Patents Examined by Mark Williams
  • Patent number: 11885153
    Abstract: A door lock with an energy-saving device, comprising: an electromagnet assembly secured on the door frame, which has an electromagnet and a control circuit board, and an adsorption assembly secured on the door board, which has a positioning unit and an iron plate, a set of linkage sensing mechanism set on the electromagnet, and a set of clutch mechanism set on the adsorption assembly; Thereby, when close the door board into the door frame, the control circuit board supplies power to the electromagnet with the high current in the normal locking mode to attract iron plate, and then, the clutch mechanism drives the linkage sensing mechanism to act, triggering the control circuit board to supply power with low current in the power-saving lock mode to maintain the closed state of the door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Li-Shih Liao
  • Patent number: 11879270
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-barricade door handle assembly which comprises an integrated auxiliary door handle for use in an emergency. The auxiliary door handle can be configured between a stowed configuration and an activated configuration. The auxiliary door handle is operable to operate a lock when in the activated configuration and inoperable when in the stowed configuration. The auxiliary door handle can only be configured to the activated configuration by an authorized user. The auxiliary door handle is configured to override a primary door handle which operates the lock in normal, non-emergency use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFEHINGE PRIMERA LIMITED
    Inventors: Max Szczerkowski, Martin Izod, Shaun Ridley
  • Patent number: 11866957
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an enclosure, a central processing unit, a power source, a first distance measuring device, a first compressible member, and a first housing pin, where the central processing unit is electrically coupled to the power source and the first distance measuring device. A first end of the first compressible member is mechanically coupled to a first end of the first housing pin and a second end of the first compressible member is mechanically coupled to an inner surface of the enclosure. The first distance measuring device positioned at the second end of the first compressible member, where the first distance measuring device is configured to measure a first distance to the first end of the first housing pin. A first key pin of a key structure disposed in the enclosure, where the first key pin is configured to compress the first compressible member the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Albert Dennes, Junfeng Xu, Adam Mullenbach, Gregory Michael Ketterer
  • Patent number: 11859413
    Abstract: A security strip defining a security slot and attachable to a mobile electronic device has a strip body shaped as a flat and thin, strip-shaped component with a length, a width and a thickness dimension, wherein the length of the strip body is at least ten times times the thickness dimension of the strip body. Screw holes enable screwing the strip body to an underside of the mobile electronic device. A security slot body protrudes from the strip body and has a thickened portion thicker than the thickness dimension of the strip body and defining therein a security slot in which a locking element of a locking device is receivable, the security slot body extending along the one of the side walls of the mobile device. The security strip includes at least one cutout that enables the security strip to extend generally in line of one of the front and rear legs of the mobile device so that at least one of the front or rear legs is at least partially locatable in the at least one cutout in the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Meir Avganim
  • Patent number: 11859410
    Abstract: A vertical door latch assembly includes a housing and a bolt movably attached to the housing having a catch portion. A drive motor is located within the housing and is configured to selectively move a lock assembly between a locked position preventing movement of the bolt and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt. A controller is in electrical communication with the drive motor and is configured to direct the actuator lock assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Marc Luebeck, Anthony Pettigrew, Matthew Hill, Eric Chang, Christopher Marks, Patrick Sweeney
  • Patent number: 11846128
    Abstract: A door lock has a bottom surface, a bottom surface, a wedge portion extending upward from the bottom surface, and a projection member secured to the bottom surface. The projection member has a plurality of spikes defined therein that extend from a first side of the projection member in a direction away from the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventors: Alan D. Cheever, Dustin Ryan Rojohn
  • Patent number: 11845590
