Patents Examined by Jerry Redman
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Patent number: 9649917Abstract: A vehicle resin back door structure includes a back door panel made of resin, which has a first opening, and of which a marginal edge portion that forms the first opening is formed in a closed sectional shape; a bracket made of metal, which is fixed inside the closed section of the marginal edge portion, and of which a portion is exposed by a second opening formed in the marginal edge portion; and a back window glass of which a peripheral edge portion is joined to the marginal edge portion including the portion of the bracket that is exposed by the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koki Ikeda, Tatsuya Ayukawa
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Patent number: 9644417Abstract: Electro-mechanical and electronically controlled access devices are described for controlling access to a building, premises or area in a secure manner such that a subject who is deemed ineligible for access will be barred entry. The devices contain multiple rotatable and moveable door panels. The door panels can be controlled by various drive mechanisms in order to control the passage through the device. The direction of flow through a device according to these embodiments is electronically controlled and may be changed at any point in time. At any instant in time, the flow through the device is unidirectional. Multiple devices can be stacked together to form clusters, which can be controlled according to traffic, time of day, or other factors.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventor: Robert Osann, Jr.
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Patent number: 9643478Abstract: A vehicle press door structure includes: a door frame in which an open portion having a recess-shaped cross-section that is open to an inner peripheral side is formed by a door outer panel, and a door inner panel arranged on a vehicle width direction inside of the door outer panel; a door glass run that has lip portions that respectively extend toward a center side from both side portions of a door glass run main body having a recess-shaped cross-section and slidingly contact a door glass, the door glass run being fit into the open portion with a base portion between both of the side portions of the door glass nm main body opposing an inside wall of the door inner panel; and a seal portion that protrudes from the base portion and contacts the inside wall, and extends in a length direction of the door glass run main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideaki Kanasugi, Yasuhide Matsuo
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Patent number: 9644408Abstract: A barricade device and a method of barricading a door are disclosed. The device and method may be used to barricade a door, and thereby prevent an intruder from entering a sheltering space, such as a classroom, storeroom, or hallway. The barricade-device may have a pivotable stop-device that is pivotable from a location adjacent to a door. The pivot-location may be at an elevation that is lower than a door handle on the door. The stop-device may be pivotable from a reserve-position to a stop-position. In the reserve-position, the stop-device does not barricade the door. In the barricade-position, the stop-device barricades the door.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventor: Michael Presutti
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Patent number: 9644411Abstract: The hinge has a bracket for mounting on a door frame, an adjusting plate for securement to a door, a flange pivotally mounted on the bracket and disposed over the adjusting plate and captive nut assemblies for securing the flange to the adjusting plate in a releasable longitudinally adjustable manner. Loosening of the captive nut assemblies allows the door to be moved laterally of the frame before tightening of the captive nut assemblies fixes the door relative to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Component Hardware Group, Inc.Inventor: Brion Gompper
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Patent number: 9637969Abstract: A rattle mitigation assembly for a window regulator installed in a vehicle door includes drive unit housing having a port with a mouth of a cylindrical cavity adapted to receive a connector of a sheathed cable; a profiled end face extending around the mouth; and a slot extending radially outward from the cylindrical cavity, along the cylindrical cavity and through the end face. The end face forms a radially sloped ramp profile configured to exert a radial bias on a compression spring surrounding the connector and abutting the end face. An optimal slope angle of the ramp for urging the spring in the radial direction lies in the range of 45° through 80° with respect to a plane extending radially relative to the cylindrical cavity. An optional wedge profile with an increasing elevation along a direction away from the radially sloped ramp profile may be arranged opposite the ramp profile to exert an axial bias on the compression spring.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Hi-Lex Controls, Inc.Inventors: Brian J. Wild, Kevin Koneval
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Patent number: 9637912Abstract: According to one embodiment, a flood vent panel includes a plurality of insulation pieces coupled together to form at least a portion of the flood vent panel. The flood vent panel further includes one or more insulation piece connectors coupled to the plurality of insulation pieces, and configured to couple the plurality of insulation pieces together. The flood vent panel is configured to be coupled, at least indirectly, to a structure, so as to at least partially block a fluid passageway through an opening in the structure. The one or more insulation piece connectors are further configured to uncouple one or more of the plurality of insulation pieces from the panel when at least a predetermined amount of pressure is applied to a portion of the flood vent panel by one or more of a fluid or an object carried by the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Smart Vent Products, Inc.Inventors: Winfield Scott Anderson, Jr., Tom Little, Michael J. Graham
