Patents Examined by David P. Bryant
  • Patent number: 11634088
    Abstract: An integrated housing assembly can be mounted on a roof of a vehicle, such as a semi-trailer truck. The integrated housing assembly includes a main enclosure that includes four sides, a top panel, and a bottom panel. One of the four sides is a front panel that is inclined towards the ground. The main enclosure includes one or more cavities. A front panel of the integrated housing assembly includes one or more openings to allow cameras or sensors to be placed within the one or more cavities and behind the one or more opening. The cameras or sensors cameras can be clamped at a downward angle within multiple lock apparatus. The angled front panel and the inclined cameras or sensors within the lock apparatus allow the cameras or sensors to obtain images or sensor data from one or more regions of interest at some distance from the front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Qiwei Li, Todd Skinner, Yishi Liu
  • Patent number: 11633777
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide manufacturing methods for a wheel rim, a spoke and a steel wheel and a steel wheel formed by the methods. The methods includes that: a wheel rim/a spoke blank is heated in a heating furnace, and the heated wheel rim/the heated spoke blank is transferred onto a hot press. A temperature of the wheel rim/the spoke blank being required to be kept above a required temperature in a process of transferring the heated wheel rim/the heated spoke blank to the hot press. Then the wheel rim/the spoke blank is formed in the hot press. A formed wheel rim and a formed spoke are connected to product a steel wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Jingu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Saylor, Xiaofei Ni, Haizhou Yuan, Xiaodi Chen, Xiangyong Jin, Dongdong Xiong, Kang Wang
  • Patent number: 11623326
    Abstract: Apparatus for use in handling windscreens for example for installation in a vehicle, includes a windscreen anchor assembly comprising a windscreen anchor device and a support arm extending away from the windscreen anchor device. A mount assembly is provided for supporting the windscreen anchor assembly. The mount assembly includes a mount structure for engaging with the support arm such that the support arm can slide bodily in its longitudinal direction with respect to the mount structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Belron International Limited
    Inventors: William Finck, Christopher Davies
  • Patent number: 11619045
    Abstract: A method of forming a building material device utilizing a vehicle tire where the vehicle tire is split into three portions. Two of the vehicle portions are recombined into a subunit which is capable of holding the third portion within a chamber. The subunit containing the second portion is then combined with panels to form a finished unit capable of being used in a building structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventor: Reynaldo Mariansky
  • Patent number: 11618278
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle wheel of the present invention includes a step of performing an edge treatment including deburring of a spoke edge generated by lathe processing. For the edge treatment, a cutting tool as hale type tool for non-rotational processing is used, and the cutting tool is provided with a processing blade having a recessed blade edge having an R shape or polygonal C shape protruding from an outer peripheral surface on a side of a tip end of the rod-shaped cutting tool connected to a rod-shaped shank portion. A processing machine capable of CNC of four or more axes is used. With the cutting tool standing upright against a disc surface, the blade edge of the processing blade is applied to the spoke edge, and the cutting tool is continuously moved relative to the spoke edge along a ridgeline of the spoke edge for scraping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: RAYS ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shujiro Inatani, Kazunori Ito, Tsutomu Hiromasa, Tomoyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 11603879
    Abstract: Captive fastener systems and structural assemblies having captive fastener systems are described. The captive fastener systems include a captive fastener assembly having a sleeve and a captive fastener arranged within the sleeve, a mounting assembly having a bushing and a mounting fastener arranged to pass through the bushing, and a joining body having a mounting aperture, wherein the sleeve is attached to the joining body and the bushing and the mounting fastener are configured to pass through the mounting aperture. The mounting assembly is configured to provide a first degree of movement of the captive fastener system and the captive fastener assembly is configured to provide a second degree of movement of the captive fastener system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: James R. O'Coin
  • Patent number: 11583953
    Abstract: A method of forming a planetary carrier assembly is disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes providing a first carrier plate and a second carrier plate. The first carrier plate has a first body portion, and the second carrier plate has a second body portion including a plurality of legs. The method includes forming at least one staking element on an axial end of at least one of the plurality of legs. The method includes fixing the first carrier plate and the second carrier plate to each other via application of an axial load such that the at least one staking element on the at least one of the plurality of legs digs into the first carrier plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Drew Hilty, Justin Persinger
  • Patent number: 11583911
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for coreless spinning of a large-ratio multi-variable-diameter hollow shaft, belonging to the field of spinning. The present invention includes following steps: S1: clamping a blank in a lower die unit, driving the workpiece to rotate, causing a rough spinning wheel and a fine spinning wheel to be in contact with the workpiece for staggered spinning, and performing curved reciprocating feed spinning via point contact to form a roughly-spun blank; S2: shifting the rough spinning wheel and the fine spinning wheel, causing shaping spinning wheels to be in contact with the workpiece for shaping spinning, and subjecting the shaping spinning wheels to linear contact shaping and fine spinning only in a radial direction, to obtain a finely spun blank. The present invention solves the problems of high machining difficulty and poor molding quality of hollow shafts in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WUHU SANLIAN FORGING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Guofeng Sun, Liang Han, Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 11583909
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot-stamped part includes: inserting a blank into a heating furnace including a plurality of sections with different temperature ranges; step heating the blank in multiple stages; and soaking the blank at a temperature of about Ac3 to about 1,000° C., wherein in the step of heating the blank, a temperature condition in the heating furnace satisfies the following equation: 0<(Tg?Ti)/Lt<0.025° C./mm, where Tg denotes a soaking temperature (° C.), Ti denotes an initial temperature (° C.) of the heating furnace, and Lt denotes a length (mm) of step heating sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Steel Company
    Inventor: Je Youl Kong
  • Patent number: 11584464
