Patents Examined by Kimberley S Wright
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Patent number: 12233529Abstract: A custom tool accessory to hold a tool, the custom tool accessory including a body, at least one tongue disposed at a first side of the body, at least one tongue receiving groove disposed at a second side of the body opposite from the first side of the body, and a tool holding portion disposed on the body to hold the tool. At least one magnet is attached to the underside of a metallic base plate that is in turn secured to the underside of the body. A retainer surrounds the at least one magnet and also underlies the area of the bottom of the base plate that is not covered by the at least one magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventor: Jonathan Hurley
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Patent number: 12232611Abstract: This utility model relates to the technical field of shelves, in particular to a lifting storage mechanism. The lifting storage mechanism includes a frame body, a lifting platform, a guiding assembly and a resetting assembly, wherein the guiding assembly is provided with a first sliding structure, a second sliding structure and a third sliding structure, which are respectively connected to the resetting assembly and the lifting platform to cooperate with the resetting assembly and drive the lifting platform to go up and down in the accommodating cavity. The lifting storage mechanism disclosed by the utility model is simple in structure and reasonable in design. During use, when articles on the lifting platform are gradually taken away, the lifting platform is lifted up along with three groups of sliding structures under the action of pulling force of the resetting assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventor: Lilin Wu
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Patent number: 12226016Abstract: A cover is provided for a storage bin of a refrigerator. The cover includes a panel and a communication portion. The panel has an upper surface for storing food items thereon that is substantially planar and substantially horizontal. Moreover, the panel separates an upper space located above the panel from a lower space located below the panel. The communication portion is configured to provide fluid communication between the upper and lower spaces. In particular, the communication portion includes an upward-facing recessed surface, one or more side wall portions that extend above and at least partially bound the recessed surface, and a plurality of apertures that extend through the recessed surface and provide fluid communication between the upper space and lower space. The recessed surface and the one or more side wall portions collectively define a recess. Optionally, a wine rack is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Electrolux Do Brasil S.A.Inventors: Antonio Voltarelli, Israel Mercer, Rafael Leidens, Alcione Colecha, Guilherme Picanco
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Patent number: 12226013Abstract: A differential drawer slide for furniture parts that can be pulled out is provided. The differential drawer slide includes a body rail, a pull-out rail and a central rail. An adjusting part of the central rail is mounted so as to be adjustable between a release position, in which the central rail can be tilted with respect to the body rail and a stop surface of the central rail can be moved past the body rail, under a stop element of the body rail, and a blocked position. A lateral guide roller is rotatably mounted on the adjustment part (13) and interacts with a vertical web (3d) of the body rail. The central rail is shorter than the body rail and the pull-out rail.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: FULTERER AG & CO KGInventor: Bernhard Ill
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Patent number: 12228296Abstract: An outdoor unit electric cabinet, includes a box body, two supporting frames, an upper mounting plate, and a fixing plate, the two supporting frames are arranged on inner walls on the opposite sides of the box body; a mounting location is arranged on each supporting frame; the opposite sides of the upper mounting plate are mounted into the mounting location from an entrance of the mounting location; the upper mounting plate is flippable relative to the mounting location; the fixing plate is mounted on the entrance of the mounting location to seal the entrance of the mounting location, so as to prevent the upper mounting plate from sliding out from the mounting location.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: GUANGDONG GIWEE TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.Inventor: Xueshu Liu
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Patent number: 12228169Abstract: Systems and methods for mounting a panel to a wiring cabinet are provided. The wiring cabinet can include a frame profile with a frame profile opening and the panel can have a panel opening. A fastening element used to mount the panel to the wiring cabinet can include an expanding rivet with an opening and at least two rivet legs. The expanding rivet can be received through the panel opening and the frame profile opening when aligned. The fastener can also include an expanding body that can be inserted into the opening of the expanding rivet so that the rivet legs are forced apart to cause the rivet legs to engage the frame profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures, Inc.Inventor: David Ramos
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Patent number: 12221812Abstract: A drawer interlocking guide rail with locking function, including guide rail assemblies including an inner rail, an outer rail and a middle rail and an interlocking device including an interlocking base, an interlocking slider and a rotating arm; the interlocking base is slidably mounted on the outer rail from an outside; the interlocking slider is nested on the interlocking base and have special-shaped hole passing through the rotating arm; the interlocking base is provided with a chute portion, the inner rail is provided with a toggle block; the end of the inner rail is provided with a tail clamping portion; the end of the outer rail is provided with a silencer locking stopper for fitting to the tail clamping portion when the drawer is closed, two sides of the outer rail are respectively installed with interlocking linkage assemblies driven by the interlocking slider to move up and down.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Qingyuan SACA Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huaike Xu, Gengxi Cai