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Patent number: 9642187Abstract: A rear slider window assembly for a vehicle includes a fixed window panel, a frame portion and a movable window panel that is movable along the frame between a closed position and an opened position relative to an opening of the fixed window panel. A first heater grid is disposed at the first panel portion, a second heater grid is disposed at the second panel portion, and a third heater grid is disposed at the movable window panel. A first busbar is disposed at the fixed window panel and extends at least partially across an upper or lower panel portion of the fixed window panel. The rear slider window assembly includes an electrical connector for electrically conductively connecting the third heater grid to one of (i) the first heater grid, (ii) the second heater grid and (iii) the first busbar.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Darin J. Snider, Michael J. Hulst
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Patent number: 9630823Abstract: A safety barrier for a loading dock lift that includes a lift platform that can be raised and lowered. The safety barrier includes a sleeve attached to the lift platform extending along a vertical axis. The sleeve includes guides to define open and closed positions of said gate and said shaft includes a pin that interacts with the guides to produce rotation of said gate between open and closed positions. Consequently each embodiment gate automatically closes due to gravity whenever the lift is raised off the ground and thereby assures that that gates are locked in position when the lift platform has been raised a short distance.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Mezzanine Safeti-Gate, Inc.Inventor: Christopher J. Conway
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Patent number: 9624901Abstract: The invention concerns a work platform for use in connection with work on a wing blade for a wind energy plant, where the work platform is typically used for working on a wing blade which is brought to a substantially vertical position, and where the work platform is hoisted up and down from a position above the workplace, typically from a region close to the root end of the wing or from the rotor hub. The work platform is provided with space for a person and is preferably adapted for positioning along a leading or trailing edge of a wing blade, and is further including at least two projecting arms for contact against the surface of the wing, where the projecting arms are provided with protective means between the arm and the wing surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: LM GLASFIBER A/SInventors: Allan Bach, Markus Malaschewski, Mads Bergmann Rasmussen, Anders Peter Pedersen
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Patent number: 9623270Abstract: A personal safety apparatus and systems include a mast connected to a base. The mast includes a plurality of mast sections and is vertically extendable from the base between a collapsed position and an extended position. A jib is rotatably connected to the mast. The jib is moveable between a first position wherein the jib is generally parallel to the mast and a second position wherein the jib extends outward from the mast. The jib includes a first jib arm and a second jib arm. The second jib arm is moveable relative to the first jib arm. An anchor point is secured to the jib. The anchor point is configured to connect to a cable configured to secure to a person.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Fall-Botics, LLCInventor: Timothy James Palet
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Patent number: 9610829Abstract: A hybrid multi-material outerbelt reinforcement assembly includes a metal body having a first leg and a second leg oriented at an angle with respect to the first leg. The second leg is integrally connected to the first leg defining a junction. A polymeric material reinforcing rib has a rib end contacting the junction and has a rib body extending away from the junction and bisecting the angle between the first leg and the second leg. The reinforcing rib has a rib length extending for substantially an entire length of the metal body. Flanges are integrally connected to the reinforcing rib, each having a first flange portion and a second flange portion each contacting the metal body to mitigate against a torsional rotation of the metal body that increases or decreases the angle of the second leg with respect to the first leg.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: DURA OPERATING, LLCInventors: Aaron Brion Stachewicz, Alex Wayne Martin, Suhant Prajwal Reddy Ranga
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Patent number: 9611684Abstract: In a sliding door comprising a first frame element oriented in the longitudinal direction of the sliding door and a second frame element extending normal to the first frame element and being connected thereto, wherein, in an opening formed at least in the first frame element, a door fitting is disposed which includes a support roller and a lifting member which is height-adjustable between a lower rest position and an operating position, the door fitting includes a stop spaced from the support roller. In the rest position, the lifting member is closest to the support roller. The operating position is adjustable by an adjustment element moving the lifting member toward the operating position in an inclined guide structure against the force of a return arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Inventors: Guenther Zimmer, Martin Zimmer
