Patents by Inventor Stanley L. Maroney
Stanley L. Maroney 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).
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Publication number: 20240034555Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber, and a controller having one or more control elements for selecting a target positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber. The first arm and the second arm automatically move to the target positioning in response to a signal received by an onboard computing device of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: David G. Lewis, Stanley L. Maroney, Chad R. Blanchard
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Patent number: 11858735Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating an angular position of the grabber, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of the lift arm, a first controller for adjusting the angular position of the grabber, and a second controller adjusting the relative positioning of the lift arm. The adjustment of the angular position of the grabber is coordinated with the adjustment of the relative positioning of the lift arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Stanley L Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Patent number: 11807450Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber, and a controller having one or more control elements for selecting a target positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber. The first arm and the second arm automatically move to the target positioning in response to a signal received by an onboard computing device of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: David G. Lewis, Stanley L. Maroney, Chad R. Blanchard
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Publication number: 20230278785Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a vehicle body on a chassis having a frame, an internal combustion engine (ICE), and a transmission coupling the ICE with a plurality of tractive elements. The vehicle body includes an electrically powered body system and a hydraulically powered body system. A first power module is coupled with the ICE and is configured to provide rotary power to a hydraulic pump that is configured to provide hydraulic power to the hydraulically powered body system. A second power module is coupled with the transmission and configured to rotationally couple and decouple an electrical generator with the transmission. The generator is configured to charge at least one battery when rotationally coupled with the transmission. The battery is configured to provide electrical power to the electrically powered body system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, Robert B. Williams, Douglas Michael Anders
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Publication number: 20230249907Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a wheeled chassis, a battery pack, a refuse collection body, and a DC-DC converter. The wheeled chassis has an electric propulsion motor connected to a road wheel of the chassis. The battery pack has multiple battery cells and provides electrical power to the propulsion motor. The refuse collection body is carried by the chassis and defines a refuse storage compartment. The refuse collection body includes a refuse packer driven by an electric packer motor. The refuse collection body also includes a powered tailgate driven by an electric tailgate motor. The DC-DC converter is connected to the battery pack and provides electrical power to the electric packer motor and to the electric tailgate motor at one or more DC voltages different than a voltage provided by the battery pack to the DC-DC converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, Tapankumar Pandya, Douglas Michael Anders, Brian T. Parker
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Publication number: 20230242336Abstract: Operating a refuse collection vehicle to collect refuse from a refuse container includes positioning a refuse collection vehicle with respect to a refuse container to be emptied, and manually engaging a switch to initiate a dump cycle to be performed by the refuse collection vehicle on the refuse container. The dump cycle includes engaging the refuse container with a portion of the vehicle, lifting the engaged refuse container to a dump position, and moving the refuse container to release contents of the refuse container into a hopper of the refuse collection vehicle. The dump cycle continues to completion as long as the switch remains manually engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Publication number: 20230202752Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a fork assembly that is operable to engage one or more fork pockets of a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, and at least one sensor that is configured to collect data indicating a position of the one or more fork pockets of the refuse container. A position of at least one of the fork assembly or the lift arm is adjusted in response to the data collected by the at least one sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Robert B. Williams, Stanley L. Maroney
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Patent number: 11673467Abstract: This disclosure describes an assembly for gas (e.g., compressed natural gas) storage. The assembly includes multiple gas storage tanks, with each tank coupled to a separate sub-assembly that includes a pressure gauge, shutoff valve, and pressure relief device (PRD), providing for independent pressure monitoring, shutoff, and pressure relief for each of the tanks.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Nitesh Shroff, Stanley L. Maroney
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Patent number: 11608226Abstract: Operating a refuse collection vehicle to collect refuse from a refuse container includes positioning a refuse collection vehicle with respect to a refuse container to be emptied, and manually engaging a switch to initiate a dump cycle to be performed by the refuse collection vehicle on the refuse container. The dump cycle includes engaging the refuse container with a portion of the vehicle, lifting the engaged refuse container to a dump position, and moving the refuse container to release contents of the refuse container into a hopper of the refuse collection vehicle. The dump cycle continues to completion as long as the switch remains manually engaged.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Patent number: 11603265Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a fork assembly that is operable to engage one or more fork pockets of a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, and at least one sensor that is configured to collect data indicating a position of the one or more fork pockets of the refuse container. A position of at least one of the fork assembly or the lift arm is adjusted in response to the data collected by the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Robert B. Williams, Stanley L. Maroney
