Patents Examined by Brian Swenson
  • Tilting hood assembly having fender-mounted handle
    Patent number: 9308944
    Abstract: A hood assembly is disclosed for use with a machine having a power source and an operator station. The hood assembly may have a hood configured to at least partially cover the power source, and a hinge located at an end of the hood away from the operator station. The hood assembly may also have a fender located at a transverse side of the hood, and a handle formed within one of the fender and the hood at an end near the operator station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Hanson, Curt Wilson, Christian Hardin, G. L. Pabst, James L. Smith, Jr., Robert D Charles
  • Inline skate including a wheel-driving unit
    Patent number: 9302172
    Abstract: An inline skate including a wheel-driving unit which generates power when a foot pushes on the ground to rotate the wheels, and when the boot is lifted, the frame is spaced apart from the ground to further increase the time required for stepping forward on the ground or being pushed from the ground, thereby obtaining propulsive force such that the inline skate quickly advances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: HAPPYLIFE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ji Hoon Kim
  • In-wheel motor-driven device
    Patent number: 9302578
    Abstract: An in-wheel motor driving device in which a motor section A and a wheel hub bearing section C are connected coaxially in series via a speed reducer section B, whereby an axial dimension of the in-wheel motor driving device is reduced to provide a large inside space of a vehicle as well as an increase in freedom of routing a power supply wires. A terminal box for the power supply wires which supply power to the motor section A is disposed on the outer circumferential side surface of the housing which holds the motor section A. The power supply wires are routed out of the terminal box to an inboard side and are anchored by a power supply wire holder which extends perpendicularly to an axial centerline of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Suzuki, Ken Yamamoto, Ryou Yukishima
  • Antiparallelogram folding structure, stroller, chair, pram, table trolley
    Patent number: 9295321
    Abstract: The foldable bearing structure includes a set of coplanar wheels and a folding device including a set of lower arms; at least a rear upper arm; an antiparallelogram deformable in a vertical plane, the antiparallelogram including two crossed segments; at least a first sidebar located in the vertical plane; the antiparallelogram deformed by folding between a first position corresponding to an unfolded of the structure and a second position corresponding to a folded position, the transition from the first position to the second position reducing the wheelbase of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Patrick Herbault
  • Antiparallelogram folding structure, stroller, chair, stool, table, pram, trolley
    Patent number: 9295322
    Abstract: A foldable bearing structure includes a set of coplanar wheels and a folding device including a set of lower arms; at least a rear upper arm; an antiparallelogram deformable in a vertical plane, the antiparallelogram including two crossed segments; at least a first sidebar located in the vertical plane; the antiparallelogram deformed by folding between a first position, corresponding to an unfolded of the structure and a second position corresponding to a folded position, the transition from the first position to the second position reducing the wheelbase of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventor: Patrick Herbault
  • Transformable bicycle-cart system
    Patent number: 9290228
    Abstract: A durable, full-sized, transformable bicycle that is capable of being comfortably ridden in outdoor or other rougher riding environments and that is capable of being transformed into a cart or the like capable of carrying heavy or awkward loads when transformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jess Kitchen
  • Work vehicle
    Patent number: 9290907
    Abstract: A work vehicle is provided with an engine, and engine compartment, a cooling chamber, a radiator, a cooling fan, a dividing wall, and a cover. The cooling fan is arranged inside the cooling chamber and discharges air toward a direction that is isolated from the engine compartment. The dividing wall separates the engine compartment and the cooling chamber. The dividing wall includes a passage opening that links the engine compartment and the cooling chamber. The cover includes a main cover section, and a connecting section. The main cover section is arranged inside the cooling chamber next to the dividing wall with a gap therebetween. The main cover section is arranged to face the passage opening. The connecting section includes an open region. The connecting section connects the main cover section and the dividing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventor: Shintarou Kobayashi
  • Methods and devices for transporting articles
    Patent number: 9283980
