Patents Examined by Emmanuel M. Marcelo
  • Patent number: 11208120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a mobile crane are provided. In particular, systems and methods are provided for a mobile crane that is designed to enable easy transportation on a railcar to and from a job site. The mobile crane facilitates quick changing between a transport configuration and a work configuration to enable increased productivity. The mobile crane is configured to be modular and thereby be configured to include various lifting and object manipulating features, as required by a specific application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Markelz, William Kenneth Quast
  • Patent number: 11206821
    Abstract: A fishing reel, including a frame; a reel seat disposed in the frame and including a central through hole; a spool disposed on the reel seat; a main shaft slidably disposed in the central through hole, and including a first end and a second end; a roller disposed on the first end of the main shaft; a first gear and a second gear both disposed on the second end of the main shaft; a handle disposed on the frame and connected to the first gear; a release button disposed on the frame; a first pressure spring disposed between the second gear and the main shaft; a line guide seat disposed on the roller; a line hanging rod disposed on the line guide seat; an elastic member disposed between the line guide seat and the roller; and a cam unit disposed on one end of the reel seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: YANGZHOU YUANSHENG MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhilin Xu, Zhenggao Zhu
  • Patent number: 11211200
    Abstract: A coil is produced by winding a wire that is clad with an electrical insulation so as to form a coil bundle of successive windings. The coil bundle has at least one first winding formed by a first end section of the wire and at least one second winding formed by a second end section of the wire. A portion of the electrical insulation of the at least one first winding is removed to expose a portion of the first end section of the wire for forming a first electrical contact of the coil, and a portion of the electrical insulation of the at least one second winding is removed to expose a portion of the second end section of the wire for forming said second electrical contact of the coil. There is also described a coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK Se & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siddhartha Bhowmik, Frederik Sporon-Fiedler, Daniel Witherspoon
  • Patent number: 11197470
    Abstract: A fishing reel includes a support member, a supported member, and a seal member. The support member includes a support hole. The supported member includes a supported portion that is disposed inside the support hole, and an inclined portion that is disposed outside the support hole and is formed so that an outer diameter decreases toward the support hole. The seal member is elastically deformable. The seal member is disposed in contact with an end face around the support hole and an outer peripheral surface of the inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMANO COMPONENTS (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.
    Inventors: Baihaki Bin Sabtu, Abu Supian Bin Ahmad, Muhammad Aliff Nazreen Bin Norazmi, Muhd Syukri Nazry Bin Mustapha, Mohd Syamsul Johary Bin Ismail, Mohammad Asyraaf Bin Ariffen, Muhammad Zaidi Bin Bachok
  • Patent number: 11191259
    Abstract: A portable fishing spool tool for quickly, easily and safely re-spooling new fishing line onto any size fishing reel, and unwinding old fishing line from any size fishing reel, in a controlled manner to prevent injury or damage to users or fishing equipment during the process. The fishing spool tool includes a spool mounted on a rod, a tension spring system including a rod collar, and tension collar assembly both mounted on the rod at opposite sides of the spool to permit users to adjust axial tension on the spool to control rotational speed and drag of the spool when adding or removing fishing line. One end of the rod is attachable to a power drill to unwind fishing line, and a pair of suction cups are attachable to opposite ends of the rod to install the spool tool in a receptacle with a ballast for re-spooling fishing line on fishing reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Robert D. Nevius
  • Patent number: 11172662
    Abstract: A double bearing reel includes a spool braking device that rotatably supports a spool including a bobbin body on which a fishing line is wound and flange portions formed on both sides of the bobbin body between side plates of a reel body and that applies a braking force to the rotation of the spool, wherein the spool braking device includes a conductive annular body that rotates integrally with the spool and a magnet facing outer peripheral surface of the conductive annular body, and the conductive annular body and the magnet are disposed axially inward of an outer end surface of the flange portions and radially inward of the bobbin body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GLOBERIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Shuta Kano, Masakazu Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11172661
