Patents Examined by Michael T. Walsh
  • Patent number: 11964584
    Abstract: A power ecosystem is disclosed that includes a premises power interface associated with a premises, a moving object power interface associated with a moving object, and an accessory power pack comprising an accessory sensor. The accessory power pack is configured to receive an electrical charge from the premises power interface, supply an electrical charge to the moving object power interface, and be releasably secured to the moving object. The accessory power pack is configured to send accessory sensor information captured by the accessory sensor to at least one of the premises or the moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Steven MacManus, Matthew J. Allen, Paul D. Yeomans, Paul D. Kaufhold
  • Patent number: 11964618
    Abstract: In an undercover structure according to the present invention, a first cover part that is a lowermost part of an undercover has a first rear end positioned ahead of a front wheel axle. Further, a curved part with a predetermined curvature is formed at the first rear end of the first cover part in a side view. This generates a strong negative pressure in a region ahead of the front wheel axle 21. Accordingly, the flow rate of air flowing to each wheelhouse 23 decreases (the flow rate of the airflow between a road and a vehicle generated along the bottom surface of the first cover part 15a of the undercover 15 increases). This causes an attraction force that attracts the vehicle to a road surface to act on a vehicle body of the vehicle, thereby making traveling stability more excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ambo, Kenichi Ando, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Yuki Nakamura, Yoji Suwa, Takumi Sobue
  • Patent number: 11958521
    Abstract: An accessory connector includes a disk having an upper end and a lower end, a front side and a back side. A hook is positioned at the upper end of the back side of the disk, and a foot is positioned at the lower end of the back side of the disk, and extending laterally away from the disk. An accessory is positioned on the front side of the disk, so that the accessory can be attached to a cart by attaching the accessory connector to the cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: YouCopia Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Greenwood
  • Patent number: 11958522
    Abstract: A nestable shopping cart includes an upright frame, an upper angle support and a pair of tie bars extending out from the upright frame. A tray is pivotally connected to the upright frame. The tray includes a utility position and a nested position. The tray includes a tapered front and at least one side. A slope plate is mounted to at least one side of the tray. In the nested position, the nestable shopping cart is nested with another nestable shopping cart, resulting in a nesting gap of about 11 inches between the shopping carts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Zutler, Kevin Chow, Harry Wellington
  • Patent number: 11951381
    Abstract: A transformable skate is provided, including: a shoe body; a frame, connected to the shoe body; at least one first fork support, connected to the frame on which at least one first wheel is mounted; and an adjustable assembly, including a base and at least two second fork supports on which at least two second wheels are respectively mounted, the base being adjustably positioned to and blocked by the frame and the at least two second fork supports being each adjustably positioned to and blocked by the base so that the at least two second fork supports are constructed and arranged to position the at least two second wheels in an inline arrangement or in a parallel arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Anita Wu
  • Patent number: 11951380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a skateboard grinding device configured to install within a skateboard wheel for facilitating grinding of the skateboard on an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Bradley Macklin, Bradley William Macklin
  • Patent number: 11952029
    Abstract: A rack includes: a casing; M pairs of supports that are provided inside the casing so as to extend in a depth direction and arrayed at regular intervals in a predetermined direction; and a lock mechanism. The rack can house all returnable containers of one or more prespecified sizes along the respective pairs of supports. The M pairs of supports are arrayed in N rows in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The lock mechanism is configured such that moving first and second shafts that are provided for the respective rows and for the respective tiers, respectively, so as to be movable in the predetermined direction can switch between engagement and disengagement between branches of the first and second shafts and first and second holes, respectively, of the returnable containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura, Yutaro Takagi, Yoshiaki Nakamoto, Junya Ota
  • Patent number: 11945488
    Abstract: A cart extender for use with a conventional shopping cart. The cart extender is formed from a six inch diameter base member having an angle sleeve attached to the distal end and an open end along a proximal end defining a chamber therebetween. The base is releasably secured to a conventional shopping cart using a hook member that rests on a lower rail of the shopping cart and a clasp member that secures to an upper rail. A telescopic ring member is secured to the base member in a retracted position and extendable outwardly therefrom to provide support to long items placed in the receptacle. The cart extender allows for the safe movement of long items such as rebar, corner bead, and the like within a shopping store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventors: Henry Renaud, John Petralito
  • Patent number: 11938394
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to splitboard joining devices. The splitboard joining devices can quickly and easily join the skis of a splitboard to create a snowboard. The devices can clamp the splitboard skis in a direction perpendicular and parallel to the seam of the splitboard and normal to the top surface of the splitboard skis. This can prevent the splitboard skis from moving up and down relative to each other, moving apart in a direction perpendicular to the seam, sliding relative to each other in a direction parallel to the seam, and rotating about the seam. The splitboard joining devices can constrain rotation and movement about the seam of the splitboard to make a splitboard ride like a normal snowboard and enhance a rider's experience on a splitboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Bryce M. Kloster, Tyler G. Kloster
  • Patent number: 11938806
    Abstract: The invention is related to an integrated drive system including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, an inverter configured to control the electric motor, a gearbox configured to transmit a torque provided by the electric motor, and a coolant system, wherein the coolant system includes a cooling fluid, configured to follow one cooling path for cooling the inverter, the rotor, the stator and the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Finger-Albert, Alexander Frank
  • Patent number: 11931643