    Abstract: A slideable transport device that can be used to move articles across or over horizontal and, in particular, inclined or angled structure or surfaces. More specifically, the subject invention provides one or more embodiments of a cushioned slider, or similar device, capable of moving articles up and down an incline, such as stairs or a hill, and also across more horizontal surfaces, such as floors or ground. Embodiments of the invention include a method by which articles can be transported by dragging up or down stairs or other inclined ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Inventor: Karen Elaine Rogier
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: 9276299
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery mounted thereon is provided. The battery includes a cell group having a plurality of cells, each of the cells including an electrolytic solution and a power-generating element within a case of cylindrical shape, and a holding member holding each of the cells in a diameter direction of the cell, wherein the cell group is placed in an area inside an edge of the holding member when viewed from a height direction of the vehicle. Each of the cells can be arranged to extend in the height direction of the vehicle. The holding member may be a heat dissipation plate allowing heat exchange between the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kosuke Kusaba
  • Motor grader
    Patent number: 9267268
    Abstract: A motor grader includes a fuel tank, a vehicle body frame, a left-side mount part, a right-side mount part, a rear-side mount part and a reducing agent tank. The left-side mount part and the right-side mount part are respectively disposed on a left lateral frame and a right lateral frame while being disposed on the both sides of the fuel tank in a vehicle width direction, and fix the fuel tank to the vehicle body frame. The rear-side mount part is disposed on the left lateral frame in the vehicle width direction while being disposed rearward of the fuel tank, and fixes the fuel tank to the vehicle body frame. The reducing agent tank is disposed rearward of and adjacently to the fuel tank while being disposed on the right lateral frame side, and accumulates a reducing agent for processing an exhaust gas from an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Arai, Eiji Yamazaki
  • Motorized vehicle
    Patent number: 9265675
    Abstract: A motorized vehicle having a wheel retraction apparatus, comprising: a plurality of rear wheels and at least one front wheel; a lower chassis having a foot surface mounted thereon; and a wheel retraction apparatus mechanically connected to said lower chassis and set to extract and retract said plurality of rear wheels from and towards said lower chassis and to fixate said plurality of rear wheels in a plurality of different widths from one another; wherein a distance between an axis passing through the centers of said plurality of rear wheels and said at least one front wheel is reduced when said plurality of rear wheels are retracted towards said lower chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Moving Life Ltd.
    Inventors: Abraham-Nino Ransenberg, Eyal Artsiely, Arik Bar Erez, Mor Michael Brot, Yuval Chomski, Yizhaq Goldman, Yarom Goren
  • Multi-passenger recreational utility vehicle
    Patent number: 9266417
    Abstract: Multi-passenger recreational utility vehicle comprising: a frame; two front wheels suspended from the frame via a front suspension assembly; two rear wheels suspended from the frame via a rear suspension assembly; an open-air seating area; a front driver seat; a front passenger seat; two rear passenger seats; each seat having a seat base and a backrest; a roll cage; a steering device; an engine; a transmission; a center console extending within the seating area intermediate the seats, a first portion of the center console forming a storage compartment within the console; a storage compartment cover covering the storage compartment, the storage compartment cover forming a rear passenger armrest when covering the storage compartment; and an inner accessory inside the center console, the inner accessory being removeable from the center console, the inner accessory being selectively openable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Nadeau, Stephane Sanschagrin
  • Wheel loader
    Patent number: 9267267
    Abstract: An engine room is disposed rearward of a cab. An engine is disposed inside the engine room. A first exhaust processing device and a second exhaust processing device are disposed over the engine. An air cleaner is disposed in the engine room in front of the first exhaust processing device and the second exhaust processing device. A tank is disposed between the cab and the air cleaner in the vehicle front-back direction. A rear surface of the tank has a lower rear surface part and an upper rear surface part. The upper rear surface part is disposed above the lower rear surface part and is positioned forward of the lower rear surface part. At least a portion of the air cleaner is disposed facing the upper rear surface part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamimae, Yutaka Tanaka, Syuhei Takarae, Shuyu Nagaoka, Hirotaka Kamekura
  • Construction machine
    Patent number: 9255381
