Patents Examined by Jeffrey Restifo
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Patent number: 7588257Abstract: There is provided a trammer in the present invention, comprising a panel and a handspike, with the handspike slots corresponding to the handspike located on both sides of the panel and the locating device connected with the handspike also located on the panel. The locating device comprises the locating hole at the inside bottom of the handspike, the elastic fastener corresponding to the locating hole and the handspike connector. In the present invention, the position of the handspike can be selected according to the demand of users. When the handspike need to be used, the handspike can be turned out, and the handspike and the carrying panel are localized at a certain angle via locating device for operations; when the handspike need not to be used, the handspike can be embedded in the panel to effectively decrease the space volume of the trammer and be advantageous to overlap and stack up the carrying panel of the trammer.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Ningbo Hualei Tool Co., LtdInventor: Xinjun Gu
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Patent number: 7070015Abstract: An automotive vehicle has a battery mounting system including battery tray fastened to a floor within a compartment of the vehicle, and a motion convertor for repositioning battery tray as a result of a collision impact upon the compartment by causing the battery tray to rotate from a first position in which the battery tray is generally parallel to the floor to which it is mounted, to a second position which the battery tray is not parallel to the plane of the floor.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2003Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLCInventors: Jacob Mathews, Alison Japikse Carothers, Patrick Maguire, Leonard Anthony Shaner, Douglas Zhu
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Patent number: 6886838Abstract: The use of a pivotal coupling on a cart of the wheelbarrow type allows for a downwardly applied pressure to the user ends of the handles to tip the bucket to at least begin the dumping action of the cart. Following the initial downward pressure with the handles still elevationally displaced downward an upward lift applied to the user ends of the handles completes the dumping action of the cart. Use of multiple pivotal axises on the cart provide for an extremely efficient operation. Various enhancements are explained including locking of the orientation of the cart following the initial dump, wheel blocking to prevent rotation of the ground support wheel relative to the bucket during at least a portion of the final dumping action and stabilization enhancement to prevent lateral tipping of the cart during the final dumping action.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: ZimmcoInventor: Felton Zimmerman
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Patent number: 6824152Abstract: A dolly device for facilitating moving of an object by a user. The dolly device includes a base member being designed for supporting the object when the object is placed on the base member. A pair of side members are oppositely coupled to the base member. Each of the side members is positioned substantially orthogonally to the base member. The side members are designed for engaging the object for inhibiting the object from tipping off of the base member when the object is positioned on the base member. At least one wheel is rotatably coupled to each of the side members. The wheel is designed for rollably engaging a support surface for facilitating movement of the object across the support surface when the object is positioned on the base member and the base member is moved across the support surface by the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Inventor: John M. Scott
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Patent number: 6817431Abstract: A suspension for an assembly generating, absorbing, and/or transmitting torque in the drive train of a motor vehicle with a combustion engine, with the assembly 10 including materials with a thermal expansion coefficient different from the material of the engine block of the combustion engine 12, and a first non-rotating part 18, 22 of the assembly 10 being connected with the engine block, and a second rotating part 16 of the assembly 10 being connected with an output shaft 14 protruding from the engine block, and with the first and the second part 18, 22; 16 being designed so as to encompass the output shaft 14 at least partially, and with the first non-rotating part 18, 22 of the assembly 10 being connected with the engine block of the combustion engine 12 via a coupling element 40 in a manner so as to be essentially secured against rotation and resilient in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Continental ISAD Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. oHGInventor: Reinhard Rasch
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Patent number: 6814361Abstract: A golf bag includes a body, a seat, a glide device and a brake-device. The body is affixed to the seat and the seat includes a slot, a plate-channel and a cavity. There is a plurality of ditches on two sides of the seat. Nearby the ditches, there is a shaft-channel extending to the cavity; and the glide device is on the ditches of the seat so that a shaft can be passed through the wheels and the shaft-channel of the seat. The brake-device has a jammed-plate, a back-plate and a start-plate for controlling the seat when being towed or stored. The jammed-plate has a jammed-notch and an arm is attached to the slot. There is a first elasticity-component positioned between the jammed-plate and the slot. The back-plate is placed on the plate-channel to connect the jammed-plate on the seat. The starting-plate has a joint-plate and a pull-plate, wherein the joint-plate linking the wheels into action is connected to the seat and a second elasticity-component within the seat.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: Hersun Plastic Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hsueh-Yi Tsu
