Patents Examined by Dennis H. Pedder
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Patent number: 12291268Abstract: A body for a passenger car has a body-in-white structure which is located behind a wheel well for a front wheel of the passenger car and which has a transverse member that extends on the outside of a longitudinal beam of the body-in-white structure in front of a front end wall of the body-in-white structure in the vehicle transverse direction. The transverse member has a catch element which is designed to catch a rim of the front wheel that has moved backwards in the vehicle longitudinal direction in the event of an accident and is turning in rearward towards the vehicle center. The body-in-white structure has an A-pillar located behind the catch element, a lateral sill located behind the catch element, and a support element which is located in the A-pillar and via which the catch element that has moved backwards in the event of an accident and, via the catch element, the rim that has moved backwards in the event of an accident, can be supported towards the rear on the lateral sill.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Einwang, Andre Koch, Lorenz Kriegler
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Patent number: 12291273Abstract: An embodiment panel assembly for a vehicle includes an inner panel configured to surround a roof, two opposite pillars, and a front side of a vehicle body of the vehicle, a first outer panel coupled to the inner panel and having a first assembling part at an end thereof, and a second outer panel coupled to surround a front side of the inner panel and having a second assembling part disposed at an end corresponding to the first assembling part and coupled to the first assembling part, wherein the first assembling part and the second assembling part are coupled to each other by fitting.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyun Cheol Yun, Hyung Gyu Park, Jin Young Mo
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Patent number: 12286068Abstract: A front bumper includes a bumper body, a bumper inner, and a first electronic device. The bumper body is exposed to the outside of the vehicle. The bumper inner is located inside the bumper body and configured to fix the bumper body to a body of the vehicle. The first electronic device is located between the bumper body and the bumper inner. The bumper inner includes an inner body facing at least a part of the first electronic device in a first direction, and at least one columnar portion located adjacent to first the electronic device in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and extending in the first direction from the inner body toward the bumper body. The length in the first direction of the at least one columnar portion is greater than the length in the first direction of the first electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Shota Kotake
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Patent number: 12286162Abstract: A cab mounting including a chassis holder and a cab holder. The chassis holder includes a chassis plate having a central region, designed to be fastened to a chassis of a vehicle, a lower end region, designed to fasten a suspension element, and an upper end region having an opening, designed for connecting to an upper bearing plate. The cab holder includes a cab plate, designed for fastening to a vehicle cab, and an upper bearing plate, which is fastened to the cab plate and has a U-shaped structure, designed in order to be held movably in the opening of the chassis plate, such that the chassis holder and the cab holder are movable relative to each other. The chassis holder is formed in one piece such that impacting dirt is scraped off.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Abhijit Hingne, Thiemo Flebbe
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Patent number: 12287180Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle ceiling, a vehicle floor, and a vehicle seat assembly that couples with the vehicle ceiling and the vehicle floor. The vehicle seat assembly includes a seat support that supports a vehicle seat from the vehicle ceiling, a base that forms a slip joint with the seat support from the vehicle floor, and a set of limit straps constructed and arranged to limit deflection of the slip joint in response to deformation between the vehicle ceiling and the vehicle floor (e.g., a vehicle collision, deformation between the vehicle ceiling and the vehicle floor possibly due to a blast, etc.). Each limit strap of the set of limit straps has a first end that attaches to a portion of the slip joint and a second end that attaches to the vehicle floor.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Textron Systems CorporationInventors: Wyatt Coleman Huling, Jr., Giovanni Eduardo Sequeira
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Patent number: 12286062Abstract: A support assembly configured for holding at least one tool includes a first mounting plate, a door pivotable relative to the mounting plate. The door includes a retention feature. The support assembly further includes a clamping assembly configured for clamping the door to the mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventors: Andrew H. Kroll, Christopher J. Juelich, Paul L. Mattson
