Patents by Inventor Douglas Wayne Bittner

Douglas Wayne Bittner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220160557
    Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
  • Patent number: 11241344
    Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
  • Publication number: 20200046583
    Abstract: A cot includes a patient platform that supports a frame, a patient support assembly, and a pad. The cot further includes a lift system that is coupled to a transport system that includes a cot retainer. The patient support assembly includes a headrest, backrest, seat, and leg rest. In some forms, a child restraint assembly is incorporated into the various parts of the patient support assembly to allow safe transport of children in an ambulance. The child restraint assembly is adjustable to accommodate the size of the child being transported. In other forms, the child restraint assembly is incorporated into the pad. The various embodiments envision a child restraint assembly that is easily accessible to emergency medical professionals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan King, Christopher Geist, Amie Barnes, Soren Balzer Sibbesen, Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup
  • Publication number: 20130152775
    Abstract: A blast mitigation seat for a land vehicle may include an occupant seat, at least one retraction device mounted to the seat, a first set of webs connected between the seat and a ceiling and/or a wall of the land vehicle, a second set of webs connected between the at least one retraction device and the ceiling and/or the wall of the land vehicle, and a third set of webs connected between the seat and the vehicle floor. The seat is suspended in the land vehicle by the first and third sets of webs. The first set of webs absorbs energy resulting from detonation of an explosive device beneath the floor of the land vehicle that forces the land vehicle from the ground into the air, and the second set of webs absorbs energy resulting from subsequent impact of the land vehicle with the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: INDIANA MILLS & MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Chris P P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Patent number: 7810779
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for preventing actuation of a seat position adjustment device coupled to a vehicle seat that is adjustably mounted to a vehicle seat frame. The apparatus may comprise a stop member mounted to the seat position adjustment device, and at least one biasing member configured to normally bias the stop member into engagement with the vehicle seat to prevent actuation of the seat position adjustment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing Inc.
    Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Patent number: 7097204
    Abstract: A sleeper bunk restraining system includes a sleeper bunk configured to be carried by a vehicle and having a top surfaced defining a length upon which an occupant may rest. The bunk includes a stationary portion and a moveable portion defined along the length, and the moveable portion is movable toward the stationary portion to form an occupant restraining barrier. A restraining member may be included and is configured for releasable connection to the vehicle such that the restraining member restrains movement of the movable portion of the bunk relative to the stationary portion of the bunk to thereby maintain the occupant restraining barrier in an occupant restraining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Publication number: 20040012183
    Abstract: A sleeper bunk restraining system includes a sleeper bunk configured to be carried by a vehicle and having a top surface defining a length upon which an occupant may rest. The bunk includes a stationary portion and a movable portion defined along the length, and the movable portion is movable toward the stationary portion to form an occupant restraining barrie.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Patent number: 6582015
    Abstract: A restraint system for moving a vehicle seat and occupant toward the vehicle floor. Fluid cylinders or rotary spoolers are mounted to the seat and have respectively a pair of extendable piston rods or rotary outputs connected via rods or flexible members to a cable slidably mounted to the seat with one cable end connected to the buckle of a three point belt assembly mounted to the seat and an opposite end connected to one end of the lap portion of the belt assembly. Activation causes the cable to be pulled tensioning the belt assembly and application of downward pressure to the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Publication number: 20020021041
    Abstract: A restraint system for moving a vehicle seat and occupant toward the vehicle floor. Fluid cylinders or rotary spoolers are mounted to the seat and have respectively a pair of extendable piston rods or rotary outputs connected via rods or flexible members to a cable slidably mounted to the seat with one cable end connected to the buckle of a three point belt assembly mounted to the seat and an opposite end connected to one end of the lap portion of the belt assembly. Activation causes the cable to be pulled tensioning the belt assembly and application of downward pressure to the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Chris P. Jessup, Douglas Wayne Bittner
  • Patent number: 6260884
    Abstract: A D-loop web belt gripper to releasably grip a web belt is disclosed. The D-loop web belt gripper includes a frame, a web belt gripping component, and a web belt actuating component. The web belt gripping component is a wedge having a plurality of web belt gripping teeth spatially biased away from a base member of the frame. The web belt actuating components is a bail having a lever arm, a pair of guide walls pivotally adjoined to a pair of guide walls of the frame, and a pair of drivers abutting the wedge. A first portion of a web belt is disposable between the web belt gripping teeth and the base member of the frame, and a second portion of the web belt is arcuately disposable upon the lever arm to form an arcuation in the second portion of the web belt. A forcible unbending of the arcuation in the second portion of the web belt can pivot the bail via the lever arm causing the drivers of the bail to displace the web belt gripping teeth of the wedge in the direction of the base member of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Wayne Bittner, Chris P. Jessup