Patents Examined by James M Dolak
  • Patent number: 10399632
    Abstract: An adjustable rear wheel hood system has a movable hood, so to be longitudinally adjusted to accommodate shrinking wheels (due to wear), or other requirements. A longitudinal slot is aligned between the rear wheel hood and the deck, and after adjusting the hood-to-rear wheel separation to a desired amount, the hood is secured to the deck via a shaped protuberance and securing mechanism, preventing lateral movement of the hood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: The Glorious Empire, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Broussard
  • Patent number: 10391856
    Abstract: An air deflector for a vehicle includes a pair of side air deflectors joined by an intermediate air deflector, and one or more drainage apertures offset from a sealed outboard corner of each of the pair of side air deflectors. The air deflector further includes one or more draining surfaces adapted to promote movement of liquids and solids to the one or more drainage apertures. The one or more drainage apertures may be defined by a non-planar margin defined in the intermediate air deflector member and/or the pair of side air deflectors. The one or more draining surfaces include a plurality of crowned and sloped surfaces adapted for directing movement of liquids and solids to the one or more drainage apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: David Brian Glickman
  • Patent number: 10384541
    Abstract: A laser radar module includes a laser radar, an upper cover disposed above the laser radar, a lower case disposed below the laser radar, and a locking assembly for connecting the upper cover to the lower case. A gap is formed between the upper cover and the lower case for the laser radar to transmit and receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: UBTECH Robotics Corp.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Libing Zhou, Wenhua Yu
  • Patent number: 10385540
    Abstract: A portable power supply system supplies a remotely controlled, electrically driven work machine with electrical power. The work machine includes continuous tracks and is equipped with a maneuverable arm that carries a tool at its free end. An electric motor is connected to a hydraulic pump and supplies the machine with a hydraulic medium. The work machine is connected under normal operation to a primary source of power via an electrical cable. The primary source of power includes a fixed alternating current electricity distribution grid at the location. In order to be able to supply the current that is required it includes a DC energy-storage arrangement that, including a secondary source of power, can store energy and, when necessary, supply energy in electrical form. A coupling arrangement makes it possible to choose between connecting the motor to the primary or the secondary source of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Brokk Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Gunnar Bystedt
  • Patent number: 10377401
    Abstract: A mobile platform comprising: (a) one or more platforms to support one or more cartridges, (b) one or more compartments within the one or more platforms, (c) one or more vertical supports connected to the one or more platforms, (d) a plurality of wheels connected to a bottom of the one or more platforms, and (e) one or more recesses located in the one or more platforms to receive one or more support accessories, wherein the one or more compartments are shaped to receive the one or more cartridges so that the one or more cartridges are secured to the one or more platforms during movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Thibault
  • Patent number: 10358156
    Abstract: A pallet is provided for supporting cylinders. The pallet can have a convex spine extending substantially the length of the pallet in a longitudinal direction, having a backstop at a first end. The pallet has one or more trays attached transverse to the convex spine, each tray having longitudinal fluted indents to restrain a cylinder from rolling transverse, the longitudinal fluted indents are each arranged to accept a cylinder from above. The pallet has a left outrigger attached and extending transverse to the convex spine, the left outrigger stabilizing the pallet with respect to terrain, as well as a right outrigger attached and extending transverse to the convex spine, the right outrigger stabilizing the pallet with respect to terrain. The pallet can have a coupling extending from an end of the convex spine, wherein the coupling is arranged to take a crane hook in engagement to pull the pallet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Inventors: LouDana L. Elliott, Earl J Elliott
  • Patent number: 10358040
    Abstract: A compact generator and coolant pump assembly may be used on a vehicle having a fluid reservoir and a plurality of electrical components disposed on the vehicle. The generator includes a rotor and stator disposed in a housing and the rotor is driven by a rotatable input member to generate an electrical output for use by one or more components of the vehicle. The assembly also includes a circulating pump connected to an upper portion of a generator housing and driven by the rotatable input member. A clutch assembly driven by the rotatable input member and engaged to and driving a clutch output may be located adjacent to the lower housing of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Scott W. Keller
