Patents Examined by Pinel E Romain
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Patent number: 11975778Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller configured to execute the processing of accepting a request for retrieving a target vehicle body unit that is laid at a specific place, selecting a chassis unit for retrieval from among chassis units in the state separated from any vehicle body unit, the chassis unit for retrieval being a chassis unit to be used to retrieve the target vehicle body unit, and sending a retrieval command to the chassis unit for retrieval, the retrieval command being a command to retrieve the target vehicle body unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhisa Yoshikawa, Yuji Suzuki, Keita Yamazaki, Kei Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Takashi Ogawa, Yukiya Sugiyama, Masaru Ando, Yasushi Fujiwara, Azusa Nakagame, Erina Toyama
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Patent number: 11970086Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle body and a driver seat. The vehicle body defines a driver compartment having a first door with a first window and a second door with a second window. The driver seat is disposed within the driver compartment. When the driver seat is in a position that accommodates an operator being in a 95th male height percentile, the operator within the driver seat can see out of (i) the first window at a first angle relative to a forward looking direction that is parallel with a longitudinal axis of the vehicle body and (ii) the second window at a second angle relative to the forward looking direction. Each of the first angle and the second angle is at least 95 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Oshkosh CorporationInventors: Benjamin Andrews, Robert Wesley Holliday, Dan Nett, Annette Rantanen, Paul Schmidt, Nick Winter, Mitchell Wolfrath
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Patent number: 11970215Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a cavity filling system for e.g. noise reduction, sealing and/or stiffening. The cavity is part of an automotive vehicle structure. The present invention further relates to an automotive vehicle structure with a multitude of cavities and a filling system.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Zephyros, Inc.Inventors: Luc Helfer, Alain Kuntz
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Patent number: 11958541Abstract: An outrigger coupled to a cab frame. The outrigger including a base wall, a first side wall, an opposite second side wall, a reinforcement flange, and a reinforcement bracket. The first side wall and the opposite second side wall extend from the base wall. Each of the first side wall and the second side wall include an interior edge, an opposite exterior edge, and an inner surface. The reinforcement flange extends along the exterior edge of the first side wall, the second edge, and the exterior edge of the second side wall. The reinforcement bracket is coupled to the interior edge of the first side wall and the interior edge of the second side wall.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Jacob M. Kemppainen, Scott B. Smith
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Patent number: 11959590Abstract: A method of transporting a vehicle that has a ruptured fluid container from an accident includes affixing a fluid absorbent diaper to the vehicle at the location of the ruptured fluid container. The diaper has an absorbent planar member being at least about half the size of the vehicle undercarriage and a plurality of spaced bungee straps extending from edge portions of the member. The vehicle can then be transported and/or stored without risk of spillage of hydrocarbon fluid or battery acid.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Lee Edington
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Patent number: 11951891Abstract: The present invention relates to an extruded rubber or plastic strip for adding it to the edges of textile and rubber vehicle mats with the purpose of keeping dust and grime inside of the mat, diminishing contamination of the vehicle's floor, and preventing the mat from slipping and obstructing pedal use, without need of replacing the whole mat. This strip is flexible enough to adapt to the shape of many rubber and textile vehicle mats. It has a slit in which the edge of the mat can be inserted to mount the accessory to the mat and an internal cavity, adjacent to the slit and higher than the slit, for imprisoning the edge of the mat and ensuring a firm grip. The exterior side is higher than the interior side, so that, once applied, the accessory stops the water, dust, or grime from exiting the mat.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Alfonso Miguel Alonso Tesson
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Patent number: 11945513Abstract: A vehicle body structure provided on a vehicle includes a floor pan and a bracket. On an upper surface of the floor pan, a cushion of a seat on which an occupant of the vehicle is to be seated is to be disposed. A bracket is disposed on an outer end side of a seating position for the occupant in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle on the upper surface of the floor pan, and includes at least one protruding portion protruding upward and extending in a front-rear direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Okesaku, Masato Nakamura, Takayoshi Inoue, Koichi Mashiko
