Patents Examined by Brian Swenson
  • Patent number: 9764592
    Abstract: The present disclosure may relate to centerless wheel assembly that includes a centerless rim including a first center point laying in a first plane generally defined by the centerless rim. The centerless wheel assembly may also include a centerless ring gear coupled to the centerless rim such that rotation of the centerless ring gear causes a corresponding rotation of the centerless rim. The centerless ring gear may include a second center point laying in a second plane generally defined by the centerless ring gear, and the first plane may be generally parallel to the second plane. Additionally, the centerless ring gear may be shaped to interface with a drive gear that drives the centerless ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ORBIS WHEELS, INC.
    Inventors: Marcus G. Hays, Scott Streeter, Benjamin Lorimore, Gary Leo
  • Patent number: 9758945
    Abstract: An upper slewing body 3 includes: a bottom plate rotatably attached to a lower traveling body; supporting frames and standing on the bottom plate; an engine supported on the bottom plate by the supporting frames; a generator motor connected to the engine; and a terminal box including a terminal, which is electrically connected to the generator motor and allows a cable to be connected, and a box main body housing the terminal and being attached to the generator motor. The generator motor includes a facing section facing the bottom plate at a position separated from the supporting frames in a plan view. The terminal box is arranged between the facing section of the generator motor and the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Kazushige Koiwai, Seiichi Onishi
  • Patent number: 9751584
    Abstract: The system can include a vehicle having a vehicle frame and a traction apparatus connected to the vehicle frame for providing traction on a planar surface to move the vehicle relative to the planar surface, the vehicle frame having a seat for supporting a user. The system can also include a support structure including a plurality of runners for contacting the planar surface, the plurality of runners including one or more of the following: skates and skis, and a weight compensation system connecting the vehicle frame to the support structure about a pivot. The weight compensation system is configured to adjust the position of the traction apparatus relative to the support structure in response to weight of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ICE BIKES OF BUFFALO LLC
    Inventors: Lisa Florczak, Peter Florczak, Charles Roberts
  • Patent number: 9751518
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle drive system for a vehicle includes a first prime mover, a first prime mover driven transmission, and a rechargeable power source. The hybrid vehicle drive system further includes an interface between the transmission and the prime mover for coupling to an electric motor. The electric motor can be in direct or indirect mechanical communication with a hydraulic pump. The electric motor can receive power from the prime mover driven transmission through the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: POWER TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Dalum, Joseph Mario Ambrosio
  • Patent number: 9751581
    Abstract: An assembled dual-use balance car, comprises balance car body comprising a first foot board, a second foot board, a first and a second wheel, a first and a second motor respectively, and a balance control system, the balance car body being moved forward, draw back, and turns by tilting the first and second foot board forward and backward, and rotating around each other; a steering assembly comprising a locking part configured to prevent the first and second foot board from being rotating around each other, and a sensor assembly disposed at a bottom end of the steering rod and configured as a steering control of the balance car body, the sensor assembly being electrically connected with the balance control system; the steering assembly can be assembled and disassembled flexibly in the assembled dual-use balance car based on actual using situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventor: Zunyi Yang
  • Patent number: 9745001
    Abstract: A floor module is provided for installation in the rear area of a motor vehicle. A rear area of the floor module facing the tail of the vehicle includes a first plastic composition, and a front area facing away from the tail includes a second plastic composition, wherein the first plastic composition imparts a higher elastic deformability to the rear area than to the front area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Udo Mildner, Lothar Teske
  • Patent number: 9744430
    Abstract: A snowboard having a unibody base layer constructed from a seamless and single continuous piece of material and methods for fabricating the snowboard with a unibody base layer having a central recess for nestling layers of the snowboard therein, a tip, tail and sidewalls as well as exterior grooves for attaching edges on the exterior of the unibody base layer. The resulting snowboard having increased resistance to water penetration, increased structural integrity and overall material strength, resistance to rotting of materials, decreased overall weight and improved flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: ALOHA PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventors: Doug Hill, Jared Hill