  • Patent number: 10358169
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a floor pan and a battery assembly mounted to an underside of the floor pan. The battery assembly includes an open top such that the floor pan acts as a cover of the battery assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Miller, Dave Moschet
  • Patent number: 10337169
    Abstract: A stabilizer device for a work vehicle. The work vehicle having a first ground-engaging device having a first midpoint and a second ground-engaging device having a second midpoint. The first ground-engaging device and the second ground-engaging device configured to move the work vehicle along a surface. The stabilizer device comprising a mount coupled to the work vehicle between the first ground-engaging device and the second ground-engaging device. A stabilizer bar coupled to the mount. An actuator coupled to the mount and the stabilizer bar and configured to raise the stabilizer bar from a ground-engaging position to a stowed position. The stabilizer device extends to one of equal to and beyond the second midpoint in the ground-engaging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Wylie C. Pfaff, Scott S. Hendron, Robert C. Moore, Martti Johannes Lampela, John William Krieger, Peter Fraser Falt, Michael McLaughlin
  • Patent number: 10328788
    Abstract: An electric drive unit for a wheel of a motor vehicle, including an electric motor for driving a drive shaft joined to the wheel in a manner resistant to rotation. The drive shaft is disposed coaxial to the rotor of the electric motor and is joined thereto in a rotation-resistant manner. The drive shaft is joined to the rotor of the electric motor in a rotation-resistant and axially moveable manner via a bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Vladimir Idelevitch, Stephan Beutler, Sebastian Schindler, Tobias Kollorz, Stephan Römling
  • Patent number: 10333372
    Abstract: A body is located between a protected component and a disturbing object and is inclined relative to a vertical direction. The protected component is located outside an interior of a vehicle. The body includes a lowermost portion in the vertical direction. The lowermost portion has a foreign matter discharge portion. An upper side of the protected component in the vertical direction is at least partially exposed from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10322646
    Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle provided with an exhaust duct structure is capable of reliably diluting hydrogen flowing into an exhaust duct. The fuel cell vehicle includes a vehicle body, an air-cooled fuel cell mounted in the vehicle body to generate power by allowing hydrogen gas and oxygen in air to react with each other, an exhaust duct through which exhaust air of the fuel cell is guided to a rear end of the vehicle body and is discharged outside the fuel cell vehicle, and a fan guiding air into the exhaust duct to dilute hydrogen in the exhaust duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Shimonihara, Kengo Ikeya, Yoshifumi Takai
  • Patent number: 10322739
    Abstract: A baby carriage frame has a frame body, a front-seat panel, a rear-seat panel, and two rear-seat fixing assemblies. The two seat panels are mounted on the frame body, and the rear-seat panel is front-and-rear moveable. Two clamping recesses in a bottom of the rear-seat panel are downwardly disposed around the frame body. Each rear-seat fixing assembly has a seat pivot frame and a seat clamping panel pivotally connected to each other, and the seat clamping panel has a seat eccentric part to abut tightly against a transverse side of the rear-seat panel to fix the rear-seat panel on the frame body, which is convenient and quick in use. The clamping recesses on a bottom of the rear-seat panel enable the rear-seat panel to move continuously front-and-rear along the frame body in one step, thereby adjusting the space between the two seat panels to be adapted to various situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SUNNYLOVE BABY PRODUCTS ZHUHAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiu-Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 10315706
    Abstract: An adjustable hood-stop unit for a front-end bolster of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The adjustable hood-stop includes a bumper stop, a retainer made of a plastic material that receives the bumper stop, and a plurality of threads integrated along an internal surface of the retainer. The retainer is over-molded onto a hole in the front-end bolster, the plurality of threads extend on a partial length of the internal surface of the retainer at a predetermined rotation degree, and the plurality of threads are discontinued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Issmail Meskin, Antonio Babler
  • Patent number: 10308315
