Patents Examined by Carlos Lugo
  • Integrated door presentment mechanism for a latch
    Patent number: 11274477
    Abstract: A latch assembly for a closure panel of a vehicle, the latch assembly including: a housing; a ratchet and pawl pivotally coupled to the housing, the ratchet for interaction with a striker such that one of the latch assembly and the striker being mounted on the closure panel and the other of the latch assembly and the striker being mounted on a body of the vehicle; a presentment mechanism mounted to the housing having one or more presentment members, such that the one or more presentment members is driven for influencing a position of the ratchet during presentment of the striker out of a slot of the ratchet to a presentment position; and an actuator for engaging with the presentment mechanism to effect the driven of the one or more presentment members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Francesco Cumbo, Luca Bigazzi
  • Door viewport with cross-door locking bar
    Patent number: 11268309
    Abstract: The door viewport with cross-door locking bar laterally spans the door frame with a viewport exterior lip on the door and an interior face plate near an interior of the door forming, in one instance, a mid-bar capture channel. Alternatively, the viewport has an interior extension coacting with a complementary interlocking element on the cross-bar's midpoint. Either construct holds the cross-door locking bar substantially at its mid-point. Cross-bar terminal end mounts removably attach the cross-bar to the door frame. One type of mount is an L-bracket. Another type of mount is a controllable transverse extension member forcing a door frame plate against the door frame. A user-controlled extension means forces the cross-door locking bar away from the door frame plate, with either a screw drive system or a grooved rod with spring loaded lever control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: James E. Kemp
  • Exit device systems and methods
    Patent number: 11255109
    Abstract: An exit device according to one embodiment includes a plurality of sensors and an electronic dogging mechanism. The exit device is configured to locally analyze sensor data to determine the security state of the exit device, report data to a management system via a wireless communication channel established between the exit device and the management system, and receive and process instructions to perform an electronic dogging operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Yong K. Lacy, Paul R. Arlinghaus, Dan Pfunder, Mohammed M. Ali, Suresha Chandrasekhara, Vijayakumar Mani
  • Locking device and sliding door with locking device
    Patent number: 11255114
    Abstract: A locking device for locking a first component to a second component, the device having: a catch element for fastening to the first or second component; a latching unit for fastening to the second or first component; the latching unit comprising a release element; and the release element can be moved between a rest position, which arranges the first latching body in the first latching recess of the catch element and in the receiving opening of the release element, and a release position, which releases the engagement between the first latching body and the first latching recess of the catch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FACC AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Konrad
  • Door for a vehicle
    Patent number: 11248401
    Abstract: A door and a vehicle including the door. The door includes a door body; a latch movable between locked and unlocked positions; a first handle accessible from an exterior side of the body; a second handle accessible from an interior side of the body; and a rod connecting the latch and the handles, the handles rotating about a common axis, the first handle being rotatable between a first and a second position, the second handle being rotatable between a third and a fourth position, the latch being in the locked position when the first handle is in the first position and the second handle is in the third position, the latch being in the unlocked position when the first handle is in the second position, the latch being in the unlocked position also when the second handle is in the fourth position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: David Laroche, Dave Proulx
  • Image mounting plate for a door
    Patent number: 11248392
    Abstract: An image mounting plate is provided. The image mounting plate may be installed between a handle and an object supporting the handle, whereby an image on a front-facing surface of the image mounting plate is visible after installation. The image mounting plate has a void for accommodating portions of the handle that engage the object by way of a bore hole in the object. The image mounting plate has at least one elongated slot tangentially or semi-tangentially associated with its void. The present invention includes a placement guide for each elongated slot, wherein a head portion of the placement guide operatively associates with the elongated slot and a blade portion of the placement guide operatively associates with the bore hole of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventor: Rodger Francis Gray
  • Door latch for a domestic electrical appliance
    Patent number: 11225750
