Patents by Inventor Tyler Knight
Tyler Knight 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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Patent number: 11815930Abstract: A system for actuating a brake pedal and an accelerator pedal of a vehicle by hand. The system includes a planetary gear train having a sun gear, a ring gear, and planetary gears meshed with both the sun gear and the ring gear. The planetary gears are mounted to a carrier. A carrier flange is in cooperation with the carrier to rotate with the carrier. A sun gear flange is in cooperation with the sun gear. Rotation of the sun gear flange rotates the sun gear. A lever is mounted adjacent to the sun gear flange. An accelerator actuation assembly is connected to the lever and configured to couple with the accelerator pedal. A brake actuation assembly is connected to the carrier flange and configured to couple with the brake pedal.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Kyle Patrick Nolan, Victor Wong, Cameron Tyler Knight
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Publication number: 20230253857Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Timothy W. FRENCH, JR., Tyler KNIGHT, David PROUDLOCK, Graham BONE, Jonathan PRIESTLEY, Andrew WALKER, Shaun LOVELASS
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Patent number: 11664703Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Timothy W. French, Jr., Tyler Knight, David Proudlock, Graham Bone, Jonathan Priestley, Andrew Walker, Shaun Lovelass
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Patent number: 11654538Abstract: A pneumatic fastener driver operable in a single sequential mode and a bump-fire mode, and includes a housing, a nosepiece, a trigger moveable between a default position and a depressed position, a contact arm movable relative to the nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position, and a timeout mechanism operable in the bump-fire mode to inhibit the drive cycle from being initiated in response to inactivity of the contact arm over a preset time interval defined by unwinding of a mainspring that is initially wound in response to the trigger being actuated from the default position to the depressed position. The pneumatic fastener driver also includes a counting assembly having a female barrel pivotably coupled to a pivot shaft of the trigger and driven by the mainspring and a lockout linkage coupled to the female barrel that is capable of interfering with a portion of the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Techtronic Power Tools Technology LimitedInventors: Tyler Knight, Miles R. Moody, J. Luke Jenkins, Matthew W. Conner, William E. Sadkowski, Reid Cheatham, Justin Moylan
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Publication number: 20220360138Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Timothy W. FRENCH, JR., Tyler KNIGHT, David PROUDLOCK, Graham BONE, Jonathan PRIESTLEY, Andrew WALKER, Shaun LOVELASS
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Patent number: 11431224Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Timothy W. French, Jr., Tyler Knight, David Proudlock, Graham Bone, Jonathan Priestley, Andrew Walker, Shaun M. Lovelass
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Patent number: 11375660Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
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Publication number: 20210316432Abstract: A pneumatic fastener driver operable in a single sequential mode and a bump-fire mode, and includes a housing, a nosepiece, a trigger moveable between a default position and a depressed position, a contact arm movable relative to the nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position, and a timeout mechanism operable in the bump-fire mode to inhibit the drive cycle from being initiated in response to inactivity of the contact arm over a preset time interval defined by unwinding of a mainspring that is initially wound in response to the trigger being actuated from the default position to the depressed position. The pneumatic fastener driver also includes a counting assembly having a female barrel pivotably coupled to a pivot shaft of the trigger and driven by the mainspring and a lockout linkage coupled to the female barrel that is capable of interfering with a portion of the trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Tyler Knight, Miles R. Moody, J. Luke Jenkins, Matthew W. Conner, William E. Sadkowski, Reid Cheatham, Justin Moylan
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Patent number: 11065749Abstract: A pneumatic fastener driver is operable in a single sequential mode and a bump-fire mode. The pneumatic fastener driver includes a housing, a nosepiece extending from the housing from which fasteners are ejected, and a trigger moveable between a default position, in which a drive cycle is inhibited from initiating, and a depressed position, in which the drive cycle is permitted to be initiated. The pneumatic fastener driver further includes a contact arm movable relative to the nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position, and a timeout mechanism operable in the bump-fire mode to inhibit the drive cycle from being initiated in response to inactivity of the contact arm over a preset time interval that begins once the trigger is actuated from the default position to the depressed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITEDInventors: Tyler Knight, Miles R. Moody, J. Luke Jenkins, Matthew W. Conner, William E. Sadkowski, Reid Cheatham, Justin Moylan
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Patent number: 10870195Abstract: A power tool including a housing comprising a handle section and a motor housing section, a longitudinal axis of the handle section being at an offset angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the motor housing section. A motor is housed in the motor housing section. An output member selectively driven by the motor. A user actuatable trigger activates the motor and an attachment unit is removably coupled to the power tool. The handle runs from a first end to a second end. The first end is adjacent to the motor housing section and the second end is adjacent to a connection section. The attachment unit is removably coupled to the power tool at the connection section.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Sean Bailey, Justin Barkley, David A. Miller, Tyler Knight, Jason McRoberts, Ashok Samuel Baskar
