Patents Examined by Jason S Morrow
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Patent number: 12291174Abstract: A front section of a motor vehicle includes an engine hood and a chassis. Support parts of the chassis are arranged in a receiving space of the front section body, at least partly below the engine hood. A water-fillable multi-chamber pad is arranged at least in a first partial region of the receiving space.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Oliver Haff, Felix Schumacher, Jasmin Tahan
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Patent number: 12291908Abstract: A roller assembly for a sliding vehicle door includes a bracket structure having a first and second inner horizontal guide roller arranged to interact with an inner vertical surface of the track member. The bracket structure further includes at least a first and second vertical guide roller arranged to interact with a first inner surface of the track member, a resiliently arranged rotatable member arranged to interact with a second inner surface of the track member and at least one outer horizontal guide roller arranged to interact with an outer vertical surface of the track member.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEV. CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Luca Marega, Koteswara Rao Buravalli
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Patent number: 12291277Abstract: A vehicle and liner assembly including for a recreational vehicle. In another embodiment of the invention, a trailer and liner combination, is provided that includes a vehicle having a housing with a front end, a rear end, a top, a bottom, a pair of sidewalls, and a door providing access to a cargo area defined by the housing. A frame assembly is provided wherein, the housing is mounted on and supported by the frame assembly. The cargo area has a floor and walls, and a liner is attached to at least one of the floor or the walls. The liner has a first face including projections extending therefrom that are also attached to a second face. In one embodiment, the liner includes an integral hatch for ease of accessing the underside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: PennPlastics, LLCInventor: Terry D. Pennington
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Patent number: 12291279Abstract: An embodiment vehicle body includes a side sill coupled to a side of a vehicle floor and extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, a coupling member coupled to a top of the side sill and having a coupling groove penetrating in an up-down direction, and a pillar member extending in the up-down direction such that an upper end portion is connected to a roof and a lower end portion is inserted into the coupling groove and coupled to the coupling member.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Do Hoi Kim, Joo Tae Oh, Frank Petetin, Bahman Moarefi
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Patent number: 12291271Abstract: An electric-vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space, extending in a front-rear direction, and including a bend portion at an intermediate portion, and a connecting member connecting the bend portion to the floor panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba
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Patent number: 12291276Abstract: A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a front-rear direction, a cross member extending and intersecting the center frame in a plan view in the occupant space, and a connecting member extending upward from the cross member, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the cross member.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba
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Patent number: 12280833Abstract: To suppress vibration and noise due to load input from a rear suspension device, a left-side load input portion that is fixed to a left-side rear-side frame and to which a load from a rear suspension device is input, and a right-side load input portion that is fixed to a right-side rear-side frame and to which a load from a rear suspension device is input are provided. A cross member is provided at a position lower than the left-side load input portion and the right-side load input portion to which loads from the rear suspension devices are input. The cross member and the left-side load input portion are connected through a left-side rear connection frame. The cross member and the right-side load input portion are connected through a right-side rear connection frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka, Nobuyuki Nakayama
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Patent number: 12275458Abstract: To increase the stiffness of a floor panel while maintaining a large foot space for a rear-seat passenger. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor provided with front-row and rear-row seats, and a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. A recessed portion having a bottom surface on which the feet of a passenger sitting on the rear-row seat can be placed is formed at the floor panel. The floor panel includes a cross member extending in a vehicle width direction at a rear portion of the recessed portion. A rear portion of the center frame is connected to the cross member.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Takayuki Kimura, Takehiro Kamei
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Patent number: 12269325Abstract: A door assembly and an assembly method for a door assembly with a door skin, a support component and an interior trim component, the support component is fastened to the door skin by at least one mounting component. The at least one mounting component is also used for mounting the interior trim component since a head section of the mounting component projects from the support component and the interior trim component is mounted on the head section.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, BambergInventors: Michael Thienel, Dominik Hofmann
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Patent number: 12269537Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a plurality of front side bars that extend toward a front of a vehicle and are spaced apart from each other and arranged at sides of the vehicle with respect to a center of the vehicle, and a front cross bar that extends in a transverse direction of the vehicle and connects front ends of the plurality of front side bars to each other. The vehicle structure further includes a plurality of fender apron bars, where each of the plurality of fender apron bars extends from a coupling portion between the front cross bar and one of the plurality of front side bars in the transverse direction and in a direction rearward and upward relative to the front cross bar.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Seung Ho Noh, Seung Min Jeong
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Patent number: 12257964Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes an extension to be held between a bumper beam extending in a vehicle width direction and a side frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction. The extension includes: a fixing plate made of a plate member and fixed to a projecting end of the side frame so as to face in the vehicle front-rear direction; a crushing body arranged on the fixing plate; and a coupling strip made of a plate member, extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and coupling an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the fixing plate with an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the bumper beam so as to integrally continue to the fixing plate and the bumper beam.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Junya Harada
