Patents Examined by D. Glenn Dayoan
  • Trailer and boat covering combination system
    Patent number: 11390205
    Abstract: A trailer and boat covering combination system includes a trailer including a frame having a front end, a first lateral member and a second lateral member. A plurality of wheels is rotatably attached to and extends downwardly from the frame. A pair of supports is attached to the trailer such that each of the first and second lateral members has one of the supports attached thereto. A spindle is attached to and extends between the supports. The supports are pivotable forwardly and rearwardly relative to the trailer such that the spindle is movable over the trailer. The supports are biased toward an upright position. A covering is positioned on the spindle and is unwound off of the spindle to cover a boat positioned on the trailer. The covering is wound back onto the spindle to store the covering on the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Brett C Holker
  • Vehicle top and method of use
    Patent number: 11390151
    Abstract: A vehicle hardtop system for a jeep-type sports utility vehicle, which includes a roof panel having segments, the segments each connected to one another via hinges, the segments fold onto one another and then onto a rear panel such that the entire roof panel and rear panel is removable from the vehicle hard top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Charles Lee Taggart
  • Anti-roll over trailer improvements
    Patent number: 11390337
    Abstract: A trailer configured to lower an overall center of gravity thereof. The trailer comprises a tank, a wheel assembly, a height and a length. The tank comprises a cavity contained within a lower body, a tilted body, a front end and a rear end. The lower body comprises a lower body height, a lower body length, a lower body ground clearance and a lower center of gravity. The tilted body comprises a tilted body ground clearance, a tilted body length, the height and a tilted portion center of gravity. The tank comprises the length, a height equal to the height of the tilted body, and a ground clearance equal to the lower body ground clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DCB Trailer Design, LLC
    Inventor: Blake Dill
  • Recreational van and multi-purpose compartment
    Patent number: 11390206
    Abstract: A recreational vehicle comprising a van body having a roof with an opening, and a multi-purpose compartment engaged with the roof about the opening. The multi-purpose compartment comprises first and second compartments. The first compartment comprises a frame secured to the roof of the van and a shell engaged with the frame. The second compartment comprises a shell and a platform. The second compartment is moveable from a closed position wherein the second compartment is disposed above the roof and an open position where the second compartment is extended from the roof. A mattress or bed or other items may be placed or stored in the second compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Terpin, Michael Alan Terpin
  • Front pillar and manufacturing method therefor
    Patent number: 11383767
    Abstract: A front pillar includes a front-side front pillar and a rear-side front pillar disposed apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle. The front-side front pillar is formed in a pipe-like shape in which end faces of a plate member are joined to each other. The front-side front pillar includes a first pillar part having a first circumference, and a third pillar part having a second circumference different from the first circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Iwano
  • Hook-lift hoist
    Patent number: 11383630
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hoist apparatus having a base frame, an arm, a hydraulic lift cylinder, and a contact fulcrum attached to the base frame. The arm has a base segment rotatably coupled to the base frame at a first joint, a middle segment rotatably coupled to the base segment at a second joint, and a coupling segment extendably coupled to the middle segment at a second arm joint, the coupling segment comprising a hook at a distal end of the coupling segment. The hydraulic lift cylinder is rotatably coupled at a first end to the base frame and rotatably coupled at a second end to the middle segment. In certain embodiments, the middle segment is contactable with the contact fulcrum during operation of the arm. Various implementations provide for a hoist apparatus that is disposable on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Wilian Holding Co.
    Inventors: Evan Cox, Thomas Waldschmitt
  • Console garnish and method of assembling the same
    Patent number: 11383657
    Abstract: A console assembly for a vehicle includes a floor console substrate that has first and second side walls, a console cover that includes a base piece comprised of a top wall and first and second side walls that are unitary with, and extend downwardly from, the top wall. A wrapping material envelops the base piece. The wrapping material has at least one seam. The floor console substrate and the console cover have pairs of slots and pairs of pegs that are slidingly receivable into the respective pairs of slots such that the console cover is secured with the floor console.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NYX, INC.