    Abstract: A door latch for a domestic electrical appliance is provided, which door latch has an electromotively driven locking element for locking the closed door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Markus Lang, Georg Spiessl
  • Electro-mechanical latch with cocking mechanism
    Patent number: 11214985
    Abstract: A ball-latch mechanism comprising a plunger supported in a housing and linearly movable from a loaded to an extended position, a trigger rotatable from a latched position, which interferes with linear movement of the plunger, to an unlatched position, which permits linear movement of the plunger from the loaded position, a bias element biasing the plunger from the loaded position, a cocking mechanism comprising a lever arm rotatable about a lever axis from a retracted position within the housing, wherein a bearing surface of the lever arm is outside of a range of motion of the plunger, and a cocked position, wherein the bearing surface of the lever arm bears against the plunger and the plunger is in the loaded position, whereby the plunger may be forced to the loaded position by the lever arm by application of torque to a torque receiving surface of the lever arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Glen C. Hawkins, John A. Andrews, Robert G. Pace
  • Lock body
    Patent number: 11214982
    Abstract: The parts forming the force transmission connection from the spindle shaft of the handle of the lock body to the bolt include a spring, which is also arranged to transfer force. The spring is used to eliminate the protrusion of the bolt caused by tolerance variations, when the handle installed into the lock body is turned to its extreme position to open the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ABLOY OY
    Inventor: Juha Raatikainen
  • Retractable outside door handle assembly for vehicle
    Patent number: 11214994
    Abstract: A retractable outside door handle assembly for a vehicle is provided. The assembly includes an outside door handle that protrudes outward in a width direction of a vehicle or is receivable into an opening formed at a door outer panel. A front link has a first end portion connected to be rotatable with a front portion of the outside door handle along the length direction of the vehicle. A connecting link connected to be rotatable with a second end portion of the front link at a first end portion thereof and installed to be movable along the length direction of the vehicle. A rear link includes a first end portion connected to be rotatable with a second end portion of the connecting link and a second end portion is connected to be rotatable with the outside door handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jongho Han, Kyoung Taek Kwak, Jinwoo Nam
  • Additional door handle module for a door handle unit
    Patent number: 11214991
    Abstract: The invention relates to a door handle module (10) for a door handle unit (100) on a vehicle (200), in particular a commercial vehicle (200), said door handle module (10) being used to integrate an electronic unit (20) for the door handle unit (100). The door handle module (10) includes at least one covering element (11) on which at least one electronic element (21) of the electronic unit (20) is arranged, and at least one fastener (12), the door handle module (10) being securable to a module holder (110) on the door handle unit (100) by means of at least one fastener (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lars Gabriel
  • Reduced power consumption electromagnetic lock
    Patent number: 11203890
    Abstract: An energizable electromagnet of a door locking system is affixed to the door or the door frame for electromagnetically attracting an armature affixed to the other. A power control circuit is configured to selectively energize the electromagnet using a pulse-width modulated current cycle wherein two levels of magnetic force may be selectively applied to the system. A door position sensor is configured to provide a first communication signal to the power control circuit when the door is in a closed position. A second communication signal is provided when the door is not in the closed position. The electromagnet is energized at the lower level of magnetic force when the power control circuit receives the first communication signal and at the higher level of magnetic force only when an unauthorized attempt to open the door is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett L. Davis, Randall Shaffer
  • Vehicle hood latches
    Patent number: 11203888
    Abstract: Latches including a slot having a length that allows a striker of the latch to move from a normal closed position downwardly toward the closed bottom of the slot into an over travel position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Gecom Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Farris, Brian Kepler
  • Closure system that resists separation when laterally loaded
    Patent number: 11199030
    Abstract: An exemplary closure system includes, among other things, a striker assembly, a latch assembly, and a hooked structure. In response to the striker assembly and the latch assembly being laterally displaced from each other, the hooked structure engages one of the striker assembly or the latch assembly to block separation of the striker assembly from the latch assembly. An exemplary latching method includes, among other things, engaging a hooked structure in response to a striker assembly being laterally displaced relative to a latch assembly. The engaging blocks the striker assembly from separating relative to the latch assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Bejune, Barton Heldke, Huanan Tong, Jason Sobick
