Patents Examined by Jason D Shanske
  • Patent number: 11870087
    Abstract: Power supply device includes a plurality of secondary battery cells having a flat rectangular parallelepiped shape, a pair of end plates covering both end faces of battery stack having the plurality of secondary battery cells stacked on each other, and a plurality of fastening members for fastening end plates to each other. Each of the plurality of fastening members has a plate shape extending along the stacking direction of the plurality of secondary battery cells and is disposed on a corresponding one of opposite surfaces of battery stack. Through holes are formed in both ends of each plate shape. Each of the pair of end plates includes pipe portions inserted into the through holes of a pair of fastening members disposed on opposite surfaces of battery stack among the plurality of fastening members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinobu Terauchi
  • Patent number: 11865996
    Abstract: A restraint system for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle having a roof and a cabin with a seat for the occupant includes an airbag. The airbag has a stored condition within the vehicle seat and is inflatable to deploy laterally in the cabin to a deployed condition in front of the occupant. The airbag is configured to utilize the vehicle seat as a reaction surface for restraining the movement of the airbag in response to occupant penetration into the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZF PASSIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS US INC.
    Inventors: Kurt F. Fischer, Angelo J. Adler, Alexandra E. Smith, Daniel R. Sutherland
  • Patent number: 11867104
    Abstract: A motorcycle exhaust pipe heat pad including a shield assembly, and a fastening assembly is disclosed herein. Fastening assembly include a plurality of fasteners. Shield assembly includes shield made of an insulating heat material such as silicone to protect user from heat of motorcycle exhaust pipes. Shield has a cylindrical mounting shape. Shield has decorative ridges on an outer surface. Shield has predetermined diameters to couple to different exhaust pipes. Plurality of fasteners are disposed on the shield assembly and allow to secure the shield to a motorcycle double exhaust pipe, to a motorcycle single exhaust pipe or to a motorcycle curved exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: John A. Roller
  • Patent number: 11866028
    Abstract: An electrical passenger car, the electrical passenger car including: at least two electrically driven motors; motor control electronics, where the motor control electronics are connected to the at least two electrically driven motors; wheels, where the wheels are connected to the at least two electrically driven motors; and sensors, where the sensors are connected to at least the motor control electronics, where the wheels include a first wheel and a second wheel, where the second wheel has a radius at least 7% greater than a radius of the first wheel, where the motor control electronics control the at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to the first wheel than to the second wheel, and where the electrical passenger car is designed to operate efficiently on a paved road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11865890
    Abstract: A rocking arm structure includes an arm body, a first wheel assembly connected to the arm body, a second wheel assembly connected to the arm body, and a shaft assembly disposed between the first wheel assembly and the second wheel assembly. The arm body can rotate relative to the main body around the shaft assembly, and drive the first wheel assembly and the second wheel assembly to revolve in a same direction around the shaft assembly. The first wheel assembly and the second wheel assembly are both steering wheel assemblies or both directional wheel assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Li Yen, Chih-Cheng Lee, Chen-Ting Kao, Yu-Cheng Zhang, Chiung-Hsiang Wu, Chang-Ju Hsieh, Chen Chao, Yu-Sheng Chang, Chi-Cheng Wen
  • Patent number: 11865889
    Abstract: A suspension system including four dampers where each damper includes compression and rebound chambers. The suspension system has four hydraulic circuits, each including a cross-over hydraulic line that extends between dampers located at opposite corners of the vehicle (i.e., between the front left and back right dampers or between the front right and back left dampers). The suspension system further includes four electromechanical comfort valves that open and close four bridge hydraulic lines that extend between the cross-over hydraulic lines at each corner of the vehicle. Each cross-over hydraulic line is connected to a manifold assembly by a corresponding manifold hydraulic line. The manifold assembly includes four manifold valves that are connected to a pump assembly and two manifold comfort valves. All six comfort valves are electromechanical valves that can be actuated to control the roll and pitch of the vehicle during cornering, braking, and acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DRiV Automotive Inc.