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Publication number: 20200346244Abstract: A caulk gun includes a body, a pump supported on the body, a motor supported by the body to drive the pump, a trigger supported on the body. The body is configured to support a sealant container adjacent the outlet. A force generated by the pressurized air in the fluid passage is configured to be transmitted to a portion of the sealant container. The pump is in fluid communication with the inlet and configured to drive pressurized air through the fluid passage. Actuation of the trigger is configured to actuate the motor. The pressure release mechanism is positioned at least partially within the fluid passage. The pressure release mechanism is moveable between a first position in which pressurized air can be vented from the fluid passage and a second position in which the pressure release mechanism inhibits venting of pressurized air from the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Tyler Knight, Peter J. Roberts
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Patent number: 10688676Abstract: A cutting assist device including a first cutting board. The first cutting board has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The cutting board also includes a cutting channel open to the first side of the first cutting board. The cutting channel allows a portion of a cutting device to be accommodated in the channel while a material placed on the first side is cut by the cutting device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Tyler Knight, Timothy W. French, Chelsea Wills, Thomas Wachter, Jill Granger
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Publication number: 20200178463Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Keith HAMILTON, Justin BARKLEY, Tyler KNIGHT, Oleksiy SERGYEYENKO, David A. MILLER
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Patent number: 10588257Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
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Publication number: 20200055068Abstract: An adapter connectable to a paint sprayer includes a body, a first connector, and a second connector. The first connector is positioned on a first end of the body. The first connector is removably connectable to the paint sprayer. The second connector is positioned on a second end of the body. The second end is opposite the first end. The second connector is configured for connecting to a fluid source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Tyler Knight, Peter J. Roberts, Daniel I. Smith
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Publication number: 20190291253Abstract: A pneumatic fastener driver is operable in a single sequential mode and a bump-fire mode. The pneumatic fastener driver includes a housing, a nosepiece extending from the housing from which fasteners are ejected, and a trigger moveable between a default position, in which a drive cycle is inhibited from initiating, and a depressed position, in which the drive cycle is permitted to be initiated. The pneumatic fastener driver further includes a contact arm movable relative to the nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position, and a timeout mechanism operable in the bump-fire mode to inhibit the drive cycle from being initiated in response to inactivity of the contact arm over a preset time interval that begins once the trigger is actuated from the default position to the depressed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Tyler Knight, Miles R. Moody, J. Luke Jenkins, Matthew W. Conner, William E. Sadkowski, Reid Cheatham, Justin Moylan
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Publication number: 20190104679Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
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Publication number: 20180354148Abstract: A cutting assist device including a first cutting board. The first cutting board has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The cutting board also includes a cutting channel open to the first side of the first cutting board. The cutting channel allows a portion of a cutting device to be accommodated in the channel while a material placed on the first side is cut by the cutting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Oleksiy SERGYEYENKO, Tyler KNIGHT, Timothy W. FRENCH, Chelsea WILLS, Thomas WACHTER, Jill GRANGER
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Publication number: 20180233991Abstract: A hand-held tool that includes a housing. The housing includes a handle. A tool also includes a motor assembly, a battery assembly and a circuit board. The motor assembly includes a motor, the motor including a rotatable motor output shaft, a motor positive terminal and a motor negative terminal. The motor assembly also includes a first rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the motor positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board. The battery assembly includes a battery cell with a battery cell positive terminal and a battery cell negative terminal. The battery assembly further includes a second rigid conductive electrical connector having a first end fixed to the battery cell positive terminal and a second end fixed to the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Timothy W. FRENCH, JR., Tyler KNIGHT, David PROUDLOCK, Graham BONE, Jonathan PRIESTLEY, Andrew WALKER, Shaun M. LOVELASS
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Publication number: 20180154509Abstract: A power tool including a housing comprising a handle section and a motor housing section, a longitudinal axis of the handle section being at an offset angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the motor housing section. A motor is housed in the motor housing section. An output member selectively driven by the motor. A user actuatable trigger activates the motor and an attachment unit is removably coupled to the power tool. The handle runs from a first end to a second end. The first end is adjacent to the motor housing section and the second end is adjacent to a connection section. The attachment unit is removably coupled to the power tool at the connection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Oleksiy SERGYEYENKO, Sean BAILEY, Justin BARKLEY, David A. MILLER, Tyler KNIGHT, Jason McROBERTS, Ashok Samuel BASKAR