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Patent number: 12213601Abstract: A shelving system is provided. The shelving system includes an upper rail, and optionally a lower rail, from which one or more upright supports extend. The upright supports are slidable within the upper and lower rails so that a user may vary their location. A shelf mounts to the upright supports. The shelf includes interlocking deck panels and selectively removable support bars so that it may be assembled onto the upright supports.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.Inventors: Shane Obitts, Billy Mertz, Matt Grubbs
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Patent number: 12203696Abstract: A home appliance has a housing with at least one first side panel and at least one second side panel. The second side panel is adjacent the relevant first side panel of the housing, and connects to the first side panel by way of at least one housing connection arrangement. The housing connection arrangements are provided in such a way that the first side panel has at least one connection recess for receiving a corresponding panel connection detail of the second side panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbHInventors: Yigit Akalan, Arif Dogan, Cemalettin Hasturk, Erhan Kaya, Vishal Vekariya
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Patent number: 12200893Abstract: An engaging mechanism includes a casing, a first engaging member and a second engaging member. The casing has a first engaging recess and a second engaging recess. The first engaging member is slidably disposed in the casing and has a first engaging portion. The second engaging member is rotatably disposed in the casing and has a second engaging portion. When the first engaging member is located at a first lock position, the second engaging member is able to rotate between a second lock position and a second unlock position. When the second engaging member is located at the second unlock position and the first engaging member slides from the first lock position to a first unlock position, the first engaging member pushes the second engaging member to rotate toward the second lock position, such that the second engaging portion blocks the second engaging recess.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Wiwynn CorporationInventors: Wei-Li Huang, Hung-Lung Lin, Yan-Yu Chen
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Patent number: 12188711Abstract: A refrigerator, comprising a refrigerator body (30), a first door body (10), a second door body (20), a vertical beam (50), and a driving mechanism (60). The driving mechanism (60) comprises a telescopic member (61) that may be at an extension position or at a retraction position; an elastic member (62); a rotating member (63) rotatable around a second vertical axis and a third vertical axis (X3), with a sliding channel (631) formed thereon; and a sliding column (64). During the closing of the first door body (10) from an open state, the telescopic member (61) moves towards the retraction position from the extension position to drive the rotating member (63) to rotate around the second vertical axis (X2), so that the sliding channel (631) pushes the sliding column (64) to drive the vertical beam (50) to rotate from a folded state to an unfolded state.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: HEFEI HAIER REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD, HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Lyu, Hao Zhang, Wenchun Wang
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Patent number: 12185848Abstract: A swing door system for use with a freezer device is provided. The system includes two adjacent swing doors and a mullion in contact with the swing doors. Each swing door has a transparent pane and a non-transparent area. The non-transparent area is proximal to the mullion when the swing doors are in a closed position. The non-transparent areas and the mullion define a non-transparent region. The system has, under a horizontal viewing angle between 0° and 180° with respect to the plane in which the swing doors are arranged when the swing doors are in the closed position, all of the horizontal diameters of the non-transparent region are less than 100 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: SCHOTT AG, SCHOTT TERMOFROST S.R.O.Inventors: Jochen Diederichs, Petr Smajser, Martin Rafaj, Michael Lammel, Benjamin Lederhofer, Markus Heller, Jaroslav Kukulis, Jaroslav Placek
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Patent number: 12169094Abstract: Provided is a vacuum adiabatic body. The vacuum adiabatic body includes a first plate configured to define at least a portion of a wall for a first space, a second plate configured to define at least a portion of a wall for a second space having a temperature different from that of the first space, a seal configured to seal the first plate and the second plate so as to provide a third space that has a temperature between a temperature of the first space and a temperature of the second space and is in a vacuum state, and a support configured to maintain the third space. Therefore, the vacuum adiabatic module that is thermally insulated with the vacuum, independently applied at various places, and conveniently used may be realized.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Bongjin Kim, Deokhyun Youn, Jangseok Lee
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Patent number: 12163729Abstract: A shelf assembly for a refrigerator and a refrigerator are provided. The shelf assembly comprises: a shelf device for placing articles; a slide rail forming a slideway in a vertical direction, and having at least two positioning portions in a vertical direction; wherein the shelf assembly further comprises: a moving device for supporting the shelf device, the moving device comprising a bearing plate that is operably moved upward and downward relative to the slide rail, and a locking plate rotatably disposed relative to the bearing plate, a positioning member being disposed on the locking plate, the locking plate engaging with the shelf device; when the shelf device is operably lifted or released, a positioning member is disengaged from or engaged with one of the positioning portions, to adjust the height of the shelf device. Adjustment of the shelf device is simple and convenient and the cost is lower.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignees: QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HAIER SMART HOME CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaobing Zhu, Xueli Cheng, Zhenxing Zhang