    Inventors: Bert Vandersmissen, Peter Boon
  • Patent number: 11858305
    Abstract: A roll stabilizer in the form of a stabilizer bar which has a connecting portion at each end. The connecting portion is configured such that at least two bores are arranged on a circle arc. The center point of the circle arc constitutes the upper pivot point of the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Boris Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11858365
    Abstract: An agricultural/utility vehicle has as its motive power source one or more electric motors supplied by one or more rechargeable batteries to drivingly rotate a shaft of the vehicle driveline. To recharge the batteries, an external power source is applied to cause the driveline shaft to rotate, resulting in at least one of the electric motors acting as a generator to recharge the batteries. The external power source may include a source of fluid pressure that drives a hydraulic pump of the driveline as a hydraulic motor. The external power source may be an external source of rotational energy coupled to a power take-off shaft of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Brenninger
  • Patent number: 11858446
    Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle includes a dash. The assembly includes a seat having a seatback and a head restraint extending upwardly from the seatback. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the seatback. The airbag is inflatable from the seatback toward the dash in a seat-rearward direction to an inflated position. The airbag includes an upper portion adjacent the head restraint and a pair of lobes extending from the upper portion along the head restraint in a seat-forward direction in the inflated position. The head restraint is between the lobes in the inflated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Shen, Huipeng Chen, Agnes S. Kim, Robert William McCoy, James Chih Cheng, Raed Essa EL-Jawahri
  • Patent number: 11858329
    Abstract: A vehicle has a body and a high-voltage accumulator, which is attached to the body via fastening elements, and at least one central connector, which is different from the fastening elements and which is designed to support the body on the high-voltage accumulator. The central connector has a rubber mount with a threaded sleeve, which has a cylindrical wall with an internal thread and an external thread. The external thread is engaged with a compensation bushing. A screw element for connecting the body and rubber mount is screwed into the internal thread, and the rubber mount extends between the body and the high-voltage accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benjamin Schlesinger, Martin Spaeth
  • Patent number: 11858332
    Abstract: The present application provides a battery, a power consumption apparatus, and a method for producing a battery. The battery includes a box body, a battery module and a mounting plate, the battery module is disposed in the box body and includes a battery cell arrangement structure and a first end plate, the battery cell arrangement structure includes a plurality of battery cells stacked and is disposed on one side of the battery cell arrangement structure, the first end plate is fixedly connected to the battery cell arrangement structure, the mounting plate is disposed between the first end plate and the box body and is fixedly connected to the box body; the first end plate has a first elastic support part configured to be capable of abutting the mounting plate, being squeezed by the battery cell arrangement structure and deforming when the battery cell arrangement structure expands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenhui Zhang, Kangyu Wang, Mu Qian, Wencai Xu, Zengzhong Wang, Jinqing Ji
  • Patent number: 11858451
    Abstract: An airbag module having a retainer, an airbag cushion affixed to the retainer, an inflator, affixed to the retainer, to inflate the airbag cushion and a vertical restrictor disposed inside the airbag cushion. The vertical restrictor being affixed to the airbag, cushion and to the retainer and configured to limit a distance the airbag cushion travels in a vertical direction during inflation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: William J. Barnes
  • Patent number: 11858561
    Abstract: A material transfer vehicle has a frame, a front end including an asphalt paving material receiving device, and rear end including a discharge conveyor which is adapted to convey asphalt paving material to the receiving hopper of an asphalt paving machine. An operator's station includes an operator's platform on which is mounted an operator's seat. The operator's platform is moveable between a travel position that is entirely within the outer periphery of the material transfer vehicle and an operating position that locates the operator's seat at least partially outside the outer periphery of the material transfer vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Roadtec, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Neisen
