Patents Examined by Lloyd A. Gall
  • Patent number: 11255115
    Abstract: A locking system for locking of an enclosure that is provided with at least one and preferably two doors or gates is provided. The locking system comprising a lock holding device with a bent piece for mounting of a locking rod behind the door and a blocking element and a lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mavako ApS
    Inventor: Martin Kongshammer
  • Patent number: 11248403
    Abstract: A vehicle door handle includes a coupling device having a handle lever movable between a flush position in which the handle lever is flush with an exterior door panel surface, a ready position in which the handle lever is extended and graspable by a user, and an inwards pushed position. The handle lever includes a handle lever shaft rotatively connected to a handle lever base. The vehicle door handle further includes a positioning device, at least one reduction mechanism driven in rotation by an electric motor and driving in rotation the handle lever shaft, and an electronic control unit operable to create a motor short circuit so as to generate a torque resistance on the handle lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: U-Shin Italia S.p.A., U-SHIN Deutschland Zugangssysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Boberschmidt, Guillaume Despreaux, Konstantin Pavlov
  • Patent number: 11242698
    Abstract: A link arm for securing bicycles and other vehicles and their components to each other and to fixed objects such as bike racks and street poles. The link arm is composed of a plurality of elements flexibly joined to each other by cylindrical joints, joined to the bicycle or vehicle by a perpendicularly oriented central hinge, allowing for restricted movement and rotation of other elements in the link arm. The link arm is designed to, when fastened, form a closed loop around the bicycle or vehicle frame, wheel and bike rack. When not in use, the device can be folded into a neat, compact configuration for convenient storage. The central perpendicular hinge enables fast and simple transition between the two states of fastened and in storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Lobster Lock, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Gerry
  • Patent number: 11236530
    Abstract: A buckle lock is applied to lock a device having a fastening portion and comprises a body, the body includes a locking mechanism and includes a fixing groove configured to retain with the fastening portion of the device. The body further includes a press rod configured to move toward a unlocking position of the fixing groove so as to allow the fastening portion to move out of the fixing groove, and the press rod is also configured to move toward a locking position of the fixing groove so as to stop a removal of the fastening portion from the fixing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sinox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuo-Kuang Pan
  • Patent number: 11236529
    Abstract: A security apparatus for a portable electronic device having a slot includes a body having an insertable portion configured to be inserted into the slot of the portable electronic device, and a boss extending from the insertable portion and positioned outside of the slot. The boss is configured to attach to a lock head. The security apparatus also includes a wedge supported at least partially within the insertable portion of the body. The wedge is movable relative to the insertable portion between a first position, in which the wedge extends out of the insertable portion and is configured to engage a surface of the portable electronic device that defines the slot, and a second position, in which the wedge is retracted relative to the first position and is configured to disengage the surface of the portable electronic device that defines the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ACCO Brands Corporation
    Inventors: Wilson Tse, William De Meulenaere, Michael Otsuka, James Kao, Joseph A. Teresi, Alex J. Klinkman, Todd C. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11230861
    Abstract: A door and locking system for a rear opening of a long bed trailer, the rear opening having a top edge, a bottom edge and first and second side edges, the door and locking system has a canvas door configured for mounting adjacent to the rear opening of the long bed trailer. The canvas door can move between a closed position in which the canvas door moves to close the rear opening and an open position in which the canvas door moves to open the rear opening. A locking system secured to the edges of the rear opening can move between a locked position, in which the locking system is in locking engagement with the canvas door in the closed position to secure the canvas door against the edges of the rear opening to close the opening for retaining fluidizable product in the long bed trailer and an unlocked position, in which the locking system is free from locking engagement with the canvas door to allow the canvas door to move into the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Jerry D. Trentham Trucking, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucas W. Trentham, Jerry D. Trentham
  • Patent number: 11220840
    Abstract: A rekeyable lock cylinder with a cylinder body and a plug assembly. The lock cylinder includes a plurality of key followers and a corresponding plurality of racks disposed in the plug assembly. Disengaging the racks from the key followers allows rekeying of the lock cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Spectrum Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Hanna Farag
  • Patent number: 11214987
