Patents Examined by Karen Beck
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Patent number: 11878669Abstract: A military vehicle includes a front axle, a rear axle, a front differential coupled to the front axle, and a transaxle coupled to the rear axle and the front differential. The transaxle includes an internal mechanical disconnect that facilitates mechanically decoupling the transaxle from the front differential.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Oshkosh Defense, LLCInventors: Don Verhoff, Gary Schmiedel, Chris Yakes, Rob Messina, Brian Wilkins, Kent Schulte, Daniel R. Seffernick, Joseph Holda, Michael Peotter, David McGraw, Anthony Seefeldt, Dave Pelko, Jesse Gander, Jerry Reineking, Jesse Steinke
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Patent number: 11872948Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle includes a roof and a headliner. The vehicle includes a seat having an occupant seating area. The vehicle includes a curtain airbag. The curtain airbag includes an extension. The curtain airbag is inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The curtain airbag is between the roof and the headliner in the uninflated position. The curtain airbag is inflatable downwardly from the headliner to the inflated position. In the inflated position, the curtain airbag has a main chamber and the extension extending cross-vehicle from the main chamber and vehicle-forward of the occupant seating area.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi
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Patent number: 11866019Abstract: A military vehicle includes a passenger capsule, a front module coupled to a front end of the passenger capsule, and a rear module coupled to a rear end of the passenger capsule. The passenger capsule has a frame rail-less monocoque hull structure. The front module includes a front axle, a front differential coupled to the front axle, and a prime mover. The rear module includes a rear axle and a transaxle coupled to the prime mover, the rear axle, and the front differential.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Oshkosh Defense, LLCInventors: Don Verhoff, Gary Schmiedel, Chris Yakes, Rob Messina, Brian Wilkins, Kent Schulte, Daniel R. Seffernick, Joseph Holda, Michael Peotter, David McGraw, Anthony Seefeldt, Dave Pelko, Jesse Gander, Jerry Reineking, Jesse Steinke
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Patent number: 11866018Abstract: A military vehicle includes a passenger capsule. The passenger capsule includes a sidewall defining a front door aperture and a rear door aperture, a front door positioned over the front door aperture, a rear door positioned over the rear door aperture, and a latching mechanism configured to secure the front door and the rear door in a closed positioned. The sidewall includes an interlocking door frame portion positioned (i) along an exterior of the sidewall between the front door aperture and the rear door aperture and (ii) proximate the latching mechanism such that the front door and the rear door engage with the interlocking door frame portion positioned along the exterior of the sidewall between the front door aperture and the rear door aperture when the front door and the rear door are closed and engaged with the latching mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Oshkosh Defense, LLCInventors: Don Verhoff, Gary Schmiedel, Chris Yakes, Rob Messina, Brian Wilkins, Kent Schulte, Daniel R. Seffernick, Joseph Holda, Michael Peotter, David McGraw, Anthony Seefeldt, Dave Pelko, Jesse Gander, Jerry Reineking, Jesse Steinke
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Patent number: 11858331Abstract: An electric vehicle body structure includes an installation space being downwardly open and upwardly delimited by a floor body-panel profile section. A traction battery is inserted into the space from below, a battery housing flange under the profile section is screwed from below to the profile section at a screw connection having a vertical screw bolt penetrating a housing flange passage and screw hole in the profile section and screwed to a weld nut at a flange housing opposite side of the profile section. The flange is clamped between screw bolt head and profile section. A crash displaces the battery until an inner passage wall presses screw bolt against screw hole edge, subjecting the screw bolt to shear load reduced by an elongated weld nut shaft projecting into the screw hole. The screw bolt presses against the screw hole edge, with the weld nut shaft in intermediate position.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Werner Krauth
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Patent number: 11845392Abstract: An assembly includes a roof rail. The assembly includes a vehicle seat having a seatback. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the roof rail. The airbag is inflatable vehicle-inboard from the roof rail to an inflated position. The airbag surrounds the seatback when the airbag is in the inflated position.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 11834102Abstract: A vehicle roof brace support apparatus includes a support beam with at least two fasteners located on opposite ends of the support beam. The fasteners are configured to couple the support beam to a vehicle roof or vehicle frame so that the support beam is suspended below a roof brace of the vehicle roof. The vehicle roof brace support apparatus further includes a plurality of jacks coupled to the support beam and configured to engage the roof brace in order to stabilize the roof brace when the vehicle roof is being repaired.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventor: Mitch Mundorf
