Patents Examined by Christopher E Garft
  • Patent number: 9469498
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a garden hose holder that includes a base having a first rail and a second rail that form a substantially vertical upper portion and intersect at a neck portion, a substantially horizontal center portion, and a substantially vertical lower portion. An arcuate support device is engaged to the first rail and second rail at the center portion, whereby the first rail and the second rail intersect extend outwardly at an angle from the neck portion forming the upper portion, the first rail and second rail extend outward from the upper portion in a generally parallel fashion forming the center portion and lower portion of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Inventor: Cindy Ann Harris
  • Patent number: 9457882
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a stern drive engine including a mounting base, an engine mounting foot or bracket for securing an engine to a watercraft, and a lock ring for securing the engine mounting bracket in a constant position relative to the mounting base. The mounting base includes a threaded mounting bolt to receive a first adjustment nut, the engine mounting bracket, the lock ring and a second nut. The bottom surface of the locking ring engages a top surface of the engine mounting bracket with a downwardly extending arm or arms of the lock ring extending through an aperture in the engine mounting bracket to engage the first adjustment nut. The threaded bolt of the mounting base extends through apertures of the engine mounting bracket platform and mounting ring, and a second nut engages the top surface of the lock ring, preventing rotation of the first adjustment nut, and ultimately limiting movement of the marine stern drive engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Niel M. Schueller, David J. Waldvogel, Steven R. Johns
  • Patent number: 9456693
    Abstract: A system for securing a plurality of structural members of a type of furniture together includes a plurality of brackets that each attach to an end of at least one of the structural members. A modified bracket permits simultaneous attachment of two or more of the structural members at an end of each of the structural members to the modified bracket. After attachment of the structural members to the modified bracket, each structural member is disposed at any desired angle with respect to a remainder of the structural members. A further modified bracket permits attachment of only one structural member end to the further modified bracket and attachment of the further modified bracket to another structural member along a longitudinal length of the other structural member. A recess provided at an end of each of the structural members receives a pair of spaced-apart longitudinal protrusions of any of the brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Roskear Porter Broughton
  • Patent number: 9439825
    Abstract: A walker stabilizing platform including a movement restrictor assembly for assisting a user of a walker in transitioning from a sitting position to a standing position wherein the movement restrictor assembly automatically moves from a position of engagement with the walker to a position of disengagement with the walker, and further includes means for allowing the user of the walker to move the movement restrictor assembly from the disengaged position to the engaged position without assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Inventors: Arnold Darryl Bard, Robert Alan Bard
  • Patent number: 9435465
    Abstract: A bracket for utilities hangers and sway braces suspended below a fluted deck includes a bracket plate having attachment holes therethrough spaced apart by the known pitch of the fluting on the deck. A mount is positioned in the plate. One or more flute keys extend perpendicular to the mounting plate and have two sides which are tapered away from the plate toward one another to fit within one or more flutes in the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Automatic Fire Control, Inc.
    Inventor: Kraig Kirschner
  • Patent number: 9429252
    Abstract: Improved cable troughs and related methods of use are provided. The present disclosure provides improved cable troughs configured to support media cables, and related methods of use. More particularly, the present disclosure provides advantageous systems/methods for the design and use of cable troughs configured to support media cables associated with a rack or the like. Disclosed herein is an advantageous cable trough having front and rear walls extending from a bottom wall, with the front, rear and bottom walls defining a channel that is configured and dimensioned to support and/or at least partially house media cables or the like. The exemplary cable trough includes attachment features/structures that are advantageously configured and dimensioned to releasably mount with respect to a supporting structure. Moreover, the attachment features/structures of the cable trough allow the cable trough to be releasably mounted at various angled positions relative to the supporting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Ortronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Lars R. Larsen, Chris M. Vacca
  • Patent number: 9428226
    Abstract: A vehicle headliner attachment system for mounting a headliner to a non-magnetic roof structure includes a headliner with an interior and an exterior surface, a magnet affixed to the exterior surface of the headliner, and a ferromagnetic clip mounted to the non-magnetic roof structure. The magnet and the ferromagnetic clip enable magnetic attachment of the headliner to the non-magnetic roof structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Joyce, Todd Jared Konet
  • Patent number: 9423066
    Abstract: A support arm with a multiple degree of freedom locking device includes a support arm unit, an outer housing unit, a feed screw, a conical push block, and two conical baffles. When the feed screw rotates in a first direction, the conical push block and the conical baffle are driven are rotated to make the outer annular baffle slanting surface press against the inner surface of the pivot space and the first and second pivot portions, so that the lateral housing is unable to pivot with respect to the upper and lower housing, and the first and second pivot portions are positioned between the two ears in a non-rotatable manner, when the feed screw rotates reversely, the lateral housing will be able to pivot with respect to the upper and lower housing, and the first and second pivot portions are able to pivot with respect to the two ears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Hiwin Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Ren-Jeng Wang
