Patents Examined by Abe Massad
  • Patent number: 11976515
    Abstract: A telescopic baby safety door barrier and an auxiliary mounting device are provided. The telescopic baby safety door barrier includes a door barrier main body, wherein the door barrier main body is provided with a mounting portion; a connecting hole is formed in the mounting portion; and the mounting portion is provided with a double faced adhesive tape. When the telescopic baby safety door barrier is mounted necessarily, only the mounting portion is adhered to a wall by the double faced adhesive tape, holes are then punched through the connecting hole, and screws are then mounted, thereby being convenient in mounting. The auxiliary mounting device includes a base provided with a sliding groove and a mounting jig slidably disposed in the sliding groove, and a first adjustment assembly for fixing the mounting jig is disposed between the mounting jig and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN ROOT INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingfeng Fan, Ruibin Gao
  • Patent number: 11976514
    Abstract: A child window safety system based on building a reliable safety net to prevent children from leaning and falling out through open windows is installed and uninstalled without any damage to a window. The child window safety system is mass produced to fit windows at all sizes for an installer to form a window gap vertically and horizontally with thin steel cords and fastening the thin cords to each other at an installation site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: WINSTOP PENCERE GUVENLIK SISTEMLERI SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
    Inventor: Deniz Kusaslan
  • Patent number: 11957262
    Abstract: A device for installing curtain gliders is revealed. The device for installing curtain gliders is a positioning strip. A plurality of gliders are arranged at the positioning strip and then carried and mounted into a curtain track by the positioning strip. The positioning strip is provided with a plurality of mounting and positioning units each of which includes a main hole, two slots disposed on two ends of the main hole, and two locking pieces located between the two slots and the main hole. Thereby the glider with different designs can be inserted into the main hole and the locking pieces are abutting against the glider for positioning the glider. Installers can assemble the gliders quickly and conveniently by count marks on the positioning strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Carrot Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiu-Mei Hsu, Hou-Cheng Ko
  • Patent number: 11952837
    Abstract: A collapsible ladder with steps that remained stored within the frame or automatically deploy for use. The ladder can be manual, semi-automatic, or remote controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: T-H Marine Supplies, LLC
    Inventor: John W. Carter
  • Patent number: 11952782
    Abstract: An awning assembly and method is provided that includes an awning connection system coupling an awning canopy to a support structure. The awning connection system comprises a rolling assembly operably connected to the awning canopy, a lock bearing coupled to the rolling assembly, and an end cap, comprising a lock, coupled to the rolling assembly. Wherein, the rolling assembly comprises an unlocked mode, wherein the lock bearing is free from contact with the lock, and a locked mode, wherein the lock bearing is in contact with the lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Scott Patrick Thompson, Travis S. Titus
  • Patent number: 11951812
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a sunshade of a vehicle. The methods and systems receive a route plan from a first location to a second location, predict a sun parameter indicative of sun glare on the window for the route plan based on solar direction and vehicle heading at distributed locations throughout the route plan, and activate the sunshade based on the sun parameter so as to shade the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Yunxiu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11939815
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a guide system includes a first member configured to be fixed to a structure. A coupling element is fixed to the first member. A second member is moveable relative to the first member. The second member is configured to receive the coupling element to couple the first member to the second member. There is a channel between the first member and the second member when the first member is coupled to the second member. The channel is configured to receive a portion of a closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CornellCookson, LLC
    Inventors: James Janick, Daniel Frack
  • Patent number: 11932093
    Abstract: A roller blind arrangement for a motor vehicle, having a roller blind web and a winding shaft onto which the roller blind web can be wound and from which the roller blind web can be unwound and which has a flexible hollow tube arrangement penetrated by a bearing beam attached to the vehicle. The hollow tube arrangement may have a hollow tube element which, viewed in the axial direction, may have multiple flexible portions interrupted by at least one stabilizing portion having a greater torsional strength than the flexible portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventor: Andreas Rockelmann
  • Patent number: 11933103
    Abstract: A motorized window blind includes a top rail, a bottom rail, a plurality of slats assembled between the top rail and the bottom rail, and a control device received in the bottom rail so as to control movement of the slats. The control device includes a transmission unit, a motor, a first cord, a second cord and a power supply. The power supply provides electric power to the motor which is connected to the transmission unit. The first and second cords are respectively connected to the transmission unit, and extend through the slats, and are connected to the top rail. The transmission unit is driven by the motor to lift and lower the slats. The control device includes a detection unit and an angle detection member. The slats are lowered when the detection unit detects the power supply is low. The angle detection member angularly controls the salts status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CHING FENG HOME FASHIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen Ying Liang
  • Patent number: 11931626
    Abstract: The present invention provides a climbing gaff kit. The climbing gaff kit includes a pair of brackets angularly affixed to a central portion, wherein the central portion is removably securable to an elongated member of an existing climbing gaff or spur. Each bracket extends downwardly and includes an arm extending perpendicularly from a lower end thereof. A pair of adjustable foot plates are secured to the arms of the brackets, such that the foot plates are perpendicular disposed in relation to the elongated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventor: Jonathan Luke Goolesby
  • Patent number: 11927055