    Abstract: A preload mechanism for an actuator is disclosed that includes a rotating element configured to rotate about a pivot. The rotating element has a first contact point that is configured to couple to the actuator such that contraction of the actuator displaces the first contact point such that the rotating element rotates from a first position to a second position. The preload mechanism also includes a bias element with a first end that is coupled to a second contact point of the rotating element and a second end configured to be pinned relative to the pivot. The bias element has a line of action extending from the second end through the first end. The line of action has an offset distance that is the minimum distance between the line of action and the pivot. The offset distance has a first value when the rotating element is in the first position and a second value when the rotating element is the second position, the second value being smaller than the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Frank Dean Weber, Christoph Potakowskyj, Ernst Bayer
  • Patent number: 11846119
    Abstract: A cable lock with a bare wire cable, the cable lock including a lock unit for securely grasping the free end of the cable. The cable lock also includes a cable testing mechanism comprising a first cable contact that engages the cable, and a second cable contact that engages the cable. The cable lock also includes an electrical current generating and measuring mechanism powered by a battery, the mechanism being in electric communication with one of the cable contacts for putting current into the cable, and in electric communication with the other of the cable contacts for reading current passing through the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Gregory Kleynerman
  • Patent number: 11840862
    Abstract: An equipment assembly is disclosed that includes a first equipment housing having a first penetration, a latch assembly disposed within the first equipment housing, a second equipment housing having a second penetration and a security bezel configured to cause the latch assembly to rotate through the first penetration and the second penetration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Alan Yi Wang, Hung-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 11828084
    Abstract: A door-unlatching device including a lower actuator including a foot-pad, an upper actuator including a lever-arm and a handle-mount attachable to a handle of door-latch, and a link coupled to the foot-pad and the lever-arm, wherein the lever-arm is movable between a first position and a second position relative to the handle-mount. It can be set to either engaged mode which allows either hand or foot to operate; or disengaged mode to allow only hand to operate which the door can also be locked from entry as by a normal door latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Daniel Y. Chu
  • Patent number: 11828092
    Abstract: An electrical latch for a closure system of a motor vehicle and method of operating are provided. The electrical latch includes a latching mechanism having a pawl and ratchet, a cinching mechanism having a cinching lever, and an electric actuator mechanism for actuating at least the cinching lever. The electrical latch further includes a control unit powered by a main power source and having a control circuit controlling operation of the actuator mechanism to affect the position of the cinch lever, and a backup energy source providing power to the control circuit and the actuator mechanism in the event a fault condition is experienced by the main power source. The electrical latch is configured to return the cinching lever to a home uncinched position in response to switching of power from the main power source to the backup energy source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA CLOSURES S.P.A.
    Inventors: Davide Dente, Emanuele Leonardi, Antonio Frello
  • Patent number: 11821236
    Abstract: A lock management system manages access to a controlled environment by locking or unlocking a door. The lock management system can actuate one or more components of a lock system to lock or unlock the door. To determine whether to lock or unlock the door, the lock management system can establish a connection with one or more devices. The lock management system can receive an access credential via the connection and authenticate the access credential. Based on authenticating the access credential, the lock management system can lock or unlock the door. The lock management system can monitor a door status and/or door activity and provide alerts to a user computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: APAD ACCESS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven S. Yee, Mark Benerofe, Axel K. Paganakis, Erich G. Theophile, James R. Terrell, Dustin L. Morris
  • Patent number: 11821238
    Abstract: A push pad exit device comprising a horizontal push bar actuator mechanically linked to a vertical door handle assembly, for use on the interior side of entrance doors where a means of emergency egress is desired, is presented. The operating mechanisms of the push bar actuator and vertical door handle assembly are concealed presenting a smooth uncluttered appearance. In one mode of operation, the push pad actuator may be moved inwards towards the door face causing the door to unlatch. The push pad exit device may also be equipped with a “dogging feature” which locks the push bar actuator in the unlatched position. In this mode of operation the door is unlatched and the push pad actuator may be used as a fixed door handle. The push pad exit device may also be equipped with a keyed lock on an external face of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: C.R. LAURENCE CO., INC.
