Patents Examined by Ryan A Doyle
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Patent number: 9138052Abstract: One feature provides a portable storage apparatus that comprises a frame, a hanger rod, a shoe shelf, and a drawer. The hanger rod, the shoe shelf, and the drawer are coupled to the frame. The hanger rod is adapted to receive and support garment hangers and garments. The shoe shelf is adapted to receive and support shoes. The drawer includes a cavity that may receive and store a plurality of objects, including clothing, toys, and books. The shoe shelf may include two surfaces that are angled with respect to each other and the ground. The drawer may be either a one-way drawer that opens from the front side of the apparatus or a two-way drawer that opens from the front and the rear of the apparatus. The apparatus may further comprise a plurality of wheels that are attached to the bottom of the apparatus to allow for easier mobility.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Inventor: Norik Kagramanyan
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Patent number: 9115927Abstract: A crisper drawer for a refrigerator is provided. The crisper drawer includes a crisper pan and a shelf. The crisper pan has a pair of pan rolling surfaces with a ramp portion. The shelf is fixed to the storage compartment, and has a pair of fixed shelf rollers. Each of the pair of the fixed shelf rollers rolls on each of the pan rolling surfaces, and each of the pair of the pan rear rollers rolls on each of the shelf rolling surfaces. As the user pushes the crisper drawer closed, both the shelf rollers and the pan rollers roll on the rolling surfaces. When the shelf rollers reach a ramp portion, the crisper drawer is self-closed without the user's pushing operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Timothy Bryan Rackley, Bryan A. Collins, Paul H. Kelly
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Patent number: 9108537Abstract: A slide return mechanism of a seat for a vehicle, the seat including a seat back and a seat base, the slide return mechanism including a recliner that reclines the seat back, a slide release lever that locks and unlocks the movement of a slide mechanism of the seat, and a stopper link. Rotation of the recliner causes the seat back to move downward, the slide release lever to unlock the slide mechanism, and the stopper link to move into position to prevent the seat from traveling in a rearward direction at a predetermined position.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: AISIN TECHNICAL CENTER OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Ryosuke Mizuno, Michael Mixon
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Patent number: 9107494Abstract: A refrigerator is provided including a refrigerator compartment having a bin door. A storage bin is positioned within the refrigerator compartment. A lift mechanism is positioned within the refrigerator compartment. The lift mechanism includes a bin support structure configured to support the storage bin. The lift mechanism further includes at least one pivot arm pivotally attached to the bin door, and a drive unit attached to the bin door. The drive unit applies a vertical force to the at least one pivot arm, and rotation of the at least one pivot arm vertically moves the bin support structure and storage bin.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Inventors: Joseph Scheuring, Michael Bayne
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Patent number: 9078515Abstract: An interior design unit is provided including five planar members, each having a tetragon shape and removably attached to at least one other planar member, wherein each of planar members includes four through holes for receiving a connector for attachment to at least one other interior design unit, and wherein each through hole is positioned at substantially equal distance from an adjacent corner of the planar member. An interior design system is also provided including a plurality of modular units and at least one connector for removable attachment of one modular unit to one other modular unit, wherein each modular unit has a plurality of planar members removably connected to each other, wherein each of the planar members includes a plurality of through holes, and wherein the connector is received in any of the through holes in the planar members.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Inventor: Rukshan Keragala
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Patent number: 9074810Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a pantry part in a refrigerator compartment. Since the pantry part can slide forward, and then, rotate, an object can be conveniently put in or taken out from the refrigerator.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jungyeon Hwang, Jinwon Kang, Myungdong You, Woonkyu Seo, Hanjin Jung, Eunjoo Lee, Hangbok Lee
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Patent number: 9056568Abstract: A seat back structure for a vehicle according to one aspect of the present invention including a headrest, a seat back frame, a pad disposed in front of a surface of the seat back frame, a backrest surface of the pad, and right and left side supports each provided on either side of the backrest surface in a seat width direction, in which a right slit portion and a left slit portion are provided between the backrest surface and the right and the left side supports, respectively, each of the right slit portion and the left slit portion penetrating the pad in the thickness direction of the pad and extending in a vertical direction of the pad, and the right and the left slit portions are spaced apart from each other in the seat width direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Matsumoto, Koji Sano, Yoshitomo Oka, Tatsuya Terauchi, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Kenichi Niitsuma