    Abstract: An exemplary shackle is configured for use with a crossbar having a pair of openings and a locking mechanism including a pair of deadbolts. The shackle includes a substantially flat plate portion having a length in a longitudinal direction, a width in a transverse direction, and a thickness along a lateral axis defining a proximal direction and a distal direction. The length is greater than the width, which is greater than the thickness. The shackle further includes a pair of longitudinally-offset legs extending distally from the plate portion. Each leg has a diameter, and includes a bumper and a notch positioned distally of the bumper. An offset distance is defined between the distal surface of the plate portion and the distal faces of the bumpers. The width of the plate portion is greater than each of the diameter and the offset distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Ravi Telang, Kavya Madhusudhan
  • Patent number: 11214988
    Abstract: A lockout padlock for securing a switch of an industrial plant comprises a lock housing composed of plastic, a hoop, a lock cylinder that has a cylinder housing and a rotatable cylinder core, and a key, with the cylinder core being rotatable between a locked position in which the hoop is locked or lockable to the lock housing and an unlocked position. The lock cylinder has a plurality of tumblers, with each tumbler being movable between a respective release position and a respective blocking position. The plurality of tumblers comprise a plurality of pin tumblers that are spring-loaded in the direction of their respective blocking positions. The plurality of tumblers furthermore comprise a plurality of supplementary tumblers that are not spring-loaded and that are freely movably supported between their respective release positions and their respective blocking positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Soehne KG
    Inventors: Wai Kuen Fan, Bernhard Garthe, Manuel Thomas
  • Patent number: 11203886
    Abstract: A security apparatus having a lock head and lock body is disclosed. The lock head includes lock fingers capable of shifting horizontally. When collapsed, the lock fingers may be withdrawn from a security slot of a portable electronic device. Engaging members are set at the lock head and lock body respectively such that the two can be secured together or be readily removable from each other when needed. The lock body includes a locking mechanism operably coupled to the lock head. Configurations of the lock fingers are alterable via the locking mechanism. The lock head and the locking mechanism are on different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventor: Chia-Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11193313
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a closure system, comprising a locking arrangement, in particular a rotary latch arrangement for controlling a display device such as a LED module, comprising a sliding shoe, which is to be placed on the locking tongue of a rotary latch mounted in a door, for running onto a sliding ramp supported by the door frame, wherein said sliding shoe includes a housing with a recess for the insertion of alternatively a magnet or a magnetic field sensor acting in a contactless manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DIRAK Dieter Ramsauer Konstruktionselemente GmbH
    Inventors: Cem Olkay, Daniel Krause
  • Patent number: 11187011
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lever-type door lock driving assembly which can be installed inside a mounting hole to enable miniaturization of the device, ensure general versatility, and prevent a fragile area from being generated inside the door. The present invention relates to a driving assembly for a lever-type door lock arranged in an installation hole to drive a latch operating body, wherein the mounting assembly comprise a mounting module having a truncated disc shape and having at least one driving plate therein; and a motor unit mounted on the truncated area of the mounting module and having a disk shape in a state of being coupled to the mounting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY KOREA
    Inventor: Tae Hoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 11180930
    Abstract: A household electric and mechanical dual-controlled intelligent lock includes a mechanical clutching structure and an intelligent electronic control structure. The mechanical clutching structure includes a locking head, a springback lock tongue, a first round rotary table and a fixed seat, wherein: an end portion of the springback lock tongue extends outside the fixed seat, an arched guide rail which is fitted with the first round rotary table is located on the springback lock tongue. The intelligent electronic control structure includes a PCB (printed circuit board), a motor, a scalable suite and a second round rotary table, wherein: one end of the scalable suite is fixedly connected with the motor, the other end of the scalable suite is fixedly connected with the second round rotary table, an arched guide rail which is fitted with the second round rotary table is located on the other surface of the springback lock tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Yan Shun Leung
  • Patent number: 11179985
    Abstract: A multi-function trailer hitch lock and general purpose two piece U-shaped shackle lock has three components. An upper component is an upside down U-shaped shackle having at least one leg with locking grooves. For trailer use to engage the recess in the trailer coupler, a platform with a ball is slid up the U-shaped shackle legs. The third component is a separate locking assembly that is slid up the U-shaped shackle legs. This third component has a rotatable lock mechanism to drive a cam based latch mechanism between a latch state with the locking grooves, and an unlatch state. For general use such as locking a bicycle tire to a bike stand, the platform component is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventor: Philip W. Wyers
