Patents Examined by Jacob B Meyer
  • Patent number: 12384475
    Abstract: A wheel assembly for a track system of a light heavy-duty vehicle is disclosed. The track system has a frame and an elastomeric endless track. The wheel assembly includes a wheel, an axle and first and second bearings. The wheel defines a wheel cavity in which the axle is receivable. The first and second bearing assemblies are disposed in the wheel cavity. The first bearing assembly is at a first end portion of the axle, and the second bearing assembly is at the second end portion of the axle. The wheel assembly is removable connectable to the frame of the track system. A track system and a light heavy-duty vehicle are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: SOUCY INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Landry, Yves Sauvageau, Gregory Wright, Branislav Nanac
  • Patent number: 12377820
    Abstract: A trailer landing gear includes a lower leg telescopingly joined with an upper leg, the lower leg defining fastener recesses having respective fastener holes. Respective fasteners including heads nested in the fastener recesses can removably join a foot to the lower leg. The lower leg can be retractable into an interior of the upper leg, and due to the recesses, the fastener heads can clear and can be concealed by the upper leg when the lower leg is retracted into the upper leg, to thereby increase the amount of lower leg retraction and increase clearance of the landing gear in a retracted mode. The landing gear can include a grease tube that is disposed in the legs, and can be located between and/or below the ends of the fasteners. The grease tube can include a grease fitting well above a grease tube bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: JOST International Corp.
    Inventors: Jay De Boer, Israel T. Hildebrandt, Brian E. Oestreich
  • Patent number: 12365404
    Abstract: An active air flap of a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a frame part which communicates with an outside air inlet of a grill, a flap part including a plurality of flap units which are rotatably connected to the frame part and sequentially open or close the outside air inlet of the grill, a rotary shaft which connects the plurality of flap units to the frame part, and a driven pinion gear connected to the rotary shaft, a driving part which transmits a driving force to the flap part, and a control unit which controls the driving part to be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Sup Byun, Kyeong Am Lee
  • Patent number: 12365228
    Abstract: An electric vehicle structure includes a drive system, a front lateral member and a rear upper lateral member. The front and rear lateral members are elongated in a lateral direction of a vehicle and spaced apart from each other in a forward-rearward direction of the vehicle with the drive system interposed therebetween. The vehicle structure further includes a rear lower lateral member elongated in the lateral direction of the vehicle and disposed beneath a motor of the drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dae Woo Jung, Jung Taek Lim, Sung Eun Ryu, Byong Cheol Kim, Hyeong Seung Ham, Dong Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12362423
    Abstract: A battery enclosure includes a tub defining an internal volume, a lid, a cross member within the internal volume, and a mounting bracket. The tub has a bottom and a wall integrally formed with the bottom. The lid is configured to couple to the wall to enclose the internal volume. The cross member is coupled to the tub. The mounting bracket is attached to the bottom of the tub and is configured to releasably secure a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: FLEX-N-GATE ADVANCED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Geoffrey Brooks, Steve Perucca, Robert L Fontichiaro, John Chiang, Paul Martini, Derek Bezaire, Aaron Boyer
  • Patent number: 12351029
    Abstract: A floor tunnel protruding upwardly and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction at a central position, in a vehicle width direction, of a floor panel, a cross member having ridgelines extending in the vehicle width direction at a rear end of the floor tunnel and a closed-cross section portion interconnecting a pair of right-and-left side sills, and a pair of right-and-left battery units positioned below the floor panel and between the side sills and provided on right-and-left sides, in the vehicle width direction, of the floor tunnel are provided. The cross member is provided with a reinforcement portion to reinforce the ridgelines in a range, in the vehicle width direction, which includes at least the position of the battery units and excludes the central position, in the vehicle width direction, of the floor panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka Natsume, Toshiyuki Koga, Akiko Nakamoto, Kento Otsuka, Kohichi Tanimoto, Yuji Yokogi, Yoshie Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 12343576
    Abstract: A fire apparatus includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a pump system coupled to the chassis and positioned at least partially behind the cab, and a driveline. The pump system includes a pump. The driveline includes a prime mover positioned beneath the cab and coupled to the chassis, a transmission, and a sandwiched power take-off unit positioned between (a) the prime mover and (b) the transmission and the pump system. The sandwiched power take-off unit facilitates operating the pump independent of a gear selection of the transmission and a ground speed of the fire apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Linsmeier, David Fieber
  • Patent number: 12337804
    Abstract: A stone removal system contains a frame, a winch unit fixed to the frame and in one embodiment containing a belt spooled about a ratcheted reel, and, a spool tightening tool. The frame is adapted to be leveraged against dual tires and the belt is adapted to be trained and tightened about an object stuck between a dual tire configuration on a truck, tractor, bus, or other vehicle to thereby provide an improvement in removing objects stuck between the dual tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Inventor: John Grover
  • Patent number: 12320416
    Abstract: A utility vehicle including an engine; an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas is discharged from the engine, the exhaust pipe being connected to the engine; and an air guide that guides outside air toward the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Shimatani, Ayumu Hamada, Takahiro Jyouzaki
  • Patent number: 12311526
    Abstract: A tool storage device system includes a base and a tool storage container removably coupled to the base. The tool storage container slides in a first direction relative to the base to attach the tool storage container to the base, and the tool storage container slides in a second direction, opposite the first direction, relative to the base to remove the tool storage container from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignees: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Keter Plastic LTD.
