Patents Examined by Janet M. Wilkens
  • Patent number: 12226011
    Abstract: A revolving shelf system including a drive track extending along at least one inner surface of a side wall of a cabinet. A shelf member has at least one end connected to the drive track, and a drive member is received within and along the drive track. The drive member is in engagement with the shelf member and is configured to drive the shelf member along the drive track. A stabilizing connection is formed between the shelf member and at least one inner surface of the cabinet. The stabilizing connection is configured to maintain the shelf member in a fixed orientation relative to the inner surface of the cabinet throughout movement of the shelf member along the drive track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: Richard D. Cornell
  • Patent number: 12227990
    Abstract: A flanged interlocking molding is provided for use in toilet partitions or other partitions, and which eliminates the sight lines along each edge of the partition door. The flanged interlocking molding, formed of a single piece of material can be arranged on a component of the partition, such as a door and/or a pilaster. The flanged interlocking molding comprises a body portion; a first arm extending from a first edge of the body portion; a flange comprising include parallel layers of the metallic material including a first layer extending in a first direction away from the body portion, and a second layer extending from the first layer in a direction opposite the first direction; and a second arm extending from the second layer of the, the second arm including an edge arranged parallel to an edge of the first arm with a gap formed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: AMERICAN SPECIALTIES INC.
    Inventors: Douglas Hitchon, Donald Wayne Smith, Andrew Neil McCall, Matthew Stepp
  • Patent number: 12220051
    Abstract: A plastic molded lip structure may extend along a perimeter of a planar element and may include an outer wall, an inner wall, structural portions, and protruded features. The outer wall may extend in a normal direction from the planar element. The inner wall may be disposed in an inward direction relative to the outer wall. The structural portions may be disposed along structural sections of the perimeter and may include first portions of the inner wall and of the outer wall. The first portions may be disposed parallel to the inner wall and separated from the first portions by a first distance along the structural sections. The protruded features may be interposed between two structural portions and an inner wall may be separated from second portions of the outer wall by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC
    Inventors: Mitch Johnson, Wendell Peery
  • Patent number: 12213588
    Abstract: A wine cabinet includes a cabinet body, a cabinet door, at least one slide rail, at least one shelf, and a protective cover. The cabinet body is provided with a storage compartment. The at least one slide rail is disposed in the storage compartment. The slide rail includes a first slide sub-rail and a second slide sub-rail. The first slide sub-rail is disposed on the cabinet body. The second slide sub-rail is slidable with respect to the first slide sub-rail. The second slide sub-rail includes a main body and at least one fixing member. The at least one shelf is detachably connected with the fixing member, so as to slide along with the second slide sub-rail. The protective cover is detachably disposed at a connecting position between the shelf and the slide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoshun Peng, Minwei Tan
  • Patent number: 12203303
    Abstract: Closure member systems are provided for motor vehicles. Exemplary closure member systems may include a hinge assembly having an internal stop. The internal stop may be established by portions of both a stationary hinge component and a movable hinge component of the hinge assembly. For example, the stationary hinge component may include one or more ears that are arranged to contact one or more stop surfaces provided on the movable hinge component. The ears may engage the stop surfaces to limit a range of motion of the closure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Prior
  • Patent number: 12201216
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shelf and bracket system that comprises a shelf and a bracket assembly. In various embodiments, the bracket assembly comprises a main bracket bar, a plurality of support arms, and hardware for attaching each of the plurality of support arms to the main bracket bar. In addition, in various embodiments, each support arm is disposed adjacent a respective end of the main bracket bar and the respective first hardware for the support arm is configured such that, when disengaged, the support arm is configured to rotate between a shelf support position and a folded storage position so that when each of the plurality of support arms are in the folded storage position, the bracket assembly is substantially flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Lewis Hyman, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 12193567
    Abstract: A drawer glide mechanism includes a first elongate guide member, a second elongate glide member, and a v-notch socket. The first and second elongate members are ball-bearing guide members. The first elongate guide member includes a distal end that is configured to fit within an opening in the v-notch socket, thereby locking it in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AMERICAN WOODMARK MANAGEMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Bradly Anderson, Edward William Roy Lachman, Jeffrey Scott Hoeft
