Patents Examined by Matthew W Ing
  • Patent number: 11969090
    Abstract: Aspects of dynamic workstation apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed. One aspect disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising a frame; an equipment support that is operable with the frame to position a piece of exercise equipment at a plurality of different equipment support heights relative to the frame; a work surface that is attachable to the frame and selectively positionable at a plurality of different work surface heights relative to the frame, the plurality of different work surface heights including at least a standing height and a seated height; and an actuator that is attachable to and operable with the frame to move the work surface within a range of movement including the plurality of different work surface heights while maintaining an orientation of the work surface relative to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: William Didyk
  • Patent number: 11964795
    Abstract: A pallet cover suitable for use in covering at least a portion of a payload on a pallet and a kit for use in making the pallet cover. In one embodiment, the pallet cover includes a top wall, a front wall, a rear wall, a left side wall, and a right side wall, wherein the walls are detachably joined to one another. Each of the top wall, the front wall, the rear wall, the left side wall, and the right side wall includes a first fabric sheet and a second fabric sheet, the first and second fabric sheets being joined together to form a plurality of pockets. Each pocket may removably receive a temperature-control member containing a phase-change material. At least one of the top wall, the front wall, the rear wall, the left side wall and the right side wall may include a plurality of detachably joined portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: COLD CHAIN TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Amanda Longley, Geoffrey Kaiser, James Robert Chasteen, Shreyas S. Panse, Richard M. Formato
  • Patent number: 11951468
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laboratory cabinet device for storing laboratory samples with a magnetic closure for the door. It in particular relates to a tempering cabinet for tempering laboratory samples, in particular, an incubator for the growth of cell cultures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EPPENDORF SE
    Inventor: Arne Schafrinski
  • Patent number: 11944192
    Abstract: A wall connector for a modular furniture system is provided. The wall connector comprises a rail extending between a first end portion and a second end portion. The rail defines a first channel configured to fittingly receive an edge portion of a first side wall and a second channel configured to fittingly receive an edge portion of a second side wall such that the second side wall is orthogonal to the first side wall. Each of the first and second end portions is configured to engage a corner portion of an end wall for attachment thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mertenwu Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Errol Alasdair Merten
  • Patent number: 11946302
    Abstract: A home appliance has a door capable of being opened and closed in opposite directions. The home appliance includes a main body having an inner space and a door rotatably installed on the right or left side of the main body to open and close the inner space. A first door opening/closing system is provided on the right sides of the main body and the door to be involved in a right opening of the door. A second door opening/closing system is provided on the left sides of the main body and the door to be involved in a left opening of the door. A locking member is disposed to be slidable in a left-right direction between the first door opening/closing system and the second door opening/closing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Simon Ireland, Yu Na Park, Deok Sang Yun, Gi Hoon Ko
  • Patent number: 11946688
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to medical cabinets and medical cabinet systems are provided. In particular, they include structure and systems that incorporate or expand medical cabinet systems with platform-based (open access) devices that can assist with managing and stocking of medical products in controlled environments (e.g., rooms having restricted access such locks or key codes to allow authorized personnel). They also include providing convenient expansion to temperature regulated products by adapting refrigerators or freezers using specialized shelf top platform devices that operate inside the refrigerator or freezer by way of the integration of algorithms and/or hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FFF Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Shay Reid, Connor Ramm
  • Patent number: 11932982
    Abstract: A supporting device capable of being easily assembled and commonly supporting a washing machine, a dryer, and the like having different leg sizes and a laundry treating apparatus having the same. The laundry treating apparatus includes a laundry treating apparatus main body, a supporting device main body configured to support the laundry treating apparatus main body, a leg coupled to a bottom of the laundry treating apparatus main body, and a supporter installed in the supporting device main body, wherein the supporter includes a guide member configured to accommodate the leg and including an insertion groove, and a fixing member including a fixing protrusion to be inserted into the insertion groove, the fixing member being coupled to the guide member to fix the leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung Hee Lee, Min Sung Kim, Kwan Woo Hong