    Inventor: Yuriy Tsalenko
  • Multi-hinge tonneau cover
    Patent number: 11383589
    Abstract: A tonneau cover comprising: (a) a plurality of panels; (b) one or more hinges between each panel of the plurality of panels so that the plurality of panels are rotatably connected together, wherein some or all of the one or more hinges include: (i) a plurality of expansion links that are movably interconnected together, some of the plurality of expansion links including: (1) one or more expansion projections; (2) one or more pockets that receive all or a portion of the one or more expansion projections from an adjacent one of the plurality of expansion links; and (3) one or more expansion stops that restricts movement of the one or more expansion projections from the adjacent one of plurality of the expansion links that extend within the one or more pockets; wherein the one or more hinges rotate so that the one or more hinges form of angle of about 90 degrees or more and about 225 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: EXTANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jerome Facchinello, David Germano, Robbie Mosingo, Chad Carter
  • Box apparatus for vehicles
    Patent number: 11383650
    Abstract: A box apparatus for vehicles is disposed to a side of a seat and includes: a box having an internal space having an opening facing upward; and a lid having a lid body and a pivotal shaft integrated with the lid body and pivotally supported relative to the box, configured to open and close the opening of the box, and positionally changed between a closed position where the lid body is disposed above the box and closes the opening, and an opened position where the lid body is disposed at a side of the box and opens the opening. The lid body has an opened-position upper-surface portion becoming an upper surface at the opened position and a closed-position upper-surface portion becoming an upper surface at the closed position and becoming a side surface at the opened position, and a heating element is disposed at the opened-position and closed-position upper-surface portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Fukui, Hiroshi Iwata, Chiharu Totani
  • Vehicle-body structure of vehicle
    Patent number: 11383770
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure which prevent deformation of a floor tunnel caused by a side collision load transmitted from a cross member to the floor tunnel via a seat mounting bracket. A pair of left and right backbone frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction are provided each of which faces a top and a side of a floor tunnel and is fixed to the floor tunnel. A tunnel reinforcement is provided that includes a front projection, an intermediate projection, and a rear projection abutting on an underside of the floor tunnel. The backbone frame includes multiple beads abutting on the floor tunnel. The tunnel reinforcement is fixed at the front projection, the intermediate projection, and the rear projection to the seat mounting bracket via the floor tunnel and is also fixed to the multiple beads of the backbone frame via the floor tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Ebisumoto, Hirotaka Natsume, Kazuhiro Kageyama
  • Composite flooring for recreational vehicles
    Patent number: 11383768
    Abstract: A composite floor is provided comprising a skeletal framework, foam core inserts, an impact resistant sheet, and a weather resistant sheet bonded together with adhesive. Recreational vehicles incorporating such floors are also contemplated, as are methods of making the composite floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Thor Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Bullock, Jon Brock, Jeff Snyder
  • Vehicular seal carrier system
    Patent number: 11376939
    Abstract: A seal system for retaining a seal in between a fixed quarter glass and a moveable window glass can include a first seal carrier attached to the fixed quarter glass, a second seal carrier attached to the first seal carrier, a seal retained by the first and second seal carriers, and a beauty cover disposed over the first and second seal carriers when viewed from inside a vehicle. The seal system can be assembled by attaching the first seal carrier to the quarter glass, joining the second seal carrier to the first seal carrier, placing the seal such that it is retained by the first and second seal carriers, and fitting the first and second seal carriers with the beauty cover. When assembled, the seal system retains the seal to seal the vehicle between the fixed quarter glass and the movable window glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Faraday&Future Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan William Schmitz, Paul G. Jabra, Matthew Richard Partsch, Carlos David Tobon
  • Vehicle rear portion structure
    Patent number: 11377152
    Abstract: A ridgeline of a bottom surface portion at a rear portion of a rear side member rear at a rear of a fastening portion of rear side members to a rear portion of a rear suspension member is a slope shape which inclines downward toward a vehicle rear. A side member reinforcement, which is a reinforcing member which is against a load in a vehicle length direction, is attached to the rear portion of the rear side member rear. A fragile portion of low rigidity compared to a lower portion is formed at an upper portion of the side member reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kosei Ota, Masanori Yoshimoto
  • Wheel well vent assembly
    Patent number: 11377156
