Patents Examined by Jose V. Chen
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Patent number: 11311103Abstract: A poolside table apparatus for mounting to an above ground pool includes a tabletop having a tabletop top side, a tabletop bottom side, a tabletop front side, a tabletop back side, a tabletop left side, and a tabletop right side. The tabletop comprises a left section, a medial section, and a right section. The tabletop top side of the left section has a plurality of cupholder depressions to receive a plurality of cups and cans. The tabletop top side of the right section has a cooler aperture to receive a drink cooler. A plurality of clamps is coupled to the tabletop to selectively engage a rim of a pool. A pair of adjustable legs is coupled to the tabletop bottom side and has an adjustable leg height.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Inventors: Alexander Wilson, Virginia Wilson
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Patent number: 11305913Abstract: A pallet includes a top deck, a bottom deck, and spaced apart support blocks coupled between the top and bottom decks and forming an opening therebetween for receiving a lifting member. The top deck includes at least one deck scoop area on an underside thereof. A thickness of the top deck is reduced in the at least one deck scoop area to reduce influence of top deck deflection on ability of the lifting member to pass through the opening between the top and bottom decks.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: CHEP Technology Pty LimitedInventors: Brandon Michael D'Emidio, Ricardo Martin Garcia, Daniel Aaron Gorsky, Paul J. Siebert, Robert G. States, III, Paul Barnswell, Joseph Adam Gainey
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Patent number: 11304510Abstract: A portable standing desk configured for use in at least a storage position and a first use position includes a first and second tray portion, and an end cap. The first tray portion can have a main body including a first plurality of fingers, a first plurality of landing surfaces, first hinge posts and first guide arms. The first tray portion has a first working surface and a first inside surface. The second tray portion has a main body including a second plurality of fingers, a second plurality of landing surfaces, second hinge posts and second guide arms. The second tray portion has a second working surface and a second inside surface. The first and second hinge posts couple with the second and first guide arms to form a hinge that defines a pivot axis such that the first and second tray portions are selectively rotatable relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Inventor: Gregory Alan Fernandes
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Patent number: 11304518Abstract: A table stabilization system allows multiple tables to be quickly and efficiently joined together by a single or multiple bonding devices. The bonding device slides over the joint between two tables and holds the stationary. The bonding device also provides a planer surface on which objects can be placed without tipping or falling over.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Inventor: Hyla Emery
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Patent number: 11299320Abstract: The present invention describes a pallet for cargo with a frame support and interchangeable cover that can have removable covers, which is easy to change, said cover can be of varied shapes and designs, for example, inclined crossbars, with circular reliefs to place buckets and that these do not move, with reliefs in the shape of parallelograms, to place boxes of various sizes and/or the combination of the above; Another characteristic of the pallet that is the reason for the present invention is that the upper deck can have a non-slip material to increase its coefficient of friction, making it possible to ensure that the material that is placed on the pallet for load with frame support and interchangeable cover, does not move during the transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Inventor: Gerardo Tornel
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Patent number: 11291299Abstract: A retractable self-sanitizing divider assembly is provided. The assembly includes a planar structure having a first surface and a second surface. The assembly also includes a housing having an interior volume with an opening on one side. The housing may be coupled to the planar structure. The assembly may include a divider moveable between a retracted position located within the housing and an extended position with a portion of the divider is extended through the opening of the housing. The assembly may also include a sanitization system coupled to the housing wherein the sanitization system automatically sanitizes the divider during movement of the divider between the retracted position and the extended position.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventor: Charles Isgar
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Patent number: 11291297Abstract: A picnic table includes a table panel, one or more bench panels and a supporting frame to support the table and bench panels. The supporting frame includes first and second supporting assemblies, each including a table support and one or more bench supports. The supporting frame further includes a table frame and one or more bench frames. The table frame rotatably connects the table support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies with the table panel. Each bench frame rotatably connects a bench support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies with a bench panel. The table support of each of the first and second supporting assemblies is adjustable in length. Adjusting the length of the table support changes the height of the table panel with respect to the one or more bench panels.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Inno-Sports Co., Ltd.Inventor: Renhua Chen