  • Patent number: 11850930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery-equipped vehicle body including: a lower panel of a vehicle extending in a planar direction, and having a battery coupled to the upper portion or lower portion thereof; a door opening/closing device located on the side surface of the lower panel, and coupled so that a door of the vehicle is opened and closed; and a cross member extending in a direction parallel to the transverse direction of the vehicle, coupled to the upper portion or lower portion of the lower panel, and located to correspond to the door opening/closing device in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Kwang Hee An
  • Patent number: 11850907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wheel carrier for a suspension of a motor vehicle; and a motor vehicle comprising the wheel carrier. In a preferred system, the wheel carrier comprises a first carrier segment configured to carry a wheel of the motor vehicle at a wheel center; and a second carrier segment configured to couple the first carrier segment with a vehicle body of the motor vehicle. The second carrier segment comprises at least one groove, and the first carrier segment comprises for each groove a corresponding sliding pin configured to slidingly engage the respective groove such that the pin slides along the groove under vertical and/or horizontal displacements of the wheel center with respect to the second carrier segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Ameya Karmarkar, Christian Ludwig, Kadir Oguzcan ger, Alessandro Salgarello, Lorenzo Falchi, Daniel Hahn, Florian Goy
  • Patent number: 11851018
    Abstract: A seat airbag apparatus for a vehicle and a method of controlling the operation thereof, includes side cushions deployed from the seatback, front cushions configured to be deployed from the side cushions, and inflators for the side cushions and inflators for the front cushions. The deployment operation of the side cushions and the deployment operation of the front cushions are respectively controlled depending on a normal seating mode and a relax mode of an occupant and a side collision and a front collision of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Il Chang Sung, Sang Won Hwangbo
  • Patent number: 11850956
    Abstract: An electric compact tractor powered by a plurality of lithium ion battery modules housed in a battery pack. A pair of electrical bus bars connect the plurality of lithium ion battery modules in the battery pack, and extend from the battery pack to electric motors for traction drive, implement drive and steering. A low voltage control circuit may be used for turning on the plurality of lithium ion battery modules in the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Vikas V. Jadhav, Sudip Kandke, Gaurav Dusane, Subhabrata Gupta, Bhupesh Agrawal, Saravanan Stallin, Navneet Garg
  • Patent number: 11850932
    Abstract: A structure for fastening a battery to a vehicle includes: a carrier part including a pair of first members that is disposed at a lower portion of the vehicle in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and bonded to both sides of a vehicle body, respectively, and a plurality of second members the pair of first members in contact with the pair of first members; and a battery having a case that houses a plurality of battery cells, in which a part of the case is connected to the first member, and the other part of the case is connected to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gyung Hoon Shin, Yong Hwan Choi, Yu Ri Oh, Tae Hyuck Kim, Hae Kyu Lim, Ji Woong Jung
  • Patent number: 11851123
    Abstract: The steering function-equipped hub unit includes: a turning shaft-equipped hub bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling elements in double rows interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, the turning shaft-equipped hub bearing having a turning shaft extending in a vertical direction; a unit support member rotatably supporting the turning shaft-equipped hub bearing (15) about a turning axis of the turning shaft; and a steering actuator configured to rotationally drive the turning shaft-equipped hub bearing about the turning axis (A). The unit support member and the steering actuator include a flange and an end portion, respectively, to be removably fixed to a knuckle which is a chassis frame component of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ooba, Yusuke Ohata
  • Patent number: 11845316
    Abstract: A pivot joint for connection between first and second suspension members in a vehicle suspension permits adjustment of wheel alignment characteristics without removal or disassembly of the pivot joint. Wheel alignment adjustment may be accomplished with mutual rotation of engaged components of the pivot joint, wherein engaged guide structures of the pivot joint component convert the mutual rotation to translational movement of one pivot joint component relative to the other pivot joint component. The translational movement may be oriented to selectively adjust wheel alignment characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHSTAR MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: Shawn Miller, Kurt Vinje, James Ryshavy