  • Patent number: 9744848
    Abstract: Heat exchanger configurations for a vehicle are provided. The heat exchangers can take the form of a condenser and a radiator. Instead of arranging the heat exchangers sequentially within a unitary air duct, this disclosure describes a multiple channel ducting system, where the heat exchangers are arranged in a v shape that allows a first portion of air entering the air to travel up towards a trunk of the vehicle and a second portion of the air to travel downward and out through a bottom exterior surface of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: THUNDER POWER NEW ENERGY VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming-Hui Ho
  • Patent number: 9744872
    Abstract: The application describes a self-propelling work machine, in the form of a truck, having an electric drive comprising at least one electric motor, a generator drivable by an internal combustion engine for the power supply of the electric drive, and a braking apparatus for braking the work machine, wherein the braking apparatus provides a regenerative braking by the electric drive and a feedback apparatus for feeding back electrical motor braking power of the electric motor to the generator to apply the motor braking power on the internal combustion engine. The application further describes a method for braking the work machine. A braking control apparatus is provided for an automatic connection of a mechanical brake in dependence on the motor braking power fed back to the internal combustion engine and/or in dependence on the operating state of the internal combustion engine acted on by the fed back motor braking power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastien Nicolas Hoffmann, Burkhard Emanuel Richthammer, Bernd Sommer, Stefan Duelli, Markus Merkle, Juergen Resch
  • Patent number: 9739035
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, an outer cover, an engine compartment, a cooling compartment, a partition wall, an inverter, and a capacitor. The engine compartment contains an engine. The cooling compartment contains a cooling device. The partition wall separates the cooling compartment from the engine compartment. The inverter and the capacitor are disposed between the partition wall and the cooling device. The inverter is positioned above the capacitor. A length of the capacitor in the vehicle width direction is greater than a length of the inverter in the vehicle width direction. At least one of a first side surface of the outer cover positioned leftwards of the left side surface of the inverter and a second side surface of the outer cover positioned rightwards of a right side surface of the inverter is separated from the inverter by a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Naito
  • Patent number: 9738298
    Abstract: A collapsible wagon is adjustable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The wagon comprises a frame, four wheels, and a pliable liner. The frame has a front wall, two side walls, and a rear tailgate. The walls and tailgate of the wagon are collapsible for storing the wagon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG HENGFENG TOP LEISURE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Baoqing Yang, Ron Markle
  • Patent number: 9735648
    Abstract: The present structure does not require a knuckle on the vehicle body side, improves rotational accuracy of an input shaft of a speed reduction unit, increases durability of bearings, and suppresses rotation noise of the bearings by improving the supporting structure of the input shaft of the speed reduction unit. In a drive device for an electric vehicle comprising: a speed reduction unit including an input shaft driven by an electric motor; a hub unit rotationally driven by an output member of the speed reduction unit; and a housing accommodating the electric motor and the speed reduction unit, wherein the input shaft of the speed reduction unit is supported by bearings provided at two locations in the axial direction, the drive device is configured such that the bearings provided at the two locations are both supported by the output member, and the housing is provided with a suspension joining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Suzuki, Yukiko Takekawa, Tomoaki Makino
  • Patent number: 9730846
    Abstract: A wheeled personal conveyance has a rear portion and a front portion, the front portion being configured to receive into the wheeled personal conveyance the rear portion of a like wheeled personal conveyance such that the like wheeled personal conveyance is at least partially nested within the wheeled personal conveyance. By one approach, a body frame as comprises the wheeled personal conveyance has a front portion that is laterally wider than a part of the body frame that comprises a part of the aforementioned rear portion of the wheeled personal conveyance. So configured, the wheeled personal conveyance can have a passenger area that is wider towards the front than towards the back. By one approach, arm rests are provided that connect to a seat of the wheeled personal conveyance and that move in conjunction with the seat as the seat pivots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kutsch, Corbett Brown, Zhiliang Wang
  • Patent number: 9726231
