Patents Assigned to Warn Industries, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12234130
    Abstract: A positioning system includes a plurality of sensors, a frame, including a plurality of rollers, and a housing. The housing includes at least one guide rod and a driving module. The at least one guide rod is disposed laterally within the housing. The frame is coupled to the at least one guide rod, such that the frame is configured to translate laterally along the at least one guide rod. The driving module is configured to translate the frame along the at least one guide rod, responsive to a signal received from the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Vaughn
  • Patent number: 12215006
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for rigging interfaces couple to winch cable terminals that protect outer surfaces of fairleads and rigging devices as connections between objects. In one example, a rigging interface may include curved surfaces adapted to nest against a fairlead. In another example, a rigging device may have one or more removable elements allowing for coupling of the device to other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Jackson C. Wang
  • Patent number: 12084320
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a winch including a motor and a contactor assembly coupled around the motor. In one example, the contactor assembly is coupled around and in face-sharing contact with a portion of an outer surface of the motor. Additionally, the contactor assembly may include two or more coils spaced apart from one another within the contactor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Bryan Averill, Clark Brumet, Thomas Paasch, Kevin Christensen
  • Patent number: 10233061
    Abstract: A winch is provided including a rotatable drum and a gear train drivingly connecting a motor to the rotatable drum. The gear train includes a clutch that is operable to be disengaged to allow the rotatable drum to free spool. A clutch actuator is provided for disengaging the clutch and the clutch includes a pivoting pawl having a first end that engages a clutch dog of a planetary ring gear and the clutch actuator includes an electro-magnetic solenoid having a plunger that engages a second end of the pivoting pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan M. Averill, Oliver Heravi, Jeff Walston, Garrett F. Pauwels, Kevin M. Christensen
  • Patent number: 9908756
    Abstract: A constant pulling force winch control system includes a sensor that senses a degree of winding of a winch cable around a winch drum, and a control system configured to control a winch motor to achieve a constant pulling force on the winch cable based on the degree of winding sensed by the sensor. The sensor may be a position sensor that measures a position of the winch cable relative to a centerline of the winch drum as the degree of winding. The position sensor may sense an angular position of a tension plate relative to a tensioner shaft to measure the degree of winding. The winch motor may be a hydraulic winch motor or an electric motor, and the control system is configured to control the power applied to the hydraulic winch motor to achieve the constant pulling force based on the degree of winding sensed by the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Heravi, Randy C. Karambelas, Roger Paul Gray, II, Alexander Milanese, Ronald P. Middendorf, Anthony J. Wroblewski, Kirk A. Lola, Mark D. Schuster, Thomas J. Larson
  • Patent number: 9812238
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating an electromagnetic coil assembly. As one example, a method comprises responsive to energization of an electromagnetic coil of an electromagnetic coil assembly, translating the electromagnetic coil along a central axis of the electromagnetic coil assembly toward a magnetic armature while maintaining the armature fixed along the central axis. The electromagnetic coil assembly may be utilized within various clutching, braking, or lever applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Heravi, Adrian Simula, Bryan Averill
  • Patent number: 9771988
    Abstract: A braking mechanism is provided for a hydraulic motor driven wheel utilizing a two-piece design of a hub that rotates by means of a drive shaft. A hydraulic chamber is created on the hub in which a piston resides. The piston is grounded (i.e., non-rotatable relative to the motor housing) in the sealed chamber. The piston face inside of the chamber has a radial set of face teeth. These face teeth are similar to the face teeth inside of the hydraulic chamber. When the chamber is pressurized, the piston face teeth are pushed away from the hub face teeth allowing the hub to freely rotate. When pressure is released from the chamber, a spring, or a number of springs, push the piston into the hub causing it to stop rotating relative to the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: Parker-Hannifin Corporation, Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Feusse, Roger Paul Gray
  • Patent number: 9656548
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a motorized disconnect operable to selectively engage and disengage two rotating components of a vehicle drivetrain. As one example, a motorized disconnect system is provided that operates via an electric motor and includes a shifter assembly with an oscillating gear track and cam profile for rotating the shifter assembly while moving it in an axial direction to selectively couple two rotating components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Averill, Oliver Heravi
  • Patent number: 9604826
    Abstract: A fairlead assembly includes a frame structure having an opening therein. A pair of rollers are disposed on opposite sides of the opening. The frame structure includes a pair of opposed curved surfaces disposed between the end portions of the pair of rollers and defining a bordering surface of the opening. The frame can be cast as a unitary structure with the pair of rollers each rotatably supported by a support pin having opposite ends received in a first set of corresponding semi-cylindrical recesses in a surface of the cast frame. A clamp structure having a second set of corresponding semi-cylindrical recesses secure the support pins to the cast frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Darren G. Fretz
  • Patent number: D775448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Darren G. Fretz
  • Patent number: D776395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Bryan Averill, Steven W. Shuyler, Bryon M. Borntrager, Kyle A. Hartelt, Glenda M. Steele
  • Patent number: D779768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Bryan M. Averill, Steven W. Shuyler, Bryon M. Borntrager, Kyle A. Hartelt, Glenda M. Steele
  • Patent number: D784934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Craig Clark
  • Patent number: D803138
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Mitchell R. Lawson
  • Patent number: D807731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Eric Vaughn
  • Patent number: D807732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Darren G. Fretz
  • Patent number: D807733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Darren G. Fretz
  • Patent number: D811684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Eric Vaughn
  • Patent number: D811685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren G. Fretz, Eric Vaughn
  • Patent number: D1001351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Brent Riley