Patents Examined by Janet M. Wilkens
  • Patent number: 11730264
    Abstract: A cabinet system that is configured to be installed in a kitchen of a residential structure wherein the cabinet system is configured to store and provide access to small electrical appliances. The cabinet system of the present invention includes a base cabinet and an upper cabinet in vertical alignment. A backboard is present between the base cabinet and upper cabinet having an opening to a recess area located behind the base cabinet and upper cabinet. A movable backboard is configured to open and close the opening. A moving cabinet is disposed within the recess area and is movable between a first position and a second position. A movement assembly is located at the top of the recess area and is operably coupled to the movable backboard and the moving cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventor: Waldemar Kissel
  • Patent number: 11723456
    Abstract: An adjustable shelving system comprised of a plurality of interconnecting shelf sections including a front side shelf section, a right side shelf section and a left side shelf section. At least one of the three shelf sections is independently adjustable in length to adjust a length and/or width of the shelving system and are supported by legs that are also independently adjustable in height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventor: Dedee R. Dart
  • Patent number: 11717077
    Abstract: Height-adjustable standing/sitting desks, capable of being easily collapsed, via pivotable legs, to be easily stored away in common and unique spaces throughout a home may include a desktop, a support frame disposed underneath the desktop, a plurality of legs, and an actuator. The plurality of legs is coupled to the support frame. Each of the plurality of legs includes a plurality of integrated wheels. The actuator is disposed within the support frame and coupled to one or more of the plurality of legs. The actuator is configured to raise and lower the desktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LILLIPAD WORK SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Colin Andrew Dowdle, James Charles Dowdle, Curtis Leroy Cruver, IV, Stephen Andrew Derfiny
  • Patent number: 11717079
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to secure a keyboard, the methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture including a multi-axis positionable tray apparatus for securing a keyboard, the multi-axis positionable tray apparatus comprising: a tray portion, wherein the tray portion is configured to move along at least a first axis and a second axis, a first positioner to provide positional adjustment along the first axis, wherein the first positioner removably attaches the multi-axis positionable tray apparatus with respect to a mounting surface, and a second positioner to provide positional adjustment along the second axis, wherein the second positioner allows the multi-axis positionable tray to move towards a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CKnapp Sales, Inc.
    Inventors: Micah Fehr, Nicholas Welander, Brandon Meyer, Chance Knapp
  • Patent number: 11723159
    Abstract: Provided is a cabinet, which comprises a top cover, four tri-layer side walls and a tri-layer base. The top cover, the four tri-layer side walls and the tri-layer base are connected with and fixed to one another by aluminum extrusion fixing assemblies. The tri-layer structure includes an inner honeycomb panel, a middle strengthening assembly and an outer wall panel. The middle strengthening assembly is formed by a plurality of horizontal tension rods and a plurality of vertical tension rods intersecting. The inner honeycomb panel has a hexagonal-celled hollow geometric structure, which confers the panel with such properties as high pressure-endurable strength, light weight, excellent rigidity and high structural stability. In addition, the hexagonal hollow cells can also make the honeycomb panel capable of better thermal insulation by preventing the air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Fang-Shou Lee, Cho-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 11712111
    Abstract: An archive (1000) comprising at least one prismatic box-shaped container (1) movable on guides extending in a given direction (D) to create a compactable archive (1000); the container (D comprising a plurality of substantially rectangular walls (4) which are connected end to end in a fluid-tight manner to delimit a volume (VL) accessible according to the direction (D) through at least one opening (A)(A?); peripheral frame members (20) being carried frontally by the walls (4) adapted to determine, in use, a fluid-tight closing condition of the volume (VL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MAKROS SRL
    Inventor: Massimo Luise
  • Patent number: 11713606
    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: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ENGINEERED HARDWARE, LLC
    Inventor: Paul T. Kicher
  • Patent number: 11709017
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet forming a storage space, a main door that opens and closes the storage space while defining an opening part that is in communication with the storage space, a sub-door mounted to the main door and configured to open and close the opening part, the sub-door including a panel assembly for allowing selective viewing of an inside of the opening part, the injection port is provided at a lower side of the sub-door to direct an insulating foaming solution to a space in the sub-door, a detection device for detecting an operation of a user, a lighting unit inside the refrigerator that turns on based on user operation to allow selective viewing of the inner side of the opening part, and a display unit inside the refrigerator at a position corresponding to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Kwanghyun Choi
  • Patent number: 11697958
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling bus doors (14, 16) that are arranged as a pair of doors that move in coordinated relation between door open positions and door closed positions, enables passengers to access an interior area (12) of a bus (10). The apparatus includes an actuator (28, 226). The actuator includes a drive lever (34, 228) that is selectively rotationally movable between rotational positions in which both of the doors are in the open positions and in the closed positions. Exemplary arrangements include at least one controller (128) that is operative to prevent the doors from causing damage to or from being damaged by engagement with obstructions. The controller further enables a bus driver or other authorized user to control access to the interior area of the bus using a user mobile device (144).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Eastern Company
    Inventors: Lee S Weinerman, Marinel Rosu, Reese Bernot, Keith Braun, James Paxitzis
  • Patent number: 11697952
    Abstract: A powered actuation mechanism for operating a closure panel device coupled to a closure panel of a vehicle, the closure panel operated between a closed position and a partially open position, the mechanism including: a motor operatively coupled to a control member; a lever body mounted at a pivot end to a body of the vehicle by a first pivot connection and coupled at an output end to a closure panel device by a second pivot connection, the lever body for driving the closure panel device; the control member having a control connection coupling the control member to the lever body, the control connection moveable between the first pivot connection and the second pivot connection such that the lever body has an opening to provide a releasable engagement of the control connection between the lever body and the control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Closures Inc.
