Patents Examined by Gwendolyn Baxter
  • Patent number: 9133979
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support structure for an article. In particular, the invention relates to a support structure for mounting modular articles such as display units and the like upon a wall. The support structure comprises a support bracket (1), the support bracket having at least one opening (15), the opening being sized to accommodate a fixing (4) by which the support bracket may be secured to a wall (3), the opening being larger than the fixing whereby the position of the support bracket (1) may be adjusted relative to the fixing (4). The support structure also comprises a support element (2), the support element having a dimension (d) which is larger than the opening (15), the support element having a fixing hole (14) therethrough, the distance between the fixing hole (14) and the periphery of the support element (2) being non-uniform. The support bracket (1) has a support surface (12) adapted for engagement by the periphery of the support element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventor: Tom Adriaan Gerard Dewaele
  • Patent number: 9115827
    Abstract: A clevis hanger has an upper strap and a lower strap. The upper strap can be supported by a hang rod or the like. The lower strap and the upper strap can be snapped open and snapped closed such that the lower strap can be secured to the upper strap without additional hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Cooper B-Line, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Heath, Dallas Martin Dworak, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9079065
    Abstract: A smaller-active camming device including a head member, a plurality of cam lobes, a retraction system, and a connection system. The head member includes a terminal and an axle. The axle comprises a unique configuration of multiple radial regions extending from opposite sides of the terminal. The radial regions of the axle are offset with respect to one another along at least one three dimensional axis. The offset of the radial regions is configured to reduce the geometrical interference of the cam lobes across the camming range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Black Diamond Equipment Ltd.
    Inventors: Brenden Perkins, Samuel Goodrich Lacey, Bill Belcourt, Jacob Hall, Jeremy Andrew Steck, Joseph Benjamin Walker, Kent Lansing Dodge
  • Patent number: 9062469
    Abstract: A safety anchor device for limiting movement of a person or arresting a fall of a person working at height, and in particular to an inflatable safety anchor device that may be positioned at a high point and then inflated with a liquid to provide a dead-weight anchor device. A dead-weight anchor device for securing a line to a person working at height comprises an attachment for a line that is provided on a top surface of a flexible-walled container. The container has an internal volume that may in use be inflated with a quantity of water to provide an anchoring dead-weight and subsequently deflated by letting water escape. The container has a plurality of flexible walls, including a pair of walls that are internally connected by drop threads that limit the separation between said pair of walls when the internal volume is inflated by water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: CHECKMATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Oliver Auston
  • Patent number: 9056590
    Abstract: One bracket assembly constructed of aluminum; however any metal, modern plastic or composite material may be substituted. Bracket assembly consists of a front mounting plate (FIG. 2) and a base mounting assembly or plate (FIG. 3). The base mounting assembly or plate contains a pull pin (FIG. 3, 15) locking device, which is attached to the base plate by square aluminum nut (FIG. 3, 17) welded to the tube. The front mounting plate consists of a notch (FIG. 2, 9) in the rod (8) that the pull pin (FIG. 3, 15) locks in to. This allows for assembly of the bracket and quick removal of the front mounting plate (FIG. 2) when desired. Other embodiments are described and shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Inventor: Michael Patrick McKinney
  • Patent number: 9044110
    Abstract: An anchoring system for use with hollow panels, comprises an anchor member and a separate fixture, which are adapted to be mounted together. The anchor member includes an elongated element, such as a wire, adapted to be inserted into and partly through a hollow panel, such as a wall, and to bear against a rear surface of the panel. The fixture is adapted to bear against a front surface of the panel for securing the anchoring system to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Cobra Anchors Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pierre McDuff, Alexandre Pollak, Lang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9027891