  • Patent number: 12196531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a protective cabinet in the form of a moveable furniture unit that has structure to enable moving the furniture unit into a locked position in which it blocks a point of ingress of a would-be assailant, such as a door or window into a space. In certain configurations, the furniture unit includes protective, hardened material, such as a ballistic material that provides increased protection against fire from a weapon, such as may be encountered in an active shooter event. For example, the cabinet may be used on a daily basis inside of a classroom, and may be moved and locked into a position in front of a doorway, window, or other ingress or egress point of the classroom during an active shooter or other threat event to both block the ingress/egress point and provide ballistic protection against weapons fire from outside of the room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ProtectED Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Ahle, Thomas Ankenbauer, Timothy Cahalin, Peter Facchini
  • Patent number: 12193569
    Abstract: A desktop workspace that adjusts vertically includes a work surface platform, a base configured to sit on an existing platform, such as a desk, a height adjustable mechanism including at least one set of arms that connect at a pivot point(s) creating a scissoring motion to raise and lower the said work surface platform to various heights. A locking and unlocking mechanism may connect to the height adjustable mechanism. In some cases, the apparatus includes an adjustable mechanism to support items such as a keyboard. In some cases, the apparatus includes elements to raise items such as a monitor to an additional height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Office Kick, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Mark Poniatowski
  • Patent number: 12193570
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shelf and bracket system that comprises a shelf and a bracket assembly. In various embodiments, the bracket assembly comprises a main bracket bar, a plurality of support arms, and hardware for attaching each of the plurality of support arms to the main bracket bar. In addition, in various embodiments, each support arm is disposed adjacent a respective end of the main bracket bar and the respective first hardware for the support arm is configured such that, when disengaged, the support arm is configured to rotate between a shelf support position and a folded storage position so that when each of the plurality of support arms are in the folded storage position, the bracket assembly is substantially flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Lewis Hyman, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 12188265
    Abstract: The egress window assembly uses a three piece window frame design that allows an outer egress frame to be manually separated from the window assembly to provide emergency egress from the vehicle or structure. In addition to the egress window frame, the egress window assembly includes an egress window frame, an interior window frame, an exterior window frame and a release mechanism that detachably secures the egress frame to the exterior window frame. The release mechanism uses rotating handles on the interior window frames and internal slides bars that shift between the locked and unlocked positions that free the egress frame from the egress window assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventors: Gary A. Eck, John D. Black
  • Patent number: 12185836
    Abstract: An adjustable desk with a desk platform, at least two legs, and a locking mechanism. The legs support the desk platform and make the height of the desk platform adjustable. Each leg has a base, a support coupled to the desk platform, and linkages joining the base to the support. Each linkage has a first link, a second link pivotally coupled to the first link at a first joint, and a third link pivotally coupled to the second link at a second joint. The first link and the third link are pivotally coupled to the base and the second link is pivotally coupled to the support at the top pivot. The first joint is positioned between the top pivot and the second joint and a distance between the first joint and the top pivot may be larger than the distance between the first joint and the second joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Ronald B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12178318
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of storage machine, and provides a shelf and a storage cabinet. The shelf includes a lifting storage-board assembly, a driving assembly and a transmission assembly. The transmission assembly includes a plate body and a flexible cable, where the plate body is connected to a transmission shaft. The plate body includes an accommodation cavity and an arc groove, where a first end-opening of the arc groove is communicated with the accommodation cavity, and a second end-opening of the arc groove is communicated with an outside of the plate body; and a first end of the flexible cable passes through the arc groove to be fixed in the accommodation cavity, and a second end of the flexible cable is configured to wrap around a mounting portion of the plate body and then connect to the corresponding lifting storage-board assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyunghan Jeong, Shuo Yang, Wenji Piao, Jinguo Yuan, Xiuliang Fu
  • Patent number: 12171327