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Patent number: 12163730Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a main body; a storage room formed inside the main body; an ice maker fixed to the main body, and inside the storage room; and a drawer accommodated in the storage room and configured to be withdrawable in a front direction with respect to the main body to open or close the storage room, wherein the drawer includes: a basket including an ice-making room formed therein and below the ice maker and a top portion opened; and a cover assembly in front of the ice maker and configured to cover the opened top portion of the ice-making room together with the ice maker, the cover assembly comprising a plurality of covers slidingly coupled with the basket and extendable when the basket is pulled out so that the plurality of covers changes in length along the front direction in which the basket is pulled out.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seyeun Chang, Sihoon Lee, Hosang Park, Jungeun Park, Jinhong Yu, Wonho Jang, Jisick Hwang
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Patent number: 12161279Abstract: A dishwasher includes a storage part in which a washing target is stored. The storage part includes a base formed by crossing a plurality of horizontal bars and a plurality of vertical bars, a supporter portion coupled to the base and having a hollow formed therein, and a holder portion secured to the supporter portion and configured to be rotatable with respect to the supporter portion. The holder portion is configured to maintain a posture set with respect to the supporter portion by pressurizing the supporter portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myungwon Ko, Yong Jin Choi, Dong Hwi Park
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Patent number: 12158031Abstract: A device comprises a linear guide with a first rail and a second rail and being mounted onto the cabin along an upper face thereof; a further guide having a linear portion being parallel to the linear guide and an inclined portion extending transversely to the linear guide; a moving part having a first slide which slidebly runs along the linear guide and a second slide which slidebly runs along the further guide and being displaceble with respect to the first slide from a retracted position to an extracted position or vice versa and being connected to the door by means of a connecting element; the first slide comprising two sliding means running on the first rail and the second rail respectively; a space being defined between the sliding means allowing the second slide to be guided along the further guide.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: SAMET KALIP VE MADENI ESYA SAN VE TIC. A. SInventors: Artur Hirtsiefer, Himmet Tanriverdi, Evren Urak
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Patent number: 12152832Abstract: A shelf assembly for an appliance includes a shelf support operably coupled with a cabinet liner. First and second supports are positioned below the shelf support. The first and second supports are positioned on opposing sidewalls of the cabinet liner. A rear shelf portion is slidably supported on the shelf support between rearward and forward positions. A front shelf portion is positioned adjacent to the rear shelf portion and is movable between a raised position and a lowered position. A plurality of rotatable arms are configured to support the front shelf portion. Each rotatable arm of the plurality of rotatable arms is operably coupled with one of the first and second supports at a first end and is further operably coupled with the front shelf portion at a second end. A connecting arm interconnects the rear shelf portion and the front shelf portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Prasanth A. Lam, Vijaya Hanamant Bichakar, Ratul Maity, Mukesh Muthamilan, Hrushikesh C. Prabhu
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Patent number: 12150550Abstract: A device for guiding a movable furniture part received movably on a furniture carcass, including a carcass rail and a drawer rail, wherein the movably mounted drawer rail is moved in an opening and closing direction relative to the carcass rail. The carcass and drawer rails each have at least one flat running surface, wherein the running surface of the drawer rail is continuously uniformly flat. During relative movement between the drawer and carcass rails, load-transmitting rolling elements move along the running surface of the carcass and drawer rails. The running surface extends in a longitudinal extent and a transverse extent, wherein the longitudinal extent is perpendicular to the transverse extent, and the longitudinal extent of the running surface is oriented in the opening and closing direction of the drawer rail.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Grass GmbHInventor: Juergen Nachbaur
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Patent number: 12150549Abstract: A linear motion mechanism, a drawer assembly, and a storage cabinet, relating to the technical field of linear motion. The linear motion mechanism comprises a rotating wheel around which a flexible cable is wound, the flexible cable being suitable for moving along with rotation of the rotating wheel, and the flexible cable comprising flexible cable sections located on the two sides of the rotating wheel; a rotation driving member which is connected to the rotating wheel and suitable for driving the rotating wheel to rotate; a mounting member, the mounting member being provided with a guide rail, a first fixed pulley being mounted on the mounting member; and a first-stage sliding rail which is suitable for sliding relative to the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR CO., LTD., HEFEI HUALING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yongxue Xi