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Patent number: 11286083Abstract: A pallet includes a deck having an opening therethrough, such that product can be removed through the opening from a box loaded on the deck of a pallet. A plurality of columns support the deck. The box may be supported on the deck over the opening. The bottom wall of the box may be opened though the opening in the deck. The items can then be removed from the box through the opening through the deck without removing the box from the pallet. Optionally, fasteners may secure flaps of the box in corners of the deck of a pallet. According to another feature, a brace having an elongated body portion can be secured to an opening of the pallet, such that the elongated body portion abuts goods that are supported on the deck.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Way Joe Lee, William P. Apps, Jon P. Hassell
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Patent number: 11284709Abstract: An electric lifting platform retractable upon hitting an obstruction includes a lifting column, a platform, a controller, and a manipulator. The controller comprises a main control unit and a motor driving circuit. An output end of the main control unit is connected to the motor driving circuit. The electric lifting platform further includes a multi-axis sensor module for acquiring obstruction-hitting data of the platform. As the multi-axis sensor module is connected to an input end of the main control unit, the main control unit transmits a control signal to the motor driving circuit after processing the obstruction-hitting data, and the motor driving circuit controls the lifting column to execute a corresponding retracting movement.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG JIECANG LINEAR MOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaojian Lu, Xueli Chen, Yuchen Tan
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Patent number: 11284712Abstract: A power grommet embedded in the worksurface includes a housing, at least a first and second outlet block disposed in the housing, and a lid pivotally connected to the housing. The lid is pivotable between an open position, wherein the first and second outlet blocks are exposed along a top of the housing, and a closed position, wherein the first outlet block is exposed along a top of the housing and the second outlet block is covered by the lid.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: John Allen, Matthew Buist, Colin Cote, Megan Grygiel, Bradley Youngs, Bryan Wahlfield
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Patent number: 11284711Abstract: A mobile workstation comprises a wheeled base, a height-adjustable post assembly fixedly coupled to the rear end of the wheeled base, and a tray assembly fixedly coupled to the top of the post assembly. The post assembly has a four-post construction, with upper and lower vertical posts pivotally connected to a pair of linking posts. To accommodate different users, the post assembly is designed to articulate between an upper position and a lower position through a primarily vertical travel path. The four-post construction of the post assembly disperses the weight of the tray assembly, thereby reducing the manual force required to implement height adjustment. The planar, primarily vertical, travel path undertaken by the post assembly during height adjustment maintains the workstation center of gravity to a centralized location in the base, thereby minimizing the use of counterbalances to ensure stability. As a result, the workstation is lightweight and easily maneuverable.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: JACO, INC.Inventors: Alfred P. Rossini, Thomas J. Bagley, Govind Patel, David Maloney, Jeff Silverman
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Patent number: 11284710Abstract: An adjustment device, having a tilting piece at a top front portion of a shell and rotates about a top front edge of the shell; a gear is at one side of the shell and fixedly connected to one side of the tilting piece, and is rotatable synchronously with the tilting piece; a position limiting piece is provided at a rear side of the gear, and is capable of engaging with the gear; a driving piece is provided in an inclined manner inside the shell; the driving piece and the position limiting piece are connected through a driving rod that passes through an inner side wall of the shell and drives the position limiting piece to move; a far end of the driving piece is connected with one end of a control string; another end of the control string is extended out of the shell to be pulled or released.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Inventor: Hongsheng Guo
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Patent number: 11284713Abstract: An apparatus for positioning an electronic display is described. The apparatus can be combined with an existing work surface to provide a multi-position workstation. In some cases, the apparatus includes a mounting portion configured to support an electronic display and a keyboard. The mounting portion may be movable with respect to the work surface between multiple positions, including for example, a sitting position and a standing position. Methods for positioning an electronic display and a keyboard are also included.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Ergotron, Inc.Inventors: Joel Hazzard, Robert William Fluhrer, Peter Segar, John William Theis, Mustafa Ergun, Scott Trish
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Patent number: 11279516Abstract: The present invention relates to a pallet with impact resistant columns (3) comprising a structure for the distribution of impact energy (4) configured for the distribution of impact forces, at the same time as its internal structure deforms and is compacted upon receiving impacts, such that the pallet remains functional although its columns (3) are permanently deformed and/or partially fractured.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: PLÁSTICOS TÉCNICOS MEXICANOS, S.A. DE C.V.Inventors: Juan Pablo Valdés Abramo, Andrés Álvarez Vargas, Adrián Andrade Ontiveros, Martha Valeria Ávila Hernández, Felicitaz Elizabeth Ávila Ramírez, Juan Pedro Baca Sánchez, Nallely Balbino Tovar, Ciro Feregrino Montes, Alejandro Gómez Caudillo, Luis Joaquín Martínez Layseca, José Ricardo Peña Zapata, Claudia Estefanía Pineda Hernández, Juan Ruiz Estrella, Daniel Servín Frías, Karen Iraís Vargas Montiel, José Alberto Vázquez Ramírez
