Patents Examined by Hanh V. Tran
  • Patent number: 12203591
    Abstract: A support system for a storage container includes an extendable slide assembly having a first or supported end and a second or free end, and a support bracket removably receiving the first end of the extendable slide assembly to support the extendable slide assembly in a cantilevered manner. The second or free end of the extendable slide assembly is configured to support the storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Thewley, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew John Vallo, Gabrielle Marie Jackson
  • Patent number: 12195228
    Abstract: An assemblable pallet is provided. The assemblable pallet mainly includes a plurality of top plates, a plurality of bottom plates, a plurality of upper support plates, a plurality of lower support plates, and a plurality of feet stacked correspondingly. The above plates are all sheets. Then a plurality of fasteners is inserted through corresponding fastening holes of the above plates and bent to be locked at the fastening holes. Thus the plurality of plates is combined to form a pallet which can be assembled and disassembled more easily and conveniently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventor: Fa Hung
  • Patent number: 12196482
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes: an inner case including a plurality of plates formed by injection-molding; an outer case couplable with an exterior of the inner case; and an insulation between the inner case and the outer case. A first plate of the plurality of plates includes a first coupling portion formed along an edge of the first plate, and a second plate of the plurality of plates includes a second coupling portion formed along an edge of the second plate and couplable with the first coupling portion. The first coupling portion includes an insertion protrusion. The second coupling portion includes: an accommodating portion forming an accommodating groove in which the insertion protrusion is inserted; and a catching portion configured to prevent the insertion protrusion from departing from the accommodating groove; and an inner rib protruding from an inner surface of the accommodating portion to be inserted in the insertion groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Jehun Kang, Joongho Kim, Sungun Go
  • Patent number: 12185835
    Abstract: A drawer assembly includes a member having a first locking element. A drawer includes a frame and a handle having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is coupled to the frame. The second portion is coupled to the first portion. A drawer release includes a first end and a second end and is rotatably coupled to the drawer. The first end includes a second locking element. The second portion is rotatable relative to the first portion to move the drawer release between a first orientation in which the second locking element directly engages the first locking element to prevent the drawer from translating relative to the member and a second orientation in which the second locking element is spaced apart from the first locking element to allow the drawer to translate relative to the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L Hanley
  • Patent number: 12181207
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a mounting bracket disposed at a top surface of the cabinet, a door configured to rotate relative to the cabinet, a hinge cover that is disposed at the top surface of the cabinet and covers the mounting bracket, a hinge including a door bracket disposed at the door, a hinge bracket disposed at the mounting bracket, and a plurality of links that connect the door bracket to the hinge bracket, a guide device having a first side disposed at the door and a second side that passes through a cover opening at a front surface of the hinge cover and is disposed inside the hinge cover, and an electric wire or a water pipe disposed along an inside of the guide device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Changseok Oh
  • Patent number: 12171334
    Abstract: Technology capable of replacing an external panel of a refrigerator is disclosed. A refrigerator door comprises a frame assembly disposed side by side on both sides to form an edge of the refrigerator door and having a hollow portion formed in a longitudinal direction, a front panel coupled to one side of the frame assembly to form a front surface of the refrigerator door, a rear panel coupled to the other side of the frame assembly to form a rear surface of the refrigerator door, and a reinforcing panel disposed between the front panel and the rear panel. The frame assembly or the reinforcing panel has coupling grooves formed to be concave rearward on one side facing the front panel, and the coupling grooves are formed on both sides and spaced apart in a vertical direction, and coupling protrusions, at least a portion of which is accommodated in and fixed to the coupling grooves, are formed on a rear surface of the front panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wanhee Kim, Hanbyeol Yoon
  • Patent number: 12173956
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a door including a door body and a door panel coupled to the door body, and a buffer member disposed at a rear surface of the door panel and provided between the door body and the door panel. The door body defines a first part at a front surface, an adhesive portion is provided at the first part between the door body and the door panel to thereby couple a rear surface of the door panel to the front surface of the door body, and the buffer member contacts a first portion of the adhesive portion and the rear surface of the door panel contacts a second portion of the adhesive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Hwa Lee, O Min Kwon
  • Patent number: 12173955
