Patents Assigned to Fox Factory, Inc.
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Publication number: 20230331333Abstract: An active suspension system with body wearable device integration is disclosed. The system includes a prosthetic having a shock assembly with at least one active valve and a controller communicatively coupled with the at least one active valve of the shock assembly, the controller configured to communicate damping adjustment information to the at least one active valve of the shock assembly, the damping adjustment information used by said at least one active valve to modify a damping characteristic of the shock assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Everet Owen Ericksen, Wesley E. Allinger, Evan Peterson
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Publication number: 20230330792Abstract: A spring compressor is disclosed. The spring compressor includes a frame, a lower shock assembly mount, a top hat mount, and a compressing component. The compressing component coupled with the frame, the lower shock assembly mount, and the top hat mount, the compressing component to provide a compression on a spring by reducing a distance between the lower shock assembly mount and the top hat mount.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Alex Toro, Chris Rohde
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Publication number: 20230332663Abstract: Methods and apparatus of a system for vehicles comprising a vehicle suspension, a sensor operable to measure an operational characteristic of the vehicle suspension, and a processor in communication with the sensor that is operable to suggest an operational setting of the vehicle suspension in response to an input from the sensor corresponding to the operational characteristic. A method for adjusting a suspension of a vehicle may comprise receiving suspension data with a processor, calculating a suspension setting suggestion with the processor, communicating the suspension setting suggestion to a user interface device, and adjusting the suspension based on the suspension setting suggestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Mario GALASSO, Joseph FRANKLIN, Andrew LAIRD, Robert C. FOX
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Publication number: 20230332665Abstract: A vehicle suspension damper including: a cylinder; a piston assembly; and an adjuster, wherein the piston assembly compresses fluid as it moves within the cylinder and the adjuster obstructs fluid flow from a first side of a damping piston of the piston assembly to a second side of the damping piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Paul COX, David M. Haugen
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Patent number: 11788615Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a composite bicycle front sprocket are disclosed herein. One embodiment discloses a composite bicycle front sprocket assembly having an outer assembly of a first material. The bicycle front sprocket assembly also has a center assembly of a second material. The center assembly is disposed at least partially within the outer assembly. The center assembly is irremovably coupled with the outer assembly. The center assembly is irremovably coupled with the outer assembly without an external fastening device to irremovably couple the center assembly with the outer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Robert Erik Moore, Douglas Alexander Chalmers
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Publication number: 20230302865Abstract: Disclosed herein is a manifold comprising a first check valve to meter fluid flow between a first chamber, a second chamber, and a third chamber. The first check valve meters fluid flow between one or more of the first chamber and the third chamber and the second chamber and the first chamber. A second check valve meters fluid flow between the second chamber, the third chamber, and a fourth chamber. The second check valve meters fluid flow between one or more of the fourth chamber and the third chamber and the second chamber and the fourth chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Tong, Connor Randall, Rick Strickland
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Publication number: 20230302867Abstract: Disclosed herein is an accumulator comprising a cylinder, and an internal floating piston. The internal floating piston divides the cylinder into a spring chamber and a gas chamber, and the spring chamber allows fluid to flow. The accumulator further comprises a negative spring disposed in the spring chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Tong, Connor Randall, Rick Strickland
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Publication number: 20230302866Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cross-linked system comprising a first shock assembly and a second shock assembly. A first line is fluidly coupled with a first rebound chamber of the first shock assembly and a second compression chamber of the second shock assembly. The first line allows fluid to flow between the first rebound chamber and the second compression chamber. A second line is fluidly coupled with a first compression chamber of the first shock assembly and a second rebound chamber of the second shock assembly. The second line allows fluid to flow between the first compression chamber and the second rebound chamber. A reservoir is fluidly coupled to the first line and the second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Tong, Connor Randall, Rick Strickland
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Patent number: 11769423Abstract: A method and system to convert user activities performed in a real world into virtual world activity. The system includes a virtual world environment with a virtual activity tracker to obtain virtual activity performance data for an activity performed by a user in the virtual world environment; and a virtual world database to store the virtual activity performance data in a virtual profile of the user. The system also includes a real world activity tracker to obtain real world activity performance data for a real world activity performed by the user; and an activity convertor to convert the real world activity performance data into an amount of converted virtual activity performance data and add the converted virtual activity performance data to the virtual profile of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Mario Galasso, Wesley E. Allinger, David M. Haugen, Robert David Kaswen, Mark Stephen Fitzsimmons
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Patent number: 11760150Abstract: A vehicle damper is described. The vehicle damper includes: a cylinder; a piston within the cylinder; a working fluid within the cylinder; a reservoir in fluid communication with the cylinder via the working fluid, the reservoir operable to receive the working fluid from the cylinder in a compression stroke; a valve in a flow path between the cylinder and the reservoir; and a remotely-operable valve having a position allowing the working fluid to significantly by-pass the valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventor: John Marking
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Patent number: 11760437Abstract: A fork assembly including a steerer tube and a crown, wherein the steerer tube is fixedly aligned to the crown in a predefined orientation at a time of manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: William O. Brown, IV, Daniel McCormick, Joshua Coaplen, Christopher Otterness