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Patent number: 6810979Abstract: A propulsion engine housing for a motor vehicle having at least one door arranged to allow positioning in one closed and one open position. The inside of the door is provided with steps in order to facilitate access to the engine for the driver/mechanic.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2002Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Volvo Articulated Haulers ABInventors: Peter Johansson, Roger Melander
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Patent number: 6805211Abstract: In a parallel hybrid vehicle, an revolution speed of an engine, a revolution speed of a motor/generator, and a regenerative power obtained by the motor/generator are calculated under both of released and clutched states of a lock-up clutch for each gear speed range achievable by a transmission on the basis of an estimated requested vehicular deceleration state and a driving state related to one of the gear speed ranges of the transmission and an operation state of the clutch is selected on the basis of the engine speed of the engine, the revolution speed of the motor/generator, and a regenerative power obtained by the motor/generator calculated as described above in such a manner that as a charge state of the charge device becomes smaller, the regenerative power obtained by means of the motor/generator becomes larger.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: JATCO LtdInventor: Masato Fujikawa
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Patent number: 6789808Abstract: A three-sectional golf cart structure including a stretchable hand pull-bar, two struts for wheels, a “U” shaped lower stand and two links, wherein the hand pull-bar includes an inner pipe and an external sleeve; the two struts for wheels each is connected on one end thereof with a wheel; the two links both have their ends connected to the two struts for wheels and the external sleeve respectively. Thereby, when the hand pull-bar is pulled up, it moves therewith the two links to stretch out the two struts and the wheels; while down pressing of the hand pull-bar will collapse the two struts and the wheels to be received in the two lateral sides of the “U” shaped lower stand, and by stretching and retracting of the three members including the inner pipe, the external sleeve and the “U” shaped lower stand, the three-sectional golf cart structure is formed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2003Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Inventor: Lien-Chuan Yang
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Patent number: 6789809Abstract: A push cart transferable to a back holder and a chair includes a pair of connecting mounts jointing a bottom frame and a back frame as well an angle adjusting device jointing with an upper frame and the back frame; wherein the angle adjusting device adjusts the rotation angle of the upper frame; the bottom frame displaces and positions vertically or horizontally in a concave slot of the connecting mount; the connecting mounts slide at a limited distance on a left and a right lateral tubes of the back frame so as to fulfill the embodiment of being a push cart, a back holder or a chair.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Inventor: Ken Lin
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Patent number: 6763904Abstract: A method for controlling the speed of a vehicle is proposed, where, in the vehicle to be controlled, the yaw rate or rotation rate is measured, in particular to determine the curvature of the vehicle's own travel trajectory, and where, using a proximity sensor or position sensor, at least one vehicle traveling ahead or at least some other object within a sensor's sensing range is detected, particularly with regard to an offset from the travel course of the vehicle to be controlled. By delaying the travel-course offset of a vehicle driving ahead, determined in preset measuring cycles, by a predefined time span, and by using the then instantaneous curvature of the travel trajectory, a historical travel-course offset is ascertained, one is able to simply and rapidly predict the travel course of the vehicle to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Hermann Winner, Jens Lueder
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Patent number: 6742788Abstract: A replaceable skate assembly includes a boot, a base mounted on a bottom of the boot, and a locking device mounted in the base. The locking device includes a positioning rod, a locking pawl, and a spring. Thus, the base may be assembled on and detached from the bottom of the boot quickly, easily and conveniently, thereby facilitating the user using the replaceable skate assembly. In addition, the bottom of the boot is integrally formed with the boot, without having to additionally provide an aluminum alloy structure on the bottom of the boot, thereby simplifying the procedure of fabrication, and thereby decreasing the cost of fabrication.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Inventors: Zi-Yang Li, Wen-Qing Li
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Patent number: 6715794Abstract: The roller cane invention has a handle at one end, thereof, and a rubber tip at the other end. The cane's handle is used as the roller skate's foot support plates. The cane's hand grip wrap is used as the roller skate's shoe fastening cords, wrapped and tied around each plate and shoe. The cane's main shaft seperates into four component shafts that fasten to the under side of the foot support plates to form the wheel axle shafts and wheels, of the roller skates. A portion of the cane's shaft also is used to make a socket driver tool, and friction brake, used on the roller skates. A pouch, attaches to a belt, and carries a hex key screw driver tool, and components not used on the roller skates, yet necessary when constructing the walking cane.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Inventor: Carl Leapold Frank