    Inventor: Gary Sprague
  • Patent number: 11814874
    Abstract: A locking device including: a locking pin movable in a linear direction; a tappet movable in the linear direction; and a clamping device connecting the tappet to the locking pin. Wherein the clamping device having an inner spring and an outer spring arranged coaxially relative to each other in the linear direction, and the inner spring is at least partially surrounded by the outer spring in a radial direction orthogonal to the linear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KENDRION KUHNKE AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Jochen Stegelmann, Borgar Pfeiffer, Lukas Nuppenau
  • Patent number: 11808063
    Abstract: A method and device for unlatching a door from a frame, using a keyless door latch system, is provided. In one embodiment, a secondary unlocking component receives a signal and derives power from the signal to provide a power source for the keyless door latch system. A microcontroller generates a control signal and an actuator, in response to receiving the control signal, actuates the secondary unlocking component, which allows an energy source, from an exterior of the door, to be transferred to the keyless door latch system for the unlatching of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Williamson Sy, Emiliano Mario Piccinelli, Keith Walters
  • Patent number: 11795741
    Abstract: The door holder includes a flexlatch, a rigid plate, and a striker plate coupler. The door holder may be adapted to retain a door open at a fixed opening width such that a smaller pet may pass through the open doorway and a larger pet or a small child is prevented from passing through the open doorway. The door holder may couple between a door knob of the door and a striker plate in a door frame by securing the flexlatch around the door knob and by hooking the striker plate coupler onto the striker plate. Spring action of the flexlatch may assure that the striker plate coupler remains coupled to the striker plate. The flexlatch, the rigid plate, and the striker plate coupler may be formed into a single element that may hang from the door knob when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Nicolas Alexander Fuller
  • Patent number: 11795735
    Abstract: Provided is a cable lock including a locking clasp including first and second clasp components having first and second security cable connection arms. The locking clasp includes at least one groove. The at least one groove is configured to receive at least one device cable. The cable lock includes a security cable having a wire rope and a vinyl coating. The wire rope includes a plurality of wire strings arranged in a plurality of clusters. The first and second security cable connection arms of the locking clasp are coupled to a first end of the security cable. First and second stop sleeves are disposed on opposite sides of the first and second security cable connection arms. A device connection means is disposed at a second end of the security cable opposite the first end of the security cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Steven Joseph Jaworski
  • Patent number: 11788574
    Abstract: An anti-theft locking bolt assembly is disclosed. The assembly comprises an anti-theft bolt threadedly attachable to an article to be protected, a bolt cap snugly fitting into a bore on the head of the anti-theft bolt, a lock cylinder housing rotatably connected to the head of the anti-theft bolt via one or more ball bearings, the lock cylinder housing configured to cover the bolt cap and a locking cylinder and to provide means to prevent removal of the bolt cap. The anti-theft locking bolt assembly is suitable to lock a vehicle wheel and also to replace a spark plug of an combust engine to prevent unauthorized use of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Rimgard Sweden AB
    Inventors: Lars Ivarsson, Marcus Ekström
  • Patent number: 11788321
    Abstract: An electrically actuated locking mechanism may include a microprocessor for control of the locking mechanism, and the locking mechanism may be used to lock a drawer slide in a closed position. The microprocessor may be in a housing of the locking mechanism, and the microprocessor may command a motor to operate in a first direction to drive lock components to a locked status and command the motor to operate in a second direction to drive the lock components to an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Accuride International Inc.
    Inventors: Darush David Hashemi, Xiaoping Zhou, Quinn Chi
  • Patent number: 11788350
    Abstract: The present gate handle includes a push button that is pushed before the gate handle is slid from a closed position to an open position on top of a support member. The support member includes a resilient button that extends into the gate handle and is pushable out of the gate handle by the push button. The support member further includes side slots that are engaged by side slides extending from the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Regalo International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Flannery, Gary T. Schultze, Nicholas E. Beattie, Timothy C. Daggy