    Abstract: A desk comprising a utility system whereas extended channels are routed or carved into top, bottom and side surface areas of said desk to allow metal or plastic devices to snap or slide into said channels to hold and store various gadgets, smart phone, tablets, panels, backpacks, thus transforming a normal desk into a multi-purpose workstation that will greatly enhance the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventor: Jayson Emmet Fulks
  • Patent number: 12173537
    Abstract: A sliding door device for a vehicle includes a door, a lower arm including a first end portion connected to an internal side of the door and a second end portion provided to slide along a vehicle body rail provided on the vehicle body, a linear slider rotatably connected to the second end portion of the lower arm and provided to slide along a linear rail provided on the vehicle body, a slider assembly provided between the lower arm and the internal side of the door, and allowing the door to slide with respect to the first end portion of the lower arm, an arm latch located between the lower arm and the linear slider and fixing and releasing the sliding of the second end portion of the lower arm, and a door latch located between the lower arm and the slider assembly and allowing the slider assembly to be slidably fixed or released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Kwangjin Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeseung Lee, Jinsu Jang, Taeyong Jeon
  • Patent number: 12171331
    Abstract: Provided are a shelf assembly and a storage cabinet, which relate to the technical field of storage apparatuses. The shelf assembly includes: a plurality of shelves, mounting rods, the outer peripheral walls of which are provided with external threads in the axial direction, moving members corresponding to the shelves, and driving members corresponding to the moving members. The moving members are connected to the corresponding shelves; internal thread holes in threaded fit with the mounting rods are formed on the moving members; and the driving members are connected to the corresponding moving members and are used for driving the moving members to rotate. The storage cabinet includes a cabinet body and the shelf assembly arranged in the cabinet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD., HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nanfei Yao, Feng Wen, Yunho Yang
  • Patent number: 12171332
    Abstract: A bookcase is disclosed having a base, a top panel, and four sides extending vertically from the base to the top panel and defining four vertically extending corners. The bookcase also includes a plurality of corner cabinets extending along the corners and defining a plurality of compartments therebetween. Each corner cabinet includes at least one first shelf for storing books. The bookcase further includes a plurality of cabinets arranged inside the plurality of compartments. Each cabinet includes a plurality of second shelves. Each second shelf is adapted to be removed or moved to a stored position to provide leg space for a user sitting on a chair and using the top panel as a work surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Remco Bergsma, Nathan Warwick
  • Patent number: 12173555
    Abstract: A storage box having a display panel, which allows an article inside a body to be confirmed from the outside according to an increase in the amount of light caused by an internal light source is disclosed. The storage box having a display panel includes the body and a door including a frame and mounted on the body to be opened and closed, wherein the door includes a glass member provided on a front surface side of the frame, a protective panel provided on an inner surface side of the frame, and a transmittance-variable panel provided between the glass member and the protective panel, the transmittance-variable panel is a panel made of a thermoplastic resin of PMMA or PC and nano-sized dyes, a plurality of nano-sized pores are provided in the transmittance-variable panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTOSEE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jae Hwan Oh, Chan Ho Kim, Eun Seon Chi, Ye Lin Han
  • Patent number: 12161221
    Abstract: A detachable shelf including four column assemblies, where each column assembly includes a plurality of columns distributed along a height direction; in each column assembly, adjacent columns are detachably connected; a plurality of support frames are disposed along the height direction among the four column assemblies; the support frame includes two mutually-parallel first cross beams and two mutually-parallel second cross beams; the front first cross beam is detachably connected to corresponding columns at front left and right ends and the rear first cross beam is detachably connected to corresponding columns at rear left and right ends; the left second cross beam is detachably connected to corresponding columns at left front and rear ends, and the right second cross beam is detachably connected to corresponding columns at right front and rear ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO FUYOU TOOLS CO., LTD., QINGDAO LANSHAN TRADE CO., LTD., QINGDAO NORTHERN LIGHTS FURNITURE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Ge
  • Patent number: 12163363
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to overhead doors and overhead door operation. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a direct drive counter balancing system for operating overhead doors. In some examples, the direct drive counter balancing system of the present disclosure is for overhead door systems used in segmented door arrangements for box trucks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Engineered Hardware, LLC
    Inventor: Paul T. Kicher