    Abstract: To facilitate installation of a floor protector to a furniture leg or a caster for movable objects, shrinkable tubing, for example heat-shrink tubing, is used to secure the floor protector to the leg or caster. A tube of heat-shrink material may have at normal temperatures a predetermined unshrunk cross-sectional size large enough to permit the tube to receive the foot portion or caster circumference and a shrinkage ratio sufficient for the tube to be shrunk to a cross-sectional size that is smaller than the foot portion or caster circumference so that, when the tube is shrunk by application of heat or other suitable means, the tube will conform and be secured to the underlying foot portion or caster. Hot-melt adhesive may be applied to the interior of the floor protector and the heat applied to shrink the tube may melt the adhesive to adhere the floor protector to the foot portion or caster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Inventor: Pierre Desmarais
  • Patent number: 9022333
    Abstract: A clipping jointer structure including a hooking member, a first moving fastener and a second moving fastener is provided. The hooking member is assembled to a rigid body, and has a suspending portion to buckle the hooking member onto one side of the rigid body. The first moving fastener is disposed on a board of the hooking member, and has an operating portion to buckle the first moving fastener onto another side of the rigid body or separate the first moving fastener from the rigid body. The second moving fastener is disposed on the board of the hooking member, and has a supporting portion to buckle the second moving fastener onto the structure body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Lite-On Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hsing-Yu Chen, Ching-Hsien Lin, Chao-Hsien Wu
  • Patent number: 8998157
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a molar media mount for positioning a media display device in unobscured view and direct line of sight of a patient. In some embodiments, the molar media mount includes a first end that attaches to a mounting arm of a medical device and a second end that attaches to and holds the media display device. In some embodiments, the second end includes a ball joint for setting an angle of the media display device that corresponds to the direct line of sight. In some embodiments, the molar media mount includes a set of articulating points that position a media display screen in a direct line of sight of a person in an examination seat In some embodiments, the medical device is a dental light. In some embodiments, the media display device attaches to the dental light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Inventor: Casey F Culberson
  • Patent number: 8998525
    Abstract: A structure for mounting a clip for a writing implement which has a barrel extending along a longitudinal axis. The structure includes a fastening member made of plastic material integral with the barrel and having a proximal wall and a distal wall with respect to the barrel, the proximal and distal walls being arranged opposite each other and overall extending in substantially parallel respective planes in order to form between them a recess having an open insertion end. The clip includes a fastening portion having a substantially uniform thickness and is suitable for mounting in the recess by the open insertion end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventors: Franck Rolion, Laurent Beaucher
  • Patent number: 8973876
    Abstract: A bracket assembly for adjustably and releasably affixing bracket elements to an adjustable elongated support member includes a cylindrical base, at least one cylindrical core having an orthogonal arm, and a cylindrical cap. The bracket assembly provides adjustable vertical bracket positioning by the adjustable elongated support member. Abutting bracket assembly cylindrical cores provide a range of orthogonal arm positions 180 degrees or less, one to the other. The orthogonal arm provides additional 360 degree adjustable positioning for any element attached to the arm outward end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Inventor: Andrew H. McGrath
  • Patent number: 8967568
    Abstract: An adjustable roller shade bracket comprising a first plate, a second plate and a bracket member. The bracket member is adapted for mounting to a surface. The second plate is rotationally secured to the bracket member. The first plate is releasably securable to an end of a roller tube of a roller shade and slidably secured to the second plate such that the first plate may be slid along the second plate in a first plane. Rotation of the second plate about the bracket member through 90 degrees permits the first plate to be slid along the second plate in a plane perpendicular to the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: ZMC Metal Coating Inc.