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Patent number: 11760271Abstract: A tailgate pad. The tailgate pad includes a front side. The tailgate pad also includes a back side. The tailgate pad further includes a fold out panel coupled with the front side, the fold out panel to wrap about at least a portion of a wheel of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Siupo Low, Gary Schreiber, Vincent Huynh, Anastasiia Tekhteleva
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Patent number: 11753098Abstract: A seat post head assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a housing coupled to a seat post, the housing including a cylindrical bore, and a first and second threaded chamber. A rotatable core is inserted into and rotates within the cylindrical bore, the rotatable core including a seat rail clamp assembly to fixedly clamp a set of seat rails and provide independent adjustment of a fore-aft location of the seat without affecting a pitch of the seat. The assembly additionally includes a first threaded member that threads into the first threaded chamber, contacts the rotatable core, and adjusts the pitch of the seat without affecting the fore-aft location of the seat. The assembly also includes a second threaded member that threads into the second threaded chamber, contacts a different portion of the rotatable core, and provides a physical hard stop against a change in the pitch.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Evan Michael Choltco-Devlin, David Robert Edwards
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Patent number: 11745817Abstract: A dropper seatpost assembly is disclosed. The dropper seatpost assembly includes a lower post and an upper post configured to telescopically move with respect to the lower post. The dropper seatpost assembly also includes a translating mechanism configured to maintain an orientation such as a lateral orientation, a rotational orientation, or both a lateral orientation and a rotational orientation of the upper post with respect to the lower post as the upper post telescopically moves with respect to the lower post, the translating mechanism comprising two or more vertically offset features.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Coaplen, John Ralph Kiffmeyer
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Publication number: 20230271667Abstract: Disclosed herein is a crown comprising a steerer tube boss, a first upper tube boss, and a second upper tube boss. The first upper tube boss and the second upper tube boss reside on a plane on opposing sides of the upper tube boss, wherein the plane comprises the central axis of the first upper tube boss and the central axis of the second upper tube boss. There is a first arm to connect the first upper tube boss to the steerer tube boss, as well as a second arm to connect the second upper tube boss to the steerer tube boss. At least one of the first arm or the second arm comprises at least one bore that extends in a direction that is substantially normal to the plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Daniel McCormick, Bryan Wesley Anderson, Joshua Coaplen
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Publication number: 20230271473Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sway bar system comprising a damping link that couples a first end of a sway bar to a first location on a vehicle. The damping link is comprised of a body comprising a damping chamber and a reservoir. There is also a through shaft coupled to a piston, where the piston divides the chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber. A high-pressure line is fluidly coupled with the chamber and the reservoir and allows fluid to flow from the first chamber and the second chamber to the reservoir. A low-pressure line is fluidly coupled with the chamber and the reservoir and allows fluid to flow from the reservoir to the first chamber and the second chamber. The high-pressure line and the low-pressure line assist in self-centering the sway bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Rick Strickland, Phillip A. Kendrick, Connor Randall
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Publication number: 20230264612Abstract: An adjustable suspended seat apparatus having a tuned frequency-tailored damping through stratified seat structure is described. The damping seat structure includes: a first material of a plurality of materials having a first characteristic to provide a first damping effect in a first layer. A second material of the plurality of materials based on a second characteristic to provide a second damping effect in a second layer, the first material or the second material having an adjustable damping characteristic. The suspended seat apparatus includes a seat base configured to have the seat coupled thereto; a suspension system coupled to the seat base, the suspension system comprising: an adjustment feature configured to adjust operation of the suspension system; and a chassis mount coupled to the suspension system, the chassis mount configured to be coupled to a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Thomas WITTENSCHLAEGER, Timothy KING, Mason POWERS, Jeffrey HERMANN
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Patent number: 11731728Abstract: A compression damper of a shock absorber includes: a single adjustable fluid circuit configured for controlling a damping rate associated with multiple compression speeds of the shock absorber, wherein the single adjustable fluid circuit includes a fluid passageway through a base valve; and a positionally adjustable floating shim stack positioned at one end of the fluid passageway, the positionally adjustable floating shim stack configured for selectively blocking a flow of fluid through the fluid passageway.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Damon Gilbert, Christopher Paul Cox
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Publication number: 20230256788Abstract: A method and apparatus for a suspension comprising a spring having a threaded member at a first end for providing axial movement to the spring as the spring is rotated and the threaded member moves relative to a second component. In one embodiment, the system includes a damper for metering fluid through a piston and a rotatable spring member coaxially disposed around the damper and rotatable relative to the damper.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Paul COX, Michael David MARQUEZ, Everet ERICKSEN
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Publication number: 20230249702Abstract: A system and method for limited range sharing of vehicle setup information is disclosed. The system includes a memory; and at least one processor configured to: obtain a vehicle setup information for a vehicle, the vehicle setup information comprising one or more adjustment settings for one or more adjustable components of the vehicle; package the vehicle setup information into at least one tune; format the at least one tune in a computer readable scannable format; and present the at least one tune in the computer readable scannable format.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Evan Peterson, Mike Fraguglia, James T. Pickett, Evan Power, Everet Owen Ericksen, Matt Weege