Patents Examined by Tal Saif
  • Patent number: 11443572
    Abstract: A lockset including a bolt mechanism, an exterior assembly, an interior assembly, a driving tailpiece, and a driven tailpiece. The bolt assembly includes a bolt having an extended position and a retracted position. The exterior assembly includes a rotatable exterior manual actuator. The interior assembly includes a clutch having a coupling state and a decoupling state. The driving tailpiece is connected between the exterior manual actuator and the clutch. The driven tailpiece is connected between the clutch and the bolt mechanism such that rotation of the driven tailpiece actuates the bolt assembly. In the coupling state, the clutch couples the driving tailpiece with the driven tailpiece such that the exterior manual actuator is operable to actuate the bolt assembly. In the decoupling state, the clutch decouples the driving tailpiece from the driven tailpiece such that the exterior manual actuator is inoperable to actuate the bolt assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Vishal Salitkumar Kusanale, Mahesha Appaji, Rakshith R. Nayak, Vijayakumar Mani, Aaron P. McKibben
  • Patent number: 11434673
    Abstract: An aircraft door locking system comprises a first locking element fastenable to a first element of an aircraft door arrangement rotatable about a rotation axis and having a receiving opening and a bearing shell. A second locking element is fastenable to a door arrangement second element and comprises a locking bolt. In a release state, the locking bolt is insertable through the receiving opening and, by a rotation of the first locking element about the rotation axis in a locking direction, is positionable in the bearing shell to effect the locking state. A torque-generating device is configured, in the locking state, to generate a torque opposing a rotation of the first locking element about the rotation axis in a release direction opposite to the locking direction if a force directed substantially perpendicular to the rotation axis is exerted on the bearing shell and/or on the locking bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Poppe, Uwe Papenroth
  • Patent number: 11421446
    Abstract: An intelligent unlocking device comprises a rear shell, a front shell, a motor assembly, a hollow rotating shaft, an adapting piece connected with a lock cylinder and the hollow rotating shaft, a manual rotating shaft, an inner bearing and a bearing support which are disposed around the manual rotating shaft, and an outer bearing. The bearing support and the outer bearing are disposed around an end of the manual rotating shaft. The intelligent unlocking device is silent and free of noises in use, and convenient to assemble and disassemble, intelligent unlocking can be achieved without replacement of a whole door lock, and costs are reduced for users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Xiaozhong Tan
  • Patent number: 11396761
    Abstract: A safety switch (2) with a latching unit (12), by means of which an associated actuator (3) is held in a latched position. The latching unit (12) has an opening (9) and a blocking element. In a latched position, the blocking element projects into the opening (9) and rear-engages an actuator head (8) of the actuator (3), which is in the latched position. The blocking element is held in the latched position by means of a positioning element with a setting force. When the actuator head (8) is inserted into or removed from the opening (9), the actuator head (8) pivots the blocking element out against the setting force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Euchner GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventor: Ilo Grimm
  • Patent number: 11384569
    Abstract: A lock with replaceable modules includes a first part and a second part which is connected to the first part. The lock has a latch bolt recess, a restriction recess and a deadbolt recess so as to selectively install a latch bolt, a restriction bolt and a deadbolt. A lock block is selectively installed in the restriction recess. The lock includes an installation slot which can be selectively oriented in different directions, and a core recess for receiving the deadbolt. The lock is selectively installed with different components by features of modularization and normalization so as to reduce inventory pressure. The customers may install the lock to entrance doors, gate doors, storage room doors, emergency doors, room doors, bathroom doors or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Federal Lock Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tien-Kao Liu
  • Patent number: 11371273
    Abstract: A door latch locking guard 30 is provided for maintaining a door in a locked position. A door latch 10 has an existing stationary latch arm 12 and the door jam has an existing swinging arm 14 for engaging the latch arm 12 to lock the door. The present invention provides a protective locking guard 30 having a notch 38 formed therein for placing over the stationary latch arm 12, and the protective locking guard 30 also has a plate 32 for moving the existing swinging arm 14 over the plate 32. A locking clasp 40 is provided for inserting through an opening 36 in plate 32 in order to prevent the door latch 10 from being opened from the opposite side of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: Sam Casternovia