    Abstract: A saddle-ridden vehicle includes: a pair of frame members which are disposed on one side and on other side in a vehicle width direction so as to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; an engine which is disposed between and supported by the pair of frame members; an air cleaner which cleans air for fuel combustion; a supercharger which compresses the air cleaned by the air cleaner; an intercooler which cools, using a cooling wind, the air compressed by the supercharger and supplies resulting air to the engine; and an exhaust wind duct which determines a discharge position or a discharge direction of the cooling wind discharged from the intercooler, and the exhaust wind duct is disposed above the engine on the one side in the vehicle width direction and extends to rear of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Hamaguchi, Kazuhiro Okita
  • Patent number: 10308240
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for hybrid electric internal combustion engine applications in which a motor-generator, a narrow switchable coupling and a torque transfer unit therebetween are arranged and positioned in the constrained environment at the front of an engine in applications such as commercial vehicles, off-road vehicles and stationary engine installations. The motor-generator is preferably positioned laterally offset from the switchable coupling, which is co-axially-arranged with the front end of the engine crankshaft. The switchable coupling is an integrated unit in which a crankshaft vibration damper, an engine accessory drive pulley and a disengageable clutch overlap such that the axial depth of the clutch-pulley-damper unit is nearly the same as a conventional belt drive pulley and engine damper. The front end motor-generator system includes an electrical energy store that receives electrical energy generated by the motor-generator when the coupling is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: David Colavincenzo, Fernando Venegas Diaz
  • Patent number: 10292893
    Abstract: A wrap around walking aid is configured to assist a human user in walking. The wrap around walking aid includes a first rear lower frame and a first front lower frame mechanically coupled to a first upper frame. A back rest is connected to the first rear lower frame. A second rear lower frame and a second front lower frame are mechanically coupled to a second upper frame. The second rear lower frame is further mechanically coupled to the back rest. At least one first fixed front wheel is mechanically coupled to both front lower frames. At least one first castor rear wheel is mechanically coupled to both rear lower frames. The wheels enable a turn radius while the human user is walking forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: A Better Walker, LLC
    Inventor: Jack Paul VanAusdall
  • Patent number: 10292880
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a transport aid which can be quickly assembled, disassembled, and adjusted in width, and includes two support members, a chair seat and two horizontal assembly frames, wherein the horizontal assembly frames are disposed on left and right sides of the chair seat, respectively, and each includes a first quick connector assembled to a corresponding second quick connector of the chair seat, and ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are pivotally connected to corresponding support members, respectively, and other ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are assembled to each other through a quick packing connector for forming a horizontal bottom support member. As a result, the transport aid can be quickly disassembled into members for easy carry; furthermore, these members can be quickly assembled to a transport aid as a wheelchair, so that any person with disability can sit thereon and easily and comfortably be transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SOLID FOCUS INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shao-Tuan Chang
  • Patent number: 10287962
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes a hood, an engine, a radiator, an air cleaner, and a condenser. The hood covers an engine compartment located on a front portion of a traveling body. The engine is a drive source. The radiator supplies a coolant to the engine. The air cleaner takes in outside air and supplies the air to the engine. The condenser cools a refrigerant. In front of the radiator, the air cleaner and the condenser are disposed one above the other. The condenser is withdrawable in the left and right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Koji Kawakami
  • Patent number: 10286289
    Abstract: A pair of first and second ski poles that can be connected to each other. The first ski pole has a first shaft with a first hand-grip at an upper end thereof and a first basket near the lower end thereof. The second ski pole has a second shaft with a second hand-grip at an upper end thereof and a second basket near the lower end thereof. The first and second ski poles can be interconnected by engagement of the first and second baskets to each other and engagement of the first and second hand-grips to each other. The first hand grip is mounted to the first shaft via a spring for limited axial movement relative thereto, and engagement of the first and second hand-grips is maintained by a biased force provided by the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventor: Kent Owen