    Abstract: A hybrid drivetrain having an internal combustion engine which is designed for a maximum internal combustion engine rotational speed; a dual-clutch arrangement which has a first friction clutch and a second friction clutch with a common input element and in each case one output element; a transmission arrangement which has a first sub-transmission and a second sub-transmission; an electric machine connected to the output element of the second friction clutch via a machine transmission ratio (iM), in such a way that a purely electric driving mode can be established via the second sub-transmission. The electric machine is designed for a maximum machine rotational speed. The maximum machine rotational speed divided by the machine transmission ratio is greater than the maximum internal combustion engine rotational speed. The output element of the second friction clutch is structurally designed for the maximum machine rotational speed divided by the machine transmission ratio (iM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagen
    Inventors: Uli Christian Blessing, Thomas Hoffmeister, Hansi Gremplini
  • Patent number: 9724993
    Abstract: A driving unit and a power-generating unit are separately supported on a sub-frame in such a manner to isolate vibration and are spaced away from each other in a vehicle front-rear direction, to realize good noise/vibration control ability. With respect to an external input acting in the vehicle front-rear direction, a weakened part of a mount bracket extended over the power-generating unit to the driving unit induces and promotes a buckling distortion, to demonstrate good energy absorption ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakamura, Takashi Awaihara
  • Patent number: 9717976
    Abstract: A snowboard assembly is disclosed that includes a deck supported above a pair of longitudinally spaced apart blades. The deck has an upper surface for supporting a rider thereon and each blade has a lower surface for contacting ice or snow upon which the snowboard assembly is ridden. The deck is supported above the blades by mounts that are interposed between each blade and the deck. The deck is torsionally rigid between the mounts such that, in use, rider induced weight transfer forces are able to be transferred from the deck through one or both mounts and into one or both blades in order to steer the assembly. The mounts may be truck assemblies which enable the blades to move independently with respect to the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventor: David Elphick
  • Patent number: 9713759
    Abstract: Ski pole accessories are described herein. Ski pole accessories can include a releasable ski pole basket system, a ski pole clamp system, and a releasable ski pole strap system. A ski pole basket system can include a ski pole ferrule and a ski pole basket having a slot therethrough that receives and secures the ski pole ferrule. A ski pole clamp system can include a rubber mold with a first and a second thickness to secure the ski pole clamp to an upper component and a lower component of a ski pole. A releasable ski pole strap system can include a pole mount including a jaw that engages a strap attachment member, where operation of the jaw disengages the strap attachment member from the ski pole mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Andrew D. Liebner
  • Patent number: 9701285
    Abstract: A stabilizing jack includes a base frame and a slide frame and a leg connected to the base frame and to the slide frame. The leg may be selectively extended into contact with a mating surface and retracted from the extended position. Locking pins disposed on either of the base frame and the slide frame may selectively engage with pin-receiving apertures on the other of the base frame and the slide frame when the leg is placed in the extended position and disengaged from the apertures when the leg is retracted from the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: LIPPERT COMPONENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael J. Fiwek, Jeffrey K. Albrecht, Christopher S. Greer
  • Patent number: 9701332
    Abstract: A stroller frame assembly includes: front and rear leg units; an armrest; a seat support bar disposed below and opposing the armrest; and first and second connecting bars. The first connecting bar cooperates with the armrest, the seat support bar and the front leg unit to form a first four-bar linkage mechanism. The first connecting bar cooperates with the armrest, the second connecting bar and the rear leg unit to form a second four-bar linkage mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: WONDERLAND NURSERYGOOD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Lei-Lei Zheng
  • Patent number: 9694271
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ski having a sliding surface and a ski upper face opposite the sliding surface, wherein a climbing aid can be attached to the sliding surface and the ski has a continuous through-hole in an area located before a contact surface, which through-hole extends from the sliding surface to the ski upper face. According to the invention, a securing element is arranged on the ski upper face which securing element comprises at least one holding element for the form-fitting connection to a corresponding counter element of the climbing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Fischer Sports GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Holovicz