  • Patent number: 11168493
    Abstract: The lock includes an actuator (130), a generator (160), an engagement mechanism (114) to convey mechanical insertion power to the electric generator (160), and an electronic circuit (120), powered by the electric power (310), to read encrypted data (312) from a memory (102) embedded into the key (100), and, if the encrypted data (312) matches a predetermined criterion, to operate the actuator (130), with the electric power (310), to set (314) the actuator (130) to the unlocked position (300). The engagement mechanism (114) is also configured to engage with an extraction (400) of the key (100) and convey mechanical extraction power to the electric generator (160), and the electronic circuit, powered by the electric power (600), is also configured to operate the actuator (130), with the electric power (600), to reset (602) the actuator (130) to the locked position (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ILOQ OY
    Inventor: Mika Kellokoski
  • Patent number: 11162278
    Abstract: A key that controls a lock with a cylindrical plug, the key having a shank the body of which has an external, rounded surface and forms a hollow, partially enclosed profile. The external rounded surface is shaped for turning the key in the lock cavity of the lock, while at least in the end part of the lateral section of the shank, an open cavity is created for inserting an arm of the validating lever of the lock. At least a part of the shank is U-shaped or V-shaped fitted with at least one open coding track and/or at least one coding channel with a shaped coding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventor: Ji{hacek over (r)}í Holda
  • Patent number: 11156019
    Abstract: A lock cylinder including a plug, a plurality of key followers, a sensor assembly structured to sense positions of the key followers, and a controller in communication with the sensor assembly. The plug includes a keyway and a plurality of plug tumbler shafts. Each of the key followers is movably seated in a corresponding one of the plug tumbler shafts and includes a sensor interface. The sensor assembly includes a plurality of sensors, each of which includes at least one sensing region. Each of the key followers is associated with one of the sensors via an associative link formed between the sensor interface and the corresponding sensing region. The sensors are structured to generate an output signal indicative of the transverse position of the associated key follower, and the controller is structured to select and perform actions based upon the output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Douglas A. Holmes, Aaron P. McKibben, Sundar R. D. Vasudevan, Anoop Dutt Mysore Nagesh
  • Patent number: 11158146
    Abstract: An electronic lockset mounted on a door, the electronic lockset including a lock comprising at least one of a latch bolt and a deadbolt to prevent the door from opening when the lock is in a locked state, an interior handle to open the door when the lock is in an unlocked state, a sensor to sense a manipulation of the interior handle, a printed circuit board (PCB) to receive information sensed by the sensor regarding the manipulation of the interior handle, and a motor to move the at least one of the latch bolt and the deadbolt in response to a signal received by the PCB directed to the information regarding the manipulation of the interior handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Jeff Cahill
  • Patent number: 11142927
    Abstract: A door locking apparatus is provided including a first plate, a second plate, a front assembly, a lock clip, and at least one control. The first plate includes at least one vertical slot. The lock clip is rotatably attached to the front assembly and includes at least one horizontal slot in a first end. The at least one control is mounted to the first plate and includes at least one protrusion. The at least one protrusion projects through the at least on vertical slot and through the at least one horizontal slot. The at least one control moves vertically between a first position and a second position. The lock clip is in an open position when the at least one control is in the first position and a locked position when the at least one control is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Katerra Inc.
    Inventors: Will Root, Michael Martin Uhl, Alex Couweleers
  • Patent number: 11142930
    Abstract: An earring security display hanger includes a body member, first and second arms, and first and second closure members connected to the body member via the first and second arms. Each of the first and second closure members has a top wall and a side wall extending between the top wall and an open end such that a recess is formed therebetween. A closure member aperture is defined on the top wall of each of the closure members, and a plurality of first closure apertures and a plurality of second closure apertures are defined on the sidewall of the first and second closure members, respectively. A plurality of first closure hooks and a plurality of second closure hooks are formed from the body member and are configured to engage with the plurality of first closure apertures and the plurality of second closure apertures, respectively, to provide a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: B&G Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Strassburger, Keith Cedro, Michael Norman