Patents Examined by Michael McDuffie
  • Patent number: 12152648
    Abstract: A sheet-shaped cushioning rubber including a planar base portion and a three-dimensional portion formed to rise from the base portion toward one side in a sheet thickness direction, the planar base portion and the three-dimensional portion being alternately provided in one direction of a sheet plane, wherein the three-dimensional portion includes a hollow portion that opens toward the other side in the sheet thickness direction. The three-dimensional portion is integrally provided with a first rising surface that is continuous from the base portion, a top surface, a second rising surface on a side opposite to the first rising surface, and a pair of rising surfaces on both sides in a sheet width direction, and the hollow portion opens only toward the other side in the sheet thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimooka, Masaya Otsuka, Kodai Tsujino
  • Patent number: 12117064
    Abstract: A multi-flexure payload isolation device for isolating a payload from outside forces. The device can include a housing comprising an interior cavity configured to receive and support the payload. The device can further include a first flexure and a second flexure, each including a plurality of spokes made of a pseudoelastic shape-memory alloy anchored to the housing and configured to support the payload from the housing through an opening in the housing. The first and second flexures can each further include a common hub attached to a side of the payload and disposed in the opening in the housing wherein the each of the pluralities of spokes are anchored to the respective common hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Zaffir A. Chaundhry, Ulf Jonsson, Jake B. Range
  • Patent number: 12096903
    Abstract: A plastic storage bag saver is provided. The plastic bag saver has a pair of base rods configured to rest on a dishwasher rack. A pair of vertical arched support rods extending from the pair of base rods, wherein the pair of vertical arched support rods forms a bag spreader configured to spread and secure a flexible plastic storage bag in an open position. The pair of base rods and the pair of vertically arched rods are formed via a single bent rod. The plastic storage bag saver is an environmentally conscious product that allows for the normally discarded plastic storage bag to be reused after being washed in a dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Chris Hoover
  • Patent number: 12082721
    Abstract: A frame display installation assembly comprising: a set of end brackets, wherein the end brackets have a slot on a first side, wherein the slot extends through a portion of the bracket and a securing means on a second side; and a set of upper brackets, wherein the upper brackets have to least of claim 1, wherein the upper bracket has a slot that ends through the bracket on a first side and a securing means on a second side; wherein the set of end brackets and the set of upper frame brackets are secured to a frame and wherein the slots of the set of end brackets and the set of upper frame brackets align.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Kurzdorfer
  • Patent number: 12083959
    Abstract: An image control system includes a rear camera, a left rear (right rear) camera, a display device, and an image control device for generating a combined image and displaying the combined image on the display device. The image control device identifies a rear target object and a left rear (right rear) target object which are closest to the vehicle in an own lane and a left lane (right lane), respectively, and changes a magnitude of the rear left-side (right-side) azimuth angle being an azimuth angle of a left (right) boundary line defining a horizontal angle of view of a rear effective range based on a combination of presence or absence of the rear target object and a level of closeness to this object and presence or absence of the left rear (right rear) target object and a level of closeness to this object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohito Higuma, Jumpei Inagaki, Yosuke Kubota
  • Patent number: 12070427
    Abstract: A moving unit includes a housing, a rotary unit to which a rod part is attached, a spring that generates a torque when the rod part is tilted down or tilted up about a rotation axis on the side on which a base portion of the rod part is located, and a torque adjustment unit that is capable of adjusting a torque by deforming the spring. The torque adjustment unit includes a spring deforming portion that deforms the spring in a direction in which the spring is wound up and a spring fixing portion that keeps a torque constant by coming into contact with the spring deforming portion and fixing the spring deforming portion in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Takara Belmont Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Nakajima, Hiroyuki Terayama
  • Patent number: 12053252
    Abstract: A cannula mount for a surgical system includes a body configured to receive a portion of a cannula in a mounted state at the cannula mount; a pair of clamping components coupled to the body and configured to clamp the portion of the cannula in the mounted state of the cannula; and a latch assembly pivotably coupled to the body and slidably coupled to a clamping component of the pair of clamping components. At least one of the pair of clamping components is pivotable relative to the body to move the pair of clamping components between a first state to unclamp a cannula mounted at the cannula mount and a second state to clamp a cannula mounted at the cannula mount. Pivoting motion of the latch assembly relative to the body causes a portion of the latch assembly to slide along the clamping component and change a state of the pair of clamping components from an unlocked state to a locked state in the second state of the pair of clamping components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Allen C. Thompson, Randal P. Goldberg, Dean F. Hoornaert, Tyler J. Morrissette, Bruce M. Schena
