Patents Examined by James Edward Ignaczewski
  • Patent number: 12270230
    Abstract: A cover structure of a control box is disclosed. The control box includes a base with a limiting part, the cover structure includes a cover body, a knob and a torsion spring, the cover body is connected to the base, the knob is rotatably connected to the cover body and has a stop arm stopped at the limiting part, two ends of the torsion spring are fixed to the cover body and the knob respectively to generate a pre-torque. When the knob is rotated by an external force, the stop arm is released from the limiting part to unlock the cover structure from the base, and when the external force is removed, the knob restores to original position by the pre-torque. Therefore, the cover structure may be removed from the base quickly to facilitate an operator's use and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: TIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 12264516
    Abstract: An interlock assembly for a door of a cap configured to cover a bed of a vehicle includes a strike assembly coupled with a structural component of the cap and including a strike. The interlock assembly further includes a latch assembly coupled with the door. The latch assembly comprising a latch selectively engaging the strike, a cam configured to move the latch between an extended position in which the latch engages the strike and a retracted position in which the latch is disengaged from the strike, a biasing member operably coupling the latch with the cam, the biasing member configured to bias the latch toward the extended position, and a first handle proximate an inside of the bed and mechanically linked with the latch, wherein the first handle is configured to move the latch between the extended position and the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BAUER PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventor: Bruce C. Bacon
  • Patent number: 12258795
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock which is equipped with a locking mechanism consisting substantially of a catch and a pawl. Also provided is a sensor arrangement associated with the locking mechanism comprising a fixed sensor and a sensing element that influences signals of the sensor and follows the locking mechanism, or vice versa. The sensor generates at least two different signals associated with the presence and absence of the sensing element in the region of influence of the sensor. According to the invention, the single sensing element also produces at least one additional third signal of the single sensor in accordance with its position in relation to the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventors: Ömer Inan, Michael Scholz, Manuel Reusch, Christian Bauer
  • Patent number: 12258788
    Abstract: A smart lock for securing a door comprising: a housing mountable to the door; an actuator within the housing configured to actuate a lock mechanism between a locked position and an unlocked position, the lock mechanism including a latch bolt with an angled front face, the latch bolt configured to be retractable against a biasing force provided by a biasing means such that the door is closeable when the lock mechanism is in the locked position; and a receiver within the housing configured to wirelessly receive a signal to control operation of the actuator; a sensor mountable exclusively to the door so as to generate a signal indicative of the door beginning to move; a controller arranged to receive the signal indicative of the door beginning to move, the controller configured to control the actuator to actuate the lock mechanism in response to the signal indicative of the door beginning to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Glue AB
    Inventors: Edward King, Andoni Villarreal, Andrew Carson, Sarah Liddell
  • Patent number: 12252908
    Abstract: A closure latch assembly includes a latch module having a ratchet and a pawl, with the ratchet being moveable between a striker capture position and a striker release position and the pawl being moveable between a ratchet holding position, whereat the ratchet is maintained in the striker capture position, the a ratchet release position, whereat the ratchet is biased toward the striker release position. An actuator module including a power actuator is operably coupled to a drive gear. The drive gear has an actuation feature fixed thereto. A latch release mechanism operably couples the actuation feature to the pawl, wherein rotation of the drive gear via energization of the power actuator causes the latch release mechanism to move the pawl between the ratchet holding position and the ratchet release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Magna Closures Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco Cumbo, Roman Cetnar
  • Patent number: 12247421
    Abstract: Security devices include a side panel movably coupled to an attachment mechanism and to a top panel. An extension side panel may be moveably coupled to the side panel and configured to adjust laterally inward and outward relative to the side panel. The side panel is positioned at least substantially transverse to the top panel with the extension side panel extending laterally outward from the side panel when in a secured position, and at least substantially parallel to the top panel with the at least one extension side panel positioned laterally inward and adjacent to the side panel when in a storage position. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Brian Goldwitz