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hinge and a refrigeration equipment. The hinge includes a vertical hinge shaft, a first hinge base and a second hinge base. The first hinge base includes a first installation plate and a first sleeve rotatably connected to the hinge shaft to make the first sleeve rotate around the hinge shaft. A lower end of the first sleeve is provided with a first slope sloping downwards. The second hinge base below the first hinge base includes a second installation plate and a second sleeve fixed on the hinge shaft. An upper end of the second sleeve is provided with a second slope sloping upwards. The second slope abuts against and cooperates with the first slope for the first sleeve to move from a first position to a second position along a direction away from the second sleeve or from the second position to the first position along a direction close to the second sleeve while being rotated around the hinge shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HEIFEI HAULING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanping Li, Huawei Zhang, Long Chen, Rong Wang, Pengkai Liu
  • Patent number: 12173958
    Abstract: A refrigerating unit including a compartment, a glass door, and a heating arrangement installed in a base profile of the compartment. The refrigerating unit including an elongated gasket profile having a proximal part and a distal part, wherein the proximal part includes a flexible element configured to allow the distal part to be displaced towards the base profile upon closing the glass door. The distal part includes a hollow part with a first side of the hollow part connected to the proximal part and a second side of the hollow part directed towards the glass door. The heating arrangement further includes a heat-conducting material enclosed by the hollow part and arranged with an outer side surface of the heat-conducting material abutting the second side of the hollow part, and a heating element enclosed by the hollow part and arranged for conductive heating of the heat-conducting conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: REHAU-BEHR A/S
    Inventor: Thomas Lanzl
  • Patent number: 12171352
    Abstract: A placemat and tether system may include a mat body, a plurality of anchors and an elongated tether. The mat body may be characterized by a front side and a back side. Each anchor in the plurality of anchors may include an anchor block on the front side and a suction cup that extends from the back side, opposite the anchor block. The elongated tether may have an anchor end and a retention end, where the anchor end is removably coupleable to one of the plurality of anchors via a compression fit. The elongated tether may have three distinct segments—a first segment with a circular cross section; a second segment that is removably coupleable, via a compression fit, to the retention end to thereby form a loop; and a third segment with an elastic winding section configured to facilitate stretching along a length of the elongated tether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Beth Benike, Aaron Nelson, Edward Packer
  • Patent number: 12168900
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a feedback mechanism for a biological safety cabinet comprising a glass window and a cover plate in front of the glass window, the feedback mechanism comprises a monitor control component comprising a roller element being fixedly disposed with respect to the cover plate and comprising a rollable roller, and a contact component being fixedly disposed relative to the glass window so that the contact component can move relative to the roller with movement of the glass window, the contact component comprising a recess for receiving the roller, wherein the contact component moves with the glass window to a position corresponding to the roller when the glass window moves relative to the cover plate, such that the roller rolls into the recess, allowing the feedback mechanism to generate tactile feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd., Thermo Fisher Scientific (Suzhou) Instruments Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Max Yao, Sean Shang, Yi Zhou, Julia Geng
  • Patent number: 12150567
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a control unit provided in the cabinet and controlling an operation of the refrigerator, a main door that opens or closes the cabinet and has an opening formed therein, a main hinge that couples the cabinet to the main door and allows the main door to be pivotably mounted, a sub-door formed on a front surface of the refrigerator and opens or closes the opening, a sub-hinge that couples the main door to the sub-door and allows the sub-door to be pivotably mounted, a sub-hinge cover that simultaneously shield a main hinge shaft of the main hinge and a sub-hinge shaft of the sub-hinge, and a wire disposed to extend from an inside of the sub-door, to be connected with the control unit, and to sequentially pass through the sub-hinge shaft and the main hinge shaft along an inside of the sub-hinge cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changseok Oh, Sangmyung Lee
  • Patent number: 12144138
    Abstract: Systems for unlocking and locking a riser cage to a computing device are described herein. Such systems may include: a riser cage in a computing device; an axis member coupled to a first side of the riser cage and adapted to rotate about an axis; a handle coupled to the axis member and adapted to rotate the axis member about the axis; a cam, coupled to the axis member, and adapted to rotate about the axis when the axis member rotates; and a lever coupled to a second side of the riser cage and adapted to rotate about a pivot point when the cam rotates, wherein the lever engages with a stabilizing feature when the handle is in a first handle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yin Hung, Chien-Hung Chou, Hsu-Chu Wang, Hung-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 12140262