    Inventors: Norman Wills, Philip Ng
  • Patent number: 8955807
    Abstract: The invention is a security bracket assembly for preventing theft of camera lenses from cameras that are on display at retail locations. The bracket assembly carries and partially receives the camera body. The assembly has a forward shield that prevents finger access to the lens release mechanism that allows detachment of the lens from the camera body. The forward shield may be removed from the assembly so that a camera lens can be swapped without disconnecting other security or power features associated with the camera display post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mobile Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Alexander, Eric Pitt, Wade Wheeler
  • Patent number: 8950718
    Abstract: A support device having multiple degrees of freedom includes a base unit, a first support unit, a second support unit and a hinge unit. The base unit includes a base body. The first support unit includes a first support structure disposed on the base body. The second support unit includes a second support structure disposed between the first support structure and at least one display. The hinge unit includes a first hinge structure connected between the first support structure and a first end of the second support structure and a second hinge structure connected between a second end of the second support structure and the at least one display. Therefore, the second support structure can be pivotally disposed on the first support structure through the first hinge structure, and the at least one display can be pivotally disposed on the second support structure through the second hinge structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Flytech Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 8944393
    Abstract: A fixing structure for a multi-screen display unit which forms a large screen by contiguously disposing a plurality of display units with respect to a mounting pedestal by making a first supporting member provided on the back surface of the display unit be engaged with a second supporting member provided at the mounting pedestal, wherein the first supporting member includes a monitor fitting which has a display-side supporting plate provided so as to protrude from the back surface and is disposed at a corner portion of the back surface of the display unit, the second supporting member includes a fixing-side supporting plate which is provided at a position corresponding to the display-side supporting plate to protrude toward the back surface and supports the display-side supporting plate, and a pin member is provided in an upright manner at the fixing-side supporting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Renichi Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 8919721
    Abstract: A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes: a lower rail that is fixed on a vehicle floor; and an upper rail that is fixed to a seat and is movably supported on the lower rail in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, wherein the lower rail has a lower rail hook part, wherein the upper rail has an upper rail hook part, wherein the upper rail hook part is to be engaged with the lower rail hook part in the upper and width directions, wherein the lower rail has a curvature part that is downwards convex as viewed from the width direction of the vehicle, and wherein the lower end of the lower rail hook part at the curvature part has a notch part, in which the downward extending amount is reduced compared to the other part of the lower rail hook part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Genta Moriyama, Tsutomu Oya, Toshio Araki
  • Patent number: 8905368
    Abstract: In an embodiment the invention includes a method of mounting an engine in a rotary wing aircraft. The method includes providing a rotary wing aircraft having an aircraft body supported in flight through an exterior air space by a rotary wing system rotating with an operational rotating frequency (P) with a plurality of (N) rotary wings, the rotary wing aircraft body having a persistent in flight operational rotating frequency vibration. The method includes providing a first engine, the first engine for providing power to rotate the rotary wing system at the rotary wing system operational rotating frequency (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LORD Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel Zameroski
  • Patent number: 8770536
    Abstract: A clipping apparatus includes a base, a support bracket, a positioning member and a rotating arm. The support bracket is located on the base. The support bracket is oblique relative to the base and defines a sliding slot. The positioning member is slidably engaged in the sliding slot. A first end of the rotating arm is pivotably engaged with the base. A second end of the rotating arm, opposite to the first end, is secured to the positioning member. An angle defined between the base and the support bracket is adjustable when the positioning member is slid relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (WuHan) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cong-Xu Hu, Yu-Lan Liu, Yong Ma, Chao-Jie Cai
  • Patent number: 8763976
    Abstract: An example includes a mount for use with an electronic device. The mount includes a base that is configured to be located between an airplane tray table and a seat when the airplane tray table is in an upright and locked position, and an electronics mount to hold the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Arctic, LLC
    Inventor: Anton Jachim
  • Patent number: 8757575
    Abstract: A fixing device for circuit boards with different thickness includes a base board, a number of posts, and a number of fasteners extending through the circuit board and engaging with the posts. A number of fixing holes are defined in the base board. Each post includes a first threaded portion and a second threaded portion selectively screwed in the corresponding fixing holes of the base board. The length of the second threaded portion is different from the length of the first threaded portion. The circuit board is to be supported on a distal end of one of the first and second threaded portions that is not to be screwed in the fixing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chieh-Hsiang Lin, Wen-Tang Peng