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Patent number: 12280830Abstract: A bodywork support structure for a vehicle includes two side sills that are spaced apart in a transverse direction where the two side sills have a reinforcing element that is disposed in a hollow space. A floor is disposed between the two side sills and connected to the two side sills and an energy store for storing electrical energy and/or a fuel for powering the vehicle is disposed under the floor. The reinforcing element is formed as a corner reinforcement disposed in a corner area where the corner reinforcement has a first connection area that is attached to an external wall, a second connection area that is attached to a lower flange, and a wall area that connects the first and second connection areas with each other across the corner. An open space is formed between the corner reinforcement and an internal wall in the transverse direction of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AGInventor: Michael Carl
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Patent number: 12280836Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body lower structure. The vehicle body lower structure includes: a deflector, disposed on a vehicle body and movable between a stowed position covering a lower part of the vehicle body and a deployed position protruding downward; and a shaft member, extending in a vehicle left-right direction and rotatably connecting a front end of the deflector to the vehicle body. The deflector is maintained in the deployed position protruding downward by its own weight, and receiving an impact load from below, the deflector moves from the deployed position to the stowed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Ando, Kei Ambo, Yuki Nakamura, Yoshiteru Hoshida
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Patent number: 12280834Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a full-load passenger car body structure including a roof frame, a side wall frame, a rear frame and an underframe. The side wall frame is enclosed to form an accommodating space, the roof frame is disposed on an upper part of the side wall frame, and the underframe is disposed on a lower part of the side wall frame, where a plurality of reinforcing members are disposed on the underframe and used for reinforcing connection strength of the underframe. Therefore, the connection strength of the underframe is reinforced by disposing the plurality of reinforcing members on the underframe, thereby increasing the strength of the full-load passenger car body structure, and the structure is simple and light without reinforcement, so that the overall weight of the full-load passenger car body structure can be reduced while meeting the requirements for carrying capacity of the underframe.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Nextgen Exchange Group Inc.Inventors: Jianjiang Wang, Fuwen Xiao
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Patent number: 12280632Abstract: A mounting system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) component, including a dash panel configured to divide a front compartment from a passenger compartment, and having an opening, a plurality of mounting portions located around the opening, and configured to mount the HVAC component, and a vertical reinforcing member located adjacent to the opening, and extending along the height of the dash panel. The dash panel includes a first surface facing the front compartment and a second surface facing the passenger compartment, and at least some of the plurality of mounting portions are provided to the vertical reinforcing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Yun A Cho, Byeong Moo Jang
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Patent number: 12269535Abstract: An embodiment vehicle roof structure includes a front roof rail and a rear roof rail coupled to front and rear portions of side structures, respectively, the side structures being disposed along opposite sides of a vehicle body in a vehicle width direction, a center roof rail assembly disposed between the front roof rail and the rear roof rail and coupled to the side structures, a front roof panel including a first plastic composite material and coupled to the front roof rail, the center roof rail assembly, and the front portions of the side structures, a rear roof panel including a second plastic composite material and coupled to the rear roof rail, the center roof rail assembly, and the rear portions of the side structures, and a center roof panel including a steel material and coupled to the center roof rail assembly and center portions of the side structures.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Chulhee Heo, Chan Woong Jeon, Haehoon Lee, Changhak Kang
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Patent number: 12269536Abstract: An embodiment upper body inner panel assembly of a vehicle includes a front inner panel and a rear inner panel disposed at a front and a rear of an upper body of the vehicle, respectively, wherein the upper body includes a plurality of pipes, wherein each of the front inner panel and the rear inner panel comprises a left part and a right part coupled to each other, and wherein the left part and the right part of the front inner panel and the left part and the right part of the rear inner panel are disposed in intersecting directions.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jin Young Mo, Ho Yeon Kim, Tae Gyu Park, Hyun Cheol Yun
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Patent number: 12269539Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a mechanical joint with five degrees of freedom. In certain embodiments, the mechanical joint includes first and second triangular linkages. The first triangular linkage includes a base end configured to hingedly couple to a first body to pivot relative to the first body and a vertex end that includes a first rotational member. The second triangular linkage includes a base end configured to hingedly couple to a second body to pivot relative to the second body and a vertex end that includes a second rotational member. The first rotational member and the second rotational member are rotationally coupled to form a all joint. With this joint, the second body is moveable in two translational degrees of freedom and restricted in one translational degree of freedom relative to the first body. Such a configuration allows vertical movement and/or reduces stress on the joint.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Volvo Truck CorporationInventor: Carl Bjoerk