    Abstract: Mounts (10) for securing a device (12) to an article (14) comprise a housing (16) having an internal volume (18) configured to selectively receive and retain the device (12) in the housing (16); and a coupler (20) attached to the housing (16) and configured to be operatively attached to the article (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Elevation Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Casey Hopkins, Jacob Hull
  • Patent number: 11926209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for an electrically driven power take-off (PTO). A motor generator is coupled to a PTO output shaft. The motor generator is capable of varying rotation speeds and direction. By extension, the PTO output shaft may also have varying speeds and directions. A control system is also provided to control the motor generator and, therefore, the PTO output shaft in accordance with a plurality of operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Lubben
  • Patent number: 11912325
    Abstract: An improved auto-chocking enabled cargo dolly that is towable by ground support equipment. The dolly has a frame, wheels attached to the frame that support the frame and rotate to allow movement of the frame, a tow bar, a linkage in communication with the tow bar and that actuates when the tow bar is raised, and a wheel engagement chocking system fixed to the dolly frame and disposed to selectively engage at least one of the wheels attached to the dolly frame. The wheel engagement system is responsive to a position of the linkage, where the wheel engagement chocking system applies pressure directly to at least one of the wheels to hold the wheel(s) in place when the linkage is actuated by the tow bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FedEx Corporate Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, Katherine King, Howard McKinney, Aaron Prather, Kevin Frommelt, Shaq Khan
  • Patent number: 11883734
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a snowboard deck. The snowboard deck includes a board-shaped deck body on which both boots worn by a snowboard user desiring to enjoy riding in a snowfield are positioned and fixed; a binder hole formed in a hole shape in the deck body and provided with a magnet to fasten and fix the boots worn by the snowboard user with a magnetic force; and the boots provided with metal protrusions connected through the magnetic force from the magnet inserted and fastened into the binder hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Sangwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11883736
    Abstract: A snow and water sport sliding device with a pneumatic core and method of manufacturing the device. The device includes a top layer comprising a front tip, a middle segment with a binding plate, and a back segment with an adjustable air valve. Top layer may also include a blade spring system. The device also includes a main core component layer under the top layer that comprises of a hollow air chamber, and a base layer. Base layer may include embedded metal edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Moss Companies
    Inventor: Krista Schmidinger
  • Patent number: 11878655
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body including a front pillar and a rear pillar spaced from the front pillar. The vehicle body includes a rocker extending from the front pillar to the rear pillar. The vehicle includes a step bar supported by the rocker. The step bar extends from a first end aligned with the front pillar to a second end aligned with the rear pillar. The step bar is movable between a raised position and a lowered position. In the raised position, the step bar overlaps the rocker in a vehicle-outboard direction. The step bar extends upwardly above the rocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shekar Prabhakar Erasala, Sino Johan Van Dyk, Abdelmonaam Sassi, Joseph E. Abramczyk, Jamil M. Alwan
  • Patent number: 11878638
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a radiator including a fan, a driving seat provided on a rear side of the radiator, a dashboard disposed on the rear side of the radiator and on a front side of the driving seat, and a heat shield plate disposed between the radiator and the dashboard. According to this structure, it is possible to prevent a device (for example, an electric component disposed on the dashboard) disposed on the rear side of the radiator from directly contacting air that receives heat of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Maeda, Shinichiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11872472
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a ski-snowboard device capable of skinning in an uphill ski mode and skiing in a downhill snowboard mode. The system may include two skis with inner and outer edges having substantially concave side cuts, and an insert that fits into the space between the inner edge side cuts of each of the two skis. The concave side cuts of the inner edges of the skis may have a groove formed in each, and a mating tongue on each side of the insert can fit into the grooves in a downhill snowboard mode. The tongue-and-groove connection may improve the torsional stiffness of the board, and the concave side cuts may allow a user to better grip when skiing and eliminate the step of switching the skis when used as sides of the snowboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Donald Ruzicka
  • Patent number: 11873161
    Abstract: A waste receptacle includes a housing, and a wheel assembly coupled to the housing. The wheel assembly includes an axle, a wheel secured to the axle and slidable along the axle between an outer position and an inner position, and a spacer. The spacer is removably securable to the axle adjacent the wheel in (i) a first position inward of the wheel to operably retain the wheel in the outer position, and (ii) in a second position outward of the wheel to operably retain the wheel in the inner position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC
    Inventors: Vadim Voznyuk, Timothy Pierzynski
  • Patent number: 11865433
    Abstract: A touring skibinding (1) comprises a support element (2) which can be fastened to the ski, a bearing element (3) with a skiboot reception (4) which is designed in such a way that the skiboot (5) can be mounted in the skiboot reception (4) such that the skiboot can pivot about a first pivot axis (S1) with respect to the skiboot reception (4) and a convex supporting surface (6) on which the skiboot (5) can roll, the bearing element (3) being connected to the support element (2) so as to be pivotable about a second pivot axis (S2) from an initial state into a pivoted state, wherein the skiboot (5) is moveable from a standing state, in which the skiboot (5) stands on the convex supporting surface (6), into a pulling state, in which the skiboot (5) is at least partially lifted from the convex supporting surface (6), wherein, starting from the standing state, the skiboot (5) is movable on the convex supporting surface (6) in the direction of the pulling state in such a manner that the skiboot (5) rolls on the conve
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FRITSCHIAG—SWISS BINDINGS
    Inventors: Albert Loichinger, Micha Baggenstos, Stefan Ibach, François Christinat, Theo Eggimann