    Abstract: A fishing reel having a movable inertia brake including braking magnets and a brake pad is provided. The fishing reel maximizes the advantages of a centrifugal brake, a magnet brake, and an inertia brake of the related art, such as abrasion prevention, the ability to prevent a decrease in the flying distance in casting when a spool is rotated at a low speed, and the ability to be used compatibly for a left-handed or right-handed handle. The fishing reel includes a spool plate including a spool cam, a brake pad, and a movable cam. The spool cam is fitted to a hub of a spool to rotate together with the spool, and has a pressing portion protruding to one side such that a lowest point and a highest point are connected on an incline in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DOYO ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Ho Hyun
  • Patent number: 11172663
    Abstract: A fishing reel provided with a fixed constant brake and a movable inertial force brake is provided. In the fishing reel, a user may adjust a braking force to use according to his or her fishing method by utilizing only advantages of conventional centrifugal brakes, magnet brakes, and inertial force brakes, the advantages including prevention of pad wear, prevention of casting distance reduction and backlash when a spool rotates at a low speed, compatible use tailored to left-handed or right-handed handles, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DOYO ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Ho Hyun
  • Patent number: 11174135
    Abstract: A crane may comprise a mast that includes a base end and a top end located opposite the base end, at least one support beam fixedly coupled to the mast adjacent the top end of the mast, a first runway beam fixedly coupled to the at least one support beam, and a second runway beam spaced from the first runway beam. The crane may also comprise a bridge movably coupled to the first runway beam and the second runway beam, a trolley movably coupled to the bridge, and a hoist coupled to the trolley. In many embodiments, the crane only comprises one mast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: John Alan Bjorback
  • Patent number: 11161722
    Abstract: A telescopic jib bracing unit for a mobile crane includes a holding frame which is embodied for fastening to the telescopic jib of the mobile crane and exhibits an open cross-section, the cross-sectional opening of which enables the jib to be retracted into the holding frame, and two bracing supports which are connected by the holding frame to form a structural unit. Two frame parts which form the open cross-section of the holding frame are coupled to each other via a coupling point such that they can be moved with respect to each other. A bracing unit transport system, a mobile crane and a fitting method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Manitowoc Crane Group France SAS
    Inventors: Bernd Backes, Dieter Stuehrwoldt, Franz Bischof, Jann Reesing
  • Patent number: 11161723
    Abstract: There is provided a crane winch device allowing a suspended load to freely fall due to a load thereof. The crane winch device includes a winch drum around which a rope for suspending the suspended load is wound, braking brake unit that brakes the winch drum, speed-increasing unit that performs speed-increasing assist of the winch drum in a direction of free fall acceleration when a braking force of the brake unit is smaller than a first threshold, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES CONSTRUCTION CRANES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Honjo
  • Patent number: 11160262
    Abstract: Present disclosed is a bait cast reel having a locking part for a hinge-type palm side cover, the palm side cover being hinged to a first side opening of a frame of a reel body to rotatably support one end of a spool shaft. The bait cast reel includes: a reel body in which a spool is rotatably provided; a palmside cover fixed to an outside end of a pillar insert; a spool cover mounted to the palmside cover; a centrifugal brake controls a rotation speed of the spool; a pillar click gear to which the pillar insert is coupled in a moveable manner; a pillar click claw stopping rotation of the pillar click gear; and a stopper supporting the pillar click gear for rotation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BANAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Kim, Yu Geun Kim
  • Patent number: 11154042
    Abstract: A baitcaster for retrieving a fishing line includes a housing, a spool, and a compound gear set. The spool is positioned at least partially within the housing, defining an inner volume, and includes a spindle. The compound gear set is positioned at least partially within the inner volume of the spool. The compound gear set is configured to receive input mechanical energy from a first shaft and transfer output mechanical energy through a second shaft to drive the spool and thereby retrieve the fishing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Trika Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Pulkrabek, Ty Warner, Danny Uribe, Ron Hedberg
  • Patent number: 11155448
    Abstract: There is provided a crane for enabling easily carrying out an operation of a boom such as raising and lowering, telescoping, or turning, by displaying a range wherein a hook may be moved or may not be moved in a direction approaching a vehicle part of the crane. The crane includes: a vehicle; a boom positioned upon the vehicle; a wire rope being suspended from a base end side of the boom toward a leading end side thereof; a hook being hung from the leading end side of the boom and raised and lowered by winding and unwinding the wire rope; a camera for photographing an image including the hook; a display device for displaying the image; and a control device connected to the camera and the display device, the control device being for processing information. On the basis of the length of the boom or the height of the hook, the control device computes an inner boundary which is a boundary between a range where the hook may move, and a range where the hook may not move, in a direction approaching the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: TADANO LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11155434