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Patent number: 11938866Abstract: Disclosed are vehicle cockpit module assembly including an actuator module to provide power, and fixed to an interior of a dashboard assembly, a main housing fixed to the interior of the dashboard assembly to fix the actuator module at one side and to accommodate a pulley, a timing belt, and a timing belt clip, a motor using power from the actuator module to provide a rotational force to a motor rotating shaft, a slip gear module connected to the motor rotating shaft through a center between a rear slip gear and a front slip gear and configured to transmit the rotational force transmitted from the motor rotating shaft through a frictional force between the rear slip gear and the front slip gear, the pulley rotates due to the rotational force transmitted through the slip gear module, and the timing belt connected to the pulley converts rotary motion into linear motion.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Won Sik Kim
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Patent number: 11926365Abstract: A utility vehicle including a cab assembly, a roof assembly, a windshield assembly, a rear window assembly, and two or more couplers attached to one or more ROPS members. The couplers are each aligned with and are releasably connected with a buckle insert attached to one or more of the roof assembly, windshield assembly, rear window assembly and doors of the cab assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventors: Leigh Raymond Collyer, Aaron Lee Swanson, Matthew Eastwood
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Patent number: 11927046Abstract: A multi-way liftgate assembly providing a plurality of dividers dividing the rear cargo area of a passenger vehicle into a plurality of secure areas assessable from a plurality of panels forming a liftgate to provide controlled access to one or more of those compartments. The vehicle operator has secure control of which portions of the cargo area can be selectively accessed. The multi-way liftgate assembly provides multiple secure openings to the cargo area of a vehicle that typically has only one secure opening to the cargo area.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Magna Exteriors Inc.Inventors: Luyao Zhu, Marc Cogswell, Robert M. Horner
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Patent number: 11912209Abstract: A removable panel retainer includes a flexible substrate having a surface defining a first axis. A clip member is moveably mounted to the flexible substrate in a direction substantially parallel to the first axis. A release member is moveably mounted relative to the flexible substrate along a second axis that is distinct from the first axis. Shifting the release member towards the flexible substrate releases the clip member to shift along the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jason Zink, Mark A. Ruttle
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Patent number: 11912191Abstract: A kitchen module for a vehicle includes a frame system for providing structural support, a rail system affixed to the frame system and the vehicle, and a plurality of kitchen components mounted to the frame system. The rail system is configured to allow the frame system to move relative to the vehicle. The plurality of kitchen components include a sink, a potable water tank, a waste-water tank, a rangetop, at least one drawer, a countertop, lights, any other suitable component, or any combination thereof. The vehicle, which may be an electric vehicle having a battery module, can include an electrical extension connecting an electric power source of the vehicle to the kitchen module. The electrical extension may be coupled to at least one of an actuator of the rail system and a rangetop.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Larry Parker, Elizabeth Steenwyk, Christian Elder, Arthur Bledsoe, Ruey-Khan Tsang, Kaitlyn Benoit
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Patent number: 11904658Abstract: A ventilation device for the inside of a motor vehicle, having at least one air outflow element and at least one associated directional element. The at least one air outflow element is provided in a functional arrangement with an air channel element. The air channel element represents the connection to a supply device as part of an air conditioning system. At least one light element is also provided. The arrangement of the at least one directional element and the at least one air outflow element work together so that the ventilation device can be continuously adjusted at least between two inside ventilation conditions. The at least two ventilation conditions respectively differ at least by means of a direction of outflowing air directed directly into the inside and directed indirectly along a roof liner designed for this reason in relation to a seat region of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Lukas Enke, Ricardo Buder, Timo Michel, Olaf Uhlenbusch