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Side airbag device, vehicle seat provided with same, and method for manufacturing side airbag device
Patent number: 11833990Abstract: This invention relates to a side airbag device stored inside a vehicle seat and fixed to a side frame. The device includes an airbag that expands and deploys to restrict an occupant; an inflator that supplies expansion gas to the airbag; and a bracket connected to the side frame that holds the airbag and the inflator. The airbag includes a prepush chamber having an inflator stored therein and mainly deploys inside of the side frame; and a main chamber connected to the prepush chamber and mainly deploys forward of the side frame. The bracket includes a first surface oriented in the forward direction of the vehicle; and a second surface oriented to the inside of the seat in the width direction of the vehicle. When the airbag is stored by being folded and/or rolled, at least the main chamber is disposed on the first surface of the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Shima, Tsutomu Sakurai -
Patent number: 11827173Abstract: The invention relates to an airbag module (12) comprising a restraint airbag (30) which is inflated in a situation of restraint and, in an inflated state, has a restraining effect on an occupant (16), and at least one backup member (36, 36a, 36b) which, in a restraining state, is at least in portions in contact with the inflated restraint airbag (30) and is configured so that it backs the restraint airbag (30) and in particular absorbs a force (F) applied to the restraint airbag (30) by contacting a vehicle occupant (16), wherein, in the inflated state, the restraint airbag (30) is interposed between the backup member (36, 36a, 36b) and the vehicle occupant (16), wherein the backup member (36, 36a, 36b) is arranged, in an initial state, on or in the airbag module. The invention also relates to a vehicle seat and a vehicle comprising an airbag module according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBHInventors: Werner Freisler, Theresa Betz, Frederic Myers
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Patent number: 11820319Abstract: The airbag device includes a first airbag cushion part and a second airbag cushion part installed on each side of a seat of a vehicle, a first active vent provided in the first airbag cushion part and a second active vent provided in the second airbag cushion part, and a controller that controls the first active vent or the second active vent to open and the other to close when the first airbag cushion part and the second airbag cushion part are expanded and deployed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Yuto Kobayashi, Mitsuo Nogami
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Patent number: 11820311Abstract: A seat airbag device for a vehicle is proposed. The seat airbag device for a vehicle includes: a main chamber located in a vehicle seat at a side portion of an occupant and configured to be deployed toward a front portion of the vehicle when gas is injected thereinto; a sub-chamber connected to a front end of the main chamber and configured to be deployed in a direction intersecting a deployment direction of the main chamber when the gas is injected thereinto; and an expansion portion expanded from the front end of the main chamber and connected to an upper portion or a lower portion of the sub-chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Won Hwangbo, Choong Ryung Lee
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Patent number: 11814102Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes side frames in pairs, a bumper beam, a pair of lower frames, a lower beam, and wheels in pairs. Each of outer end parts of the bumper beam in a vehicle width direction and a corresponding one of outer end parts of the lower beam in the vehicle width direction overlap a corresponding one of the wheels as seen from the vehicle front side. In the vehicle width direction, a position of each of vehicle-width-direction outer ends of the bumper beam and a position of a corresponding one of vehicle-width-direction outer ends of the lower beam substantially coincide with a position of a mounting part of a corresponding one of brake devices that are disposed radially inside the wheels respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshio Wada
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Patent number: 11807151Abstract: A vehicle may be configured with an adjustable horizontal planar platform for receiving a load, such as a boom arm of a crane and transporting the load to a new location. In some cases, the platform is configured to swivel and tilt in order to maintain an alignment with a second vehicle during transport of a load.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventor: James Larry Jester
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Patent number: 11807166Abstract: An assembly includes a first seat and a second seat spaced from the first seat. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the first seat. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position between the seats. The airbag has a main chamber, a pair secondary chambers supported by the main chamber, and a tether releasably connected to the secondary chambers. The secondary chambers are maintained by the tether in an undeployed position relative to the main chamber and the secondary chambers are releasable by the tether to a deployed position in a cross-vehicle direction relative to the main chamber. The assembly includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify that an occupant is seated in the first seat, identify that an occupant is seated in the second seat and release the tether based on the identification of the occupants seated seats.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk, Deepak Patel