    Abstract: A vent assembly in an inner fender assembly disposed between a heat exchanger in an engine compartment and a wheel well of a motor vehicle includes a first vent and a second vent disposed in the inner fender assembly. The first vent includes a plurality of fins disposed at a first angle relative to a horizontal axis. The second vent is disposed between the first vent and the heat exchanger and includes a plurality of fins extending between distal ends of first and second walls of the second vent and disposed at a second angle relative to the horizontal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Patrick G. Esber, Christopher D. Hinz, Shawn L. Tarr
  • Vehicle door storage system and door storage method
    Patent number: 11377038
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes, among other things, a door storage system that is disposed within a cargo area of a vehicle. The door storage system is moveable between a lowered position and an expanded position. The door storage system is configured to accept at least one door of the vehicle within a door receiving area when the door storage system is in the expanded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, James Baumbick, Annette Lynn Huebner, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
  • Vehicle rear structure
    Patent number: 11377157
    Abstract: A vehicle rear structure includes: a fuel tank arranged between a pair of side members; and a floor panel. The floor panel includes: a front floor panel and a rear floor panel that cover an upper surface and a rear surface of the fuel tank. and that have a roof section located above height positions of flanges of the side members. The rear floor panel has: a bottom surface located below the height positions of the flanges of the side members; rear vertical wall sections raised upward from both of left and right sides of the bottom surface; and rear flat sections folded to the left and the right at upper ends of the rear left and right vertical wall sections and joined to upper surface sides of the flanges on a vehicle inner side of the pair of side members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Koike
  • Modular canopy assembly
    Patent number: 11376932
    Abstract: A modular canopy assembly for enclosing a bed of a truck includes a frame and a set of panels. The frame comprises a set of first elements and a set of second elements. The first elements are mountable to a bed of a truck. The second elements are selectively engageable to the set of first elements so that the frame extends upwardly from the bed of the truck. The frame defines a top opening, a front opening, a rear opening, and opposed side openings. Each panel is selectively engageable to the frame to close a respective one of the top opening, the front opening, the rear opening, and the opposed side openings. The panels can be engaged to the frame to selectively enclose the bed of the truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Alex Barnwell
  • Cowl top structure
    Patent number: 11377155
    Abstract: Included are a cowl top arranged on a lower end part of a front windshield; a dash panel provided with a first air intake port for sucking external air under and behind the cowl top, and on one side of the cowl top in a vehicle width direction; a hood arranged in front of the dash panel, and above an engine room; left and right fenders arranged respectively on sides of the cowl top; and left and right cowl sides extending in up-down and front-rear directions respectively on the opposite sides of the cowl top in the vehicle width direction. The right cowl side includes a second air intake port for introducing the external air to under the cowl top. The hood is arranged above the second air intake port. The right fender is arranged outside the second air intake port in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ishiyama, Hiroyo Miyanaga
  • Hole plug
    Patent number: 11377158
    Abstract: A hole plug includes: a tubular outer periphery wall portion for insertion into a burring hole formed in an attachment member; an annular flange portion that protrudes toward a radial direction outer side of the outer periphery wall portion, from an end portion side of the outer periphery wall portion at an opposite side from an insertion direction side of the outer periphery wall portion; a pawl portion that projects toward the radial direction outer side from the outer periphery wall portion; a closure portion that extends between inner sides of the outer periphery wall portion; and an abutting portion provided at at least one of the flange portion or the outer periphery wall portion, the abutting portion overlapping with a periphery edge portion of the burring hole as seen in the insertion direction, and the abutting portion configured to abut the periphery edge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIFCO INC.
    Inventor: Takehiro Sato
  • Space frame front upper body support and frame connection
    Patent number: 11370263
    Abstract: A front upper frame connection for a space frame can comprise a top surface; a bottom surface opposite the top surface; a right-side surface; a left-side surface opposite the right-side surface; a front surface; a rear surface opposite the front surface; a pair of forward support plates provided on the front surface; a pair of forward flat mounting surfaces; and a pair of rocker attachment interfaces located on the top surface adjacent to the rear surface and respectively the right-side surface and the left-side surface. The front surface and the forward support plates can define a cutout section. Each of the forward support plates is curved and runs outward from a transverse centerline of the top surface and then forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Tad W. Miller