Patents Examined by Kevin P. Weldon
  • Patent number: 11377038
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly includes, among other things, a door storage system that is disposed within a cargo area of a vehicle. The door storage system is moveable between a lowered position and an expanded position. The door storage system is configured to accept at least one door of the vehicle within a door receiving area when the door storage system is in the expanded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, James Baumbick, Annette Lynn Huebner, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
  • Patent number: 11370284
    Abstract: A motor vehicle including a rear bumper and a front bumper, and a protective tarpaulin system having a flexible tarpaulin for covering the vehicle and a rear shaft that is installed at the rear bumper, the tarpaulin being windable around the rear shaft. The vehicle is fitted with two longitudinal sheaths a longitudinal slot, a slider being received in each longitudinal sheath and being connected via a traction cable both to a front shaft and to a rear shaft, so that rotating the shafts causes the traction cable to be wound and unwound, thereby moving the slider in the longitudinal sheath, which slider entrains the tarpaulin that is connected to the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ACPV
    Inventors: Andre Sassi, Jocelyne Sassi
  • Patent number: 11364859
    Abstract: A vehicle door assembly including a door panel. A support member is coupled to the door panel. The support member has an edge defining an opening in a top portion thereof. The support member defines at least one flange extending into the opening from the edge. A switch bezel is disposed at least partially within the opening. The switch bezel includes at least one retaining feature configured to slidably engage the at least one flange. A cover member coupled to a side portion of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Juergen Koehler, Xuqiang Shen, Linh Ngoc Doan
  • Patent number: 11358668
    Abstract: A legs apron for a motor vehicle includes a first part of apron having anchoring elements for removably anchoring the first part of apron to the motor vehicle, a second part of apron configured to at least cover the legs of a driver of the motor vehicle, a coupling system operatively interposed between the first and the second part of apron for removably coupling the first and second part of apron to each other, the coupling system defining a junction line between the first and second part of apron when the first and second part of apron are coupled together, where the apron further includes a waterproofing element arranged to waterproof the junction line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Francesco Maffe
  • Patent number: 11358459
    Abstract: A cover assembly for use in a vehicle to protect electronic components on a vehicle's dashboard, shield the interior of the vehicle from rain and debris, and provide privacy to occupants in the vehicle when in the vehicle. The cover assembly includes a dash cover, rain curtains, and privacy curtains that include long and/or short bungee cords for attaching and securing the cover and curtains to roll bars in a vehicle. The cover and some of the privacy curtains also include suction cups that are attachable to a vehicles windshield or back window. The cover assembly is quickly installed within a vehicle with ease to cover door and/or window openings, or the windshield or back window of a vehicle. The cover assembly may come in a variety of different sizes to accommodate use with different makes and models of vehicles having roll bars, and removable doors, rooftops, and/or windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Amber Miller
  • Patent number: 11358443
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a protective screen for windows of vehicles are described. The protective screen for windows of vehicles includes a flexible protective sheet including a vehicle fastener. The flexible protective sheet includes: a first outer layer, resistant to heat and cold, mechanical and chemical stresses, UV ray-shielding and having fastness to light, a second layer made of thermally insulated fabric, designed to face a window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: PARTS SOLUTION S.R.L., GRUPPO TOSETTO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Innocente Tosetto, Lorenzo Perricone
  • Patent number: 11352063
    Abstract: Power machine frames, and corresponding power machines such as skid steer loaders, have fully arcuate access aperture features formed in a first frame panel providing access to a volume internal to the first frame panel or otherwise positioned interior to the frame. The fully arcuate access aperture has a fully arcuate perimeter in the first frame panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CLARK EQUIPMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Brent Durkin, Michael J. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11338653
    Abstract: A system that includes a protective windshield system that deflects particulate away from a vehicle. The protective windshield system includes a sensor that senses the particulate and emits a signal indicative of the particulate. A deflection system deflects the particulate away from the vehicle. A controller couples to the sensor and to the deflection system. The controller detects the particulate and activates the deflection system to deflect the particulate away from the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
  • Patent number: 11332059
    Abstract: A motor vehicle with a vehicle interior includes a dashboard arranged in front of at least one front seat. A storage device is movable in a reversible manner, by way of a movement mechanism, from a not-in-use position in the dashboard into a use position in front of the front seat. The storage device is arrested at least in the use position. In the use position, the storage device has a carrying structure made up of two laterally arranged, inflated supporting elements. An approximately horizontally oriented table top is arranged on the two supporting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 11325450
    Abstract: In one aspect, a baggage door is provided for a vehicle. The baggage door includes a plastic outer panel for closing an opening of a vehicle and a hinge base configured to be mounted to a surface adjacent the opening. The baggage door further includes a plastic inner support having a hinge portion of the plastic inner support configured to pivotally connect to the hinge base. The inner support includes an arm portion extending away from the hinge portion for supporting the outer panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Consolidated Metco, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Rozanek, Christopher Davis, Kyle Larsen, Stephen McGarry