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Patent number: 11904692Abstract: A workstation includes a dashboard for a vehicle having a recess on an upper surface, a first display screen extending from the dashboard, and a second display screen that is deployable between a stowed position within the recess in the dashboard and an extended deployed position aligned proximate to the first display screen. A control arm operatively couples the first display screen with the second display screen, wherein the control arm pivots about a pivot axis to deploy the second display screen proximate to the first display screen. The workstation has a deployable desk that pivots between a stowed position proximate to the dashboard and an extended deployed position forward of the dashboard, wherein the desk in the stowed position covers the second display screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Dustin Shedlarski, Micah Jones, Hussein H. Berry
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Patent number: 11904587Abstract: A composite molded cargo body panel including a core, an interior skin secured to a first side of the core having a thickness, and exterior skin secured to a second side of the core, and a plurality of recesses. The plurality of recesses are dispersed along a first direction at intervals in the interior skin, with the core thickness at each of the plurality of recesses being reduced compared to a maximum core thickness, and each of the plurality of recesses defines a support surface. A pocket is formed in each of the plurality of recesses, with the core thickness at the pocket being less than the core thickness at each of the plurality of recesses. A plurality of logistics inserts are attached to the respective support surfaces of the plurality of recesses so that, at each of the plurality of recesses, the logistics insert extends across the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: STI Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Gary L. Fenton
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Patent number: 11904945Abstract: An embodiment outer panel assembled to a vehicle body frame includes an outer plate portion, a plurality of flange portions extending from an edge portion of the outer plate portion and bent toward the vehicle body frame, and a fastening member installed in the flange portions and engaged to the vehicle body frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Won Ki Song
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Patent number: 11897428Abstract: An interior system for a vehicle includes a seating assembly that is coupled to the vehicle. An armrest corresponding with and in a spaced-relationship with the seating assembly is operable to translate in a seating assembly-lateral direction from a first position to a second position. In the first position of the armrest, the armrest is a first distance from the seating assembly. In the second position of the armrest, the armrest is a second distance from the seating assembly. The first distance is greater than the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jesse Rene Diephuis, Michael John Harmon, Andrew Brand, Ryan Wayne Warner, Andrew Smith
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Patent number: 11897375Abstract: A removable and stowable vehicle seat system includes a seat that can be folded into a compact form factor and a retainer provided in a cargo area of the vehicle to receive and retain the folded seat. The retainer is sized and shaped to receive the folded seat in a close arrangement to ensure the folded seat stays in place. A strap is also provided with tether hooks to secure the folded seat within the retainer by engaging the tether hooks to body anchors provided in the retainer. The floor recess of the retainer has features to easily receive a folded seat and position it into an optimal resting position. The floor recess may be provided with pads to engage with feet on the base of the folded seat. The pads serve to securely locate the seat within the retainer and to dampen vibration of the stored seat while the vehicle is in motion.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Brian D. Large, Francis M. Madrid, Michael M. Enciso, Derek S. Lindsay, Terrie L. Ellison, Randy A. Staib
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Patent number: 11891019Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sliding glove box including a glove box including an inner space for accommodating an object and a case which accommodates the glove box, wherein a plurality of wheels are disposed at each of two sides of the glove box, the plurality of wheels move on a rail disposed in the case, and at least one of the plurality of wheels includes one side that is in contact with the rail.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ie Seob Park, Dong Il Song, Dong Yong Choi, Chang Bok Park
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Patent number: 11878736Abstract: An assembly includes a first component having a first threaded opening therein, and a second component having a second component opening therethrough. A bolt assembly secures the second component relative to the first component. The bolt assembly includes a first bolt having a spacer portion and a first threaded shaft extending from the spacer portion to engage the first threaded opening. The first bolt includes an internal thread extending axially from the spacer portion. The bolt assembly further includes a second bolt having a head and a second threaded shaft extending from the head. The second threaded shaft extends through the second component opening to engage the internal thread of the first bolt to secure the second component relative to the first component.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Kurt W. Doll, Robert N. Saje