  • Door lock and handle assembly
    Patent number: 11193303
    Abstract: A door handle assembly that allows for easy removal and switching of handles. Such an arrangement may provide the flexibility to change handle orientation and interchange handles based on a user's circumstances or preferences such as when a door handle is configured as a lever having a curved shape. Further, the door handle may be configured as a door lock having a keypad access control. The face of the keypad accessible from outside the door may include auxiliary battery terminals to provide the user with easy accessibility for providing temporary power to the door lock with an auxiliary battery should the installed batteries housed within the door lock fail to provide sufficient power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Residential Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Morstatt
  • Striker for use in latch assembly
    Patent number: 11187009
    Abstract: A striker assembly includes a housing, a striker, and a spring. The housing has opposed sidewalls, each of which defines an aperture. The striker extends between the sidewalls of the housing with end portions of the striker positioned within respective apertures defined in the sidewalls. Each of the pair of end portions defines a surface extending in a transverse direction. The spring has a pair of end portions. Each spring end portion contacts the surface of a respective striker end portion. The spring is engaged with the housing to bias the end portions of the striker toward a centered position of the respective apertures. At least one of the end portions of the striker is movable transversely within the respective aperture away from the centered position of the respective aperture and is biased toward the centered position of the respective aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Butler Frame, Brandon Vaughan Hastings, Richard B. Langkamp, Jr., Ismael Rodriguez
  • Adjustable backset latch
    Patent number: 11162281
    Abstract: An adjustable latch configured to accommodate different backset lengths. The adjustable latch includes inner and outer housings, at least a portion of the inner housing being structured for axial and rotational displacement within the outer housing as an engagement projection of the inner housing is displaced about an adjustment slot of the outer housing. The apparatus may include a bolt assembly having a bolt rod and a latch bar, the bolt rod having projections that are structured to be adjacent to the latch bar when the bolt rod is at a first rotational position and at first or second axial positions. When the bolt rod is at a second rotational position, the axial positions of the bolt rod and the inner housing relative to at least the latch bar and outer housing, respectively, may be adjusted to adjust the backset setting of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventor: Manjunatha Ramakrishna
  • Home appliance having leveling door handle
    Patent number: 11136798
    Abstract: A home appliance in which an opening and closing operation of a door and a turning operation of a handle are connected through five joints, so that the turning operation of the handle can be performed smoothly, and a latch for fixing the door to a body moves to a position parallel to the door when the door is opened, so that a user is prevented from being interfered with the latch while opening the door and using a cavity of the home appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SEOWON KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wan Gi Park, Ji-Hoon Choi, Young Jun Cho, Han Seong Kang, Hwa Gyu Reo, Simon Ireland, Byeong Woo Ahn, Pung Yeun Cho, June Young Lee
  • Motor vehicle door lock
    Patent number: 11131125
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a motor vehicle door lock, comprising a lock case (1) connected to a motor vehicle door (5, 6, 7) and a lock housing (2) connected to the lock case (1). In addition, a fastening element (11) for additional fixing of the lock housing (2) on the motor vehicle door (5, 6, 7), is provided. According to the invention, the fastening element (11) is designed so as to be removable both from the lock case (1) and the lug (11) coupling with the lock housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventor: Armin Handke
  • Latchbolt retractor, a latchbolt assembly, and an assembly for a lockset
    Patent number: 11131118
    Abstract: A latchbolt retractor (12) is described herein. The latchbolt retractor (12) comprises a latchbolt retraction mechanism (30) mounted to a carriage (28). The latchbolt retraction mechanism (30) comprising a latchbolt assembly coupler (32) for operational coupling to a latchbolt assembly (22). The carriage (28) is configured to slide along at least one rail (14,16) for positioning the latchbolt assembly coupler (32) relative to the latchbolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TNBT HOLDINGS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Marc Cohen, Daniel Mascia, Zsolt Szarka-Kovacs, Jonathon Woodcock