  • Patent number: 11925263
    Abstract: Aspects of dynamic workstation apparatus, methods, and systems are described. One aspect is a workstation apparatus that includes a frame including overhead frame elements defining a covered workspace. The apparatus may include a raisable and lowerable work surface that may be configured to be movably attached to the overhead frame elements and may be selectively positionable in the covered workspace at a plurality of different vertical heights including a standing height and a floor height. A first actuator may be attached to and operable with the frame to move the raisable and lowerable work surface between a range of movement including the standing height and the floor height while maintaining an orientation of the raisable and lowerable work surface relative to the frame such that the raisable and lowerable work surface may remain relatively level. Aspects of related methods and systems also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: William Didyk
  • Patent number: 11918112
    Abstract: A shoe management apparatus capable of managing various types of shoes and including a cabinet defining an inner space for storing shoes; and a partition dividing the inner space into an upper first compartment and a lower second compartment, formed therein with a fluid path along which air is discharged into the inner space, and variable in length with respect to a front-to-rear direction of the shoe management apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsun Yoo, Jeong Guen Choi, Joohyeon Oh, Jae Myung Lim, Byoungjoon Han, Sang Yoon Lee, Hyunju Kim, Jeaseok Seong
  • Patent number: 11912187
    Abstract: A storage device for a vehicle has a guide unit and a hinge element which can be guided on the guide unit and is moveably guided along the guide unit in a drawer-type manner. The hinge element has a contact rest surface and at least one lateral wall at an angle to same. The lateral wall has a plurality of fold regions such that a first hinge part and a second hinge part are formed between fold lines in such a way that, in a use position, the storage device forms a stable support for objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hannes Berg, Julia Schiller
  • Patent number: 11903484
    Abstract: A collision prevention control system based on an electric lifting table and a collision prevention method thereof are provided. The collision prevention control system includes a lifting table, an electronic lifting table control box disposed on the lifting table, and a single-chip microcomputer disposed in the electric lifting table control box. The electric lifting table control box is internally provided with an acceleration and gyroscope chip, the acceleration and gyroscope chip performing synchronous motion with the lifting table, the acceleration and gyroscope chip being in information interaction with the single-chip microcomputer, and motion control on the lifting table being performed through the single-chip microcomputer. The collision prevention control system has the advantageous effects as follows: has higher sensitivity and more reliable operation, and senses a slight angular change or an acceleration change when the lifting table encounters resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DewertOkin Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Long Li
  • Patent number: 11882795
    Abstract: Various examples of a system for trimming and collecting plant material are described herein. In one aspect, the system can include a first and second workstation. The first workstation can include a first support frame and a containment portion. The containment portion may include a sidewall and a planar screen. The planar screen removably positioned at an angle within the sidewall. The second workstation can include a second support frame, a table portion, at least one drawer having a bottom may include a screen, and at least one bin. The table portion can include a planar screen table surface and a containment wall. The at least one drawer can be positioned between the planar screen table surface and the at least one bin, where the planar screen table surface can include a screen having openings sized greater than the screen of the bottom of the at least one drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Eric Pike
  • Patent number: 11882929
    Abstract: One or more devices are provided that are configured to detachably engage within a modular system. The one or more devices are expandable to provide a surface to perform work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron S. Blumenthal, Aaron M. Williams, Ryan C. Dick, Tyler J. Smith, Benjamin T. Jones, George Barton, Matthew A. Lownik
  • Patent number: 11882930
    Abstract: A table includes a tabletop and a frame supporting the tabletop. The frame includes a mounting assembly, first and second leg assemblies coupled with the mounting assembly, and first and second supporting assemblies to control rotation of the first and second leg assemblies. The frame also includes one or more couplers disposed at a mounting member of the mounting assembly to connect the mounting assembly with the first and second supporting assemblies or to connect the mounting assembly with the tabletop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Inno-Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwan Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11885529
