Patents Examined by James A. Shriver, II
  • Patent number: 12016804
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a collapsible wheelchair, including: a movable chassis; a chair; a chair backrest; at least one first folding mechanism, installed between the movable chassis and the chair; and at least one second folding mechanism, connected between the chair and the chair backrest; where, the at least one first folding mechanism and the at least one second folding mechanism are connected in series and both have a four-rod linkage structure, and when the collapsible wheelchair is switched from a folded state to an open state or from the open state to the folded state, the at least one first folding mechanism and the at least one second folding mechanism are configured to move simultaneously. The collapsible wheelchair provided by the present disclosure is convenient in terms of the operation and easy to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: SHANGHAI BANGBANG ROBOTICS CO., LTD, Jiangsu BangBang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianguo Li, Yongqiang Li, Jie Liu, Xiaodong Wang, Zhefu Zhang, Canfeng Liu, Xiangcheng Liao
  • Patent number: 12017694
    Abstract: A shopping cart basket comprises one or more modular baskets couplable to a bottom basket having a plurality of wheels extending downwardly to allow the shopping cart basket to roll. Each of the modular baskets has a foldable bottom wall that can act as a bottom of a separate basket or can be folded against a side wall of the modular basket. The modular baskets could be used to hold items within a smaller compartment, and can be combined with the bottom basket to form a roll-able shopping cart having a larger compartment. Such a cart is advantageously used in a store, such as a grocery store, a retail shopping mall, or a home improvement store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Jason Gardner
  • Patent number: 12017693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cart device primarily comprised of a body, at least one wheel, and at least one axle. In one embodiment, the device can be manually pulled using a handle. In another embodiment, the device has a motor that is powered by a battery and can be controlled by a remote such that the device can propel itself. In various embodiments, the wheel of the device can be optimized for various terrain such as sand, wherein said embodiment features a smooth and inflatable wheel. Further, the device is comprised of an umbrella holder that receives an umbrella and allows the device to act as a base for the umbrella. The device is also comprised of a tow hitch and a tow bar that allows the device to be pulled by a secondary vehicle such as, but not limited to, a golf cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Ralph D. Somheil
  • Patent number: 12016807
    Abstract: A reclining chair includes a frame and a back part with a back support slidably connected to a back frame hinged on a frame rotation point on the frame. A seat part, including a seat frame and a seat, is pivotably connected to the back frame at a chair joint. A reclining mechanism includes an arm pivot point fixed to the frame. A first arm extends from the arm pivot point to a second arm at an arm suspension point. The second arm is pivotably connected to the chair joint. When the back part reclines from an upright position, the back frame rotates, the first arm rotates, the chair joint moves towards the seat part, and a connecting arm extending from the back support and mechanically linked to the first arm and the second arm pulls the back support so the back support slides towards the seat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: DAN-REHAB A/S
    Inventor: Hans Balle Christensen
  • Patent number: 12017695
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transporting apparatus. The transporting apparatus can include the following components: a first frame support configured to support an object; a second frame support configured to roll the transporting apparatus and to move relative to the first frame support; and a plurality of shock absorbing elements positioned between the first frame support and the second frame support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yueh-Sheng Hsu, Liang-Kun Zhu
  • Patent number: 12017697
    Abstract: A snapping structure is provided, which is configured to detachably mount a body to a support frame. The snapping structure includes a locking member movably disposed on the body and a positioning member disposed on the support frame and mated with the locking member. The locking member is movable to be locked to the positioning member, so as to mount the body to the support frame, or the locking member is movable to be unlocked from the positioning member, so as to separate the body from the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventor: Fangming Li
  • Patent number: 12017523
    Abstract: A front closing cross-member includes a medial portion having an airfoil-like shape arranged between left and right end portions of greater height than the medial portion. The medial portion includes a trailing edge having a height less than a height of a leading edge thereof. The end portions are configured to be mounted to at least a portion of a chassis frame of a road vehicle. The cross-member may exhibit the same or greater stiffness and torsional rigidity as a conventional member, while exhibiting reduced drag and facilitating formation of a laminar airflow wake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Mahesh Boraiah, Stephen Gelgot
  • Patent number: 12011400
    Abstract: An apparatus for powering a manual wheelchair with rear wheels that includes a motor and pair of powered drive wheels, with each powered drive wheel in contact with a respective rear wheel of the manual wheelchair. Some embodiments of the powered apparatus include a piston assembly coupled to each of the powered drive wheels, whereby movement of the piston assembly to a disengaged position ceases motorized control of the wheelchair. The piston assembly may also be utilized as a “build-in” emergency stopping feature for motorized wheelchairs. A controller for operating the powered apparatus also is contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher Paillet
  • Patent number: 12012788
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an openable and closable bonnet that covers an engine and is rockable with respect to a body frame, a pin that is provided on the body frame side, and a lock that is provided on the bonnet side and is switchable between a locked state in which the bonnet is locked by the lock engaging with the pin and an unlocked state in which the bonnet is not locked by the lock not engaging with the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Tanaka, Mami Fujii
  • Patent number: 12012140
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile cart including a base for accommodating one or more gas cylinders, castors, a main column extending upwards from the base, a stowage cabinet arranged along the main column, an anchoring structure arranged at an upper end of the main column, a support post carried by the anchoring structure and equipped with fixing unit for a gas delivery apparatus, and a manual gripping handle allowing a user to manipulate the cart. Use of such a mobile cart to transport one or more cylinders of gas, in particular a NO/N2 mixture and/or oxygen, and a gas delivery apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: INOSYSTEMS
    Inventors: Frédéric Marchal, Nicolas Tirilly
  • Patent number: 12011967
