Patents Examined by Jose V. Chen
  • Patent number: 11419414
    Abstract: A workstation assembly that can be opened when needed is disclosed. When closed, the workstation assembly can be aesthetically pleasing and can have a reduced footprint. When opened, the workstation assembly can include a deployable screen system capable of deploying an interior screen from a door section of the workstation assembly. The screen can provide a backdrop for videoconferencing, can provide improved isolation (e.g., sound isolation, visual isolation, shared airflow isolation, and the like) for an individual within the opened workstation assembly. The deployable screen system can also include an exterior screen for providing an aesthetically pleasing exterior and improved isolation while the workstation assembly is in use. The workstation assembly can also include a surround frame with openings and light sources to provide diffuse illumination to the environment surrounding the workstation assembly, which can be especially useful when natural light is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Neumodern Studio LLC
    Inventors: Peter Madimenos, Corrine V. Madimenos, Anastasia P. Maravelias
  • Patent number: 11420791
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plastic pallet having an underside provided with skids and an upper side, wherein one skid runs along the centre of the plastic pallet and the skid along the centre has a handle which may be gripped from the underside of the pallet. The handle is preferably arranged on the underside of the central skid preferably parallel to the surface of the upper side and preferably along the central longitudinal axis of the central skid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Georg Utz Holding AG
    Inventor: Rüdiger Sostmann
  • Patent number: 11419410
    Abstract: A lifting table that includes a worksurface, a left table leg assembly, a right table leg assembly, a left table feet assembly, and a right table feet assembly, and a beam assembly. The right table leg assembly. The left table leg assembly and the right table leg assembly vertically support the worksurface. The left table feet assembly is connected with the left table leg assembly. The right table feet assembly is connected with the right table leg assembly. The beam assembly is horizontally connected with the left table leg assembly and the right table leg assembly. The beam assembly includes a plurality of beam components such as a spool assembly and a drive spring. The spool assembly includes an aluminium bracket, a spool, a brake gear, and a gear shaper assembly. The drive spring is connected to the spool through a spool drive rope to power the lifting table. The spool is wound with an active wire rope and an auxiliary wire rope, coiled in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TENGFEI COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yongfei Tang, Wenmin Pan
  • Patent number: 11420789
    Abstract: A pallet includes a cover plate configured to accommodate articles, and at least two runners arranged underneath the cover plate, each runner including a runner standing surface, wherein each runner standing surface is subdivided centrally of each runner transversely thereto at a dividing plane and into at least two separate runner elements including a first runner element and a second runner element which, in the mounted position, combine to form the runner standing surface, and wherein each runner element includes an elongated reinforcing element which is held at a first end remote from the dividing plane by a stop in the first runner element and is held at a second end by the second runner element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Schoeller Allibert GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Vinke, Patrick Breukers
  • Patent number: 11419411
    Abstract: An adjustable height desk is disclosed herein that is configured for easy assembly and disassembly. The desk includes panels joined to form a support core for supporting a working surface. The desk also includes a planar base that is easily attached to and removed from the support core by way of protrusions on panels of the support core. The protrusions have locking holes formed therein. Through holes in the base receive the protrusions. Locking pins are inserted through the locking holes to form a compression fit. The locking pins can be sized for movement through a locking hole and for creating a compression fit when inserted into a locking hole. One end of the locking pins can be configured with a hook portion for mating with a locking pin insertion/removal tool. The tool can be utilized to insert and remove the locking pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LIMBER OFFICE LIMITED
    Inventor: Bart Johan De Vries
  • Patent number: 11420751
    Abstract: A multi-latch assembly may be utilized, for example, in an aircraft passenger seat to hold separately deployable components such as a tray table and secondary member for separately supporting a personal entertainment device. The multi-latch assembly can include a first latch member and a second latch member. The first latch member can include a first arm. The first latch member can further include a first shaft that extends from the first arm and that is at least partially hollow. The second latch member can include a second arm. The second latch member can further include a second shaft that extends from the second arm and that is received within the first shaft of the first latch member so that the first arm and the second arm are rotatable independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Jason K. Smith, Robert Funk