  • Patent number: 11318997
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a hood structure to enhance capacity to absorb a collision energy. A hood member comprises a hood outer panel and a hood inner panel disposed on a back face of the hood outer panel. The hood inner panel comprises a general face portion disposed apart from the back face of the hood outer panel, a raised portion raised in a direction of the back face of the hood outer panel 4 from the general face portion and an opening portion formed in an upper face portion of the raised portion. In addition, the hood inner panel comprises a slit portion that extends across an edge line of the raised portion from the opening portion and is formed to slit an inclined face portion of the raised portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Nishino, Shoya Murakami
  • Patent number: 11318890
    Abstract: Reconfigurable cargo screen assemblies for a vehicle are provided. The assembly includes a retracting component including a cassette member, a retractable screen, a first end beam, and a retraction mechanism. A first end of the retractable screen is connected to the first end beam, and a second end of the retractable screen is retractably connected within the cassette member by the retraction mechanism. The assembly further includes a middle cover component including a rod member, a middle screen, and a second end beam. A first end of the middle screen is connected to the rod member, and a second end of the middle screen is connected to the second end beam. Also included is a back component having a connection beam and a back screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Monica Sjöstedt, Peter Landqvist, Tony Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11312421
    Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes a dash panel separating a vehicle front part from a vehicle cabin, a front side member extending longitudinally of a vehicle body in the vehicle front part and having ends located rearward of the vehicle body, opposite to the dash panel, a floor frame member forming a floor frame of the vehicle cabin, and a plate-shape reinforcing member disposed further toward a center of the vehicle cabin with respect to the dash panel and the floor frame member to be opposite to the ends of the front side member. The reinforcing member includes an upper portion secured to the dash panel and a lower portion secured to the floor frame member, and has a curvature that is smaller than a curvature of the dash panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Tanaka, Koji Saeki
  • Patent number: 11312422
    Abstract: A control station for a soil-processing machine includes a control station floor region and at least one floor window provided in the control station floor region. The floor window in the control station floor region is supported so that it can swivel between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: HAMM AG
    Inventor: Detlef Bornemann
  • Patent number: 11299083
    Abstract: An apparatus has: a livestock transport having a floor, walls, ground engaging members, and an access door opening; a ramp; and side panels that are pivotally connected to the walls of the livestock transport, in which the ramp and the side panels are configured to move between: a deployed position where the ramp extends from the access door opening and the side panels cooperate with the ramp to form a livestock loading chute; and a transport position where the ramp is stowed and the side panels are swung about to lie against the walls of the livestock transport. A kit has the ramp and side panels of the apparatus. A method of using the apparatus involves moving the ramp and side panels between the deployed position and the transport position to load, unload, and transport, respectively, livestock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Opend Range Ltd.
    Inventors: Douglas Green, Norman Noordof
  • Patent number: 11299100
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a rear cargo scuff and a rear cargo area that has a floor including a cover that can be selectively opened to access a tool tray below the floor. A tool tray is connected to the rear cargo scuff by a first hinge. The tool tray is configured to rotate between a first position and a second position, such that the tool tray rests below a top surface of the floor in the first position and is positioned above the top surface of the floor in the second position. The tool tray also includes a tool receiving portion configured to receive one or more tools. The tool tray includes a lid coupled to a second hinge, where the lid is configured to rotate between a closed position and an open position via a second hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Clifford, Tanner Ardaiz, Jason Weaver, Salvatore Moceri
  • Patent number: 11292320
    Abstract: A vehicle window apparatus for a vehicle body utilizing a frame having an elongated channel that holds a glass sheet. The glass sheet includes a resilient cover which interacts with the groove of the elongated channel and is held in the groove by a clamp. A gasket and a resilient member form a moisture barrier on either side of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Darin B. Rice
  • Patent number: 11286011
    Abstract: An active aero panel assembly including at least one deployable panel, at least one drive mechanism, and at least one actuator. The active aero panel assembly improves aerodynamics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Magna Exteriors Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McAfee, Martin R. Matthews, Braendon R. Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11279275
    Abstract: A wall configured to couple to a shelter and extend around at least a portion of a perimeter of the shelter. The wall includes a first end having a first attachment mechanism configured to engage with a second attachment mechanism of the shelter, a second end opposite the first end, a sidewall extending between the first end and the second end, and a third attachment mechanism coupled proximal to the second end and configured to engage with a fourth attachment mechanism disposed on the shelter to couple the wall to the shelter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: BERG COMPANIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Gorka, Justin Scott Mischel
  • Patent number: 11267323
    Abstract: A tonneau cover that includes a first panel, a second panel, a hinge between the first panel and the second panel, and a torsion element between the first panel and the second panel. The torsion element applies an urging force onto one or both of the first panel and the second panel during movement of the first panel and/or the second panel about the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Tectum Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Facchinello, Chad A. Carter