Patents Examined by Chuck Mah
  • Patent number: 9598890
    Abstract: A check system for selective movement between a frame and a door includes a link attached to one of the door and the frame, and a housing attached to the other of the door and the frame. The link defines a link friction surface. The housing defines a tunnel through which the link is selectively movable and a first housing ramp formed at an acute angle relative to the link. A friction plate is disposed within the housing, and defines a first plate ramp slidably engaged with the first housing ramp. The friction plate also defines a plate friction surface configured for contact with the link friction surface. A biasing member is operatively attached to the housing and biases the friction plate toward the link and the first housing ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Joel Hooton
  • Patent number: 9580951
    Abstract: A buffer device with a self-adjustable stop comprises a buffer head (5) in the form of a shank presenting along its length a flat and touching ribs or grooves (6), and a socket (8) into which the buffer head in the form of a shank can be driven axially, serration by serration. The device further comprises an annular ring (7) inserted axially in an axial bore in said socket and presenting a bottom edge defining a thrust ramp. The ring has an inner surface presenting a smooth strip and an adjacent serrated strip such that actuating the ring by turning it causes the buffer head to be raised and its axial position to be blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: A. RAYMOND ET CIE
    Inventors: Remi Duprez, Jean-Francois Albaran, David Lamoureux, Sylvain Giraud
  • Patent number: 9580949
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a display panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes first and second support portions configured to support a display panel and respectively rotatable based on first and second rotation axes substantially parallel to each other. The apparatus also includes a first connecting portion positioned on the first rotation shaft and fixedly combined to one side of the first support portion and a second connecting portion positioned on the second rotation shaft and fixedly combined to one side of the second support portion. The apparatus further includes a spacer maintaining a constant distance between the first and second rotation axes, wherein the spacer is penetrated by the first and second connecting portions such that the first and second connecting portions are rotatable and a link member rotatably combined to one side of the first connecting portion and one side of the second connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Sang Ahn
  • Patent number: 9574384
    Abstract: Each of two turret-shaped modules has a generally hemispherical configuration facing outwardly and a disk-shaped flange facing inwardly. The flanges are similarly configured with a planar surface and circular periphery. An axial bore extends centrally through each module parallel with the planar surfaces for receiving and supporting first and second cylindrical objects. A V-band encompasses the flanges with the planar surfaces in contact with each other. The clamp includes a rotatable member to loosen and tighten the clamp. In this manner, the flanges and modules are rotated and fixed with respect to the received and supported cylindrical objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventors: Michael J. Reischmann, Nigel G. Jones
  • Patent number: 9574386
    Abstract: A tailgate of a motor vehicle has an opening apparatus configured to avoid overshooting during opening of the tailgate. The opening apparatus is connected to a silicone damper to bring about a damping action in the opening direction and a freewheeling action in the closing direction. Additionally, the opening apparatus is configured so that closing of the tailgate and lock actuation are not impeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Klaus Hillgaertner, Sven Just
  • Patent number: 9563236
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed an adjustable tension wrap end hinge. A hinge assembly includes a first wrap end component and a second wrap end component; a first axle and a second axle, the wrap section of the first wrap end component being wrapped at least in part around a first portion of the first axle adjacent to a first end of the first axle, and the wrap section of the second wrap end component being wrapped at least in part around a first portion of the second axle adjacent to a first end of the second axle; and a first tension screw to adjust a tension of the first wrap end component on the first axle and a second tension screw to adjust a tension of the second wrap end component on the second axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: David A. Rittenhouse
  • Patent number: 9562380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flexible hinge device having a cooperative operating structure, comprising: a first plate and a second plate each having a top surface to which a flexible display screen having flexibility is attached; and a hinge unit configured to interconnects the first plate and the second plate and configured to be operated in a foldable manner so as to be bent or stretched, wherein the hinge unit comprises a plurality of segmental members connected to one another to allow the hinge unit to be bent or stretched, the first plate and the second plate are respectively coupled to the outermost segmental members positioned at both ends of the plurality of segmental members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Prexco Co., Ltd
    Inventor: In-Sung Song
  • Patent number: 9556659
    Abstract: A door closer capable of adjusting its closing speed, including a gas adjusting apparatus arranged on the door frame, a driving apparatus arranged on the door, and a lever is provided. One end of the lever is movably connected to the gas adjusting apparatus, and the other end is connected to the driving apparatus. The gas adjusting apparatus includes a sliding rail arranged on the door frame, and a sliding member cooperated with the sliding rail; a hermetic chamber is formed by the sliding member and the sliding rail, an adjusting member, for adjusting the exhaust of the hermetic chamber, is configured on a side wall of the hermetic chamber. The lever is movably configured on the sliding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cmech (Guangzhou Industrial Ltd.)