  • Patent number: 11365572
    Abstract: A door-operating assembly has first and second subassemblies each having a housing, a magnet, a sleeve carrying the sleeve and rotatable in the respective housing about an axis, an actuator for rotating the first sleeve about the respective axis, and a rotation limiter restricting rotation of the respective sleeve and magnet. The magnets in a first position repel and push the respective sleeves axially away from each other such that the first rotation limiter is effective in a first direction on the first sleeve and the second rotation limiter is effective in a second rotation direction on the second sleeve. Conversely, the magnets in a second position attract and pull the sleeves axially toward each other such that the first rotation limiter is effective against the first rotation direction on the first sleeve and the second rotation limiter is effective against the second rotation direction on the second sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SIMONSWERK GMBH
    Inventors: Joerg Ellefred, Felix Kaupmann
  • Patent number: 11359403
    Abstract: A manually operated locking bolt (1) having a cylindrical, sleeve-shaped bolt guide (3) and a bolt (2), which is mounted to be axially displaced in the bolt guide (3), and which has a locking end (15) and an actuating end (31), wherein the bolt (2) is mounted to be axially displaced between a first axial end position or a second axial end position within the bolt guide (3) and can be locked, wherein at least one sensor (27) is fastened to the bolt guide (3), which sensor detects the two axial end positions of the bolt (2) as a measured variable and generates therefrom a further processable electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: OTTO GANTER GMBH & CO. KG NORMTEILEFABRIK
    Inventor: Thilo Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11338931
    Abstract: A high visibility panel latch may comprise a latch handle coupled to a latch mechanism, wherein the latch handle comprises a visibility feature. The visibility features may comprise a portion of at least a first face and a second face of the latch handle. The visibility features may comprise a painted channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventor: Steven Micallef
  • Patent number: 11319736
    Abstract: A swing bar door guard includes a door latch having a latch base configured to be connected to a door jamb, a latch bar configured to be connected to the latch base, and first and second bumpers configured to extend through openings in the latch bar. The first and second bumpers each include a jamb bumper portion for contacting the door jamb when in a blocking position and a door bumper portion for contacting the door in the blocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: QUIET LOCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott Thomas
  • Patent number: 11280114
    Abstract: A latch unit for a sliding window mountable within a window frame. A cam portion engages the first side of a retention bar for urging the lip against the resiliency of a spring toward an unlatched configuration in which the flange disengages the frame as the handle is hingedly rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Arow Global Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph Scott Walters
  • Patent number: 11268307
    Abstract: An actuating device, for a motor vehicle door lock, having a handle part grippable by one hand and being movable by a mechanism from a rest position into a standby position, and being movable manually into an actuating position starting from the standby position, the actuating device configured to actuate the door lock if the handle part reaches the actuating position, the actuating device having a device for reducing a transverse play of the handle parts such that the transverse play in the standby position is reduced with respect to the transverse play in a position between the rest position and the standby position, the device for reducing the transverse play configured to completely or partially cancel again the reduction of the transverse play in the standby position if the handle part is moved from the standby position into the actuating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Zsolt Wilke, Matthias Seubert
  • Patent number: 11261619
    Abstract: A lock with a roller deadbolt includes a driving member having a first slot and a transverse slot. The driving member is connected to a first spring, a second spring and a positioning rod. A deadbolt includes a body, an insertion member, a roller and a slide. The driving member is connected to the body. The insertion member is received in the body. The second spring biases the insertion member. The slide is restricted by the positioning rods of the driving member and has a first guide pin extending through the first slot. The slide is movable along the first slot. The guide hole includes an extension slot and an inclined slot which inclinedly communicates with the extension slot. When in a non-transmission position, the roller protrudes beyond the receiving space. When in the transmission position, the roller does not protrude beyond the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Federal Lock Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tien-Kao Liu
  • Patent number: 11220838
