Patents Examined by Abigail A Risic
  • Smoothing apparatus for smoothing pavement surfaces
    Patent number: 11365519
    Abstract: An apparatus for smoothing pavement surfaces includes a wheeled frame and a smoothing drum where the smoothing drum is rotatable on a spinning axis mounted on the wheeled frame generally parallel to a pavement surface to be smoothed, and at a non-perpendicular angle to to the direction of travel of the smoothing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Garlon J. Maxwell
  • Plant for the production and distribution of bituminous conglomerates
    Patent number: 11359339
    Abstract: Plant for the production and distribution of bituminous conglomerates and operating method of the plant, wherein the plant has a dryer having a first portion and of a second portion, which are connected to each other in series one after the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Andrea Pirazzini, Simona Tomba, Enrico Bertoni
  • Microtrenching system having a vacuum hose support and method of microtrenching
    Patent number: 11359340
    Abstract: A microtrenching system having a vacuum hose supported between a vacuum truck and a microtrencher so that the vacuum hose does not contact the roadway surface while cutting the microtrench. A method of using the microtrenching system to cut a microtrench in a roadway and vacuuming spoil from the roadway and microtrench through the supported vacuum hose into a spoil container on the vacuum truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: CCIIP LLC
    Inventor: Angelo J. Pino, Jr.
  • Vehicular tire deflation device and propulsion unit for vehicular tire deflation device
    Patent number: 11359881
    Abstract: A propulsion unit includes a platform, a propulsion assembly, and a tether. The propulsion assembly facilitates selective launching of a tire deflation device from the platform. The tether is coupled to the platform and is configured for attachment to a deflation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Stop Stick, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven P. Verdino, Andrew S. Morrison, Lawrence J. Kelly, James P. Wersching
  • Lawn mower mounted string trimmer attachment apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11350567
    Abstract: A string trimmer attachment apparatus and method for easy attachment to a lawn mower deck, without requiring the use of tools for attachment, by having an adjustable trimmer mounting platform which securely attaches to the lawn mower. A string-type powered trimmer motor on the bottom side of the adjustable trimmer mounting platform cuts the grass. An operating control located on the lawn mower controls the string-type powered trimmer motor. A pair of L brackets allow the adjustable trimmer mounting platform to firmly attach to the lawn mower without the need for a separate trimmer/edger appliance. No tools or lawn mower modifications are required to attach the adjustable trimmer mounting platform to the mower deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Frederick Kent Hixson
  • Forage harvester comprising a monitoring mechanism for shear bar and cutting drum
    Patent number: 11350569
    Abstract: A forage harvester including a frame, a cutting arrangement and a plurality of displacement mechanisms. The cutting arrangement includes a cutting drum that is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the frame, and a shear bar holder configured to receive a shear bar attached thereto. Each of the displacement mechanisms including an actuator for displacing the shear bar with respect to the cutting drum and the frame. The displacement mechanisms include a sensor arrangement to measure one or more values representative of a force exerted on the shear bar and the shear bar holder when the cutting drum is rotating and cutting crops supplied to an area between the cutting drum and the shear bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Dirk J. Desnijder
  • Cutting device for an agricultural harvesting machine
    Patent number: 11343961
    Abstract: A cutting device for an agricultural harvesting machine including: a drive; a transmission arrangement having an input element drivingly connected to the drive and driven reciprocatingly by the drive along an input travel; and a knife having a plurality of cutting edges, the knife being drivingly connected to and driven by an output element of the transmission arrangement along an output travel longer than the input travel, is driven in a reciprocating motion in such a way that the cutting edges of the knife pass in each case at least two counter-cutting edges of the cutting device when moving in one direction along the entire output travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SMF—HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Schmidt, Sascha Otto
  • Mechanical knife drive for a header of an agricultural harvester
    Patent number: 11343962
    Abstract: A header for an agricultural harvester including a knife drive disposed at a forward end of a feeder conveyor. An infeed drive is disposed adjacent the feeder conveyor, the infeed drive having an input and an output. An input shaft is drivingly connected to the infeed drive input, and an output shaft has a first end connected to the infeed drive output and a second end drivingly connected to the knife drive. The knife drive can be a center knife drive and the infeed drive, the input shaft and the output shaft operate as a fully mechanical drive power supply for the center knife drive which overcomes the deficiencies of hydraulically-driven knife drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Todderud, Kevin Ward, Joel T. Cook
  • Marker installation method and marker installation system
    Patent number: 11339543
    Abstract: An installation system has a laser range finder set at a reference position to measure a distance to a target, an installation cart which performs operation for laying a magnetic marker in a road, and an arithmetic unit which identifies a position relation of a laying position where the magnetic marker is laid with respect to the reference position. When operation for laying the magnetic marker in a road is performed, by taking the installation cart during performing the operation of laying the magnetic marker in the road as a target, based on a distance to the installation cart measured by the laser range finder, the position relation of the laying position with respect to the reference position is identified by the arithmetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Michiharu Yamamoto, Tomohiko Nagao, Hitoshi Aoyama, Masayoshi Fujiya, Shin Takeuchi, Hideto Takeishi, Taizo Nishiyama
  • Electric power equipment
    Patent number: 11337369
    Abstract: To enable the rotational speed of the cutter blade to be set variably and to allow the operation therefor to be performed with ease and accuracy, multiple switches (74, 76) for setting the rotational speed of the cutter blade electric motor (6) to mutually different rotational speeds, and multiple operation buttons (78, 80) provided for the respective switches (74, 76) are included on a handle (20), wherein the operation buttons (78, 80) have operation parts (78A, 80A) provided with mutually different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mai Kurihara, Yoshitaka Oota, Fumiya Isono, Yoshihiro Takahashi
  • Bridge support system
    Patent number: 11332897
