Patents Examined by Jerry Redman
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Patent number: 9777520Abstract: A unique anti-warping anti-sagging interlocking gate comprises: multiple triple-U-shaped-clamp bracket systems having front and rear plates and bracket tube nuts, multiple anti-warping anti-sagging interlocking-tube-nut hinge systems having crisscross 90-degree hinge tube nuts, multiple struts, a truss having cable ends and a cable clamp, and a truss-cable-clamp-hiding tunnel system. The front and rear plates and bracket tube nuts are for uniquely securing the triple-U-shaped-clamp bracket systems to the struts to prevent the interlocking gate from warping and sagging. The crisscross 90-degree hinge tube nuts are for uniquely interlocking the hinge systems to a fence post in two 90-degree interlocking directions and in five different crisscross interlocking elevations. The truss-cable-clamp-hiding tunnel system is for uniquely hiding the cable ends and a cable clamp inside one of the struts and under one of the triple-U-shaped-clamp bracket systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Inventor: Dee Volin
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Patent number: 9771747Abstract: A door pop-up system includes a check link, which is rotatably coupled to a body of a vehicle, and a pressure member, which is rotatably arranged inside a door. The check link has a tip portion to enter the inside of the door. The pressure member presses a tip of the check link in a movement direction of the check link in which the check link moves as the door in a closed position is actuated to be opened. The door in a closed position is actuated to be opened by rotation of the pressure member and pressing of the tip of the check link with the pressure member. The pressure member has a pressure surface at which the tip of the check link is pressed. The pressure surface has a restriction surface to restrict displacement of the check link in a height direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomokazu Seki, Shintaro Suzuki
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Patent number: 9771754Abstract: Example seals for insulated doors are disclosed. An example seal for a door includes a first mounting rail and a second mounting rail spaced apart from the first mounting rail. The example seal further includes a flexible sheet extending between the first mounting rail and the second mounting rail. The flexible sheet is to be biased away from the first and second mounting rails to sealingly engage the door when the door is in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: RITE-HITE HOLDING CORPORATIONInventors: Derek Lewan, Nicholas J. Casey, Rodney Kern, William W. Hoerner
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Patent number: 9772010Abstract: A building closure operator includes an operator arm pivotable about an arm axis from an arm closed position to an arm open position, an arm lock actuatable to lock the arm in different locked positions and releasable to release the arm, and an articulatable lever pivotable about a lever axis parallel to the arm axis, from a lever home position corresponding to the arm closed position, to a lever actuated position corresponding to the arm open position. The lever includes a lever coupling maintainable in the lever actuated position, and a lever handle pivotable with respect to the lever coupling back to the home position to actuate the arm lock to lock the arm in one of the different locked positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Milgard Manufacturing IncorporationInventors: Travis James Dodge, Michael Barton, Eric Baczuk
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Patent number: 9752366Abstract: A sliding door device for laterally opening a door of a passenger vehicle includes a door and a drive device for moving the door transversely to and along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. The door is flush with the lateral wall of the vehicle in the closed state, and in the open state, the door lies outside against the lateral wall. The drive device is arranged below or above the door opening and includes a support to which a first rotor is movably attached along the longitudinal axis of the support. A second rotor can be moved relative to the support along the longitudinal axis of the support by moving the first rotor, the door is attached to the second rotor, and the support is movably mounted relative to the vehicle transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: GEBR. BODE GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Andreas Pellegrini
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Patent number: 9732553Abstract: A shutter assembly including a plurality of shutter panels arranged side-by-side. Each shutter panel has a respective plurality of louvers and a respective operable tilt mechanism configured to adjust the tilt angle of the respective plurality of louvers. A control shaft operates the tilt mechanisms. The control shaft is configured to drive simultaneously the respective tilt mechanisms of all of the plurality of shutter panels.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: HUNTER DOUGLAS INDUSTRIES B.V.Inventor: Ken Rotchell
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Patent number: 9731581Abstract: A vehicle door comprising an outer door panel an inner door panel and a door module. The inner door panel is joined to the outer door panel so as to define a door cavity between the inner and outer door panels. The inner door panel has an aperture providing access to the door cavity. The door module includes a plurality of carrier portions including a first carrier portion that holds at least one functional door hardware component and a second carrier portion that holds at least one other functional door hardware component. The plurality of carrier portions are mounted to the inner panel to seal the aperture thereby defining a wet side of the door module facing towards the door cavity and a dry side of the door module facing away from the door cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: MAGNA CLOSURES INC.Inventors: Raymond Edward Fortin, Arthur J. W. Henes, Eric V. Kalliomaki
