Patents Examined by Jacob Meyers
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Patent number: 9260068Abstract: An in-vehicle battery system comprises a first power storage module including a lead-acid battery, and a second power storage module including a power storage portion having a higher energy density than that of the lead-acid battery. The lead-acid battery and the power storage portion are electrically connected in parallel to a power generating portion which converts a regenerative energy to electric power. The first power storage module and the second power storage module are provided in an engine room of a vehicle. The second power storage module is disposed more distantly than the first power storage module from an engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki Ohsumi, Kaoru Nakajima, Akinobu Tsunesada, Hideki Sakata
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Patent number: 9248734Abstract: A working vehicle, including: an engine housed inside a bonnet of a front part of a vehicle-body; a purification processing device which performs purification processing of exhaust gas that is discharged from the engine; and an exhaust member which discharges the exhaust gas that is discharged from the purification processing device, to an atmosphere, wherein the exhaust member has: a first exhaust part which protrudes from the bonnet to one side in a vehicle-width direction; a second exhaust part which communicates with an end part of the first exhaust part, and is disposed in an up-and-down direction of the vehicle-body; and a third exhaust part which communicates with an end part of the second exhaust part, and protrudes to the one side in the vehicle-width direction, and a height of an exhaust port of the third exhaust part is lower than a height of a floor of an operator seat.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: ISEKI & CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomoo Kiyokawa
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Patent number: 9227650Abstract: A child stroller that can grow with the family starts as a single stroller when a second base and standing boards are fully folded toward a first base. The second base can be slid open with respect to the first base to create a space to attach a full-sized second child seat via a second coupling unit. The standing boards may be extended out from the first base at the back that can be used for one foot or both feet, so that a third child can stand on the standing boards. Multiple configurations are provided for the child stroller.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Wonderland Nurserygoods Company LimitedInventor: Sharon A. Gillett
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Patent number: 9221484Abstract: This invention includes a cart assembly with an integrated cooler and a configurable and expandable cargo platform. The cart assembly comprises a chest compartment. One end of support beams is attached to the front surface of the chest. The opposite ends of the support beams are attached to the rear surface of the extension member. One end of an expanding platform is attached to the front surface of the chest. The opposite end of the expanding platform is attached to the rear surface of the extension member. Ends of the telescoping support rails are attached on both the left and right sides of the chest. Opposite ends of the telescoping support rails are attached on both the left and right side of the extension member. The cart assembly can expand and collapse to accommodate larger or smaller cargos and reconfigure the platform into a table.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Inventors: Eric W. Logvin, Brandon Law, Sergio Landau
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Patent number: 9220312Abstract: The invention relates to a safety ski binding system for the releasable fixing of a ski boot to a ski having an adjustable release mechanism and fixed holding elements. In accordance with the invention, two latching elements which each project laterally from the ski boot and which cooperate with a holder element formed fixed to the ski as a heel holder are arranged at the ski boot. The invention further relates to a ski boot which forms a part of the aforesaid safety binding system.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Inventor: Andreas Allmann
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Patent number: 9216698Abstract: An auxiliary storage system for attachment to a vehicle, including a storage container and a hitch assembly for releasably connecting the storage container and the vehicle together. The hitch assembly includes a central body, a first connection subassembly for attaching the central body and the vehicle together, and a second connection subassembly connectable with the storage container and movable relative to the central body, for attaching the central body and the storage container together. When the second connection subassembly is connected with the storage container, the storage container is movable thereby between a raised position, in which the storage container is located above a ground surface, and a lowered position, in which the storage container is located on the ground surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Nashco Enterprises Ltd.Inventor: Ryan Lorne Rhodes
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Patent number: 9211916Abstract: A fender for a wheel rotating about an axis comprises a main fender part extending around the axis, a fender protruding from an axial fender fringe towards the axis, a mudguard comprising a main mudguard section extending downwards from the main fender part and a mudguard skirt protruding towards the wheel axis from an axial mudguard fringe, and an elastic interface. The main fender part, the fender skirt, the main mudguard section, and the mudguard skirt are molded of a same dimensionally stable plastic material. The elastic interface is made of an elastomeric plastic material molded to the main fender part, the fender skirt, the main mudguard section and the mudguard skirt, and connects the main mudguard section of the mudguard to a lower back end of the main fender part, and the mudguard skirt to a lower back skirt end of the fender skirt.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: WEGU HOLDING LEICHTBAUSYSTEMEInventors: Martin Rosenbecker, Grit Mueller
