Patents Examined by Hosam Shabara
  • Patent number: 12377908
    Abstract: A hydraulic steering system, comprising a steering pump and a plurality of digital steering cylinder assemblies. Each digital steering cylinder assembly includes a steering cylinder and a digital hydraulic valve configured to selectively communicate a rodless cavity of the steering cylinder with one of the steering pump and a return oil circuit, and communicate a rod cavity of the steering cylinder with the other of the steering pump and the return oil circuit. A controller can be configured to emit a digital pulse signal to a motor and cause the digital hydraulic valve to move towards a first working position or a second working position. A mechanical feedback structure can be configured to be driven by a piston rod of the steering cylinder when the valve core of the digital hydraulic valve moves towards the first working position or the second working position, so as to drive the digital hydraulic valve to return to a neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Xuzhou Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Hu, Tao Zhu, Jianchun Yang, Xiuzhi Ren, Xiaojie Du
  • Patent number: 12370967
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a novel fifth-wheel towing apparatus. More specifically, the invention relates to a fifth-wheel towing apparatus that allows a single individual to more easily tow a semi-truck with another semi-truck by utilizing the fifth wheel attachment points of both trucks. The fifth-wheel towing apparatus is also a cost-effective device that can be easily operated, attached/detached, and stored by a single individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Inventor: Charles Watson
  • Patent number: 12351271
    Abstract: A bike includes a frame having a front fork rotatably engaged with a front wheel, a rear fork rotatably engaged with a rear wheel, a handlebar supported for steering the bike, and a drive module configured to drive the rear wheel of the bike when operated selectively with power. The frame includes a down tube extending downward and rearward from the front end of the bike and a drive module enclosure formed at a second end of the down tube and defining a drive module receptacle to receive the drive module. An alignment structure is positioned between the drive module and the inner surface of the drive module enclosure. The drive module is positioned within the drive module receptacle to form an engagement between the alignment structure and the drive module to support a first portion the drive module within the drive module receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: StaCyc, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Ryan Ragland, Lawrence Michael Paige, Monibert Narito Gaba, Jamie Richard Beckett
  • Patent number: 12349613
    Abstract: A support assembly for a trailered implement includes an implement support link that is moveable between an implement support position and a stowed position, and a shaft support link that is coupled to the implement support link via an intermediate link. The shaft support link is moveable between a first support position and a second support position. When the implement support link is disposed in the implement support position, the shaft support link may be disposed in the first support position to support and position the rotatable shaft at a first height relative to a ground surface. When the implement support link is disposed in the stowed position, the shaft support link may be disposed in the second support position to support and position the rotatable shaft at a second, lower height relative to the ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Devin M. Franzen
  • Patent number: 12351272
    Abstract: A bracket apparatus for mounting a derailleur to a frame of a human-powered vehicle comprises a bracket body and one of a restriction member and a restriction opening. The bracket body includes a frame attachment portion configured to be attached to the frame of the human-powered vehicle and a derailleur attachment portion to which the derailleur is to be attached. The restriction member is configured to be at least partly provided in the restriction opening to restrict a rotation of the bracket body relative to the frame of the human-powered vehicle in a bracket mounting state where the bracket apparatus is mounted to the frame of the human-powered vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujita, Atsuhiro Emura, Shota Suyama, Yusuke Oda
  • Patent number: 12344343
    Abstract: A straddled vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a bracket, and a footrest. The bracket is attached to the vehicle body frame. The footrest is movably supported by the bracket to be in one of an expanded position and a folded position. In the expanded position, the footrest extends outward from the vehicle body frame in the left-right direction. In the folded position, the footrest is rotated upward from the expanded position. The bracket includes a base portion and an extending portion. The base portion is disposed along the vehicle body frame. The extending portion extends outward from the base portion in the left-right direction. The footrest includes a contact portion that contacts the bracket at the folded position. The extending portion includes a receiving surface that contacts the contact portion, and that is located at an outer edge in the left-right direction of the extending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hayato Endo, Katsuya Haruta, Kazuya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 12337929
    Abstract: A kit of a scooter and a scooter are provided. The kit includes: a deck assembly; a first steering assembly arranged to a first end of the deck assembly; a driven wheel assembly arranged to the first steering assembly and configured to rotate relative to the deck assembly through the first steering assembly; a second steering assembly arranged to a second end of the deck assembly; a connecting device arranged to the second steering assembly and configured to rotate relative to the deck assembly through the second steering assembly. The connecting device is a device of the kit configured to be connected to a power wheel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: NINEBOT (BEIJING) TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Tong Wang, Wei Li, Anqi Sun, Ling Zhang, Wanyang Qiao