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Patent number: 9605461Abstract: In a door fitting with height adjustment for a sliding door panel with a housing in which a support roller is rotatably supported, a sliding door panel lifting member is slidingly supported by guide elements extending from the support base member into inclined guide passages formed in the housing side wails whereby the sliding door panel can be raised or lowered by longitudinal movement of the lifting member relative to the housing, the inclined guide passages are provided with end walls which limit the movement of the guide elements in the inclined passages to limit the height adjustment and an access area is formed at an upper end of each guide passage. Adjustment elements are provided for the movement of the base member relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Inventors: Guenther Zimmer, Martin Zimmer
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Patent number: 9605459Abstract: A door system suitable for installation in data centers to limit airflow to and from aisles between rows of equipment cabinets has a door assembly with a door panel and a plurality of vertically spaced hinge assemblies having powerful permanent magnets manually movable between connected and disconnected positions, enabling the door assembly to be aligned and positioned on the side wall panel of an equipment cabinet and then removably mounted in place by engagement of the magnets. Each magnet can be mounted in a rotatable threaded magnet carriers received in a threaded recesses in the hinge assembly and rotation of the magnet carrier is operable to move the magnet into the connected and disconnected positions. The hinge assemblies also include registration tabs that engage slots in the cabinet for proper alignment and orientation of the door system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Upsite Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Clint Veino, Bruce Long, Lars Strong
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Patent number: 9605735Abstract: A drive device comprises a housing pipe, a protection pipe, and a linear drive. The housing pipe and the protection pipe can be moved axially relative to each other in a telescopic manner. The housing pipe is arranged with the closed end thereof facing away from the protection pipe on a fixed base member or a movable component, and the protection pipe is arranged with the closed end thereof facing away from the housing pipe on the movable component or the base member. The linear drive is arranged in at least one of the housing pipe and the protection pipe, and configured to drive the housing pipe and the protection pipe such that the housing pipe and the protection pipe are axially movable relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Stabilis GmbHInventors: Marc Missler, Axel Knopp, Jan Bochen
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Patent number: 9597949Abstract: A glass run that is excellent in appearance quality and durability, and exhibits improved sealing properties is proposed. The glass run for attachment to vertical sides of the door frame has a bottom wall for attachment to a door frame or a door molding, and an outer seal lip extending from an exterior side edge of the bottom wall. The outer seal lip has a base part extending towards a door glass, and a main part extending from the base part while curving inwardly of the base part. When the outer seal lip is deformed and bent with a side edge of the door glass, a tip end part of the outer seal lip is located inwardly of a surface of the bottom wall or the outer side wall, which faces a side edge of the door glass, and the base part is formed to have a rigidity lower than that of the main part.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventor: Masatoshi Nojiri
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Patent number: 9587420Abstract: A wireless obstacle detection system includes a wireless photosensitive sensor and a communication module designed to provide a retrofit solution for easily adding obstacle detection capabilities to a previously installed barrier operator system. In one form, the wireless obstacle detector can be provided with a gateway device for adding additional functionality, including enabling long range remote operation of a barrier operator. To facilitate ease of installation, the communication module can communicate with a large variety of barrier operators including using at least two different protocols for communication with obstacle detectors. Such communication may be wireless or wired, depending on the barrier operator and communication protocol implemented by a particular previously installed barrier operator. The communication module may be designed to configure itself to operate with the communication protocol of the previously installed barrier operator.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert Roy Keller, Jr., Cory Jon Sorice
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Patent number: 9586461Abstract: In a light-adjusting-panel structure, a light-adjusting sheet is bonded, using a first adhesive, to the back surface of a first transparent panel. In this light-adjusting-panel structure, the end section of the light-adjusting sheet is drawn out to a position closer to the end section of the first transparent panel than the end surface of the first adhesive, in a direction along the panel surface of the first transparent panel. Further, the light-adjusting-panel structure covers the drawn-out end section and the end surface of the first adhesive, the light-adjusting-panel structure being provided with a seal material having lower moisture permeability than the first adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuichiro Okuda
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Patent number: 9580953Abstract: A window regulator assembly particularly adapted for motor vehicle applications having a pulley assembly featuring snap in insulation of a pulley ring into a pulley housing. The pulley housing features the clearance area and a number of retention tabs and hooks which enable the pulley ring to be snap fit into position. The assembly may be implemented with a discrete window regulator or as part of a modular inner door plate as well as and for other applications.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: HI-LEX CONTROLS, INC.Inventor: Masayuki Matsushita