Weight Or Load Responsive Patents (Class 248/406.2)
  • Patent number: 10836232
    Abstract: A control system for controlling the ride height of a vehicle, the system including a controller that receives and processes multiple variable inputs to provide enhanced ride height control. The inputs include a brake system signal including an Automatic Braking System (ABS) signal and/or an Electronic Braking System (EBS) signal, a remote setpoint signal and/or a fluid dump signal. The system also provides for measuring the actual ride height, filtering the measured ride height, determining if the filter ride height signal exceeds a threshold level, and adjusting the ride height accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Haldex Brake Products Corporation
    Inventor: Victor A. Plath
  • Patent number: 10155461
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertical suspension system 1 for a vehicle seat having a lower guide frame 2 and an upper guide frame 3, between which there is disposed a lever arrangement that comprises an inner lever 7 and an outer lever 8, which are connected to each other via a scissor joint 16, wherein the inner lever 7 and the outer lever 8 are connected to the lower guide frame 2 and to the upper guide frame 3 in each case via floating bearings and fixed bearings 10, 11, wherein realized on the lower guide frame 2 there is a lower crosspiece 5, which, at its lower end that faces away from the upper guide frame 3, has a rounded return region 19, wherein the lower fixed bearing 10 has a lower axle 9, which extends parallel to the lower crosspiece 5 and is opposite the latter, wherein realized on the upper guide frame 3 there is an upper crosspiece 6, having a belt band 12; 13, which is fastened to the upper crosspiece 6 in an upper fastening region 25 and to the lower crosspiece 5 in a lower fastening region
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ISRINGHAUSEN GMBH & CO. KG.
    Inventor: Winfried Titz
  • Patent number: 9908592
    Abstract: A ride height adjustable oil damped air shock boat seat pedestal with selectively lockable swivel capability is shown, which includes a locking pin extending below the seat and moving up and down with the seat as permitted and controlled by the air shock. The locking pin being received by a structure, which limits rotation of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Inventor: Lee Falck
  • Patent number: 9758078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle seat or a vehicle cab with a suspension system comprising an upper closing part and a lower closing part which is deflectable in relation to the upper closing part, which closing parts are operatively connected to each other in a resilient manner by means of a suspension element, and with a damping system for damping vibrations acting on at least one of the two closing parts, wherein an electromagnetically acting damping and height-levelling unit is provided which is arranged between the two closing parts in such a manner that said damping and height-levelling unit acts on the upper of the two closing parts in the vertical direction of the vehicle both in a vibration-insulating and also height-levelling manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: GRAMMER AG
    Inventor: Erwin Haller
  • Patent number: 9186449
    Abstract: This application relates to a dialysis machine support assembly that includes a platform configured to support a dialysis machine and a drive assembly configured to move the platform vertically. A control unit can monitor input data from a sensor of the dialysis machine when the dialysis machine is supported by the platform and can operate the drive assembly to adjust a vertical position of the platform based on the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurpreet Singh, Sean Farrell, Michael David Young
  • Patent number: 8851571
    Abstract: A movement device for an element of furniture for the movement of a seat includes a rotating shaft, integral with the seat, and a hollow hub integral with the fixed portion. The shaft is coupled in rotatable and axially sliding manner to the hub, to define a first lifted position, in which the seat is positioned with respect to the fixed portion. The device also includes a biasing element coupled to the hub and to the shaft to exert an elastic action of contrast on the shaft and maintain it normally in the first position, a friction element constrained to the shaft, and a stop element integral with the hub and configured to contact selectively the friction element and define a second position of the shaft, which is lowered with respect to the first position and in which the rotation of the shaft is angularly countered by the friction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Stylgame SRL
    Inventor: Luigi Iulita
  • Patent number: 8371584
    Abstract: A mark unit includes a holding section that is disposed at the top of a display section so that a light-emitting section is positioned on a side of a display screen of the display section and a weight section is positioned on a side opposite to the display screen to hold the light-emitting section on the side of the display screen that intersects a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Utsuki, Takashi Satsukawa, Takehiro Shimizu, Shigemasa Saito, Kanji Nakane
  • Patent number: 7948198
    Abstract: Increasing in size of a reaction force cancel system is suppressed. The reaction force cancel system is provided in a stage device including: a surface plate having a plurality of plate surfaces with different heights from each other, and installed on a floor via a vibration-isolating spring; and stages disposed on the plate surfaces respectively, and moving on the plate surfaces, and cancels reaction forces generated on the surface plate upon movements of the stages. In addition, the reaction force cancel system includes a first and a second reaction force canceling actuator that apply counter-thrusts to the surface plate, and a control section that controls the magnitudes of the counter-thrusts. In the reaction force cancel system, the heights of action points of counter-thrusts in the surface plate are different from each other, and the control section controls the counter-thrusts so as to counterbalance the reaction forces as resultant forces and resultant moments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Hosobata
  • Patent number: 7743716
    Abstract: A motorized elevator unit for adjusting the height of counter tops has right and left elevator assemblies under control of a primary control switch. Each elevator assembly includes top and bottom frames which may be formed from T-slotted framing with the top frame sliding vertically along the bottom frame on rollers received in the bottom frame. A movable counter top is mounted on the top frames and a motor drive assembly raises and lowers the top frames in unison. The elevator unit may be housed in a standard base cabinet and may be integrated with other standard base cabinets having stationary counter tops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventor: Eric S. Burka
  • Patent number: 7185867
    Abstract: A vehicle seat suspension that includes a suspension cartridge which houses suspension components that includes one or more of the following: one or more biasing elements, a suspension arm arrangement, a damper arrangement, a height adjust assembly, and a weight adjust assembly. In one preferred embodiment, the cartridge includes all of these. The suspension can include a truncated roller that provides a larger effect of radius. The suspension can also include a cam upon which a suspension roller rides that increases maximum suspension stroke while minimizing collapsed suspension height. The suspension can also include a damper that is oriented so as to provide a nearly linear response over all regions of suspension stroke or travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Milsco Manufacturing Company, a unit of Jason Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin Hill, Bruce Dahlbacka
  • Patent number: 7147216
    Abstract: A damper has a cylinder and a piston, the piston having two or more parts. A first piston part is made of a rubber-elastic material forced against the cylinder wall during a damping stroke. A second piston part is made of a material that is stiffer in comparison to the rubber-elastic material. The second piston part as seen in the radial direction lies between an area of the first piston part and the cylinder wall. The first piston part may have at least two sections of different hardnesses over its lengths. The piston could also include a piston part that is radially forced outwards to rub against the cylinder wall during damping, the piston part being made as a solid body of a material with rubber-elastic properties which becomes flattened under pressure, deforming in such a way that a friction seal is created between the piston part and the cylinder wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gassner, Bernhard Krammer