Abstract: The track tension of a tracked vehicle is actively controlled by a track tensioner system that is positioned behind or within an idler wheel of a tracked vehicle. The system employs no exposed hydraulic line and is operable to default to a passive tensioning mode in the event of a system failure. The hydraulic circuit of the track tensioner system is powered by the rotation of the idler wheel inside which the system resides.

Abstract: A bucket transport structure for the transport of buckets includes a platform defining holes therein to receive buckets, and includes a frame having a wheel and handles. The platform is removably connected on one end adjacent the handle, and is also removably connected to the frame adjacent the wheel. The platform is preferably supported at an angle when the wheelbarrow frame is at rest so that the platform is in a generally horizontal orientation when the bucket transport structure is being utilized for transporting buckets. A series of platforms may be interchangeably attachable to the frame, wherein each platform includes a different number of holes.

Abstract: The utility cart of the present application comprises a frame, at least two wheels and a storage panel. In one embodiment, the storage panel is removable and capable of being replaced with an alternate storage panel.

Abstract: A suspension apparatus connected to a wheel of a vehicle and includes a first linkage, a second linkage, a third linkage, a bell crank, and a shock absorber. The first linkage connects to the wheel. The second linkage includes a first portion that is pivotally connected to a second portion of the first linkage. The third linkage includes a first portion that is pivotally connected to a second portion of the second linkage. The bell crank includes opposed first and second arms and a central pivot connection to the third linkage, wherein the first arm is pivotally connected to a first portion of the first linkage. The shock absorber has a variable length and includes a first portion that is pivotally connected to the first portion of the third linkage and wherein a second portion of the shock absorber is pivotally connected to the second arm of the bell crank.

Abstract: A powertrain includes an engine and an electrical circuit having a motor-generator and a starter mechanism coupled to the engine. A first energy storage device is disposed in a parallel electrical relationship with the starter mechanism. A second energy storage device is disposed in a parallel electrical relationship with the motor-generator. A first auxiliary electric system is disposed in a parallel electrical relationship with both the first energy storage device and the second energy storage device. A first switch is disposed within the electrical circuit between the first energy storage device and the first auxiliary electric system. A second switch is disposed within the electrical circuit between the second energy storage device and the first auxiliary electric system. The first auxiliary electric system is disposed, within the electrical circuit, between the first switch and the second switch.

Abstract: A storage system includes a mobile tool cart having multiple shelves, each of which may be provided with tool storage devices, such as interconnected arrays of tubes that are sized to receive individual tools or pieces of equipment. The tubes in the tool storage devices may include tubes of varying diameter and/or length so as to accommodate different types of equipment needed at a worksite. The arrays of tubes are arranged on the shelves of a tool cart in any desirable configuration, and additional tool storage elements such as socket holders may also be placed on the shelves. The storage system also includes a storage housing configured to cover the tool cart and prevent unauthorized access to the equipment and tools during periods of non-use.

Abstract: There is provided a combination of a center cap and a hub centering ring for wheel rims with a center bore. The combination comprises a wheel center cap having a body portion with a front side and a rear side and a plurality of flexibly resilient fingers extending substantially orthogonal from the rear side of the body portion, where each or at least part of the fingers having a free end with a flange or stepped portion. The combination further comprises a hub centering ring with a rear end, a front end, an interior surface and an outer surface. A radially outwardly turned retainer or retainer flange is provided at the rear end for retaining the ring in axial spaced relationship relative to the center bore of a wheel rim, and a recessed groove is provided at the interior or outer surface at a distance from the front end.

Abstract: A supporting mechanism supports a first and second exhaust treatment devices for treating exhaust gas from an engine and is provided with a base member, a first supporting member, and a second supporting member. The base member includes first and second connecting parts, and first and second pipe members. The base member supports the first and second exhaust treatment devices. The first supporting member supports one side of the base member. The second supporting member supports the other side of the base member. The first connecting part is joined with the first supporting member. The second connecting part is joined with the second supporting member. The first and second pipe members are disposed side by side on a common horizontal plane. An opening section is formed by the edges of the first pipe member, the second pipe member, the first connecting part, and the second connecting part.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a landing gear on a trailer utilizes two pair of locking pins mounted for simultaneous movement between an open position and a locked position such that in the locked position the landing gear is restrained in either a supporting position or a stowed position.

Abstract: An underfloor unit for reinforcing a motor vehicle body has a base body (12) connected to the motor vehicle body and intended to dissipate static and/or dynamic loads of the motor vehicle body. The base body (12) has an upwardly directed support plate (14) for supporting battery cell units of a traction battery for and a downwardly directed separate armor plate (16) for protecting the battery cell units against sudden effects of force from below. A cooling duct (18) for cooling the battery cell units is formed between the support plate (14) and the armor plate (16). The underfloor unit (10) can support the battery cells of the traction battery as a support plate (14), protect them as armor and cool them with the aid of the cooling duct (18) as a heat exchanger.

Abstract: Disclosed are various exemplary embodiments of a track joint assembly. In one exemplary embodiment, the track joint assembly may include a first link having a first bore. Additionally, the track joint assembly may include a second link having a second bore. The track joint assembly may also include a bushing. The bushing may include a first axial end portion disposed in the first bore. In addition, the bushing may include a second axial end portion disposed in the second bore. The track joint assembly may also include a seal assembly positioned at an axial end of the first axial end portion. The seal assembly may contact the first link at a seal-link interface.