  • Patent number: 12247386
    Abstract: A latch assembly having first and second parts for association with first and second elements, respectively. The first and second parts are configured to cooperate to releasably secure the first element to the second element. The first part has a latch member for releasably engaging a catch member on the second part when the latch member is manipulated from an unlatched configuration to a latched configuration. A latch member holder associated with the first part is adapted to hold the latch member while allowing the latch member to pivot about a pivot axis, and slide along a sliding axis which is perpendicular to said pivot axis. The latch member is manipulable into the latched configuration in a predetermined range of contiguous positions relative to the latch member holder along the sliding axis. A method of releasably securing the first element to the second element is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Canplas Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Jack Robert Meher
  • Patent number: 12247416
    Abstract: An electromechanical lock assembly (1) comprising a lock body (13), a lock core (21) located at least partially within the lock body (13) and selectively rotatable with respect to the lock body (13), the lock core (21) including a key receptacle (23), a bolt operating member rotationally secured to the lock core (21) and configured to move a lock bolt of a lock (3) for locking and unlocking said lock (3), and a programmable key (12), wherein said electromechanical lock assembly is configured to be powered upon insertion of the programmable key (12) in said key receptacle (23). A position sensing device (27) is arranged to transmit position data to said programmable key (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Swedlock AB
    Inventors: Johan Hörberg, Magnus Nilsson, Martin Lindvall
  • Patent number: 12209438
    Abstract: This device includes a base, a handle lever mounted so as to pivot on the base about an axis, a kinematic chain configured to transmit a movement of the handle lever to a lock of the opening control to unlock the door, an inertial safety member having a main body forming an inertial mass and a main locking element connected to the body and configured to pass, by inertia effect in the event of impact, from an inactive idle position to at least one active position of locking at least one movable element of the kinematic chain. The inertial member is movably mounted so as to pivot on the base about a second locking axis and is configured to operate in a reversible mode by adopting at least one reversible locking position and to operate in an irreversible mode by adopting at least one irreversible locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: AKWEL VIGO SPAIN S.L
    Inventors: Alberto Diez Estevez, Delmiro Javier Couto Maquieira, José Oscar Vazquez Carballo, Julio Garcia Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12209441
    Abstract: An actuating apparatus for a flap which is mounted on a component for movement has a first actuating element, fastenable fixedly to the flap so as to rotate with it, and a second actuating element, fastenable to the component, and rotatable about a first rotational axis, the second actuating element has a first end and a second end, the first end configured to interact with a drive, the second end has a first locking or release geometry, the first actuating element has a second locking or release geometry, the second actuating element can be rotated between a first orientation and a second orientation, wherein the first and second locking or release geometry are configured to interact such that, in the first orientation, the first actuating element is locked to the second actuating element and, in the second orientation, the first actuating element is released from the second actuating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Rudolf, Roland Och
  • Patent number: 12203295
    Abstract: A door handle arrangement for a moveable component of a vehicle includes a control device for checking the permissibility of the operating speed of a handle body of the door handle arrangement to determine whether a permissible operating situation of the vehicle or a critical situation of the vehicle exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventors: Tobias Konrad, Martin Lindmayer
  • Patent number: 12196014
    Abstract: A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock, which is equipped with an electromotive drive for an actuation lever chain and in particular locking lever chain. An emergency energy store for providing electrical power to the drive in the event of emergency activation and in particular emergency unlocking is also provided. In accordance with the invention, the drive, for emergency actuation and in particular emergency unlocking, acts on the actuation lever chain or locking lever chain against the force of a restoring spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Bendel, Christian Sturm, Martin Lindmayer, Tobias Konrad
  • Patent number: 12194819
    Abstract: A door module and presenter assembly therefor, the door module having a carrier module, a handle chassis, an extension member extending from the carrier module to support the handle chassis, wherein the handle chassis is moveable relative to the carrier module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: MAGNA CLOSURES INC.