  • Patent number: 12337630
    Abstract: A telescoping trailer hitch system for a vehicle such as a car, truck, or SUV, and trailer comprising an overcab portion substantially parallel to a roof of the truck. The telescoping trailer hitch system comprises an expansion mechanism support, a series of dampers, a piston, an extension tube, and an outer support structure coupled to a hitch connector. The expansion mechanism is within the expansion mechanism support and the piston, the extension tube surrounds the piston, and the outer support structure surrounds the extension tube. Activation of the expansion mechanism exerts a force on the piston and the extension tube, causing the piston and the extension tube to slide out of the outer support structure, extending the hitch connector, and wherein deactivation of the expansion mechanism exerts a force on the piston and the extension tube, causing the piston and the extension tube to slide into the outer support structure, retracting the hitch connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ExoTek Trailers, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard Alvin Lindsay
  • Patent number: 12330739
    Abstract: A fork assembly including a steerer tube and a crown, wherein the steerer tube is fixedly aligned to the crown in a predefined orientation at a time of manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: William O. Brown, IV, Daniel McCormick, Joshua Coaplen, Christopher Otterness
  • Patent number: 12330737
    Abstract: A saddle-riding vehicle includes: a canister in front of an engine and on one lateral side of a vehicle body in a vehicle widthwise direction with respect to a center axis of the vehicle body in the vehicle widthwise direction, the center axis extending in a front-to-rear direction; and an accessory stay extending in a vertical direction from a main frame that supports the engine. The canister has an elongate shape in a longitudinal direction of the canister, and the canister is disposed on an inner side of the accessory stay in the vehicle widthwise direction to be supported by the accessory stay with the longitudinal direction extending along the accessory stay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Morotomi, Keisuke Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 12318057
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a robot cleaner, more particularly, to a robot cleaner that may be escaped from a trapped state by an escaping unit formed in an inner surface of a wheel, when a body of the robot cleaner is caught in a protrusion to put the robot cleaner in a trapped state where the robot cleaner cannot run during the running on the floor of a cleaning area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seungjin Lee, Hwang Kim
  • Patent number: 12291307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for driving a chainless electric bicycle comprising: a driving wheel; a pedal; a motor mechanically connected to the driving wheel; a generator mechanically connected to the pedal; and a battery, wherein provided is a system comprising: a generator location sensor for measuring the value of a rotation location of the generator; a motor location sensor for measuring the value of a rotation location of the motor; and a controller configured to calculate a difference value of the value of the rotation location of the motor minus the value of the rotation location of the generator multiplied by a gear ratio, and to control at least one of the generator and the motor on the basis of the difference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyung Ho Hong, Seungkyung Lee
  • Patent number: 12286050
    Abstract: A trailer that has a main body having a front bulkhead, an opposing rear bulkhead, an exterior wall operably engaged with the front and rear bulkheads, and at least one interior chamber defined collectively by the front bulkhead, the rear bulkhead, and the exterior wall. The at least one interior chamber is adapted to carry a load. The trailer also includes a removable false bulkhead operably engaged with the main body. The false bulkhead is located a distance away from one of the front bulkhead and the rear bulkhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Mac LTT, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Maiorana
  • Patent number: 12280849
    Abstract: A pedal driven cycle comprising a cantilevered frame member coupled to a power input sprocket and a driven sprocket; a belt drive connecting the power input sprocket to the driven sprocket; and a side mounted rear wheel releasably coupled to a multi-speed gear hub that is coaxial with the side mounted rear wheel, wherein the multi-speed gear hub is coupled to the driven sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Karbon Kinetics LLC
    Inventor: Richard Thorpe
  • Patent number: 12275485
    Abstract: A rear wheel suspension system for a bike, includes a seat tube, left and right side flexible chainstays, left and right side seatstays. A leaf spring interconnects the seatstays and the seat tube, wherein one end of the leaf spring is connected to the upper end area of said seatstays, the leaf spring extending upwardly from its point of connection to the upper end area of the seatstays to a point of connection to the seat tube of said bicycle. The leaf spring is arranged at a distance D to the seat tube in a direction perpendicular to top and bottom surfaces of the leaf spring to allow flex of the leaf spring towards the seat tube and thus vertical flex of said flexible chainstays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LAUF CYCLES HF.