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Patent number: 12263728Abstract: A motor vehicle seat includes a backrest portion a first body, a second body and a mechanism configured to coupled the backrest portion to the first body in a movable manner between a first position, in which the backrest portion is arranged between the first and the second body, the latter defining a base extending crosswise to the backrest portion in order to support a passenger seating with the back resting against the backrest portion on a first surface of the backrest portion, and a second position, in which the backrest portion has a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the second body; wherein the first surface, in the second position of the backrest portion, defines a wind deflector.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: FERRARI S.P.A.Inventors: Adriano Leccese, Rubens Curatola, Salvatore Sedda
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Patent number: 12258070Abstract: An embodiment vehicle roof structure mountable on side structures respectively provided at both sides of a vehicle body along a vehicle width direction, the vehicle roof structure includes a ring reinforcement member disposed between the side structures and a plurality of main roof rail members connected to the ring reinforcement member and connected to respective front pillars and rear pillars of the side structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Chulhee Heo, Youngrock Kim, ChangHak Kang, Chan Woong Jeon, Taegyu Park, HaeHoon Lee
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Patent number: 12258073Abstract: An embodiment unitary structural component for attaching to a floor of a vehicle, the unitary structural component including a first cross portion, a second cross portion spaced apart from the first cross portion, and a central extension connecting the first cross portion and the second cross portion and extending along a central longitudinal axis of the floor, wherein the first cross portion, the second cross portion, and the central extension define a unitary one-piece structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventor: Tae Soo Park
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Patent number: 12258069Abstract: An embodiment vehicle body includes a tubular part extended in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and having a hollow shape, a base part in which the tubular part is inserted, the base part integrally connecting an A pillar to a side portion of a roof, and an outer garnish shaped to be extended in the longitudinal direction along the base part and coupled to the base part to cover the base part.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Do Hoi Kim, Sang Sun Park, Ju Chul Kim, Sung Tai Jang
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Patent number: 12257981Abstract: The holder for a center console, including a first fastening region for fastening to the vehicle body as well as a second fastening region for fastening to the center console, wherein the first fastening region and the second fastening region are connected by at least one arm extending in the Z-direction. The arm has a primary region with a first center axis and at least one secondary region with a second center axis which form relative to one another at least one bend point, which permits deformation of the primary region relative to the secondary region and thus a movement of the first fastening region relative to the second fastening region in the Z-direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: GRAMMER AGInventors: Martin Stuiber, Aly Kone, Peter Eidenhammer, Matthias Wagner
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Patent number: 12252176Abstract: A vehicle body lateral section structure (10) is provided with a center pillar inner (41), a center pillar stiffener (42), a partitioning member (13), a filling material, a center pillar outer (43), and a sound insulation member (14). The center pillar stiffener forms a first closed cross-sectional portion (50) together with the center pillar inner. The partitioning member partitions a filling space (62) communicating with a first filling port and a second filling port inside the first closed cross-sectional portion. The center pillar outer forms a second closed cross-sectional portion (60) together with the center pillar stiffener. The sound insulation member is provided inside the second closed cross-sectional portion and foams when heated.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kodai Baiju, Sho Ebata
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Patent number: 12252182Abstract: A body frame and a vehicle having the same are provided. The body frame includes: a transverse beam, provided with a transverse sliding groove; a longitudinal beam, connected with the transverse beam and provided with a longitudinal sliding groove; and a joint, disposed at a junction of the transverse beam and the longitudinal beam and mounted to the transverse beam by a transverse rivet and to the longitudinal beam by a longitudinal rivet. The transverse rivet is slidably mated with the transverse sliding groove, and the longitudinal rivet is slidably mated with the longitudinal sliding groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Wang Peng, Fengshou Huang, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhen Chen