  • Patent number: 12038080
    Abstract: A supporting device includes first and second supporting flanges coupled with first and second transmissions, respectively, and a support via which a supporting force is transmittable from the first supporting flange to the second supporting flange. The support includes a lever element which is coupled in an articulated manner with an attachment element on the first supporting flange and thus articulated with the first supporting flange, and a supporting element which is coupled in an articulated manner with the lever element and connected to the second supporting flange and which includes two spaced-apart supporting parts. The lever element is arranged partly between two spaced-apart attachment parts of the attachment element and partly between the supporting parts of the supporting element and is coupled in an articulated manner with the attachment element via the attachment parts and in an articulated manner with the supporting element via the supporting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Becka, Volker Düvel, Marvin Schlütter
  • Patent number: 12031563
    Abstract: A clamp and method of a clamp to a metal decking are described. The metal decking includes a bottom flange an a pair of webs each having a groove. The clamp is side to generally conform to the shape of the bottom flange and a the webs and includes at least two set bolts that engage the pair of grooves. The method includes positioning the clamp against a bottom flange of the metal decking and advancing two or more set bolts from the clamp into the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventor: Steven Andrew Roth
  • Patent number: 11980311
    Abstract: A detachable supporting device includes a base and a magnetic force providing module. The base has a body portion and a stretching portion. The magnetic force providing module has a first magnetic component, a first magnetic assembly and a second magnetic assembly. The first magnetic component is disposed on the stretching portion. The first magnetic assembly includes a second magnetic component and a third magnetic component. Two poles of the second magnetic component respectively face an upper surface and a lower surface of the body portion. A pole of the third magnetic component faces the second magnetic component. The second magnetic assembly includes a fourth magnetic component and a fifth magnetic component. Two poles of the fourth magnetic component respectively face the upper surface and the lower surface. A pole of the fifth magnetic component faces the fourth magnetic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Novium Taiwan Inc.
    Inventors: Kuo-Hung Liang, Ming-Wei Kuo
  • Patent number: 11976703
    Abstract: A bearing provides a vibration-insulating mount on a first component with a hole through which a central longitudinal axis extends. The bearing includes a first bearing part with a first fixing structure that can be arranged on one side of the first component, and a second bearing part with a second fixing structure that can be arranged on the other side of the first component. In embodiments, the first fixing structure comprises first pins that can protrude into the hole, and the second fixing structure comprises second pins that can protrude into the hole. In embodiments, at least one of the pins of each fixing structure is biased or is able to be biased radially outwards with respect to the central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Vibracoustic SE
    Inventors: David Rose, Jakob Friess, Daniel Renz, Philipp Werner
  • Patent number: 11970140
    Abstract: A car tissue box holder is provided. The tissue box is secured to the sun visor of the vehicle by hook and loop or Velcro straps. A pair of straps securing a metal plate to the tissue box attaches to a magnet holder plate secured to the sun visor. The magnet holder plate has a magnetic component help by a plastic component of the magnet holder plate. The Velcro straps are thread through the respective plates. The plates allow adjustment to different sized of tissue box and sizes of sun visors and easy or removal of the tissue box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Founder Plastics Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Ho
  • Patent number: 11951912
    Abstract: A holder for a handheld device, such as a cellular telephone, is a mount clip that attaches to a motor vehicle door. The first arm of the mount clip terminates with a hook or curve or bent edge. When inserted into the window slot of a motor vehicle door between the windowpane and the door panel, the hook or bent edge of the first arm engages with a portion of the window gasket. A mount fixture with a cradle or tray to hold the handheld device extends from the mount clip. When the holder is installed onto the driver's side door, the handheld device is positioned proximate or adjacent to the steering wheel and does not block the driver's access to the dashboard or the driver's view through the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Chad Lussier
  • Patent number: 11953143