    Inventors: Benedikt Skulason, Bergur Benediktsson
  • Patent number: 12275487
    Abstract: A moving body includes: a vehicle which includes a front wheel and rear wheels and which a passenger gets on; an unmanned carrier vehicle which is arranged at the back side of the vehicle, and includes a wheel and a driving unit which drives the wheel; and a coupler which couples the vehicle and the unmanned carrier vehicle. The coupler includes a biasing mechanism which biases a rear part of the vehicle toward an upper side of the vehicle, the biasing mechanism includes a first elastic member; when the passenger is on the vehicle, the first elastic member is deformed by the weight of the passenger to place the rear wheels in contact with a road surface, and when the passenger is not on the vehicle, the rear wheels are separated from the road surface by the elastic force of the first elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koji Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12275479
    Abstract: For a self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle including a seat with a reference point, a footpeg elevational system includes a first footpeg pivotally couplable to the self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle, and a second footpeg pivotally couplable to the self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle, wherein the first footpeg is coupled to the second footpeg so that when the first footpeg and second footpeg are pivotally coupled to the self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle, the first footpeg becomes closer to the reference point of the seat of the self-propelled two-wheeled vehicle when the second footpeg becomes farther from the reference point without use of at least one telescoping assembly that includes at least one outer housing and at least one inner concentric arm telescopically slidable with the at least one outer housing. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventor: Charles Dominic Bugni
  • Patent number: 12268122
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a work vehicle that can be controlled automatically. The work vehicle includes HST's for feeding power for traveling to at least either front wheels or rear wheels mounted on a traveling vehicle body, traveling levers for operating driving of at least either the front wheels or the rear wheel, traveling links operably coupling the traveling levers with the HST's, traveling drive sections for driving either the traveling levers or the traveling links, and a traveling control section configured to activate the traveling drive sections in response to receipt of a traveling instruction for the traveling levers in the automatic control mode for automatically controlling the traveling vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuaki Matsuda, Katsuhiko Uemura, Yasuhiro Manji, Ryo Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12263908
    Abstract: A suspension control system is provided for a suspension of a human-powered vehicle. The suspension control system basically includes a detector, an electronic controller and an additional detector. The detector is configured to detect information relating to a running condition of the human-powered vehicle indirectly indicative of a pedaling state of the human-powered vehicle. The electronic controller is configured to output a control signal to adjust an operating state of the suspension in accordance with the information detected by the detector. The additional detector is configured to detect additional information relating to at least one of a riding posture of rider riding the human-powered vehicle and a terrain condition. The electronic controller is configured to output the control signal to adjust the operating state of the suspension in accordance with the information in combination with the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Shimano Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Shahana
  • Patent number: 12258082
    Abstract: A leg assembly for a legged robot includes first through three motors, first through second legs, and a transmission component. The first motor is coupled to the second motor to drive the second motor to rotate, and a rotation axis of the first motor is substantially orthogonal to a rotation axis of the second motor. The second motor is coupled to the third motor to drive the third motor to rotate, and a rotation axis of the third motor substantially coincides with the rotation axis of the second motor. The third motor is arranged at a first end of the first leg, the second leg is pivotably coupled to a second end of the first leg, and the transmission component is coupled to an output shaft of the third motor and the second leg to drive the second leg to rotate relative to the first leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Robot Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiyang Liu, Wenping Guo, Xiaomao Wei, Fang Zhi, Shuang Li