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Patent number: 11278113Abstract: A modularized fast assembly lift desk includes a preassembled module, a matched module and a clamping member. The preassembled module (100) includes a combined body formed by connection between a desktop platform and a transverse beam. The matched module includes a lift column including a motor housing. The clamping member includes a fixed connecting end and a movable squeezing end. When a user assembles the lift desk, the fixed connecting end of the clamping member is engaged with the preassembled module. The movable squeezing end of the clamping member is pressed to generate a squeezing force between the movable squeezing end and the motor housing. The motor housing and the preassembled module are fixedly connected to implement locking between the preassembled module and the matched module.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG JIECANG LINEAR MOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaojian Lu, Renchang Hu, Weiqiang Li
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Patent number: 11273747Abstract: An apparatus and method, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a table that is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The table extends behind an external surface of an instrument panel such that the table is stored within an instrument panel structure when in the stowed position. When in the deployed position, the table is moveable between a plurality of use positions between a driver and a passenger.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Yoon Kim, Alan Perelli
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Patent number: 11272798Abstract: A food handling device includes a holder having an interior chamber extending along a longitudinal axis, and an extension housing detachably mounted on the holder and having an interior compartment for receiving and for holding the foodstuff. A pusher is mounted in the chamber for axial movement. An actuator axially moves the pusher through the chamber and through the compartment into contact with the foodstuff, and incrementally feeds a continuously variable quantity of the foodstuff along the longitudinal axis through the opening directly into a user's mouth to enable the foodstuff to be eaten bite-by-bite in a sanitary manner without using eating accessories, such as plates and/or utensils, and without the user's hands directly touching and contaminating the foodstuff, thereby preventing the spread of disease.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Inventor: Leonid Shendelman
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Patent number: 11273953Abstract: A single deck pallet comprising a deck having a top for supporting a load and a bottom, at least four sides, the at least four sides comprising a first pair of opposed sides and a second pair of opposed sides. A plurality of intermediate spaced apart beams of the deck extending between at least a first pair of opposed sides. A plurality of distributed primary props dependent from the deck and projecting below the bottom of the deck to aid in supporting the pallet on a surface. Preferably the primary props are horizontally spaced apart from each other and from said at least one beam so as to allow a tine of a forklift to pass in a linear direction parallel to the at least one beam between adjacent primary props to reach at least partially under and bear on the bottom of the deck and bear on the beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: RDP GROUP LIMITEDInventors: David Matchett Alfred Cashmore, Bruce Coubray
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Patent number: 11267611Abstract: A pallet (100) comprises a platform section (101) and foot sections (103-107) protruding downwards from the platform section. The pallet comprises at least one elongated support element (108) between opposite edge areas of the pallet and going via a lower portion of a foot section (107) that is between and distances away from the opposite edge areas of the pallet. The elongated support element is connected to the opposite edge areas of the pallet with connections (109, 110) for receiving tensile stress acting on the elongated support element. The tensile stress of the elongated support element is increased in response to downwards arching bending of the platform section. Thus, the elongated support element tends to prevent the bending of the platform section.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: WIMAO OYInventors: Veikko Olkkonen, Ville Immonen, Juha Varis
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Patent number: 11259629Abstract: The vehicle trunk table is a folding table. The vehicle trunk table is formed with a form factor such that the will fit flush within the footprint of a trunk floor. The vehicle trunk table forms a raised supporting surface that covers the trunk floor. The vehicle trunk table is customized for an individual make and model of a vehicle. The vehicle trunk table can be extended to form a table. The vehicle trunk table includes a first leaf, a second leaf, a first support, a second support, and a hinge. The hinge attaches the first leaf and the second leaf. The first leaf and the second leaf from a flush horizontal surface that forms the superior surface of the vehicle trunk table. The first support and the second support raise the first leaf and the second leaf above the supporting surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Ari Rosario