    Abstract: A pass box delivering an article with respect to a clean room includes a blower provided in an upper portion of the pass box, a first door on the clean room side, a first handle provided on the clean room side and opening and closing the first door, a first handle receiving portion rotating with the first handle in the pass box, a first handle receiving seat engaging with the first handle receiving portion in the pass box, and a storage stand provided in a lower portion of the pass box. The storage stand has a slit allowing air from the blower to be exhausted from an inner portion of the pass box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Takeshi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11866970
    Abstract: A fabric treatment machine has a cabinet housing. A lid enables access inside the cabinet. Fabric treatment components such as a drum are positioned inside the cabinet housing. A panel on the cabinet housing includes an opening to receive the lid. At least one hinge spacer couples with the panel to receive a shaft of a slow close hinge on the lid. The at least one hinge spacer includes a socket portion and a flange portion. The socket portion inserts into an aperture in the panel. The socket portion includes a bore with at least one flat side to receive a mating shaft from the slow closing hinge. The hinge shaft has at least one flat surface. The flange portion covers the panel around the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: James Jeffery, Nicholas Schooley, David Walter
  • Patent number: 11852175
    Abstract: An appliance includes an outer wrapper, an inner liner, a trim breaker having a channel that receives at least one of a wrapper edge of the outer wrapper and a liner edge of the inner liner, and a composite encapsulation system that hermetically seals an insulating cavity defined between the outer wrapper and the inner liner. The composite encapsulation system includes a base adhesive and an outer adhesive, wherein the base adhesive defines a structural adhesive component and the outer adhesive defines a sealing adhesive component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshya J. Deka, Hua Liu, Abhay Naik
  • Patent number: 11849865
    Abstract: A system including a current-carrying wall member and a current collector. The wall member has a carrier plate, and has first polarity electrical conductor tracks and second polarity electrical conductor tracks. The first and second tracks are arranged alternately, and the first and second tracks are arranged on the front side of the carrier plate. The current collector has a plurality contact needles and is attached to the wall member where at least one of the needles contacts one of the first tracks and at least one other of the needles contacts one of the second tracks. The wall member has a first electrical terminal contact and a second electrical terminal contact, the first contact is electrically coupled to the first tracks, the second contact is electrically coupled to the second tracks, and the first contact and the second contact are on the back side of the carrier plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Magnwall GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Feld, Roman Stakhivskyi
  • Patent number: 11841750
    Abstract: A chassis for housing information handling resources of an information handling system may include an enclosure, a plurality of bays formed within the enclosure, each bay of the plurality of bays configured to receive a corresponding modular information handling resource, and a hem comprising a ledge extending from the enclosure and running proximate to at least a portion of the plurality of bays. The hem may have formed therein a recess sized and shaped in accordance with physical dimensions of an interchangeable labeling strip and a plurality of retention features, each retention feature configured to receive a corresponding engagement feature of the interchangeable labeling strip, in order to retain the interchangeable labeling strip within the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Bernard D. Strmiska, Eduardo Escamilla, Matthew B. Gilbert, Richard Crisp
  • Patent number: 11839692
    Abstract: A sterilization cabinet, comprising a top panel, at least two side panels, and a floor panel forming a part of a chamber of the sterilization cabinet; at least one door connected to at least one of the at least two side panels of the sterilization cabinet; a vent formed in at least one of the two side panels; at least one first filter covering the vent and a filter cover configured to hold the first filter against the vent; a drain positioned in the floor panel, wherein the floor panel has a slope configured to cause condensate within the chamber to flow into the drain and wherein the drain is the only outlet for the condensate along the floor panel; and a second filter covering the drain such that condensate flowing into the drain passes through the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Progressive Sterilization, LLC
    Inventors: Michele Mauzerall, Maryellen Keenan