Patents Examined by Paul Chenevert
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Patent number: 9481232Abstract: A folding type awning board for electrically driven scooter, including: a frame fixed to the electrically driven scooter in which both side armrests are folded; and an awning screen installed at least one of the front, rear, left, right sides and a ceiling of the frame. The frame includes a ceiling frame; a seat fixing section which is hinge combined to the ceiling frame; and first and second armrest fixing rods, the upper end portions of which are hinge connected to said ceiling frame at a portion of said ceiling frame in the front of said seat fixing section, and the lower end portions of which are connected to the armrests of the electrically driven scooter. First and second armrest fixing rods and the ceiling frame are folded together so as to be erected or laid down when the armrests are folded.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Inventor: Chun Bok Lee
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Patent number: 9481274Abstract: A vehicle armrest includes an inner armrest substrate having at least one buckling member extending to an outer armrest substrate. A gap is defined by the inner and outer armrest substrates and the at least one buckling member. A fabric member extends across the gap and is attached to the inner and outer armrest substrates. A cover member extends over and is vertically supported by the fabric member.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kenneth S. Laird, Linh Doan, Yudong Zhou
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Patent number: 9475412Abstract: A vehicle includes a seat that comprises a seat bottom, a seat back, a first biasing member, and a second biasing member. The seat back is pivotable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The first biasing member is coupled to each of the seat back and the bed frame. The second biasing member is coupled to each of the seat back and the bed frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: TS Tech Americas, Inc., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Casey Heit, Hiroshi Okazaki, Darin D. King, Tsuyoshi Kumasaka, Takayuki Inoue, Jacob Zachary Sorrell
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Patent number: 9469351Abstract: A structure for a motor vehicle, particularly a passenger car, includes a front wall delimiting a passenger cabin toward the front, which extends between lateral vehicle pillars of the structure, and a carrier element which extends in transverse direction of the vehicle. The carrier element is supported by a front side of the front wall and at least to some extent overlaps the lateral vehicle pillars.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sabine Roehrl, Thomas Weiss, Ferdinand Dirschmid
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Patent number: 9463685Abstract: A tailgate on a vehicle and a method of forming a tailgate for a vehicle includes a tailgate frame, a tailgate liner secured to the tailgate frame and a tailgate liner insert fixedly secured to the tailgate liner. The tailgate liner is formed of a first material and the tailgate liner insert is formed of a second material that is different from the first material. The tailgate liner insert is adapted to be accommodated within an insert aperture defined in the tailgate liner. The tailgate liner insert having an integrally molded feature.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Edward Barrow, Jason Dilley, Justin Longwell
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Patent number: 9452786Abstract: A side panel structure (20), including a side outer panel (21) provided on the vehicle exterior side, and a side inner panel (22) provided on the vehicle interior (12) side. The side outer panel (21) and the side inner panel (22) form, as a closed cross-section structure, a peripheral edge section forming door openings (35, 36). The side outer panel (21) comprises an inner frame (26) formed from a high-strength steel sheet having a high tensile strength, and an outer frame (27) provided to the outer periphery section (26a) of the inner frame (26). The outer frame (27) is formed from a low-strength steel sheet having a low tensile strength.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazunori Hida
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Patent number: 9452703Abstract: A delivery vehicle may include a vehicle body having a side with an opening for providing access to an interior of the vehicle, a linkage assembly connected to the vehicle body, and a door connected to the linkage assembly. The door may be movable upwardly from a lowered position, in which the door covers the opening, to a raised position for providing access to the interior of the vehicle through the opening. Furthermore, the door may be oriented generally upright in both the lowered and raised positions, and the door may be movable outwardly away from the vehicle body when the door moves from the lowered position to the raised position.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: DOMINO'S IP HOLDER LLCInventors: Russell Weiner, Daniel R. Louiselle, Richard H. Trotter, Jerold E. Garland, Thomas C. Bochenek
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Patent number: 9440681Abstract: A cabin space structure for an all terrain vehicle that enables optimization of the shape of a dashboard in the case where seats are so arranged that three persons can be seated side by side in the vehicle width direction. The cabin space structure includes seats on which three passengers are seated side by side in the vehicle width direction, a step floor on which the passengers seated on the seats place their feet, wheel wells for left and right front wheels, the wheel wells provided to project rearwardly at a left-side portion and a right-side portion of the step floor and the dashboard disposed forwardly of the seats. The dashboard is adapted to restrict forward movement of the passengers seated on the seats. A left-side portion and a right-side portion of the dashboard are disposed on the rear side relative to a vehicle-width-directionally central portion of the dashboard.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke Kuroda