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Patent number: 9055815Abstract: A press-control type sliding rail assembly includes an intermediate rail, an inner rail slidably coupled to the intermediate rail, a limiter member pivotally mounted at the intermediate rail and defining opposing first stop flange and second stop flange, and a stop block located at the inner rail for stopping against the first stop flange to prevent falling of the inner rail out of the intermediate rail when the second stop flange is pressed by an external force to bias the limiter member in moving the first stop flange toward the inner rail.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Nan Juen International Co., Ltd.Inventor: I-Hsiang Chiu
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Patent number: 9050919Abstract: A vehicle seat cushion is provided with: a cushion body that makes contact with the body of a vehicle occupant; and a plurality of spring bodies that are suspended on a seat frame so as to extend in the fore-and-aft direction of the seat. The plurality of spring bodies include inner region spring bodies that are placed underneath the hipbone of the vehicle occupant, and outer region spring bodies that are placed on the outer sides of the inner region spring bodies in the transverse direction of the seat. Moreover, if a cross-section of the seat extending in the fore-and-aft direction is viewed, then at least the inner region spring body portion that is located on the front side of the bottommost end portion of the hipbone of the vehicle occupant is seen to be positioned lower than the outer region spring bodies.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Oka
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Patent number: 9033438Abstract: A shelf assembly is provided for a refrigerator with a food compartment that includes a rear wall and a pair of opposed side walls. The shelf assembly includes a first and second shelf portion with first and second support surfaces. The second shelf portion is slidably moveable relative to the first shelf portion between an extended position and a retracted position. In the extended position, the second shelf portion is arranged such that the second support surface is substantially coplanar with the first support surface and the second support surface is located generally between a first support surface and a side wall of the food compartment. In the retracted position, the second planar support surface is arranged subjacent to the first planar support surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Paul H. Kelly, Benjamin Mobley, Akhil Karibandi, Caleb Gossens, Peter Jenkinson
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Patent number: 9010888Abstract: A refrigerator and an anti-insect unit accommodating a repellent and installed on a refrigerator leg for supporting a refrigerator cabinet, thereby repelling or eradicating insects from the refrigerator and a space for accommodating the refrigerator.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Minsup Kim, Kyungeun Lee, Myungdong You, Sunyoung Park
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Patent number: 8991946Abstract: A hair styling accessory organizer includes an organizer base; an organizer platform carried by the organizer base; and at least one generally elongated hair head support member upward-standing from the organizer platform, the hair bead support member having a base portion carried by the organizer platform, a tapered portion of varying cross-sectional diameter extending from the base portion and a terminal portion extending from the tapered portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Inventor: Carolyn Braggs
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Patent number: 8967745Abstract: A mounting system for mounting a bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship above a ground surface includes an elongate member having an elongate top wall, having side edges and at least one leg section extending downwardly from one of the side edges. Each of the at least one leg section includes an elongate flange at a distal end that is contiguous to the ground. The elongate top wall has an elongate dimension between opposed ends for receiving a bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship on an upper surface thereof. The top wall includes attachment members for cooperating with a mounting plate for attaching the bank of storage units in side-by-side relationship to the top wall. The elongate flanges include a plurality of leveling adjuster passages for receiving leveling adjusters therethrough and a plurality of anchor passages for receiving anchoring members therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Penco Products, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Everett Booth
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Patent number: 8960823Abstract: A cabinet includes a pair of side walls; a rear wall connected to the pair of side walls; a top wall connected to the pair of side walls and the rear wall; and a slidable tray which slides between the pair of side walls. The tray includes a front wall, a pair of side walls, a rear wall, and a bottom wall connecting the front wall, the pair of side walls, and the rear wall. A first reinforcement member extends across the front wall. The reinforcement member includes a raised wall extending from the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Metal Fabricating CorporationInventors: Robert J. Golias, Gary W. James, Gary R. Kish, Bernard J. Golias, Jr.