    Abstract: A heat exchange module includes at least a first heat exchanger and a ventilation device intended to generate a flow of air. The ventilation device includes at least one cross-flow fan for setting in motion an air flow and a guide means that includes at least one air guiding element for guiding the air set in motion by the cross-flow fan. The first heat exchanger and the ventilation device are positioned relative to one another in such a way that the air flow set in motion by the ventilation device is fed into the heat exchanger and, when the fan is in operation, this air is drawn in by the cross-flow fan passes through the heat exchanger before entering the cross-flow fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Sébastien Garnier, Michael Lissner, Amrid Mammeri, Kamel Azzouz
  • Patent number: 12013031
    Abstract: A transport vehicle is driven by a hydraulic closed circuit system having a variable displacement pump to send an operating fluid to a delivery branch and receive the operating fluid from a return branch, a plurality of hydraulic motors connected to the delivery branch and to the return branch in order to drive relative wheels of the vehicle, a command and control unit to control the pump and the hydraulic motors in an ordinary advancing condition of the vehicle and command and control unit, which is configured to intervene in case of faults or malfunctions of the pump and to control a valve so as to establish a connection between the delivery branch and the return branch regardless of the control of the command and control unit of the pump and of the hydraulic motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: FAYMONVILLE DISTRIBUTION AG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Lippi, Willian D'Agostino, Alexander Fickers
  • Patent number: 12012058
    Abstract: Battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles may include a polymer-based enclosure having features for sealing external joints, retaining components inside the battery pack, securing electrical and coolant lines to the polymer-based enclosure, etc. The proposed designs reduce the number of overall parts in assembly, such as fasteners and brackets, and simplify the overall battery pack manufacturing and assembly processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Smith, Patrick Daniel Maguire, Kanchana Perumalla, Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Saravanan Paramasivam, James Maurice Boileau
  • Patent number: 12011958
    Abstract: An exemplary self-locking actuator mechanism includes a floating plate and a linear actuator. The floating plate defines a first slot that includes a first central portion, a first jog extending laterally from a first end of the first central portion, and a second jog extending laterally from a second end of the first central portion. The linear actuator includes a shaft pivotably connected to the floating plate, and is operable to drive the shaft between a first shaft position and a second shaft position to thereby move the self-locking actuator mechanism between a first locking state and a second locking state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: William Douglas Graham, Anand Mudanur, Anant Dnyanoba Nimbalkar, Pravin Pawar
  • Patent number: 12005009
    Abstract: A patient transport apparatus including a support structure movable between a chair configuration for traversing floor surfaces and a stowed configuration for storage. A seat section is pivotably coupled to the support structure. A caster assembly includes a pin coupled to the support structure and defining a swivel axis, a caster frame arranged to pivot about the swivel axis between a plurality of caster orientations, a wheel coupled to the caster frame and arranged for engagement with the floor in the chair configuration, and a biasing mechanism interposed between the caster frame and the pin. The biasing mechanism urges the caster frame toward a stowed caster orientation in response to disengagement between the wheel and floor surfaces occurring as the support structure moves from the chair configuration to the stowed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Trey Thomas Pfeiffer, Nathan W. Matheny, Patrick Grossman, Adam Kammers
  • Patent number: 12005946
    Abstract: A Canvas Laundromat Hamper for Shopping Cart is disclosed within, wherein laundry is placed when extracted from the washing machine and dryer, respectively. Wherein the canvas hamper is attached to the shopping cart with flaps extending from the panels over the top periphery of the shopping cart and secure to the outer side of each of the panel, to be secured with buttons through buttonholes, midway from the top and inside the shopping cart, the canvas hamper ends, and at the four lower corners of the canvas hamper are fashion ropes looped through grommet/eyelets to be secure inside the shopping cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventor: Lorna Bryan
  • Patent number: 12001203
    Abstract: A self-propelled device includes a spherical housing and an internal drive system. The self-propelled device can further include an internal structure having a magnet holder that holds a first set of magnets and an external accessory comprising a second set of magnets to magnetically interact, through the spherical housing, with the first set magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Sphero, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian H. Bernstein, Adam Wilson, Chun Kong, Ross MacGregor
  • Patent number: 11998832
    Abstract: A brake arrangement for a touring binding, adjustable between a braking position and a sliding position. The brake arrangement includes a base having a fastening arrangement for fastening to one or more of a ski or the touring binding, a pedal having a step surface for a shoe on a side of the pedal facing away from the ski, at least one brake arm mounted on the base and on the pedal, at least one first resilient element configured to preload the brake arrangement into the braking position, and a locking element that is movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The locking element, in the engaged position, is designed to lock the brake arrangement in the sliding position. The locking element may be preloaded into the engaged position. The brake arrangement may include a blocking element that is adjustable between a blocking position and a release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Salewa Sport AG
    Inventors: Uwe Eckart, Matthias Duve
  • Patent number: 11999240
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower includes a running assembly, a power output assembly, a power supply device, a driver circuit, an operating device, and a control module. The running assembly includes running wheels and a first motor for driving the running wheels. The operating device is configured to set at least one of target torque or a target rotational speed of the first motor. The control module is configured to output a control signal to the driver circuit to make an input current or an input voltage of the first motor vary with a rotor position of the first motor and make an actual torque of the first motor reach or basically reach the target torque within a preset time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dezhong Yang, Xiubo Dai, Lei Wang, Wenqi Zhen
  • Patent number: 11998825
    Abstract: An assembly for lifting and transporting sports equipment, such as a goal. The assembly 100 can be fitted to numerous variations of sports equipment 200 to enable both lifting of the sports equipment and horizontal transportation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Net World Sports Limited
    Inventor: Alexander Loven