    Abstract: A multicomponent bridge support system includes: a base portion configured to make contact with bearing soil/strata/bedrock; a support portion configured to engage a bridge deck; and one or more precast intermediate portions configured to space the support portion with respect to the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Blaine Miller, Steven C. Govoni
  • Zero turning radius mower sprayer attachment
    Patent number: 11324165
    Abstract: A zero turning radius (“ZTR”) mower sprayer attachment behind a rear engine of a zero turning radius mower. The sprayer attachment may include a frame supporting a tank on a platform, and a hose from the tank to a plurality of nozzles mounted on a folding boom that is extendable outwardly from the sprayer attachment frame. A lower support bar on a lower forward end of the sprayer attachment frame may be supported by a pair of rearwardly facing hooks on a pair of side brackets on the ZTR mower. An upper tube extends laterally between the pair of side brackets and is engaged by a hook shaped latch on the sprayer attachment frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Justin R. Rothrock, Jason E. Harmon
  • Systems and methods for modifying loading dock environments to enable trailer swing doors to open inside of a loading dock
    Patent number: 11325795
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the modification of loading dock environments are provided that allow trailers and shipping containers on chassis' to park at a loading dock with closed doors and have these doors opened into the loading dock environment and resealed while the trailer remains at the loading dock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Outrider Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew F. Smith, Lawrence S. Klein, Joseph A. Welsh, JohnDavid A. Arnott, Chandler R. Deimund
  • Dry-bulk tanker, conveying system for a dry-bulk tanker, work train and method for conveying binding agents for a work train
    Patent number: 11326312
    Abstract: A dry-bulk tanker for the provision of binding agent for soil stabilization for a spreading device, comprising a storage container (10) for binding agent. An intermediate chamber (20) is connected to the storage container and is also connected to a compression chamber (40). A conveying device (22) for conveying of binding agent into the compression chamber (40) is arranged in the intermediate chamber (20). A conveying channel (44) is connected to the compression chamber (40). The conveying channel (44) can be connected to a spreading device (58). Furthermore, a pneumatic line (46) for feeding of conveying compressed air is connected to the compression chamber (40) and/or the conveying channel (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventors: Frederic Hess, Christoph Menzenbach, Patrick Schiefer
  • End treatments and transitions for water-ballasted protection barrier arrays
    Patent number: 11319682
    Abstract: An end treatment array for crash attenuation includes a transition barrier module formed of side walls, end walls, a top wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the module walls together define an enclosed interior space. The end treatment array further includes a containment impact sled having an axially extending frame. The frame has a width sufficient to contain the transition barrier module within the frame when in an assembled configuration, and has an axial length which is at least one-half the length of the transition barrier module. The frame defines an interior volume, the purpose of which is to contain a substantial portion of the transition barrier module in the assembled configuration, and to contain debris caused by destruction of the plastic barrier modules in a vehicular impact. The containment impact sled is attached to the transition barrier module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TRAFFIX DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey B. Maus, Felipe Almanza, Jeremy Smith
  • Lawnmower propulsion system for use with DC power source
    Patent number: 11317561
    Abstract: A lawnmower is provided. The lawnmower includes a prime mover, a first pulley assembly, a second pulley assembly, a cooling fan, and a blade assembly. The prime mover includes a drive shaft. The first pulley assembly is coupled to the drive shaft. The second pulley assembly is coupled to the first pulley assembly. The blade assembly is coupled to the prime mover via the second pulley assembly. The cooling fan is coupled to the second pulley assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Christopher W. Vaughn, Hiroshi Hojo
  • Terminal element of a traffic barrier device, transition system, and method for providing impact protection
    Patent number: 11313089
    Abstract: A terminal element (100) of a traffic barrier device (1), having a longitudinal axis, comprising a guide element (10) and an impact element (20). The impact element (20) is pivotally mounted on the guide element (10) about a vertical axis (A) so as to be rotatable or pivotable about a vertical axis. The impact element has a connecting side, for connection to an adjacent traffic barrier device, and an impact side, for damping or repelling an impact. The vertical axis is arranged between the connecting side and the impact side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Wenger, Projekte und Coaching
    Inventor: Hermann Wenger
  • Sickle guard counter-knife insert
    Patent number: 11310958
    Abstract: A sickle guard counter-knife insert includes a pair of counter-knives. Each counter-knife defines a channel for an operable sickle bar between mutually-coupled upper and lower portions. The counter-knives and a connecting crossbar are formed together as an integral unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AGCO do Brasil Soluções Agrìcolas Ltda.
    Inventor: Airton Solimar Walter
  • Tool head for a hand-guided implement and implement having a tool head
    Patent number: 11310959
    Abstract: A tool head for a hand-guided implement possesses two rotatably mounted tools, wherein a first tool is drivable via a first linkage and a second tool is drivable via a second linkage. The tools are drivable so that they rotate back and forth in opposite directions about a common rotational axis. The first linkage possesses a first drive member coupled to a first coupling member pivotably about a first link axis. The first coupling member is coupled to the first tool pivotably about a second link axis. The second linkage possesses a second drive member coupled to a second coupling member pivotably about a third link axis. The second coupling member is coupled to the second tool pivotably about a fourth link axis. The rotational axis of the tools and the coupling drive axis span a center plane, which runs between the second link axis and the fourth link axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Ludwig Geromiller
  • Flexible auger wrapper liner for a crop conveying auger
    Patent number: 11310960
    Abstract: A system having a frame, an auger operably coupled to the frame, an auger wrapper fixed to the frame and proximal to the auger, the auger wrapper having a curved surface with a first rigidity, and a liner attached to the auger wrapper, the liner comprising a second rigidity that is less rigid than the first rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas H. Williams, Dane Austin Mosel