    Abstract: Computer program product, controller, winding machine and method for winding a winding material from a supply device onto a winding body of a winding machine, wherein the winding material is provided from a supply roller and wound onto the winding body via at least one deflection roller, where an actual winding tension of the winding material is set to a setpoint winding tension depending on a position-dependent compensation signal, stored in a storage unit, to compensate for a changeable free length, resulting from a non-circular cross section of the winding material, of the winding material between the deflection roller and the winding body, whereby due to the fact that the actual winding tension is set to the setpoint winding tension via the position-dependent compensation signal, which is already stored in the storage unit prior to the winding, the computational load for the setting can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Kerling, Björn Seelinger
  • Patent number: 11147254
    Abstract: A spincast reel includes a frame. A rotatable main shaft is mounted on the frame, the periphery of the main shaft is provided with two spiral grooves with reverse spirals, a side of a shaft sleeve opposite to the spiral groove is provided with a kidney-shaped hole, and a transmission claw which passes through the kidney-shaped hole and is slidably installed in the spiral groove is fixed to a reel seat; one end of the main shaft penetrates into the frame and is provided with a driving gear assembly for driving the main shaft to rotate, and the other end thereof is fixedly connected to a line pickup portion. The spincast reel provides uniform line arrangement and prevents partial fishing line tangles during winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: YANGZHOU YUANSHENG MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhilin Xu
  • Patent number: 11134663
    Abstract: Provided is a fishing reel with movable magnet brake using a centrifugal force, the fishing reel including operation arms hinged in a spool and being rotated by a centrifugal force due to rotation of the spool, and a pad holder coupled to be able to move forward and backward in the longitudinal direction of a spool shaft and having a brake pad receiving attraction of a braking magnet, in which forward and backward positions of the pad holder are changed and the distance between the braking magnet and the brake pad is adjusted in accordance with a rotational angle of the operation arms due to a centrifugal force, whereby the braking force of the magnet brake decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: DOYO ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Ho Hyun
  • Patent number: 11130659
    Abstract: A telescoping jib of a mobile crane includes sections that telescope out of a jib housing from a transport position into an operating position. A guying system has successively connected tension rods extending from the jib housing to at least one of the extended telescoping jibs by at least one guying support. The mobile crane provides a lighter construction and improved road handling, and an increased load capacity for unchanged telescoping jib measurements. To this end, a guide holder arranged on the jib housing receives the tension rods in the transport position and, in the operating position, at least one movable tension rod on one of the guying supports is respectively securely connected to the outer end of a telescoping section head in an articulated manner and can be secured to a holding mechanism on the opposite end on an adjacent guying support of an adjacent telescoping section head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Tadano Demag GmbH
    Inventor: Laurent Muller
  • Patent number: 11129374
    Abstract: A fishing reel de-spooler comprises a base member, a de-spooler drive shaft, and two or more extended members adapted to receive fishing line from a fishing reel. The de-spooler drive shaft is adapted for attachment to a chuck of a rotary drill and the plate member. The two or more extended members are removeably coupled to the plate member. The fishing reel spooler comprises an elongated plate member, a spooler drive shaft, and one or more handle receiving cup members adapted to receive a handle of a fishing reel. The elongated plate member is removeably coupled to the spooler drive shaft on a shaft side of the elongated plate member which is adapted to be coupled to the handle receiving cup members. The spooler drive shaft is adapted for attachment to a chuck of a rotary drill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Inventor: Jose Jaramillo
  • Patent number: 11124395
    Abstract: A reel braking adjustment device includes a tensile force-related information acquisition unit and a braking parameter correction unit. The tensile force-related information acquisition unit is configured to acquire tensile force-related information. The tensile force-related information is information that is related to tensile force acting on a fishing line and detected during a fishing line discharge period in which the fishing line is released from a dual-bearing reel configured to brake rotation of a spool based on a braking parameter. The braking parameter correction unit is configured to correct braking parameters based on temporal changes in the tensile force-related information acquired by the tensile force-related information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Niitsuma