    Inventor: Franco Giovanni Ottino
  • Patent number: 11696638
    Abstract: A convertible table is disclosed. The convertible table may comprise a tabletop, a plurality of supporting legs, a plurality of leg mounting tracks, and a table converting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Four Board Woodworks, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Neal James
  • Patent number: 11692663
    Abstract: An appliance includes a panel having a raised landing outwardly extending from a first surface of the panel. A vacuum port is disposed on the raised landing. A system of channels is disposed over the first surface of the panel and outwardly extends therefrom. The system of channels substantially covers the first surface of the panel. The first surface of the panel is covered with a filter member that covers the system of channels. The raised landing, and vacuum port thereof, is fluidically coupled to the system of channels at multiple connecting locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Paul B. Allard, Jeffrey Beckner, Sunil S. Ekshinge, Abhay Naik, Sanjesh Pathak
  • Patent number: 11690447
    Abstract: A track system configured for use with a storage rack assembly is provided. The track system comprises first and second forward wheel assemblies, first and second rearward wheel assemblies and a forward axle assembly. The forward axle assembly is coupled between the first and second forward wheel assemblies in an operating position. The forward axle assembly comprises a first intermediate member, a first forward axle member and a second forward axle member. The first forward axle member has a first end coupled to the first forward wheel assembly and a second end slidably coupled to the first intermediate member. The second forward axle member has a first end coupled to the second forward wheel assembly and a second end slidably coupled to the first intermediate member. The first intermediate member inhibits rotation of the first and second forward axle members along their respective axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Compact Engineering LLC
    Inventor: Jordan Luther
  • Patent number: 11680596
    Abstract: An assembled product includes at least three elements arranged in three different planes. A first element is connected perpendicular to a second element, and a third element is connected perpendicular to the second element. The assembled product includes one or more locking devices, each comprising a flexible tongue arranged in an insertion groove one of the at least three elements. The flexible tongue cooperates with a tongue groove, at an adjacent one of the at least three elements, for locking the one element and the adjacent element together. A second edge of the second element is connected to a second edge of the third element by a first of said locking devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Hans Brännström, Agne Pålsson, Peter Derelöv
  • Patent number: 11678451
    Abstract: A data center cabinet has an equipment rail movably secured to front-to-back beams by a retaining mechanism. The retaining mechanism has a threaded member extending through a front-to-back beam and the equipment rail and a handle rotatable relative to the threaded member. A first cam disk is positioned between the handle and equipment rail and is fixed to the equipment rail and a second cam disk is positioned between the handle and first cam disk and is fixed to the handle. First and second surfaces of the first and second cam disks are engaged with the handle in a first position to provide a clamping force between the equipment rail and front-to-back beam to prevent movement of the equipment rail and the first and second cam surfaces are disengaged with the handle in a second position to remove the clamping force to allow movement of the equipment rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Andrzej Nicewicz, Jerry A. Wiltjer, Tomasz K. Waz, James N. Fleming
  • Patent number: 11666149
    Abstract: A floating shelf includes a plank shelf, and a floating shelf bracket, configured to support the plank shelf, including a support connector and two or more shelf supports attached to one another by the support connector. The support connector and the two or more shelf supports may be permanently attached to one another so that the floating shelf bracket is a unitary, single-piece bracket. The support connector and the two or more shelf supports may be removably attached to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Lewis Hyman, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert LeBlanc
  • Patent number: 11668135
    Abstract: A passage barrier includes two guide elements that define a gate region, through which a person passes from an entrance region into a passage region. At least one barrier element prevents and/or enables the passage of the person from the entrance region into the passage region within the gate region. At least one of the guide elements includes a profile attachment element for attaching at least one profile of a guide element to the base of a building structure. The profile attachment element has a vertical profile mount for mounting a vertically running profile on the profile attachment element and a horizontal profile feedthrough for feeding a horizontally running profile through the profile attachment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: DORMAKABA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Manuela Schmitt, Harald Eichner
  • Patent number: 11661779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a floor pit covering system comprising a cover plate (1) and a pivoting system (2). The pivoting system (2) is adapted for arranging the cover plate (1) in a first end position (P1) or in a second end position (P2) in response to an internal force (FI), or an internal force (FI) and an external force (FE), being applied onto the cover plate (1). The cover plate (1) is arranged in the first end position (P1) when force FE?FI and in the second end position (P2) when force FE>FI. The present invention further relates to a method of operating such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Assa Abloy Entrance Systems AB
    Inventor: Mats Brannstrom
  • Patent number: 11659924
    Abstract: A multi-level cabinet storage system includes a multi-level storage container that includes a number of shelves, each with horizontal planar surfaces, coupled between the vertical opposing members. The horizontal planar surfaces of respective shelves may be aligned vertically in parallel planes. The vertical opposing members may include a rear vertical member and a front vertical member. The multi-level cabinet storage system also includes a first slide member coupled with a base of the multi-level storage container and a second slide member coupled at a first end with the rear vertical member and extending parallel with, and along, a horizontal planar surface of an upper shelf included among the shelves. The multi-level cabinet storage system also includes an external frame formed as a contiguous rigid structure coupled with the first slide member and the second slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: REV-A-SHELF COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Keith Tingle, Paul Franklin Chambers, Kevin M. Ward, Leeman Elliot Stevens
  • Patent number: 11660944
    Abstract: A vehicle door includes a door panel, a corner piece that is disposed at a door waist portion of the door panel and that includes a protrusion, a weather strip that is disposed to extend along an outer peripheral edge of the door panel and that has a hole portion with which the protrusion is engaged, and a door trim that is disposed to cover the corner piece. The protrusion has a hollow structure and includes an outer peripheral side wall, and an opening is provided in a part of the outer peripheral side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masami Uehata