    Inventors: Grant T. Squiers, Yaron Brunner, Izhar Shani, Omer Menashri
  • Patent number: 12286334
    Abstract: A mobile transport system includes a vehicle frame, first and second pairs of support wheels, first and second drive wheels, and a swing frame. A drive unit including a drive frame is disposed on the swing frame. The first drive wheel is rotatably supported on a first swing arm, and the second drive wheel is rotatably supported on a second swing arm. The first and second swing arms are coupled to each other by a coupling unit, such that a pivot motion of the first swing arm about a first swing axis in a first pivot direction brings about a pivot motion of the second swing arm about a second swing axis in a second pivot direction oriented opposite to the first pivot direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Josef Schmidt, Andreas Tuskan
  • Patent number: 12286019
    Abstract: A vehicle-body structure both protects a battery and provides a routing member below a floor panel that improves underfloor aerodynamic performance. Embodiments of a vehicle-body structure may include: a routing member that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction on a vehicle-width-direction outer side of a battery frame below a floor panel; a cover member that extends from a lower side of a battery to a lower side of the routing member; battery-frame fixation portions that fix the battery frame to side sills; and cover-member fixation portions that fix a vehicle-width-direction end portion of the cover member to the side sills. The routing member and the battery-frame fixation portions may be positioned on a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the cover-member fixation portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12275448
    Abstract: A child stroller includes a stroller frame having an unfolded state and a first folded state, and includes a left support frame on a left side, a right support frame on a right side. Each of the left support frame and the right support frame includes a first bottom frame and a second bottom frame being a telescopic rod assembly, and includes an upper rod with a lower end portion connected to one of the second wheel assemblies and a lower rod disposed below the upper rod and slidably connected to the upper rod in an up-down direction. When the stroller frame in the unfolded state, one of the first bottom frame and the second bottom frame is inclined upward from front to rear, and the other one is inclined upward from rear to front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GOODBABY CHILD PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fusheng Ma, Pingzhong Shi
  • Patent number: 12268951
    Abstract: A rear portion of a ski mountaineering binding has a base with a turret rotatable into a first position. The binding portion attaches to a ski boot heel for downhill skiing. The turret has a second position for walking uphill. A ski brake includes a braking lever rotatable to assume a braking position and a non-active position. The brake has elastic for rotating the braking lever towards the braking position, the braking lever is pressed by the ski boot heel, when the turret is in the first position, in order to reach the non-active position. A rotation member rotatably borne by the base bears the braking lever. The rotation member and the turret are interconnected and solidly constrained to one another, with the turret in the second turret position and the braking lever in the non-active position, to enable walking uphill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ATK SPORTS S.r.l.
    Inventors: Davide Indulti, Marco Solarino
  • Patent number: 12263903
    Abstract: A universal trailer configured to be operated in a first mode, second mode, third mode and a fourth mode. The universal trailer includes a frame having support members, axles and wheels to facilitate towing thereof. A platform member is superposed the frame and is tiltably movable. In the first mode the platform member has no side panel members secured thereto. The present invention includes a plurality of side panel members that are operably couplable to form a first row and a second row. The present invention further includes a plurality of roof panel members that are operably coupled to the second row to provide enclosing of the trailer for its fourth mode of operation. The plurality of said panel members include connection members configured to secure the first row to the platform member. Upper connection members are configured to secure the second row to the first row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Mark Pfouts
  • Patent number: 12257903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid driving module, in which an input member is aligned in a radial direction and/or an axial direction by a rotor hub, and thus the hybrid driving module may be easily assembled and ensure the high axial balance and the operability and durability of the engine clutch. In the hybrid driving module, the input member may be aligned at least in the radial direction or in the axial direction by a central shaft extension part of the rotor hub. A bearing configured to support a rotation and thrust may be installed between the central shaft extension part and the input member. The input member may be supported to be rotatable relative to a housing. The input member may be aligned in the radial direction and/or the axial direction by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: VALEO KAPEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Woo Kim, Jin-Su Park
  • Patent number: 12224451
    Abstract: A battery housing for a vehicle driven by an electric motor to be installed in the floor region of a vehicle. The battery housing has a frame, which encloses at least one battery module, and a floor, which is connected to the frame. The floor takes the form of a sandwich construction and forms hollow chambers, which can be used as temperature-control channels for guiding through a fluid by virtue of end-side openings in adjacent hollow chambers being connected to one another at their two ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Kirchhoff Automotive Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Günther
  • Patent number: 12214652
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an all-terrain vehicle, and the all-terrain vehicle includes: a frame; a driver's cab arranged on the frame and located in a middle portion of the frame; a container arranged on the frame and located behind the driver's cab; a power unit arranged on the frame; a second radiator arranged behind the driver's cab, the container being defined with a second air port corresponding to the second radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Segway Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingyong Wang
  • Patent number: 12215612
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a cab-mounted muffler assembly are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a support structure configured to couple to an engine cab within an interior of the engine cab; and a muffler assembly configured to mount to the support structure within the interior and spaced apart from an engine by the support structure. The muffler assembly is mounted to the support structure vertically above the engine relative to a ground surface on which the engine cab is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kanzal Venkatesha, Samir Vikas Joshi, Mohammed Sajid Ahmed, Sudeer Gowd Patil, Abhijit Eknath Patil, Kavitha Gajanan
  • Patent number: 12202550
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a tire containment device securely mounted to an axle of a vehicle to contain shrapnel caused by a tire blowout. In an illustrative example, the tire containment device may include an axle bracket and a tire fender. The axle bracket, for example, may be mounted to an axle of the vehicle. The tire fender may, for example, have a substantially continuous containment cavity. In some examples, when the tire fender is coupled to a vehicle axle by the axle bracket, the containment cavity may extend over at least a top and an exterior face of an upper third of a diameter of a tire. For example, the containment cavity may substantially intercept shrapnel from failure of the tire before it reaches a body of the vehicle. Various embodiments may advantageously reduce damage to a body of the vehicle during a tire blowout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Derek Grant