    Abstract: In example implementations, a horizontal door guide for a vertically stacking door is provided. The horizontal door guide includes a first track and a second track to vertically stack panels of a door along a horizontal line, a drive shaft coupled to a bottom most panel to lift the door vertically, a Geneva drive shaft coupled to the drive shaft, and a lifting cam coupled to the Geneva drive shaft, wherein the lifting cam comprises a rotating lever to separate and lift adjacent panels of the door as the door is opened in a vertical direction by the drive shaft and to push panels into the first track and the second track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CornellCookson, LLC
    Inventors: James Janick, Thomas Balay, Brandon C. Smith
  • Patent number: 11920407
    Abstract: A power assist module for use in roller tube driven products, such as roller shades. The module may be pre-wound prior to installation in a roller tube and retains its pre-wound condition, even after use, when removed from the roller tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hunter Douglas Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen R. Haarer, Richard N. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11920353
    Abstract: An awning system includes an awning and a connection system for connecting the awning to a mounting structure. The awning includes a roller tube and an accessory element coupled to the roller tube. The connection system includes a receiving member and an adapter. The receiving member is coupled to the mounting structure and defines a receiving groove extending along an extension path. The adapter includes an engaging section coupled to the receiving groove and a receiving section coupled to the awning. A normal force between a contact area of the engaging section and the receiving groove increases when the engaging section rotates in one direction about the extension path such that the adapter is in a self-locked condition within the receiving groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Thule NV
    Inventors: Davy Coucke, Wouter Browaeys
  • Patent number: 11913279
    Abstract: A maintenance-free rolling door vacuum slat includes an elongate tubular member forming a cavity with a substantially uniform cross-sectional configuration along its length and forming first and second opposing ends conforming to the cross-sectional configuration. A first cap seals the first end. A second cap seals the second end, a vacuum being formed within the cavity. The first and second caps are joined to the elongate member to form a hermetic seals to render the slat airtight forming a permanent vacuum insulation barrier that requires no maintenance to restore the vacuum within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ALPINE OVERHEAD DOORS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Magro, Sebastian Magro
  • Patent number: 11905758
    Abstract: A roller shade assembly includes a roller tube including a first end opposite a second end, the roller tube defining an opening longitudinally extending between the first and second ends, and an idler assembly partially received by the opening at the first end, the idler assembly including an idler housing, a plunger received by the idler housing, and a biasing member configured to apply a biasing force onto the plunger, wherein the plunger is configured to slide relative to the idler housing, and the plunger is configured to selectively engage a bracket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Springs Window Fashions, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Allen Graybar, Eric Nathan Krantz-Lilienthal, Jason Wilhelm Hall, Jake Malesky, Benjamin James Kolbeck, Brian Matthew Albrecht
  • Patent number: 11898402
    Abstract: A roll-up door including a flexible curtain having a front surface, a back surface, a first end coupled to a shaft, a second end opposite the first end, and first and second side edges extending between the first end and the second end, the flexible curtain being moveable between a retracted position wherein the flexible curtain is coiled around the shaft and a deployed position wherein the flexible curtain is uncoiled from the shaft. A first retention band is mounted along at least a portion of the first side edge of the flexible curtain, the first retention band including an inner surface at least partially facing towards the flexible curtain, an outer surface opposite the inner surface, a fixed edge attached to the flexible curtain generally parallel to the first side edge, and a free edge opposite the fixed edge and movable relative to the fixed edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: CORNELLCOOKSON, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Klish, Joseph Balay
  • Patent number: 11891810
    Abstract: An awning is provided that includes an extendable arm, a shelter member, and a joint. The extendable arm has an inner end coupled with a support and an outer end extendable away from the inner end. The shelter member has an outer portion coupled with the extendable arm support and disposed along the extendable arm. The joint has a mechanism responsive to an awning retraction force to raise outer portions of the extendable arms and an outer portion of the shelter member toward a horizontal orientation relative to a shade enhancing orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Zhun-An Ma
  • Patent number: 11889958
    Abstract: A rotating shower rod is provided to change the location of a curved shower rod between one position projecting outward from shower or bathtub enclosure to a second position projecting inward to the enclosure. Surface mounts provide two axes of rotation for the shower rod. The shower rod includes two tubes that telescopically extend and retract relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: House of Atlas, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Moss, Alan Arthur Ford
  • Patent number: 11873682
    Abstract: A light absorbing and light emitting device, comprising a first structure supported by a holder. A first portion of the first structure (which can be flexible, sheet-like and/or at least partially opaque) comprises phosphorescent material and/or phase change material on a first side. The first structure is movable relative to the holder between a first position, in which the first side faces a first direction, and a second position, in which the first side faces a second direction. Also, a light admitting, light absorbing and light emitting assembly that comprises a light absorbing and light emitting device and a first light-transmitting structure. Also, a light absorbing and light emitting device that comprises a holder assembly and a plurality of first structures, with phosphorescent and/or phase change material, and each movable between first and second positions. Also, methods of absorbing light and emitting light with such structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: James F. Brown
  • Patent number: 11871882
    Abstract: A space creating shower liner can have a window with a hoop fin rotatably and removably engaging a shower rod, a plurality of stiffening folds providing partial stiffness to the window, and a height less than a distance from the shower rod to a tub. Further, a liner can be removably engaged to the window, comprising a liner height less than the distance from the shower rod to the tub. The hoop fin causes the window and the liner to rotate about the shower rod, and the height and the liner height is greater than or equal to the distance from the shower rod to the tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Raymond