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Patent number: 8950834Abstract: A slide assembly includes a first slide and a second slide slidably attached to the first slide. The first slide includes a first main plate and a pair of first flanges extending from opposite lengthwise edges of the first main plate. The second slide includes a second main plate and a pair of second flanges extending from opposite lengthwise edges of the second main plate. Each of the pair of second flanges includes a first segment extending from second main plate and abutting the second main plate and an L-shaped second segment extending from the first segment. The first segment is received in and slidable along each of the pair of first flanges. The L-shaped second segment protrudes out from each of the pair of the first flanges.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chen-Lu Fan, Jing-Chao Liang
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Patent number: 8950831Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine which can close/open a lid on a supplementary washing machine automatically at the time the supplementary washing machine is opened/closed. The washing machine includes a cabinet which forms an exterior of the washing machine, a supplementary washing machine removably mounted to a lower side of the cabinet, having a lid for introducing laundry and a tub for holding the laundry, and an automatic opening/closing member for slidably opening/closing the lid at the time the supplementary washing machine is opened/closed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung Ryong Kim, Dong Won Kim
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Patent number: 8944534Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage space, a first door opening or closing the storage space, an accommodation device defining an accommodation space opened toward a front surface of the first door, a second door disposed on the first door to open or close the accommodation device, a shelf disposed on the first door, the shelf being spread to the outside of the accommodation device by the rotation thereof, and a connection assembly connecting the shelf to the second door, the connection assembly being linked with the opening of the second door to rotate the shelf. Thus, convenience of use may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Kiyoung Lim
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Audio/video electronic apparatus, in particular a multimedia car radio, with a removable front panel
Patent number: 8936325Abstract: The apparatus comprises: a case (100), in particular a case that can be integrated into a motor vehicle dashboard; a front panel element (200), removably mounted on the case; and means for the reversible assembly and fixation of the front panel element to the case. Such means include: at a first end of the front panel element and of the case, a dismountable magnetic hinge comprising a first pair of magnetic elements (124, 224), arranged on the case and on the front panel element, respectively, opposite to each other and in mutual attraction; and at an opposed, second end of the front panel element and of the case, means for locking the front panel element to the case, comprising a lock (212) and a second pair of magnetic elements (126, 226), arranged on the case and on the front panel element, respectively, opposite to each other and in mutual repulsion.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: ParrotInventor: Thierry Sanlaville -
Patent number: 8931859Abstract: A consumer appliance has a soft open door mechanism. The mechanism may include a damping device with a first end mounted to the cabinet and a second end mounted so as to move with the door. The damping device includes a partial fill damper activatable by an opening movement of the door toward the horizontal position to provide an opposing force to slow the door motion. The damper may be configured so as to initiate the opposing force only when the door has moved at least about 45 degrees from the upright position toward the horizontal position, and/or may be configured so that the damper includes a damping coefficient of about 200 to about 240 lb*s/ft.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Kyle A. Kozinski, Ryan Ellis Leonard, John Alexander Gardner, Aaron Matthew McDaniel
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Patent number: 8926029Abstract: The present invention relates to a framework for supporting pieces of work station equipment, and in particular to a console structure for supporting electronic equipment such as computers, video displays, control panels and the like. The present disclosure provides a console structure generally comprising a cabinet structure and a support structure. The cabinet structure generally defines an interior space for receiving equipment, whereas the support structure is typically disposed at the back side of the cabinet and extends above the cabinet for supporting equipment on the exterior of the cabinet. In at least one embodiment, the console has reduced dimensions to provide enhanced downward sightlines over the console. Furthermore, in at lease one embodiment, the interior dimensions of the cabinet structure are maximized by providing a cabinet frame comprised of one or more compact frame members.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Evans Consoles CorporationInventors: Samuel Han, Shannon Lundrigan, Matko Papic