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Patent number: 12257887Abstract: A structure of a flap part for covering a rail part when opening a sliding door of a vehicle, includes a door flap part including an installation hole, a door flap guide, door trim flap links, elastic members, and a flap, wherein the sliding door is supported by a roller arm, and the rail part, which is externally exposed when the sliding door is opened, is covered by the flap part, and wherein at a time of opening the door, a roller provided on the roller arm comes into contact with a door flap guide and pushes the door flap guide to ensure a movement space for the roller arm.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION DUCK YANG INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae-Seung Lee, Chung-Sik Yim, Yong-Hyun Nam, Kyu-Hoon Cho, Gwang-Seob Kim
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Patent number: 12252865Abstract: A working machine includes: a machine body; a frame member; a cover member; and a hinge with which the cover member is swingably supported on the frame member, a connector plate attached to the hinge, the hinge includes: a movable arm which is supported on the frame member such that the movable arm is swingable up and down; a mounting plate which is fixed on a swinging end of the movable arm; the mounting plate has a hole for insertion of a mounting bolt, the hole being an elongated hole including: a mounting area through which the mounting bolt is passed to attach the connector plate to the mounting plate; and a guiding area which extends from the mounting area to guide the mounting bolt therethrough, and the guiding area extends upward from the mounting area when the movable arm is in an upward swung position.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Torii, Toyoharu Hashima, Akira Komukai
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Patent number: 12240302Abstract: A flutter reducer for protecting at least partially a tarpaulin defining a tarpaulin rear end edge from flutter induced damages when the tarpaulin is secured laterally across a container moved at speed, the container defining a container aperture delimited by an aperture peripheral edge. The flutter reducer is operatively coupled to the tarpaulin so that when the tarpaulin is extended across the container aperture configuration and the container is moved by the vehicle, the flutter reducer limits movements of the tarpaulin at its tarpaulin rear end edge to reduce flutter due to relative wind caused by movement through air of the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: FABRICATION ELCARGO INC.Inventors: Keven Boutin, Etienne Brunet, Kendrick Martin
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Patent number: 12240529Abstract: To increase an effect of absorbing an impact load from a vehicle front side. A vehicle-body structure includes a left-side suspension support member supporting a front suspension, a center frame disposed higher than and away from a floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of an occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, a left-side front frame connected to a front portion of the center frame and extending to the left-side suspension support member, a right-side front frame connected to the front portion of the center frame and extending to a right-side suspension support member, and a connection member that connects the floor panel and at least one of a rear portion of the left-side front frame, a rear portion of the right-side front frame, and the front portion of the center frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
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Patent number: 12240415Abstract: A console element for a vehicle, with a top assembly, a bottom assembly and an adjustment assembly, wherein the top assembly is adjustable along an adjustment axis with respect to the bottom assembly via the adjustment assembly, and the adjustment assembly has a first adjustment element, which is coupled at one end to the top assembly, and a second adjustment element, which is coupled at one end to the bottom assembly, wherein the first adjustment element is coupled pivotably to the second adjustment element at a common coupling point. The first adjustment element and the second adjustment element project in each case with a further, free end beyond the coupling point.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, CoburgInventors: Wojciech Falinski, Christian Mergl, Marcel Schieber
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Patent number: 12233946Abstract: To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Takashi Hirakawa, Hideaki Hoshuyama, Tsuneki Shimanaka
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Patent number: 12227229Abstract: To decrease the retraction amount of a traveling motor at front collision. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger sits, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member extending upward from the floor panel, having an upper portion fixed to the center frame, and connecting the center frame to the floor panel. A traveling motor is arranged on a vehicle front side of the connecting member.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Takuma Inami, Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroaki Fujii
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Patent number: 12227228Abstract: An embodiment front vehicle body structure of a vehicle body is provided. The vehicle body includes an under body and an upper body coupled to the under body, and the front vehicle body structure includes side sills respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the upper body based on a vehicle width direction and wheel arch members respectively connected directly to front ends of the side sills in a forward/rearward direction of the vehicle body and coupled to a front part of the under body.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Chang Hak Kang, Chan Woong Jeon, Chulhee Heo, Haehoon Lee
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Patent number: 12227230Abstract: A recreational vehicle includes an exterior side having an elongated strip extending from near the front of the vehicle towards the rear of the vehicle. A utility hook-up compartment in the exterior side includes a compartment door manually opened and closed to uncover and cover utility hook-up compartment, accessing the hook-up compartment upon manually opening the door and preventing access and concealing the hook-up compartment upon manually closing the door. The strip has first and second portions with exterior surfaces that provide a visual camouflage effect, hiding within the unitized strip itself the hook-up compartment door upon closure thereof and alignment of both portions. Door closure brings the first and second portions into alignment along a common longitudinal reference line to form an integrated unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Inventor: Edward P Grech