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Publication number: 20220410688Abstract: A refuse vehicle includes a vehicle chassis and an all-electric vehicle body on the chassis. The body includes a hopper, a refuse storage container, and a plurality of electrically powered body systems. The body systems include an electrically actuated tailgate, an electrically actuated refuse loading assembly, and an electrically actuated refuse packing assembly configured to remove refuse from the hopper and to pack said refuse in the storage container. The vehicle (e.g., vehicle body) further includes a power management module configured to regulate energy usage of the body systems and/or to record and track electrical energy usage in the body systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Brian T. Parker, Savannah G. Chandler, Brian Huston Ham, Stanley L. Maroney, Rebecca B. Palmer, Michael Shane Peek, John Forrest Smith, Bryan Stewart
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Patent number: 11453550Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating an angular position of the grabber, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of the lift arm, a first controller for adjusting the angular position of the grabber, and a second controller adjusting the relative positioning of the lift arm. The adjustment of the angular position of the grabber is coordinated with the adjustment of the relative positioning of the lift arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Publication number: 20220258966Abstract: Operating a refuse collection vehicle to collect refuse from a refuse container includes positioning a refuse collection vehicle with respect to a refuse container to be emptied, and manually engaging a switch to initiate a dump cycle to be performed by the refuse collection vehicle on the refuse container. The dump cycle includes engaging the refuse container with a portion of the vehicle, lifting the engaged refuse container to a dump position, and moving the refuse container to release contents of the refuse container into a hopper of the refuse collection vehicle. The dump cycle continues to completion as long as the switch remains manually engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Publication number: 20220250467Abstract: This disclosure describes an assembly for gas (e.g., compressed natural gas) storage. The assembly includes multiple gas storage tanks, with each tank coupled to a separate sub-assembly that includes a pressure gauge, shutoff valve, and pressure relief device (PRD), providing for independent pressure monitoring, shutoff, and pressure relief for each of the tanks.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Nitesh Shroff, Stanley L. Maroney
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Publication number: 20220234822Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating an angular position of the grabber, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of the lift arm, a first controller for adjusting the angular position of the grabber, and a second controller adjusting the relative positioning of the lift arm. The adjustment of the angular position of the grabber is coordinated with the adjustment of the relative positioning of the lift arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Patent number: 11332307Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, a lift arm that is operable to lift a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating an angular position of the grabber, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of the lift arm, a first controller for adjusting the angular position of the grabber, and a second controller adjusting the relative positioning of the lift arm. The adjustment of the angular position of the grabber is coordinated with the adjustment of the relative positioning of the lift arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Patent number: 11319147Abstract: Operating a refuse collection vehicle to collect refuse from a refuse container includes positioning a refuse collection vehicle with respect to a refuse container to be emptied, and manually engaging a switch to initiate a dump cycle to be performed by the refuse collection vehicle on the refuse container. The dump cycle includes engaging the refuse container with a portion of the vehicle, lifting the engaged refuse container to a dump position, and moving the refuse container to release contents of the refuse container into a hopper of the refuse collection vehicle. The dump cycle continues to completion as long as the switch remains manually engaged.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Stanley L. Maroney, David G. Lewis, Robert B. Williams
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Publication number: 20220106113Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber, and a controller having one or more control elements for selecting a target positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber. The first arm and the second arm automatically move to the target positioning in response to a signal received by an onboard computing device of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: David G. Lewis, Stanley L. Maroney, Chad R. Blanchard
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Patent number: 11208262Abstract: A refuse collection vehicle includes a grabber that is operable to engage a refuse container, at least one sensor that is arranged to collect data indicating a relative positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber, and a controller having one or more control elements for selecting a target positioning of a first arm of the grabber and a second arm of the grabber. The first arm and the second arm automatically move to the target positioning in response to a signal received by an onboard computing device of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: David G. Lewis, Stanley L. Maroney, Chad R. Blanchard
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Patent number: 11207974Abstract: This disclosure describes an assembly for gas (e.g., compressed natural gas) storage. The assembly includes multiple gas storage tanks, with each tank coupled to a separate sub-assembly that includes a pressure gauge, shutoff valve, and pressure relief device (PRD), providing for independent pressure monitoring, shutoff, and pressure relief for each of the tanks.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: The Heil Co.Inventors: Nitesh Shroff, Stanley L. Maroney