    Abstract: An exemplary noise-reducing mechanism for door hardware includes a housing, a damper, and a stop. The door hardware includes a first component and a second component, and an operational movement of the door hardware causes relative movement of the first and second components. The housing is mounted to the first component, and the damper is mounted to the housing. The stop is mounted to the second component such that the stop engages the damper during the operational movement. The damper is configured to slow the operational movement, thereby reducing noise generated by operation of the door hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Aaron P. McKibben, Gregory Musselman, Brian C. Eickhoff, Benjamin L. Miller, Paul R. Arlinghaus, Vijayakumar Mani, Saagar Mohammed
  • Patent number: 11214989
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock includes a catch, a pawl, and a latch plate, wherein the catch and the pawl are rotatably supported on the latch plate, the latch plate has at least two openings for mounting the motor vehicle lock, and the latch plate has an inlet slot for a latch holder, and wherein a splay lying opposite the inlet slot is provided on the latch plate, wherein the splay has the form of a semicircle at least in an end region opposite the inlet slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventors: Marek Dragon, Alexander Grossmann, Thomas Waldmann
  • Patent number: 11214980
    Abstract: A device and method for a strike plate for a door frame member and/or door assembly is shown and described. The invention may be considered a strike plate assembly and, in other embodiments, a lock strike plate with an adjustable aperture. The strike plate may fit within a mortise pocket on a door member of a door frame. The invention may include an adjustable base plate and a top plate. In some examples, the strike plate may include a first horizontally extended linear opening and a second horizontally extended linear opening. The strike plate assembly may be selectively positionable within the mortise pocket to facilitate lateral adjustability of an interior space within an interior aperture by movement of at least a portion of the strike plate laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Endura Products, LLC
    Inventor: George E. Heid
  • Patent number: 11168496
    Abstract: The present invention provides a latching device and a sliding door using the same. The latching device includes two displacement components and two latching components arranged on the main body of the sliding door. The two displacement components are connected to each other and respectively arranged to drive the two latching components to displace. The two displacement components are operated through the lateral side and the edge side of the sliding door, respectively. The user can latch or unlatch the sliding door by operations of displacing the at least two displacement components when the sliding door is in a closed state or a completely open state. In addition, when a concealed sliding door is fully opened and the two sides are both hidden in the walls, the sliding door can be latched or unlatched by operating the latching device through the edge side of the sliding door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Inventor: Wen-Fong Jean
  • Patent number: 11136785
    Abstract: An elevator call box with internal, concealable latching mechanism comprises an internally disposed, cylindrical magnetic pin with a relatively low pull force that is slidably displaceable by an larger, external magnetic force supplied by a service technician. When the access door is closed, magnetic pin penetrates an orifice in a locking tab to lock the call box. The pin magnet is normally attracted to an adjacent, magnetically attractive clip snap-fitted to a latching block. The latch is externally disengaged via a stronger portable magnet carried by service personnel. The larger magnetic pull force of the portable magnet slidably displaces the smaller magnetic latch pin, freeing the locking tab to permit pivotal opening of the access door. Once the stronger magnet is moved away, the smaller magnetic pin, which is attracted magnetically to the clip, will return to it's rest position penetrating the locking tab and locking the control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Innovation Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Jeremy David McClure, Jake Dalton Tyler
  • Patent number: 11124995
    Abstract: A push-lifter for a vehicle drains water entered into an inside through a drainage portion. A lower portion of a case includes a peripheral wall, a bottom wall, and an air vent portion opening at a center of the bottom wall. A cap includes a bottom portion located away from the bottom wall, and forming a first air flow channel communicating with the air vent portion between the bottom portion and the bottom wall; a side portion located away from the peripheral wall by continuing to the bottom portion, and having a cylindrical shape forming a second air flow channel communicating with the first air flow channel between the side portion and the peripheral wall; and a drainage portion located on a lower side in an attachment state of the case relative to a vehicle body side, communicating with the second air flow channel, and opening toward the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Yoichi Hirano