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Patent number: 9428223Abstract: A support structure is provided for a motor vehicle that has a front wheel (8). The support structure includes an A pillar (5) having a slide-off surface (40) for the front wheel. The slide-off surface for the front wheel (8) is inclined so that the front wheel (8) slides out along the slide-off surface (40).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tassilo Gilbert, Philipp Kellner, Michael Junginger, Frank Kunert, Sebastian Steinruecken
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Patent number: 9427195Abstract: An emergency vehicle has a patient compartment and a motor, a generator cooperative with the patient compartment, and a Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner positioned in the patient compartment and connected to the generator so as to supply power to the CT scanner. The CT scanner is releasably affixed to the front wall of the patient compartment. The generator is operable independently of the motor. The front wall of the patient compartment has a receptacle affixed thereto. The CT scanner has at least one pin connector extending toward the front wall. The pin connector is releasably received by the receptacle so as to fix a position of the CT scanner against the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: FRAZER, LTD.Inventor: Thomas A. Richardson
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Patent number: 9415670Abstract: A weatherstrip includes an attachment portion, a flexible seal wall, a flexible bridging wall, and a hollow portion. The seal wall extends from an upper portion of the attachment portion toward the front of a vehicle, is turned up, and extends toward the rear of the vehicle. A lower surface of a peripheral portion of a roof panel toward the rear of the vehicle and a lower surface of a peripheral portion of a rear door panel toward the front of the vehicle contact the seal wall from above. The bridging wall bridges the seal wall and the attachment portion. The hollow portion is surrounded by the attachment portion, the seal wall, and the bridging wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Atsuo Masumoto
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Patent number: 9409465Abstract: A combination structure of a door that is equipped on a vehicle may include an upper rail formed by bending a metal plate and disposed to correspond to an edge of a door glass, an inner panel disposed by a distance from the upper rail to form an insertion hole and one side of the inner panel is fixed to the upper rail, a frame molding in which a protrusion portion is formed on at least one side thereof and the protrusion portion is inserted into the insertion hole formed between the upper rail and the inner panel, a vehicle body disposed by a distance from the inner panel, and a first sealing member and a second sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jaehwan Kyung
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Patent number: 9409520Abstract: An automotive running board includes a base, a cover sheet, and a non-slip bar. The base is adapted to be mounted on a vehicle's lateral side and includes a top provided with at least one groove. The cover sheet is mounted on the top of the base and provided with a plurality of through-holes and a plurality of mounting holes. A plurality of support pillars is designed on a lower surface of the non-slip bar and correspondingly penetrates the through-holes of the cover sheet and resists the top of the base. A plurality of joint pillars is designed on the lower surface of the non-slip bar and correspondingly penetrates the mounting holes of the cover sheet, so that the non-slip bar securely joins the cover sheet. The running board featuring simple structure and reduced costs is easily assembled for better supportability and lowered yield loss rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Inventor: Hsiang-Ting Wang
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Patent number: 9404238Abstract: A construction machine comprising an undercarriage designed as a running gear and an upper carriage with a housing having side walls, wherein for access to the housing at least one housing opening with an access wall is provided, which is adjustable into an open position, and in an area in front of the housing opening a horizontal gangway is formed. At least one pull-out element is provided which can be pulled out horizontally between a retracted position and a pulled out position, in which the pull-out element projects horizontally from the housing, and in order to form the gangway a base plate is provided on the pull-out element.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: BAUER Maschinen GmbHInventors: Stefan Roth, Martin Lanzl, Ralf Oehme, Mathias Kohl
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Patent number: 9403425Abstract: A convertible vehicle includes a top movable between a closed position covering a vehicle interior and a storage position uncovering the vehicle interior. The top is arranged in a rear top accommodating space in the storage position and includes a linkage with a link arrangement on each side of a vertical longitudinal center plane of the vehicle. The link arrangement includes two main links pivotably mounted at a respective main bearing and each connected to the main bearing via a lower articulation point and to at least one roof link via an upper articulation point. At least one rigid roof shell is fixed at a respective one of the roof links, which, in the closed position, spans the vehicle interior in a direction transverse to the top. The vehicle includes a substantially vertical rear window arranged toward the front of the vehicle with respect to the top accommodating space.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: WEBASTO-EDSCHA CABRIO GMBHInventor: Magnus Sviberg