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Patent number: 9205951Abstract: A reconfigurable bulletin board caddy includes rectangular inner and outer, open topped containers dimensioned to effect a slip-fit nesting engagement there-between. A reversible closure member includes a planer closure panel, a first stepped peripheral skirt extending normally from the planer closure panel in a first direction, and a second peripheral skirt extending normally from the planer closure panel in a second opposite direction, The stepped peripheral skirt forms first and second offset circumferential engagement surfaces. The first circumferential engagement surface sealingly engages the opening of the outer container and the second circumferential engagement surface simultaneously sealingly engages the opening of said inner container when said inner container is nestingly disposed within the first container.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Inventor: Josephine E. Roman
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Patent number: 9205855Abstract: A buggy for transporting children has a frame (3a, 3b, 5) and wheels (9) that are rotatably mounted relative to the frame to support the frame above a ground surface. A primary seat (8) is operatively supported by the frame for supporting a first child. A secondary seat (17) is operatively supported by the frame for supporting a second child. The buggy is convertible between an in use configuration for transporting children and a folded storage configuration, whether or not the secondary seat is attached. The secondary seat may be detachable. The secondary seat may be positioned at least partly behind and at least partly below the primary seat.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: PHIL AND TEDS MOST EXCELLENT BUGGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Campbell Gower, Philip Brace
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Patent number: 9193373Abstract: A stroller includes a first wheel assembly, a second wheel assembly, and a handle bar assembly, with each respective assembly being configured to connect to respective first, second, and third rotatable elements of a folding mechanism. Each of the first, second, and third rotatable elements are rotatably supported by a common axle. The stroller further includes a leverage element rotatably supported by a leverage axle, with the leverage axle being supported by the third rotatable element and being arranged in a parallel relationship with the common axle. The leverage element includes an axle slot for accommodating movement of the common axle. The leverage element also includes a first pin and a second pin, with the first pin being rotatably supported by the first rotatable element in a receptacle arranged at a first distance from the common axle, and the second pin being rotatably supported by the second rotatable element in a second receptacle at a second distance from the common axle.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Inventors: Alf Vegard Fjelland, Josef Efraim Tangen
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Patent number: 9186736Abstract: A stand for a table saw including a table assembly and a base assembly secured under the table assembly is provided. The stand includes a leg and handle unit including two parallel leg elements, two handles at one ends of the leg elements respectively, two side rails each having one end connected to both the handle and the leg element, and a U-shaped support element at the other ends of the leg elements, vertical metal tubes each provided at an end of the side rail joining both the handle and the leg element, top of each metal tube is secured to a bottom of the table assembly; a U-shaped, tubular upper support pivotably secured to the side rail, the upper support including two opposite lateral projections; and a leg unit including two parallel leg members, and two wheels rotatably mounted at one ends of the leg members respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Inventor: Chin-Chin Chang
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Patent number: 9187877Abstract: Provided is a machine body capable of preventing thermal decomposition of a liquid reducing agent in a reducing agent injector. The machine body includes an exhaust gas treatment device that reduces nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas of an engine provided within a machine room, and a reducing agent supplier that supplies the liquid reducing agent to the exhaust gas treatment device. The exhaust gas treatment device includes a reducing agent injector that injects the liquid reducing agent supplied from the reducing agent supplier, and a cooling fan that is installed in the vicinity of the reducing agent injector so as to face the reducing agent injector. The cooling fan performs cooling by blowing cooling wind of external air, which is taken in from the outside of the engine room, against the reducing agent injector and its upstream side.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Toru Imano, Akito Nakai, Shinichi Nishiyama