    Abstract: A method is for producing a three-dimensional vehicle door frame inner reinforcement element (52) including an inner center pillar part (66), an inner front pillar part (68) and an inner side rail part (64) joining the inner center pillar part (66) and the inner front pillar part (68). The method includes providing an inner center pillar blank, an inner front pillar blank and an inner side rail blank, said inner blanks being substantially planar, assembling the inner center pillar blank and the inner front pillar blank to the inner side rail blank in order to form a substantially planar door frame inner reinforcement blank, and hot stamping the door frame inner reinforcement blank to shape the three-dimensional door frame inner reinforcement element (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Nicolas Schneider, Yves Drouadaine
  • Patent number: 11577300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and to a device (10) for producing a wheel rim (1) for a vehicle wheel (3), and to a method for producing a vehicle wheel (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: David Pieronek, Jorg Gorschluter
  • Patent number: 11566645
    Abstract: A positioning and fastening system for combining planks comprises at least two planks, each of which has a junction surface at one end plane and a clamping surface at the other end plane wherein the junction surface on each of the planks is designed to have a positioning counterbored hole, the clamping surface is designed to have a pre-burying counterbored hole opposite to the positioning counterbored hole, and both the positioning counterbored hole and the pre-burying counterbored hole allow a bolt hole to penetrate in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Li-Sheng Lan
  • Patent number: 11565341
    Abstract: A first abutting surface, a first welding surface, a first facing surface are formed in a differential case. A second abutting surface, a second welding surface, and a second facing surface are formed in a differential ring gear. In an installing step, the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface are inserted, positions of the differential case and the differential ring gear are determined in an axial direction, a separation portion that spaces the first welding surface and the second welding surface away from each other and that has a non-linear portion is formed, and a void is formed between the first facing surface and the second facing surface. In a welding step, a laser is irradiated to the separation portion and the first welding surface and the second welding surface are welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ono, Yusuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11565460
    Abstract: Provided are systems and apparatuses for manufacturing aircraft support structures. An example robotic end effector comprises a rotatable reel with a flat strip of material wound around the reel. The end effector further includes a forming shoe including a forming surface contacting the strip of material. A first end of the forming surface corresponds to a start shape and a second end of the forming surface corresponds to an end shape. As the strip of material passes from the first end of the forming surface to the second end of the forming surface, the strip of material transitions from the first shape to the end shape and is deposited as a formed stringer ply onto an application surface. The forming shoe may further include a vacuum system to suction air through a plurality of ports along the forming surface to urge the strip of material against the forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jerry D. Chungbin, Narumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11559850
    Abstract: A jacket main body is formed of a first aluminum alloy. A seal body is formed of a second aluminum alloy. The first aluminum alloy is higher in hardness than the second aluminum alloy in material type. A method includes: a preparing step of forming on an peripheral wall part a step part having a step bottom surface and a step side surface obliquely rising; a mounting step of mounting the seal body on the jacket main body to form a first butt portion and putting the step bottom surface and a back surface of the seal body on each other to form a second butt portion; a main joining step of performing friction stir welding while only the stirring pin of the rotary tool rotating contacts with only the seal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Hori, Nobushiro Seo
  • Patent number: 11549626
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method of forming a cooling plate, comprises laser welding a plurality of weld lines to physically connect a first substrate and a second substrate wherein the plurality of weld lines forms an inflatable track; and inflating the inflatable track with an inflation fluid to form a cooling channel in the cooling plate. In another embodiment, the cooling plate can comprise a first substrate and a second substrate and a plurality of weld lines can form a fluid tight seal for a cooling channel located therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Anil K. Sachdev, Arianna T. Morales, Jason Mazza, Andrew C. Bobel
  • Patent number: 11524325
    Abstract: A method of forming a component by applying a forming load to a blank of material against a mandrel, wherein the mandrel defines the shape of the component to be formed and applying a forming load as a combination of a localised force and localised friction heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: GKN Aerospace Services Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Graham
  • Patent number: 11524330
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a valve body for a hollow valve. Said method comprises the following steps: providing a workpiece, blank or semi-finished product and a forming punch, introducing a protective layer between the workpiece and the forming punch (22) and press forming the workpiece to produce a preform. The invention also relates to a hollow valve produced by means of this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Valvetrain GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Thorsten, Antonius Wolking, Guido Bayard
  • Patent number: 11504766
    Abstract: A method includes moving a first part along a movement path. The method also includes introducing drops of a liquid metal onto the first part using a three-dimensional (3D) printer. The drops of the liquid metal solidify to form a second part that is joined to the first part. The method also includes mechanically joining the second part to a third part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason M. LeFevre, Douglas K. Herrmann, Paul J. McConville, Chu-Heng Liu, Seemit Praharaj
  • Patent number: 11504771
    Abstract: Methods for producing an object by generative manufacturing, a component, and a computer-readable medium. In one method, a sheet-like part is formed with bulges. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with an arch formed by arch segments converging in the buildup direction and meet at an arch tip. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a strut of a cloverleaf-like cross-sectional shape. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a sheet-like part connected to the object and formed to project obliquely forward from the object in the buildup direction. In another method, a supporting structure is formed with a sheet-like part extending substantially along the buildup direction, the sheet-like part formed with apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Premium Aerotec GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Lehmann, Thomas Mueller, Maureen Harms, Thorsten Schröder