  • Patent number: 11412847
    Abstract: A combination table includes a seat, at least two support members, two functional members, at least two combination pieces, a table board, and a cover plate. The seat has a first and a second combination sides oppositely disposed. The support member has a first fix section, a second fix section, and a connection section connected between the first section and the second section, and the first fix section is slidably disposed on the first and second combination sides. The functional members are slidably combined with the second fix section, so that the functional members are suspended above the seat. The combination pieces are fixed on the second fix sections, respectively. The table board has the bottom face thereof attached on the combination pieces. Thus, the assemblies of the present invention are modularized, increasing the convenience of installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PLUSMOFA INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventor: Yu-Wei Chung
  • Patent number: 11412842
    Abstract: A deployable chair and desk assembly allowing for facile repositioning to different locations includes a chair and a desk. A pair of posts is engaged to and extends upwardly from a back of the chair. A canopy engaged to the posts shades the chair. A beam is engaged to and extends between the back of the chair and the desk so that the desk is positioned proximate to a front edge of the chair and provides a work surface for a user seated in the chair. Each of a set of ports is engaged to one of the chair and the desk and can operationally engage an electronic device. A solar panel is engaged to an upper surface of the canopy and is operationally engaged to the ports. The solar panel converts light into an electrical current to power an electronic device engaged to a respective port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Anthony Richards
  • Patent number: 11412843
    Abstract: Slider element for lifting columns, preferably for height-adjustable tables, said lifting columns comprise at least two profiles 10,11 arranged telescopically relative to each other, where the slider element 1 has a first slider 2 and a second slider 3 between which there is a designated breaking line 4. The slider element is mounted with the second slider 3 on the outer side of the inner profile 10, and is subsequently guided into the hollow of the outer profile 11, by which the first slider 2 affixes itself to the inner side of the outer profile and when the two profiles are retracted further, the designated breaking line 4 between the first and the second slider 2,3 will break, by which they appear as two separate sliders mounted on a profile each. Thus, a simplified mounting of the sliders is achieved. In addition, it can be constructed such that the sliders are completely concealed within the lifting column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Linak A/S
    Inventor: Michael Lindekilde Randløv
  • Patent number: 11406181
    Abstract: A table includes a base defining a wire management pocket and a central area, a power receptacle mounted to the base adjacent the wire management pocket, a leg coupled to the base for supporting the base, and a tabletop supported on the base. The tabletop is slidably removable from the base to provide access to the wire management pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MillerKnoll, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Charles Mulder, Brian Stewart Fuller
  • Patent number: 11406194
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is configured to be provided on a back surface of a seat and can be connected with an external apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a casing, and a connector that is configured to be connected with the external apparatus. The casing includes an inclined surface that is inclined at a prescribed angle or a curved surface that is curved, toward a middle in a lateral width direction, and the connector is disposed in the inclined surface or the curved surface and connectable with the external apparatus in a direction perpendicular to the inclined surface or the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Kanazawa, Kaname Tomita
  • Patent number: 11407559
    Abstract: A pipe coil skid includes a plurality of beams affixably connected together to form a rectangular shaped base and a platform disposed within the base. The platform has a concave upward shape on its upward facing side when the skid sits on a horizontal surface, such that a coil of pipe positioned upon the platform contacts the platform within the base. The pipe coil skid also includes a first side rail coupled to at least one of the plurality of beams. The first side rail is configured to block movement of the coil of pipe beyond a boundary of the rectangular shaped base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Hamner, Max Reedy, Alexander Lee Winn, Peter Parker
  • Patent number: 11406180
    Abstract: A table system power module is provided. In some embodiments, an example table system includes a table top and a power module removably mounted to the table top. The power module includes a contact surface made from a relatively softer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Halcon Corp.