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Patent number: 9731583Abstract: A vehicle door structure 1 includes a lock mechanism 40. The lock mechanism 40 includes a portion to be locked 50 provided to a guided body 18, a first locking portion 60 arranged at a position that corresponds to the portion to be locked 50 when the slide door 6 is in the fully closed position, and a second locking portion 70 arranged at a position that corresponds to the portion to be locked 50 when the slide door 6 is in the fully open position. The portion to be locked 50, in the fully closed position or the fully open position, protrudes toward the first locking portion 60 or the second locking portion 70 and is locked by the first locking portion 60 or the second locking portion 70. The second locking portion 70 protrudes toward the portion to be locked 50 when the swing door 70 is opened.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Katsuya Maruyama, Hiroshi Kuno
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Patent number: 9732547Abstract: A door opening and closing device includes: a resin-made base attached to an inner panel of a door; and a transfer mechanism provided on an interior side of the base, and transferring power to a locking device via a power transfer cable, wherein the base includes first and second parts in which the transfer mechanism and the cable are disposed respectively, and a fixing portion fixing an outer casing end portion of the cable, and wherein the first and second parts are configured to locate at different levels so that the second part is positioned closer to an inner side than the first part in a width direction, a step portion is provided between the first and second parts, and the fixing portion is provided in the step portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Shibayama, Sadayuki Makino, Hidefumi Katayama
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Patent number: 9724987Abstract: Seal sections of a weather strip comprise: an upper edge section seal which is in contact with the upper edge section of a door; a side edge section seal which is in contact with a side edge section of the door; and a connecting section seal which connects the upper edge section seal to the side edge section seal. The seal sections comprise first drip channels which are capable of connecting water from the exterior of a vehicle. Second drip channels, which are capable of collecting water that flows along the vehicle exterior sides of the seal sections, are formed between the seal sections and the drip lips. A communication section, which communicates between one first drip channel and one second drip channel, is formed in the connection section seal.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yohei Inai
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Patent number: 9724983Abstract: A device for moving a window glass for a vehicle, may include a glass holder disposed on a door panel for the vehicle and supporting the window glass, and a curved rail guiding vertical movement of the glass holder and curved to form a hinge shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Hyuk Jong Kwon
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Patent number: 9723787Abstract: A mobile picking platform system includes a mobile picking platform having a mobile carriage with a superstructure supporting multiple adjustable picking stations. A storage box carrier on the mobile picking platform has a pick position with storage boxes held at optimum heights for access by pickers on the picking stations, an unload position in which full storage boxes are unloaded onto a ground surface, and a load position for receiving empty storage boxes. A storage unit carries empty storage boxes and facilitates transfer of storage boxes to the mobile picking platform. A shuttle trailer may also be included in the system to transfer empty storage boxes to the mobile picking platform and storage unit. The shuttle trailer has a down position in which full storage boxes may be picked up from a ground surface, and an up position for transferring storage boxes to the storage unit or mobile picking platform.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Huron Fruit Systems, Inc.Inventors: Paul Wafler, Walter Wafler, Jeremy Bryant, Walter Bruce Prockter
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Patent number: 9724986Abstract: A device for applying an adhesive-backed elongated seal (e.g., a weatherstrip seal) to a surface of a substrate. The device comprises a release liner removal tool having a stripper portion. The stripper portion comprises a spacer and a release liner guide surface. The spacer has a leading edge, an angled trailing edge, a central axis and a thickness profile that separates the adhesive on the back of the seal from the substrate surface while allowing the body of the seal to contact the substrate surface, when the stripper portion is positioned between the seal and the surface. The angled trailing edge has a transverse radius of curvature allowing the release liner to be removed from the adhesive, bent-backwards-over the trailing edge, and pulled-off along a portion of the guide surface, while the seal is adhered along its length to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Mark R. Gabel, Benjamin D. Belknap