    Inventor: Shuiwang Fan
  • Patent number: 9551177
    Abstract: Techniques related to a hinge in a computing device are described herein. The techniques may include forming a shaft to move rotationally, and forming a sliding component to move translationally as a result of rotational movement of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Krishnakumar Varadarajan, Harish Jagadish, Anand V. Reddy, Madhukar Patil, James Panakkal, Guru Prakash
  • Patent number: 9551176
    Abstract: A door hinge for an automobile includes a first bracket fixed to a body, a second bracket fixed to a door, and a hinge pin, the first bracket including a base plate portion having a bolt hole, a pair of arm plate portions standing up from upper and lower edges of one end part, on the door side, of the base plate portion and supporting the hinge pin, and a pair of rib portions extending from the arm plate portion and standing up from the upper and lower edges of the base plate portion so as to oppose each other with the bolt hole interposed therebetween, wherein opposite end parts, perpendicular to the extending direction of the rib portion, of the base plate portion are open, and the rib portion is formed so as to have a thickness larger than a thickness of the arm plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Rikenkaki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Sasa, Manabu Ochiai
  • Patent number: 9540856
    Abstract: A thin pivotal apparatus includes a holding seat, an arc-shaped driven member and at least one torsional force generation member. The holding seat includes a base, a housing space and a first assembly portion and a second assembly portion that are located on the base corresponding to two opposite sides of the housing space. The arc-shaped driven member is located in the housing space and includes an operational portion, a curved portion connected to the operational portion and a driving portion extended from the curved portion toward the operational portion to couple with the first assembly portion to form a pivotal relationship. Each torsional force generation member includes a first connection portion located on the second assembly portion, a second connection portion connected to the junction of the driving portion and the curved portion, and a hydraulic portion connected to the first connection portion and the second connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SINHER TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Wen-Yan Lin
  • Patent number: 9539858
    Abstract: A shield 1 for a caster wheel that forms part of a wheeled object, comprising: a perimeter wall 2 configured to extend substantially fully around the caster wheel, and; a connection and supporting means 5, 205 configured to extend from the perimeter wall 2 to connect the shield 1 to the wheeled object; the perimeter wall 2 comprising a resiliently deformable portion 4 that extends substantially fully around the perimeter wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Inventors: Radoslaw Illing, Renata Olszewska-Illing
  • Patent number: 9541963
    Abstract: A thin hinge includes a holding seat, an arc-shaped driven member and a torsional force generation assembly. The holding seat includes a base, a housing space and a linear slide track. The arc-shaped driven member is located in the housing space and includes an operational portion, a curved portion connected to the operational portion and a driving portion extended from the curved portion toward the operational portion to couple with the assembly portion. The torsional force generation assembly includes at least one driving arm connected to the arc-shaped driven member, a slide seat connected to the driving arm and located in the housing space corresponding to the linear slide track, a detent plate located at another side of the linear slide track facing the housing space and corresponding to the slide seat, and at least one torsional spring coupled with the slide seat and the detent plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Sinher Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Wen-Yan Lin
  • Patent number: 9534432
    Abstract: A hinge structure including a first shaft, a second shaft and a moving component is provided. The first shaft and the second shaft respectively have a guiding portion and a first screw thread and a second screw thread located at the guiding portion. Each of the first screw threads is connected to the corresponding second screw thread. The moving component is respectively coupled to the two guiding portions. When the first shaft and the second shaft rotate with each other through the moving component to switch between a first state and a second state, the moving component is guided by the first screw threads and the second screw threads to move along a direction parallel to the first shaft back and forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Po-Yi Lee, Yi-Chang Yeh, Huei-Ting Chuang
  • Patent number: 9534628