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Patent number: 6712164Abstract: A vehicle chassis having substantially all of the mechanical, electrical, and structural componentry necessary for a fully functional vehicle, including at least an energy conversion system, a steering system, and a braking system. The chassis is configured for matability with a variety of different types or styles of vehicle bodies. Various prior art mechanical control linkages between a driver and controlled systems are replaced with non-mechanical control signal transmission components. Fuel cell technology is also implemented.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Adrian B. Chernoff, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, Mohsen D. Shabana, Robert Louis Vitale, Tommy E. White
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Patent number: 6695082Abstract: A vehicle having a transmission for transmitting a torque from a drive machine to drive wheels, with the transmission having a transmission output shaft and a transmission input shaft, in which the torque can be transmitted from the drive machine to the transmission output shaft, and having an electrical machine which has a rotor and a stator, with means being provided in order to connect the electric-motor torque of the electrical machine optionally to the transmission input shaft or to the transmission output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Otmar Bitsche, Karl-Ernst Noreikat, Tobias Ostertag, Alfons Rennefeld, Wolfgang Schwienbacher, Sven Stephan, Lars Weinschenker
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Patent number: 6685213Abstract: A touring, telemark, or cross-country ski binding, comprising a supporting portion to offer support in forward, upward and side directions to the front part of an associated shoe, especially a front sole portion of the same, on a ski or similar piece of sports equipment, further comprising a retaining portion to hold the shoe in the supporting portion such that the heel of the shoe can be lifted freely. The retaining portion includes a clamping portion, especially in the form of a tensioning cable, strap or clamping plate, connected to the ski or binding in the area of the metatarsal zone and engaging the front sole of the shoe behind the metatarsal zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Rottefella ASInventor: Bernt-Otto Hauglin
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Patent number: 6662891Abstract: An electric power source device including a plurality of battery cells accommodated within a battery casing installed on an automotive vehicle, such that the battery cells are cooled air introduced from a compartment of the vehicle into the battery casing, wherein the battery casing is disposed adjacent to the vehicle compartment and is generally isolated from the compartment by a floor or covering member which partially defines the compartment or covers the battery casing, and the floor or covering member has an inlet of an air intake passage, through which the air is introduced into the battery casing, for cooling the battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Misu, Keiji Shukuya, Yurio Hatta, Yuji Tanigawa, Hideto Minekawa
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Patent number: 6651992Abstract: A container with an integral dolly includes a container body with a tubular upstanding sidewall that is closed at the bottom and open at the top. A cover, which overlies the open top, can be moved to uncover the opening and gain access to the interior of the container. A vertically extending telescoping handle, that can be adjusted and locked in position at selected heights, is located on the back of the container body for manipulating and moving the container. A pair of wheels is mounted on the lower end and at the back of the container body whereby, when the container body is tilted backwards by the telescoping handle, the container can be wheeled about on the pair of wheels.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Inventor: Albert Lee Smith, Sr.
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Patent number: 6648085Abstract: A tank is disposed beneath a floor for storing methanol and water. A reforming unit is disposed beneath the floor for generating hydrogen from methanol and water supplied from the tank. A fuel cell is disposed beneath the floor for generating electricity from an electrochemical reaction of hydrogen generated by the reforming unit and oxygen in air. A secondary battery is disposed beneath the floor for storing electricity generated by the fuel cell. In this way, mechanisms for generating electricity from air, methanol, and water are centralized.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Nagura, Nobuaki Komuro, Noboru Yamashita
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Patent number: 6648372Abstract: A skateboard truck guard, which is adapted for attaching to a truck having a bottom portion and defining a ground contacting surface thereon, includes an elongated guard body, which is shaped and sized for detachably mounting to the bottom portion of the truck, having an outer side and defining a grinding surface thereon, and an inner side for covering the ground contacting surface and a fastening arrangement mounted on the guard body for securely fastening the guard body on the truck.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Inventor: Felix Ojeda, III