    Abstract: A vacuum adiabatic body, a refrigerating or warming apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a vacuum adiabatic body are provided. The vacuum adiabatic body includes a first plate defining at least a portion of a wall for a first space, a second plate defining at least a portion of a wall for a second space having a second temperature different from a first temperature of the first space, and at least one conductive resistance sheet connecting the first and second plates to each other. At least one of a flange of the first plate coupled to the at least one conductive resistance sheet or a flange of the second plate coupled to the at least one conductive resistance sheet is bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeunsik Nam, Myoungju Kang, Bongjin Kim
  • Patent number: 12130073
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum adiabatic module. The vacuum adiabatic module include an inner cover corresponding to an inner space, an outer cover corresponding to an outer space, the outer cover being provided to be larger than the inner cover, a vacuum space which is defined as inner spaces of the outer cover and the inner cover and is in a vacuum state, and a conductive resistance sheet provided on a connection portion between the inner cover and the outer cover to resist to thermal conduction. According to this embodiment, the vacuum adiabatic module may be more conveniently applied to the refrigerator and easily handled to easily fabricate the refrigerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Daewoong Kim, Deokhyun Youn, Wonyeong Jung
  • Patent number: 12121196
    Abstract: A dishwasher including a main body; a tub provided inside the main body to form a washing space; a door configured to open and close the tub, and including an inner door located inside the tub while the tub is closed by the door; a sealing member provided at a lower end of the inner door, and configured to prevent leakage from occurring between a bottom plate of the tub and the inner door; and a cover member provided at the lower end of the inner door and to cover a gap between the lower end of the inner door and the tub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changwook Lee, Eunseok Kim
  • Patent number: 12123237
    Abstract: A hinge is provided for hingedly connecting an enclosure door to an enclosure body. The hinge can include a set of hinge leafs, which can include a first leaf and a second leaf, a pin, and a fastener. The pin can extend from the first leaf and can be removably receivable within a pocket in the second leaf. The pin can have a groove extending inward from and around the periphery of the pin and positioned between the proximal pin end and the distal pin end. The fastener can extend into the pocket and at least partially into the groove when the hinge is in a locked configuration, inhibiting the separation of the first and second leafs, and removed from the groove when the hinge is in an unlocked configuration allowing the separation of the first and second leafs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures Inc.
    Inventors: Rony Khalife, William Anderson
  • Patent number: 12119624
    Abstract: A wall cavity electrical cupboard system is provided for allowing flush mounting with ready electrical access wiring that is received through holes of the cavity container and can feed along the circumferential channel and into holes of the template openings and can be connected to control means in the electrical mounting module mounted on the support brackets such as fuses, surge protectors, short circuit protection cutoffs etc. Only the front switches or indicators appear through cut outs. The channel and the template openings provide a benefit that the wiring therefore can be selectively moved around and readily connected without needing to line up the holes of the cavity container and the electrical container and with adjustability and safety of placing wiring connection behind the sealing protector plate covering the opening except for what is allowable to show through the cutouts and be mounted on the support brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: JTSHOLDINGS PTY LTD
    Inventor: Jared Smith
  • Patent number: 12117235
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum adiabatic body. The vacuum adiabatic body includes an outer case made of a metal material, which is thicker than a plate providing a vacuum space. The vacuum space provides two extension modules that extend in directions different from each other. Accordingly, a refrigerator door may be improved in adiabatic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Bongjin Kim, Hyeunsik Nam, Deokhyun Youn, Jaehyun Bae, Jangseok Lee
  • Patent number: 12108872
    Abstract: A pedestal leg assembly includes a pedestal leg and floor base. The leg includes a plurality of teeth near the bottom end of the leg and a connecting bolt in a threaded engagement with the bottom end of the leg. The floor base includes a recessed portion having a slot in its bottom surface to receive the bolt and a release mechanism configured to pivot between a lock position and a release position. In lock position the release mechanism engages at least one of the teeth to prevent rotation of the pedestal leg in at least one direction. When pivoted into release position, the release mechanism is moved away from engagement with the teeth to allow rotation of the pedestal leg in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions. The pedestal leg assembly may include a powered connection to receive input power and/or a communication signal at the floor base and transfer the power and communication signals to a supported table top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ITC Incorporated
    Inventors: Theodore Schneider, Jon Rathbun, Qingqi Xu