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Patent number: 9718331Abstract: Provided is a vehicle door structure that enables manufacturing cost reduction and weight reduction. A vehicle door structure 1 includes a lock mechanism 40. The lock mechanism 40 locks sliding of a slide door 6 in a fully closed position in which the slide door 6 closes a door opening portion 4 and in a fully open position in which the slide door 6 fully opens the door opening portion 4. The lock mechanism 40 includes the portion to be locked 50 provided to the guided body 18 and the locking portions 60 and 70 provided to the slide rail 17. The portion to be locked 50 protrudes toward the locking portions 60 and 70 and is locked by the locking portions 60 and 70 in the fully closed position or the fully open position.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Katsuya Maruyama, Hiroshi Kuno
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Patent number: 9717232Abstract: A motorized tree stand includes a frame assembly for attachment to a tree. The frame assembly includes a rear wall that includes a vertical drive track and at least one vertical gliding rail spaced laterally therefrom. A seat assembly is operatively coupled to the rear wall of the frame assembly and provides a seat on which a user can sit. A first drive assembly is coupled to the seat assembly and includes a first motor that is connected to a driven wheel that seats against the vertical drive track to controllably move the seat assembly in a vertical direction along the frame assembly. A second drive assembly is coupled to a swivel plate for controllably moving the swivel plate resulting in swiveling of the seat assembly relative to the frame assembly. A controller and a power source are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Inventor: Kadry Abouelmakarem
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Patent number: 9718337Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a movable window pane in a vehicle door provides a rain channel. The sealing arrangement including a base body which has a receiving region for an edge region of the window pane including projections which oppose one another in the receiving region and having a first projection which extends from the outer projection of the opposing projections from a connecting point into the receiving region and in the closed state of the window pane bears against an outer face of the window pane. A second projection on the outer projection of the opposing projections extends outwardly from the connecting point in order to form a rain channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Joerg Stephan
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Patent number: 9707827Abstract: A window lifter assembly is provided which comprises at least one carrier component and a guide rail fixed at the carrier component, which defines a path of adjustment for a window pane to be adjusted. At least three geometrically differently designed first, second and third fixing regions are provided at the guide rail, which in the properly connected state with a tab each engage into a cutout of an associated fixing region at the carrier component. Identically formed screws are used at the different first, second and third fixing points defined thereby, in order to fix the guide rail at the carrier component.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanitgesellschaft, HallstadtInventors: Rainer Kroack, Frank Wagner, Klaus Hampel, Carsten Haering, Philipp Barthelmann, Heike Wolf
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Patent number: 9708843Abstract: Set for installing a leaf (3) of a sliding door (1) provided with a wheel set (12) in a frame (2), the set including a leaf (3), a frame (2), a wheel set (12) and an aid (1), whereby the aid (15) includes supporting elements (17) that each define a support point (20) for the leaf (3), whereby the distance (Ds) between the support points (20) is less than the thickness (Dv) of the leaf (3) and whereby the aid (15) includes at least one connecting element (16) to fix the supporting elements (17) with respect one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: REYNAERS ALUMINIUM, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAPInventor: Danny Geysels
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Patent number: 9702191Abstract: The present invention relates to a ladder with a design such that storage is incorporated into the ladder body, most notably the rails, by providing for a storage area for tools and other things, which will be incorporated into the manufacture of the ladder. An alternative version is a storage unit approximately the width of the rails of existing ladders, which can be fixedly attached thereto, providing a storage area for tools and other things.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Inventor: Andrew Mikesell, Sr.
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Patent number: 9702178Abstract: A door suspension device includes a driving-side member, a hanger, an elastic member, and a first adjustment bolt. The hanger is configured so as to be displaceable in an opening and closing direction in conjunction with the driving-side member and supports a door. The elastic member allows relative displacements of the driving-side member and the hanger by elastically deforming in accordance with a load between the driving-side member and the hanger. The first adjustment bolt is a member for adjusting an initial value of a load that acts between the driving-side member and the hanger. The first adjustment bolt includes a male screw section to be fixed to the driving-side member, and a head which is arranged so that an axial force acting on the first adjustment bolt is received by an edge of the hanger.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Takayama