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Patent number: 11795664Abstract: A machine comprises a first ground engaging unit connected to a first leg, a second ground engaging unit connected to a second leg, and a hydraulic system to control heights of the legs, the hydraulic system comprises a fluid circuit to control fluid between the first and second legs, a load holding valve to allow fluid into the fluid circuit, a control valve system to let fluid into the load holding valve, the control valve connected to a hydraulic fluid source and a reservoir, a first lock valve to control flow of fluid between the first and second legs in a first direction, a second lock valve to control flow of fluid between the second and first legs in a second direction, and first and float valves configured to connect the first and second legs to the control valve system, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas J. Argenziano, Eric S. Engelmann
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Patent number: 11780330Abstract: A system and method for disabling the travel of a vacuum truck is provided in which a vacuum boom initiates an interlock signal when positioned back into a travel cradle. An additional positional tank bed further includes an interlock signal when the bed is in a secured in a travel position. The vacuum truck is prevented from having its brakes released or prevented from being put into a travel gear if either the truck bed or vacuum boom are not in secure travel positions. The present system and method utilize pneumatic operating signals available from the vehicles power take off and blower mode switch.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Arthur Karas
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Patent number: 11772540Abstract: A guiding vehicle (100) for an intralogistics system, wherein the guiding vehicle (100) is remote controlled or autonomous and configured to be connected to a self-propelled load bearing cart (200), and guide and control the propulsion of the self-propelled load bearing cart (200) such that the load bearing cart (200) can transport a load in the intralogistics system. The guiding vehicle (100) comprising a mechanical connector (170) for mechanically connecting the guiding vehicle (100) to the load bearing cart (200) and a connector for transferring data. The guiding vehicle (100) is configured to receive navigation data from the self-propelled load bearing cart (200), using the connector for transferring data, in the form of information concerning the movement of a drive wheel of the load bearing cart (200) obtained from at least one motor of the load bearing cart (200) or from at least one encoder connected to the drive wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: FQ IP ABInventor: Per Augustsson
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Patent number: 11766985Abstract: An airbag device installed in a vehicle seat having a seat cushion forming the seat surface and a seatback forming the backrest, and an inflator that generates expansion gas and an airbag that is deployed by the expansion gas released from said inflator. The airbag includes a pair of left and right side chambers that deploy forward from the side of the seatback and primarily protect the occupant's waist to shoulders, and an upper chamber that is continuous with the side chambers, deploys forward above the side chambers, and mainly protects the occupant's neck and head. On the left and right sides of the seatback, the location on the side where the seatbelt crosses near the shoulder is the first side, and the side opposite to said first side is the second side. A recess is formed on the first side of the airbag where the seatbelt fits.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Atsushi Nakashima
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Patent number: 11760299Abstract: An airbag apparatus is configured to be used for a vehicle seat including an accommodation portion. The airbag apparatus includes an airbag. The airbag is configured such that a portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position rearward of the seat back, and is inflated and deployed away from the accommodation portion in the width direction in a position rearward of the headrest, and that another portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position forward of the seat back, and is deployed and inflated in a position forward of a head of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat and away from the accommodation portion in the width direction, so as to wrap around the head.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuji Yamamoto, Koji Kawamura, Motoyuki Tanaka, Toshihito Yanagisawa, Yusuke Kojima, Yusuke Kawamura, Yuto Hiraiwa, Yuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 11760298Abstract: An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes a curtain airbag (CAB) having a packaged condition in which the CAB is rolled and/or folded to be installed along a roof rail in a vehicle. The CAB is configured to be inflated and deployed along a side structure of the vehicle structure. The apparatus includes an anti-twist structure for being positioned within the rolls and/or folds to inhibit relative twisting of the packaged CAB within the rolls and/or folds. The apparatus includes a CAB mount for extending about and supporting the packaged CAB in the vehicle. The CAB mount cooperates with the anti-twist structure to fix the position and orientation of the anti-twist structure, and thus the packaged CAB, relative to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: ZF PASSIVE SAFETY SYSTEMS US INC.Inventors: Greg Kosten, Dylan Moran, Kevin Ruedisueli, Courtney McKeon, Luis Raul Valles Rey