  • Patent number: 9403430
    Abstract: To provide an insulator that can reduce an abnormal noise made when stopper surfaces abut and separate. A first mounting hole engaging a vehicle body side is formed in a first portion. A second mounting hole is formed in a second portion and arranged separately from the first portion. The first portion and the second portion form a first stopper surface and a second stopper surface, respectively. At least one of the first stopper surface and the second stopper surface opposite to one another is formed in a curved surface shape as a part of a cylindrical side surface. The first stopper surface and the second stopper surface can have a non-linear property when abutting and separating. Accordingly, an abnormal noise made when abutting and separating can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Edo
  • Patent number: 9405264
    Abstract: Provided is a fall prevention device that prevents an installation object from falling over by supporting a leg member including a base portion and a shaft portion when an installation surface oscillates. The fall prevention device includes a support portion supported by the installation surface, a first restricting portion supported by the support portion, correspondingly disposed above an upper surface of a base portion, and having a first shaft-penetrating portion through which a shaft portion penetrates, and a second restricting portion disposed above the first restricting portion at a bottom-portion-side end portion of the shaft portion. The second restricting portion has a second shaft-penetrating portion through which the shaft portion penetrates. A gap that is smaller than a gap between the first shaft-penetrating portion and the shaft portion is formed between the second shaft-penetrating portion and the end portion of the shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyohide Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 9389491
    Abstract: A camera system is configured to detachably couple to a camera mount, which in turn can be attached to an apparatus. The camera mount is a spring clamp including two arms, each include a handle component and a jaw component. The spring clamp can be attached to an apparatus when the two jaw components are closed around the apparatus. A strap is adjustably coupled to the spring clamp and is tightened around the apparatus to further secure the apparatus. In some cases, a flexible neck is fastened to the camera mount, and the camera system is detachably coupled to the flexible neck. This allows a mounted camera system to be situated at any desired angle for taking photographs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Nicholas Streets
  • Patent number: 9392719
    Abstract: A hard drive rack includes a frame and a buckle arm. The frame includes a plurality of plates and at least one insertion opening. A buckle trough is formed on the plates at a side of the insertion opening. The plates include a bottom plate, a cover plate, and a supporting plate. The buckle arm is pivotally connected to a side of the frame and one end thereof is able to pivotally rotate through pivotally connecting to the frame. The other end of the buckle arm is formed with an elastic insertion plate which is selectively blocked by the buckle trough to be inserted into the insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Richard S. Chen, Ken-Sheng Lin, Chia-Cheng Lu
  • Patent number: 9388552
    Abstract: A bar-like member includes a base end portion, a leading end portion opposite to the base end portion, and a fixed portion provided between the base end portion and the leading end portion and fixed to an upper frame. A binding band is adapted to bind the bar-like member and an arranging member together in order to fix the arranging member arranged along the bar-like member. The fixed portion of the bar-like member is formed by folding the bar-like member between the base end portion and the leading end portion, and has an outer peripheral surface fixed to the upper frame in abutting contact with the upper frame. The leading end portion of the bar-like member is positioned away from the upper frame by fixing the outer peripheral surface of the fixed portion to the upper frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Okunishi, Kazuhiro Uesugi
  • Patent number: 9370131
    Abstract: A surface mount clip includes: a bottom portion having a flat surface; clip spring portions which extend from parts of the bottom portion and are provided in a standing manner, in a pair facing each other so as to form a gap therebetween, and which are configured to clip a plate material inserted into the gap by a resilient repulsive force; and a bottom spring portion which is formed by cutting and raising a part of the bottom portion or the clip spring portions, and which has an upper surface to be pressed by a lower end of the plate material inserted between the pair of the clip spring portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Konda
  • Patent number: 9365168
    Abstract: A collapsible support structure for flexible hoses has a plurality of X-frames, each X-frame consisting of two opposing pairs of stringers, each pair of stringers is hingedly connected together at an axis point in the center region of each stringer, the pairs are connected at the distal ends of the stringers by bridge members (24), and adjacent X-frames are hingedly connected together at the distal ends of their stringers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventor: Yvan Boutin
  • Patent number: 9358938
    Abstract: A harness pressing part (6) which is inserted into a harness protection tube (1) from a hole part (3) formed in a peripheral wall (2) of the harness protection tube (1) comes into pressure contact with a harness (9) thereby to depress fluttering of the harness (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki, Hiroyuki Yoshida