Patents Examined by E. Turner Hicks
  • Patent number: 9902241
    Abstract: A golf cart enclosure system for a golf cart having a passenger cabin, a roof mounted on a frame for covering the passenger cabin and a front windshield. The system comprises a guide rail secured to the frame proximate the roof and a panel of a length sufficient to extend from the guide rail to the golf cart passenger cabin below. A plurality of swivel rollers is provided, wherein a first end of the swivel roller rollably engages the guide rail and wherein a second end of the swivel roller is fastened to the panel. The panel slidably moves along the guide rail from a closed position where the panel is fully extended to an open position where the panel is retracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Fifon, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred M. Guzzetta
  • Patent number: 8727411
    Abstract: Improved covers for floor-located vehicle identification numbers (VINs) are disclosed. Exemplary VIN cover embodiments may be of a simple one-piece design and may include tabs or other retention elements along underside edges thereof. The retention elements engage the vehicle carpet and trap the carpet when the cover is installed into a VIN viewing window provided in the carpet. The underside of the cover may also include a carpet gripping mechanism that engages the carpet surface and helps to maintain the position of the cover after installation. A section of vehicle carpet removed to permit viewing of the VIN may optionally be retained and installed to the underside of the cover so as to reside in the window area when the cover is in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Marek Myszkowski
  • Patent number: 8434813
    Abstract: A drainage structure of a die molded part 102 on an upper side of a weather strip 10 includes an installation base member 11 installed on a front pillar 4 of a retractable roof vehicle, a hollow seal part 12 in elastic contact with a door glass 5, and a seal lip 13 in elastic contact with an inner-cabin side surface of the door glass 5 and thereby forming an eaves-trough-shaped water receiving part 14. A lower side wall surface 12b of the hollow seal part 12 has a fin 40 formed on an outer-cabin side edge 110 thereof and a bead part 30 formed from the outer-cabin side edge 110 of the lower side wall surface 12b to a position beyond an elastic contact position on the bead part with the door glass 5 toward an inner-cabin side and the bead part 30 is inclined downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kousuke Mori, Hirofumi Ogawa, Shinya Murakami