Abstract: An ECU may make a changeover between EV running and HV running in accordance with a running situation in each of a CD mode and a CS mode. A start power threshold of an engine at the time when the CD mode is selected may be larger than the start power threshold at the time when the CS mode is selected. Then, the ECU may change the driving force characteristics of a vehicle depending on whether the CD mode or the CS mode is selected that may result in the vehicle driving torque for the same vehicle speed and the same accelerator opening degree being larger when the CD mode is selected than when the CS mode is selected.

Abstract: Provided is a haulage vehicle having an air cleaner that is realistic from the viewpoints of fabrication steps and cost aspect. An air cleaner (24) arranged in a haulage vehicle is provided with a swirling flow generator (26), a separator (27) and an outer cylindrical casing (25). The swirling flow generator has a fixed shaft (28) and a plurality of guide blades (29) arranged and shifted from one another over a predetermined angle in a direction in which the guide blades rotate about the fixed shaft, and by the plurality of guide blades, a swirling flow of cooling air is generated. The separator has a flange (32) attached on and along an inner peripheral wall of the outer cylindrical casing (25), an inner cylindrical member (30) arranged on an outer edge of a center bore of the flange, and a collection pocket (31).

Abstract: The generation of electrical power for large-vehicle transport refrigeration units (TRU) such as semi-trailer reefers. A generator is mounted to the vehicle frame or axle carriage and driven by a wheel-pulley system. Translational motion of the heavy vehicle produces electrical power using the substantial momentum of the vehicle. The electrical power can also be supplemented by at least one solar panel mounted on the roof of the semi-trailer reefer.

Abstract: A portable toolbox having a rigid rectangular tool container with an openable top enclosure, a base and a plurality of independently movable legs attached pivotally to the side of the toolbox having wheels and casters that rotate from a storage position to a mobile position so that the toolbox can be manually moved on its wheels and legs from a truck bed to a jobsite. The legs include pivotal cross braces and support braces which are engaged to the toolbox frame in the mobile position. The legs, the cross braces and support braces can all be simply folded up independently for each leg and each leg rotated to a storage position allowing the toolbox to be securely mounted within a truck bed when not in use.

Abstract: A battery mounting unit for a vehicle may include a front bracket bonded to a top of a rear floor panel of a vehicle body and having a through-hole penetrated together with the rear floor panel, a reinforcing bracket bonded to an inner side of a rear floor side member on a bottom of the rear floor panel to correspond to the front bracket and having a welding nut on a bottom corresponding to the through-hole of the front bracket, a rear bracket bonded to an outer surface of the rear floor side member and having a plurality of welding nuts on a lower side of a top thereof, a battery tray fastened to the plurality of welding nuts on the rear bracket by a bolt and seated with a battery, and a battery clamper joined to the battery tray to fix the battery to the battery tray.

Abstract: A castor supported dolly assembly, but also a dolly assembly that can be used either with or without castors so as to provide a new pallet assembly. The dolly assembly comprises a plurality of dolly members formed of a lightweight, disposable and/or severable material may be interconnected into interchangeable operative positions to define supporting orientations. Each dolly member includes and at least one connecting segment comprising a slot and a base. A connected orientation, of any two of the dolly members, comprises a confronting relation of the bases of engaging connecting segments and an aligned orientation of corresponding passages formed therein, so as to concurrently allow a castor to be removably received and retained in interconnecting relation to the confronting bases. Each dolly member may also include at least one supporting segment structured to receive a castor therein.

Abstract: A push on plastic wheel trim includes a disc and plastic lug nut caps seated in apertures formed in the disc. Each cap includes at least one axial panel having a lug nut engaging surface projecting from its inner face and at least one aperture engaging leg, having a flange projecting from its outer face. The lug nut engaging surface may comprise a partial thread segment configured to snap into the roots of external threads formed on the lug nuts or a lip which snaps over an annular lug nut flange. The caps are retained in the apertures by the leg flange engaging the inner face of the wheel cover disc and an annular cap flange which engages the outer face of the disc.

Abstract: A mobile concrete pump with a support structure, which can be placed on a vehicle frame of a truck chassis, for receiving functional units which form a support device and a distributing boom. The functional unit which forms the distributing boom has a rotary head mounted on a boom pedestal in a rotatable manner about a vertical axis, the boom pedestal being secured to the support structure, and the boom pedestal comprises a tank which engages into the support structure and is provided as a rotary bearing for the rotary head. Each functional unit which forms the support device has a support leg mounted in a bearing in a pivotal and/or telescopable manner, the bearing being secured to the support structure. A tank wall of the tank tapering from the top to the bottom in a truncated cone-like manner or in a truncated pyramid-like manner in the cross section, engages into the support structure and is rigidly secured, preferably welded, into the support structure.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided of skateboard decks and skateboard assemblies each having a unitary body of extruded aluminum, the body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. Each embodiment can have a handle portion formed in the unitary body and configured to receive one or more fingers, the handle portion positioned proximate one of the first longitudinal edge and the second longitudinal edge. Each of the embodiments disclosed herein can also comprise a first truck rail and a second truck rail extruded with the unitary body on the bottom surface, the first truck rail and the second truck rail running along at least a portion of a length of the unitary body and forming a track configured to movably receive a plurality of truck assemblies.