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Patent number: 9187144Abstract: A vehicle configured for conversion between expanded and folded arrangements, includes a front frame assembly, a front wheel and a rear wheel assembly having a rear wheel carrier and a rear wheel coupled with the rear wheel carrier. A central frame assembly extends between the front frame assembly and the rear wheel assembly. A forward hinge coupling enables relative pivoting of the front frame assembly and the central frame assembly about a front frame pivot axis extending at an acute angle relative to a rear vertical transverse plane and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane orthogonal to both a rear vertical longitudinal plane and the rear vertical transverse plane. A rearward hinge coupling enables relative pivoting of the central frame assembly and the rear wheel assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Inventor: Fook Fah Yap
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Patent number: 9187052Abstract: A vehicle 100 according to the present invention includes a battery pack 2, wherein the battery pack is disposed, in the vehicle, forward Fr of a space S2 formed between a driver's seat 11 and a passenger's seat 12 provided side by side in a vehicle width direction, and rearward Rr of an instrument panel 31 provided forward of the driver's seat 11 and the passenger's seat 12 in the interior of the vehicle. According to the present invention, it is unnecessary to remove the driver's seat and the passenger's seat in removing the battery pack from the vehicle body, and the number of man-hours involved in the removal work of the battery pack can be reduced as compared with the conventional vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji Kimura, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara
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Patent number: 9174520Abstract: An electric vehicle wherein at least part of a cell unit is provided along an inclined part of a rear dividing wall. A bottom end of the cell unit is positioned lower than the hip point of a passenger. As seen from the vehicle-width direction, motor mounts are positioned so that the top part of the cell unit and part of the motor mounts overlap in the vertical direction of the electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Goichi Katayama, Daijiro Takizawa
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Patent number: 9156405Abstract: A supplemental step assembly for a vehicle having a vehicle step includes a step which has a first end and an opposite second end. A first side member has a first step end which is connectable to the first end of the step, and an opposite first vehicle step end which is connectable to the vehicle step, the first step end being offset from the first vehicle step end. A second side member has a second step end which is connectable to the second end of the step, and an opposite second vehicle step end which is connectable to the vehicle step, the second step end being offset from the second vehicle step end. The supplemental step assembly can be connected to the step of the vehicle in either an upward projecting direction or a downward projection direction. The supplemental step assembly provides an additional step which reduces the vertical step height and facilitates entry of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Inventor: Guy Charles Levesque
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Patent number: 9156487Abstract: A wheelbarrow that can transition from a conventional wheelbarrow configuration to a loading platform that places a wall of the carrier flat on the ground to facilitate placing an object or objects on it without requiring lifting, and then transition back to conventional Wheelbarrow configuration using mechanical advantage.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Inventor: Christopher Edward Blume
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Patent number: 9150354Abstract: A product line of heavy-duty rolling trash receptacles designed for exterior household and commercial use, and featuring a unique, interlocking, magnetic lid system that will keep the contents secure and safe from animal pests when closed, yet remain open by magnetic attraction when the cans are opened for emptying.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Inventor: Doris Gischel
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Patent number: 9150095Abstract: A front-end module (FEM) having in-vehicle parts incorporated in a vehicle front section are aggregated and assembled to a heat exchanger support frame, the plurality of in-vehicle parts are classified into first in-vehicle parts, which vibrate at frequencies in a first frequency band, and a second in-vehicle part, which vibrates at a frequency in a second frequency band having a frequency range higher than the frequency range in the first frequency band. The first in-vehicle parts are elastically supported by the heat exchanger support frame via first mount members. The second in-vehicle part is rigidly fixed to the heat exchanger support frame. The heat exchanger support frame is elastically supported by a vehicle body via second mount members.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Matano, Masahiro Onishi, Miwako Takahashi
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Patent number: 9139215Abstract: An infant stroller apparatus includes a stroller frame having a push handle, a child safety seat installed with the stroller frame, and a restraint system for holding the child safety seat with the stroller frame. The restraint system includes a holding structure disposed at a transversal position and near a rear portion of the child safety seat, and two first and second abuttal arrangements provided symmetrically at left and right sides of the child safety seat. Each first abuttal arrangement includes a bearing surface carried by one side segment, and a protruding structure connected with the child safety seat that rests on the bearing surface. The second abuttal arrangements are disposed near the front portion of the child safety seat to prevent the child safety seat from moving in a direction that raises the protruding structures out of contact with the bearing surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: NUNA INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventor: Wanquan Zhu