    Inventors: Jacob Edward Snowbarger, Benjamin Saintmane Conway, Eliot Curtis Bublitz
  • Patent number: 11401037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly, in particular for an aircraft, comprising a seat back, a main tablet mounted on the seat back via a tablet structure, said main tablet being movable between a stored position, in which the tablet is pressed against a rear face of the seat back, and a deployed position, said assembly further comprising an auxiliary tablet mounted on the tablet structure via at least one auxiliary arm, said auxiliary tablet being movable between a raised position and a deployed position, in which the auxiliary tablet is vertically superposed with respect to the main tablet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Houssem Arroum, Raouia Akkari
  • Patent number: 11400844
    Abstract: An apparatus for deploying a table from a housing is disclosed. The apparatus including: an arm pivotally securing the table to the apparatus wherein the apparatus via the arm moves the table from a first position in a first linear direction; a deviating point that contacts the arm and pivots the table about a first axis when the arm contacts the deviating point; and an arm member slidably secured to the table at one end and pivotally secured to the arm at another end, wherein the arm member is pivotally secured to the arm and wherein pivotal movement of the table and the arm member with respect to the arm is prevented when the table extends over a pivot axis between the arm and the arm member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Wiepen, Niklas Kock
  • Patent number: 11402053
    Abstract: A vehicle support structure, which in petroleum wellsite operations is commonly called a rig mat or a ground stabilizing mat, includes: a main body including an upper surface, an underside, a front end and a rear end, the main body defining a planar structuring with a thickness; a front pad coupled to the main body and positioned adjacent the front end; a rear pad coupled to the main body and positioned adjacent the rear end, the front pad and the rear pad each configured to be moveable between a supporting position protruding from the underside of the main body and a retracted position in plane or retracted from the underside; a front pad drive mechanism for the front pad, the front pad drive mechanism configured to drive the front pad to move between the supporting position and the retracted position and to move the front pad forward and backwards and side to side relative to the main body; and a rear pad drive mechanism for the rear pad, the rear pad drive mechanism configured to drive the rear pad to move
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Prostar Energy Technologies (USA) LLC
    Inventors: Daniel John Clarke, Douglas Andrew Hunter, Daniel Harvard Kusler
  • Patent number: 11399627
    Abstract: An adjustable power and data rail for static height and vertically adjustable desks. The adjustable power and data rail fits between the static height and vertically adjustable desks and expands as needed either horizontally or vertically to match the installation configuration with paired multiple desks. The power and data rail provides connectivity for each of the static height or vertically adjustable desks to data and power connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SQUAREGROVE, LLC
    Inventors: Eric W. Anderson, Jon Daniel Paulsen
  • Patent number: 11395543
    Abstract: A reconfigurable work station includes a work surface supported atop a pedestal and base. A linkage arm is affixed to the base or pedestal at a first end and pivotally connected to a fixed member at a second end. The work station can pivot, with the linkage arm, about the fixed member to be selectively positioned in multiple positions. The pedestal may be height adjustable and the work surface may be rotatable atop the pedestal. Alternatively, the work station can include two pedestals and the linkage arm can be rotatably connected to one of the pedestals to rotate the work station, as well as to pivot the work station about the fixed member. A work space includes the work station and at least one wall panel, and a work space system includes multiple work spaces. Work stations within respective work spaces can be selectively positioned in focused or collaborative configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph E. Reddig, Jeffrey J. Reuschel, Ross S. Johnson, Shawn Yu, Bryan Gingrich
  • Patent number: 11395542
    Abstract: A smart desk and chair includes a desk having at least one lift arm that is expandable and retractable for adjusting the height of a desk surface and a chair having a sensor included inside a chair seat where the sensor detects the presence or absence of a user seated in the chair. A controller in the desk controls the position of the at least one lift arm in the desk. The desk and chair are connected wirelessly enabling the desk surface to be automatically raised or lowered in relation to the floor depending on the standing or seated position of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: OmniMax USA, LLC
    Inventor: Dabing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11395544
    Abstract: A height adjustable desktop includes an upper work surface platform, and a base platform, which configured to rest on an existing desk, platform, surface, or table. The height adjustable desktop further includes a height adjustment mechanism that includes two sets of two arms that connect at pivot points along their lengths so that the arms configured to move in a scissoring motion to raise and lower the upper work surface platform. The height adjustable desktop also includes two actuators that apply a force to the two sets of two arms, the actuators each containing feedback sensors that provide data regarding the current position and distance each actuator has extended, retracted or moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Office Kick, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Mark Poniatowski