    Inventor: Raymond Edward Fortin
  • Patent number: 12163355
    Abstract: A portable hoop lock comprises a lock body that accommodates an electromechanical locking mechanism; and a hoop that has at least one locking section that can be selectively introduced into the lock body or released from the lock body, wherein the locking mechanism comprises at least one latch and an electric motor for driving the latch, wherein the latch is configured to lock the locking section of the hoop introduced into the lock body to the lock body in a locking position and to release the locking section of the hoop for a removal from the lock body in a release position. In this respect, the electric motor is configured to selectively move the latch from the locking position into the release position via a drive transmission section of the locking mechanism and the lock body has a watertight cover that surrounds the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventor: Michel Wehr
  • Patent number: 12139935
    Abstract: A lock having a latch assembly with a bolt head freely movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The latch assembly also includes lock pin that is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position, which may be moveable by a motor and/or biasing mechanism. The lock also has a strike assembly including a strike housing for receiving the bolt head. The strike housing includes a keeper biased to a latched position relative to the bolt head. When the lock pin is in the locked position, the lock pin engages the keeper to hold the keeper in the latched position, and thus the bolt head in the extended position in the strike housing. The lock also includes an access control system for controlling the motor of the lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sargent Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Wai P. Wong
  • Patent number: 12129696
    Abstract: A door lock device includes a door mount comprising a front base plate and a mounting guide coupled to the front base plate, the door mount mountable to a door; and a lock arm assembly comprising an attachment plate and a structure engagement assembly, the attachment plate defining a mounting slot, the mounting guide engaging the mounting slot to mount the lock arm assembly on the door mount, the structure engagement assembly configured to engage a structure surrounding the door to prevent the door from opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Osceola Cuts, LLC
    Inventor: William Bruce Daniels
  • Patent number: 12123236
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge lock consisting of a first hinge part for fastening to the outside of a door and a second hinge part for fastening on the outside of a door frame, wherein the first hinge part has an actuating device, by means of which the first and the second hinge part can be unlocked and locked with one another. The actuating device interacts with a shaft, which is suitable for passing through the door. An inner handle is arranged at the end of the shaft facing away from the actuating device, by means of which the first and the second hinge part can be unlocked and locked with one another. The shaft is surrounded by at least one pipe part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Industrilås i Nässjö AB
    Inventors: Maxim Kaganov, Dirk Schäfer
  • Patent number: 12123233
    Abstract: Rotary actuated latch systems with linearly acting latch rods, and methods of assembling rotary actuated latch systems with linearly acting rods are disclosed. In some aspects, the rotary actuated latch systems are “self-engaging” and comprise a handle having two guides, the handle operably attached to a spring, two latch rods comprising clevises operably attached to the two guides, and at least two strike plates for actuating the latching system without additional user input. The spring applies equal tension to the two linearly acting latch rods, allowing for smooth operation of the latching system without binding while providing for a compact design that eliminates stresses imposed by conventional latch systems where the latch rods rotate off-axis. In some embodiments, the rotary actuated latch system may be assembled as a complete unit, prior to installation on the mechanism to be latched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Scelzi Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary E. Scelzi, Mike M. Scelzi
  • Patent number: 12110712
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combination lock, comprising a rotatable knob capable of relative rotation, a panel, a bolt, and a dial assembly. The dial assembly comprises a base having a movement chamber, a dial shaft, multiple sets of bushings and dials, a position resetting mechanism, a positioning member, and a protection frame The rotatable knob can be rotated relative to the panel to a first position, second position, third position, or fourth position, so as to achieve locking, automatic password resetting, automatic dial position resetting, and manual password setting. The combination lock uses one-time temporary passwords, thereby achieving superior security performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Yijian Li
  • Patent number: 12095336
    Abstract: A drive unit for motor vehicle applications, in particular to a locking system drive unit. The latter has an enclosure consisting substantially of a housing and cover. In addition, an electric motor is realized inside the enclosure. The electric motor is receiving with its two motor bearings in associated cutouts in the housing and is fixed by joining together the housing and the cover. According to the invention, the housing and/or the cover have/has fixing anchors in a central region that are arranged on both sides of the cutouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Kiekert AG
    Inventors: Stephan Meuters, Thomas Hülsmann, Carsten Fuchs