    Abstract: A cooling fan (12) generating a cooling air in a suctioning direction, a radiator (20) provided by facing the cooling fan (12) and cooling an engine coolant by passage of the cooling air, and an oil cooler (21) arranged in parallel with the radiator (20) so as to be in parallel with respect to a flow direction of the cooling air and cooling a hydraulic oil by passage of the cooling air are provided. On a suction side of the cooling air with respect to the radiator (20) and the oil cooler (21), a cooling-air adjusting member (26) for adjusting a ratio of a cooling air amount to be supplied to the radiator (20) and a cooling air amount to be supplied to the oil cooler (21) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Kokuryo, Junya Kawamoto
  • Rotating electrical machine for vehicle
    Patent number: 9240708
    Abstract: To provide a rotating electrical machine for a vehicle having efficiently increased protection strength, a protective member mounted on a facing surface facing a side member of a rotating electrical machine disposed on the inner side along the width direction of the vehicle than the side member, has a protective portion apart from the outer surface of a cover forming a facing surface of the rotating electrical machine in an area of the rotating electrical machine facing the side member, and has a space ensured between the outer surface of the cover forming the facing surface of the rotating electrical machine and the protective portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA ENGINEERING KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Toshihiko Ando, Akihisa Kato
  • Portable cart with removable shopping bag
    Patent number: 9233700
    Abstract: A portable heavy wheeled flat based foldable transport cart which includes a transport cart with a shopping bag with multiple pockets therein which is removably affixed to the cart. While weighing only four (4) pounds, the honeycombed toe plate and large heavy wheels enable the cart to carry one hundred sixty (160) pounds of load when the shopping bag is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Inventor: Richard Elden
  • Convertible stroller seat
    Patent number: 9221487
    Abstract: A child seat has a seat bottom and a seat back pivotally joined to the seat bottom at a seat bight. The seat back and seat bottom are movable between a toddler seat position with the seat back raised to a non-parallel orientation relative to the seat bottom and a lie flat position with the seat back lowered to a generally parallel orientation relative to the seat bottom. A bassinet rail assembly has a foot rail portion and a head rail portion and is able to move to a bassinet wall configuration around a perimeter of and elevated above the child seat when the seat back is in the lie flat position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Graco Children's Products Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Doucette, Devon Siesholtz, Richard Wyant, Andrew Serbinski
  • Vehicle
    Patent number: 9225044
    Abstract: A vehicle having a battery mounted thereon is provided. The battery includes a cell group having a plurality of cells, each of the cells including an electrolytic solution and a power-generating element within a case of cylindrical shape, and a holding member holding each of the cells in a diameter direction of the cell, wherein the cell group is placed in an area inside an edge of the holding member when viewed from a height direction of the vehicle. Each of the cells can be arranged to extend in the height direction of the vehicle. The holding member may be a heat dissipation plate allowing heat exchange between the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kosuke Kusaba
  • Utility cart with rotatably sectioned center shelves
    Patent number: 9216753
    Abstract: A utility cart having individually rotatable shelves on each corner post, whereby each shelf is constructed and arranged to adjoin together to form a center interior shelf in horizontal disposition between pairs of corner posts, is disclosed herein. The utility cart includes a top shelf and a bottom shelf supported in a separated state by four corner posts. A center shelf is provided in the form of four individual shelves each rotatably secured to one of the corner posts to be rotatable thereabout. The center shelves may be rotated to fit within the confines of the cart to function as a single shelf similar to the upper and lower shelves, or they may be positioned in pairs adjacent each other and extending beyond the end(s) of the cart or individually anywhere in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick J. Bryan, Dawn R. Bryan, Clark L. Colbert, April D. Colbert
  • Construction machine
    Patent number: 9212466
    Abstract: Provided is a construction machine including: an upper slewing body including an upper frame; an engine room on the rear portion of the upper frame; a cabin on the front portion on the right or left side of the upper frame; a plurality of tanks including a fuel tank and a hydraulic tank installed on the upper frame; an air cleaner; a center foothold on the intermediate portion in the width direction of the upper frame and forward of the engine room; and a climbing step at the opposite side to the cabin. A first tank of the plurality of tanks is placed on a portion on the right or left side of the upper frame, and a second tank is arranged on a portion between the cabin and the engine room on the opposite side to the first tank. The air cleaner is superposed on the second tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei Yokota, Masaaki Murakami, Tomotaka Kita, Yoshihiko Ueda