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Patent number: 9399389Abstract: A vehicle including a vehicle body having a bumper assembly and a lift-gate. The bumper assembly protrudes outward from the lift-gate when the lift-gate is in a closed position. A panel is attached to an outer surface of the lift-gate that reduces a distance that the bumper assembly protrudes outward from the lift-gate. The panel includes an attachment portion that fixedly secures the panel to the outer surface, and includes a deformable portion that releasably secures the panel to a terminal edge of the lift-gate. Upon receipt of an impact by the vehicle, the bumper assembly and the deformable portion are each operable to deform to absorb the impact and at least minimize transfer of the impact to the lift-gate.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: FCA US LLCInventor: Michael T Mandzak
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Patent number: 9394018Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a roof side rail, roof arch, and roof panel. The roof side rail includes a mount portion extending inward in a vehicle-transversal direction and having a vehicle-transversally outer end portion of the roof panel mounted thereto. The roof arch includes a vehicle-transversally outer end portion that is located outside a vehicle-transversally inner end of the mount portion in the vehicle-transversal direction, joined with the roof side rail, and disposed at a position that is spaced apart downward from the vehicle-transversally outer end portion of the roof panel. At least one of the roof arch and the roof side rail includes a flange portion that extends toward the other one of the roof arch and the side rail and comes into contact with the other one of the roof arch and the roof side rail to restrict downward movement of the roof arch.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Kisaku, Katsumi Ochiai, Yukihiko Nagai
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Patent number: 9381946Abstract: A multi-functional support for a motor vehicle, wherein the multi-functional support comprises a plurality of mounts for accommodating, in a supporting manner, motor vehicle front elements, wherein the motor vehicle front elements are visible in the installed state in an outside top view of the motor vehicle, wherein the multi-functional support together with the received motor vehicle front elements can be fixed so as to be mounted in a floating manner on a body of the motor vehicle, wherein the floating mounting is designed such that, by releasing the fixing and by displacing the multi-functional support relative to the body, a joint line, which is visible in an outside top view of the motor vehicle, between the motor vehicle front elements and outer motor vehicle trim parts directly adjacent to the motor vehicle front elements can be adjusted in a predefined manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: FAURECIA EXTERIORS GMBHInventors: Yann Clapie, Stefan Meder, Daniel Eichlinger, Roland Wohlmuth, Michael Straus, Karl-Heinz Killersreiter, Jacques Hoffner, Pascal Joly-Pottuz
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Patent number: 9376002Abstract: A roof rack and soft top assembly for a vehicle having an exposed passenger compartment protected by a windshield and a roll cage. The assembly includes an outer frame mounted to the vehicle exterior to the roll cage and surrounding a rear passenger compartment, and a plurality of slide rails mounted to the top of the roll cage above a front passenger compartment. The assembly further includes a soft top suspended from the outer frame with fasteners and a header assembly attached to a forward portion of the soft top that slides along the slide rails to engage with the top edge of the windshield, thereby covering the front passenger compartment. When open air driving is desired, the soft top can be withdrawn or removed from the slide rails and the outer frame and stored in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Omix-Ada, Inc.Inventors: Patrick W. Bennett, Christopher Douglas Van Buren
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Patent number: 9359016Abstract: A cabin frame structure that allows a roof to be tightly attached is provided. A work vehicle cabin includes lateral frame members extending laterally, each of the lateral frame members having an upper surface and an end; longitudinal frame members extending longitudinally, each of the longitudinal frame members having an upper surface and an end; connecting plates each having an upper surface, the connecting plates connecting the lateral frame members and the longitudinal frame members, the connecting plates straddling across the lateral frame members and the longitudinal frame members; pillars attached to the ends of the lateral frame members, the ends of the longitudinal frame members, and the connecting plates; a roof disposed over the lateral frame members, the longitudinal frame members, and the connecting plates; and a seal provided between the roof and the lateral frame members, the longitudinal frame members, and the connecting plates.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: ISEKI & CO., LTD.Inventors: Itsuki Doi, Takeshi Hagiyama, Koji Ochi, Takayuki Kajihara