrusion and locking mechanism provided on the storage container and a mounting groove and catching protrusion provided on the storage container seating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hang-Bok Lee, Sang-Sin Kwak, Seon-Kyu Kim
  • Patent number: 7802526
    Abstract: A customizable returnable rack system for shipping products is provided. The system includes a plurality of racks (10), wherein each rack (10) is selectively displaceable between a collapsed position and an upright position. The racks (10) are adapted to be stacked upon one another in either the collapsed or upright position. The system further includes a first removable dunnage structure (22) couplable to a rack (10) and configured to receive a first type of product and a second removable dunnage structure (22) couplable to a rack (10) and configured to receive a second type of product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Terence H. Brady, James W. Dayton, Douglas H. Hehn, Daniel S. Mullen
  • Patent number: 7798336
    Abstract: A magnetic tool storage rack includes a main rack body having a positioning wall, and a magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly includes a fixing unit and a magnet unit. The fixing unit is installed on the positioning wall and is made from a non-magnetic material. The fixing unit defines a receiving space, and has an opening formed in one side opposite to the positioning wall and in spatial communication with the receiving space. The magnet unit includes at least two magnet components, each of which is disposed in the receiving space, has a wall contacting part that extends through the opening in the fixing unit, and is movable linearly in the receiving space in directions toward and away from the positioning wall of the main rack body to result in a variable length of the wall contacting part that extends through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Hsuan-Sen Shiao
  • Patent number: 7798340
    Abstract: A rack apparatus (100) includes a frame (10), a plurality of supporting members (106), and a plurality of retaining members (12). The supporting members are arranged/mounted on/to the frame. The retaining members are mounted on the supporting members. Each retaining member includes a fixing piece (120) and two supporting pieces (122, 124). The fixing piece has a notched mounting portion. The two supporting pieces are respectively positioned at an opposite side of the fixing piece. Each supporting piece forms a retaining portion (i.e., a through hole therein). The notched mounting portion and the retaining portions together help retain a workpiece within a given retaining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Chih-Pen Lin, Hung-Chang Lee, Yu-Chuan Chen, Yong Zhang, Xiao-Lin Wu, Zhan-Gang Zhu
  • Patent number: 7798343
    Abstract: A combination storage rack includes a rack, which has transverse sliding rails symmetrically disposed therein at two sides and arranged in pairs at different elevations, and storage boxes slidably insertable into the rack at different elevations for storing things, each storage box having a top box frame that is a hard rectangular open frame supportable on one pair of transverse sliding rails in the rack and a flexible box body fastened to the top box frame for holding things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Wen-Tsan Wang
  • Patent number: 7798074
    Abstract: A loading rack with an oblong table body having a lateral extent and posterior and anterior ends and a pair of legs attached closably/foldably to posterior and anterior side parts of the body. The loading rack further has a plurality of leg holders which are attached at laterally spaced locations to the posterior and anterior side of the table body and a supporting hole which opens downwardly on each leg holder. Multiple insertion parts on an upper part of each of the legs can be inserted one each into the supporting holes. Each leg is held and fixed in a vertically standing position by peripheral walls surrounding the supporting holes as insertion parts are inserted into the supporting holes and the table body is loaded on the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Nankai Kyogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Teruo Kashihara
  • Patent number: 7798341
    Abstract: The present assembly provides a suspended shelving system. The shelving system includes a shelving panel supported by a plurality of hanger members. The shelving panel includes a plurality of longitudinal members constructed of wire or plastic. A plurality of cross members are arranged substantially transverse with respect to the longitudinal members and generally parallel with respect to each other. At least a portion of the longitudinal members and the cross members are bonded together at crossing points to comprise the shelving panel. A plurality of hanger members are rotatably secured to the cross members positioned at the distal ends of the shelving member so that they may be rotated between a storage position that is generally parallel to the underside surface of the shelving member for shipment and storage, and a support position that is substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the shelf for suspending the shelf from an overhead member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Suncast Corporation
    Inventors: Jed C. Richardson, Robert Kopp
  • Patent number: 7798072
    Abstract: A stowable table assembly comprising a hinge block, a tabletop, and a support carrying the tabletop. The support is pivotably attached to the hinge block for rotation about a hinge axis. The tabletop is thereby rotatable about the hinge axis between a use position and a stowing position. The tabletop is furthermore movable relative to the support. A releasable locking mechanism associated with the hinge block and the support prevents rotation of the tabletop unless the tabletop is in a predetermined position relative to the support. The locking mechanism is released in response to movement of the tabletop to the predetermined position thereby permitting the tabletop to be rotated toward its stowing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Becker Automotive Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard B. Becker, Ronald T. Weaver