    Abstract: A folding device for a baby carriage has an operating arm, a first cover, an engaging unit, an elastic unit, a first abutting unit, a second abutting unit, and a second cover. The operating arm has two opposite ends. The first cover is connected to one of the two opposite ends of the operating arm. The first cover and the second cover are pivotally mounted with each other. The engaging unit, the elastic unit, the first abutting unit, and the second abutting unit are received in the first cover and the second cover. The folding device for a baby carriage not only avoids dust or foreign objects accumulating on the inner structures received inside the first cover and the second cover, but also prevents fingers from accidentally pinching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Inventor: Kun Wang
  • Patent number: 9523225
    Abstract: A concealed hinge is described. The concealed hinge may be used in the utility body vehicle market. The concealed hinge includes a first housing. The first housing holds a first pin and a second pin. The concealed hinge includes a second housing. The second housing holds a third pin and a fourth pin. The concealed hinge includes a linkage, which includes a central link, an upper link, and a lower link. The first pin and the second pin engage the first housing to the linkage. The third pin and the fourth pin engage the second housing to the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: AUSTIN HARDWARE AND SUPPLY, INC.
    Inventor: Norman Allen Smith
  • Patent number: 9524000
    Abstract: A pivot mechanism of the synchronous hinge device is applied to a foldable electronic apparatus. The pivot mechanism can be stably rotated and the distance between two shafts of the dual-shaft hinge is shortened, whereby the electronic device can be smoothly rotated and have a miniaturized and lightweight structure. The pivot mechanism includes a driver disposed on a first shaft and a reactor disposed on a second shaft and a link unit. Spur gears and conical (bevel) gears are respectively disposed at two ends of the link unit and the driver and the reactor. The Spur gears and conical (bevel) gears are engaged with each other to transmit power, whereby the first shaft with the driver and the second shaft with the reactor can be stably synchronously rotated in reverse directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: First Dome Corporation
    Inventors: An Szu Hsu, Wang Jui Lee, Chung Yi Lin, Ya Ching Lin
  • Patent number: 9518414
    Abstract: A hinge device includes a housing comprising two half-housings, a first extending module comprising two half-members disposed in the housing, a second extending module comprising two half sliding members and disposed on an outer side of the first extending module, a sliding device disposed between the first extending module and the second extending module, an elastic member disposed between the two half housings, and a stop sheet disposed between the half-housings and having one end facing a bottom of the second extending module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: LIANHONG ART CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Hui Chen, Yen-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 9517712
    Abstract: A retention grommet has a bottom grommet and a top grommet. A floor cover retention flange extends radially outwardly from an outer sidewall of the bottom grommet. The outer sidewall extends upwardly from the retention flange to a hinge plane of the bottom grommet. Plural fingers are disposed around the bottom grommet axis so as to be angularly spaced from each other and an inner surface of the outer sidewall. An upper end of each finger is joined to the outer sidewall at the hinge plane. Near a free, downwardly displaced end of each finger, a retention bead is formed to have an upwardly and radially outwardly inclined surface. This surface is capable of engaging with any of several types of vehicle floor cover retention posts. The top grommet fastens to the bottom grommet to secure the vehicle floor cover in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: MACNEIL IP LLC
    Inventors: Frederick W. Masanek, Jr., Allan R. Thom, Judd C. Kaufman, David S. Iverson
  • Patent number: 9510654
    Abstract: A wheel assembly for a luggage item and a luggage item. The wheel assembly may include a housing for operably coupling the wheel assembly to a luggage item. The wheel assembly may also include a wheel support rotatably coupled to the housing and having a first axis of rotation. The wheel support may be coupled to a wheel member having a second axis of rotation. A friction reduction member may be positioned between the housing and the wheel support to facilitate the relative rotation therebetween. The wheel support may include an underside defining in part a conical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Samsonite IP Holdings S.a r.l.
    Inventor: Reinhard Meersschaert