    Abstract: A mounting pad system for securing equipment, such as an HVAC outdoor unit or a standby generator, is provided in the form of a lightweight fillable pad member having a plurality of receivers located on a top surface of the pad member. The receivers are associated with attachment points located on the equipment and are used to secure the equipment to the pad. The pad member contains a filling port on its top surface and is configured as a molded hollow shell containing a gelling material which, when mixed with water, provides support to reduce deflection of the pad member caused by the equipment secured to the pad, prevents damage to the pad that would otherwise be caused by the expansion of internal contents upon freezing and prevents leakage of internal contents of the fillable pad in the event of an unintended breach in the hollow shell. The pad member is provided with at least one through-hole that acts as a supporting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mainstream Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew L Carpenter, Robert P Scaringe
  • Patent number: 11926266
    Abstract: An installing module includes a seat bracket, a plurality of lower gaskets, a device bracket and an upper gasket. The seat bracket includes a first locking plate and a second locking plate locked to each other. The first locking plate includes a first concave and the second locking plate includes a second concave corresponding to the first concave. The lower gaskets are respectively disposed on the first concave and the second concave. The lower gaskets face each other and jointly define a lower assembly hole and are disposed on a lower side of a head-support fixer of a car seat. The device bracket is locked to the seat bracket and an electronic device is pivotally coupled to the device bracket. The upper gasket is disposed between the device bracket and the head-support fixer, and the head-support fixer is clamped between the upper gasket and the lower gaskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Yeh, Chien-Chih Lin, Yi-Ming Chou, Chun-Chieh Chang
  • Patent number: 11871830
    Abstract: A surface-mountable holder includes a rear surface adapted to be coupled with an affixing mechanism for mounting to an external surface. The surface-mountable holder further includes a front surface configured to magnetically secure a shaving razor. The front surface is adapted to receive an upper handle portion of the shaving razor. The upper handle portion is in close proximity to a razor portion of the shaving razor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Hlynur Vagn Atlason, Jason Bravman, Georgina Gooley
  • Patent number: 11864663
    Abstract: A quick release connector for coupling a removable device with a mounting surface. The mounting surface can include a wheelchair arm, and the removable device can include a user controller. The quick release connector can enable a user to briefly contact a release mechanism, rotate the removable device by a limited amount, and remove the device with a single hand. The quick release connector can robustly couple the removable device with the mounting surface, enabling the mounted removable device to resist dislodging by knocks and bumps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Otis L. Clapp
  • Patent number: 11865975
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for mounting and dismounting a telematics unit (1) in relation to a vehicle body (101), the telematics unit (1) comprising a telematics box (2) and a holding frame (3), according to which the telematics box (2) is inserted into an opening of the holding frame (3), in a pre-mounting step, and locked to the holding frame (3), and for mounting from the outside, the telematics unit (1) formed from the holding frame (3) and the telematics box (2) is inserted into a recess (102) of the vehicle body (101), adapted to the holding frame (3), and locked to the vehicle body (101). For dismounting out of the interior (106) of the vehicle body (101), the telematics box (2) is unlocked from the holding frame (3) and removed from the holding frame (3) in the interior (106).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PEIKER acustic GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Hintz, Walter Reichert
  • Patent number: 11862956
    Abstract: A wire management clip includes a cable pocket, a first clip pocket with an opening to receive a structure, and a second clip pocket with an opening to receive a structure. The opening of the first clip pocket is accessible from one direction relative to the wire management clip, and the opening of the second clip pocket is accessible from another direction relative to the wire management clip. The wire management clip may also include one or more structure engaging members for engaging or contacting a surface of the structure received within the first clip pocket and the second clip pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Kurt Leslie Gray Naugler, Evan Ronald Martin
  • Patent number: 11858432
    Abstract: The identification display bag with camera system comprises a document pouch and a camera. The document pouch may be detachably coupled to the outside of a vehicle and may be adapted to hold one or more identification documents for inspection by a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop. The camera may record video and/or audio during the traffic stop. The identification display bag with camera system may be adapted to allow a driver to keep the driver's hands visible on a steering wheel to establish a safe environment for both the driver and the law enforcement officer. The law enforcement officer may observe that the driver is not reaching for a weapon and the law enforcement officer may be less likely to react to a perceived threat. The video and/or the audio may be available for review after the traffic stop, if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: David Lee