Patents Examined by Milton Nelson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11958415
    Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided with a seat pad formed of a foam material defining a seating surface for supporting an occupant and a rear surface opposite the seating surface. A speaker cavity for receiving a speaker assembly is formed in the pad and extends from the rear surface toward the seating surface. At least one speaker retention bracket is disposed in the speaker cavity. The retention bracket is co-molded with the pad so at least a portion of the retention bracket is encapsulated in foam material to retain the bracket in the cavity, the retention bracket having at least one retention feature extending within the cavity to cooperate with the speaker assembly and retain the speaker assembly in the pad. The speaker retention bracket is configured to mount a speaker assembly within the cavity to allow acoustic radiation to be transmitted through the foam material to a seated occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank Stöwesand, Klaus Lamecker, Martin Bahnemann, Holger Schrödersecker, Philipp Von Massow
  • Patent number: 11958393
    Abstract: A seat assembly for a vehicle seat may have a structural component with multiple reinforcing ribs, a cushion layer, an insert layer which is arranged between the structural component and the cushion layer, at least one component which is secured to the structural component, and at least one securing device. The at least one securing device may secure both the insert part as well as the component to the structural component. A method for assembling such a seat assembly is also described. In one method step, the insert part is secured to the structural component by at least one securing device, and in the same method step or a subsequent method step or a preceding method step the at least one component is secured to the at least one securing device. A vehicle seat have such a seat assembly is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adient US LLC
    Inventor: Stephan Witte
  • Patent number: 11944212
    Abstract: An infant care apparatus includes a base. A drive mechanism and a vibratory mechanism are coupled to the base. A movable stage is movably mounted to the base. An infant support is coupled to the movable stage. The drive mechanism imparts a first cyclic motion to the movable stage, and imparts a second cyclic motion to at least part of the movable stage independent of the first cyclic motion and to the vibratory mechanism so that the vibration motor vibrates the movable stage. The infant support is coupled to the movable stage and moves cyclically in both the first and second cyclic motions. The controller is configured to move the infant support in a selectably variable motion profile with selectable vibration modes selected from different selectably variable motion profiles and selectably different vibration modes for each of the different selectable variable motion profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Thorley Industries, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Juchniewicz
  • Patent number: 11945352
    Abstract: A porous structural body 1 is made of flexible resin or rubber and includes a skeleton part 2 that defines a plurality of cell holes C, and a top skin part 6 that is formed on at least part of an outer side of the skeleton part 2 and integrated with the skeleton part 2 and at least part of an outer side of the top skin part 6 is a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Archem Inc.
    Inventor: Taichi Itabashi
  • Patent number: 11945389
    Abstract: The invention discloses a comfortable restraint system located in a vehicle incorporating an electronic braking system governed by a control unit, and including a safety belt configured by a textile strap and a chamber attached longitudinally on each side of the textile strap, and also including a permanent anchoring device which in turn includes means for the coupling of an anchor tongue and a number of connector outlets for the supply and extraction of compressed air via a compression system, the chambers being connected to the connector outlets by means of adaptors, in such a way that they connect pneumatically to the compression system, which is governed by the vehicle control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SUMCAB INVERSIONES, S.L.
    Inventor: Manuel Romero Ricon
  • Patent number: 11945551
    Abstract: A backrest adjustment structure for a boat seat includes a backrest and a bracket. A bottom of the bracket is rotatably connected to a seat of a boat. A back of the backrest is provided with at least two spaced pivot bases. An upper end of at least one of the pivot bases has an upper restricting portion. A pivot shaft is formed on a top of the bracket. The pivot shaft is rotatably pivoted between the pivot bases. The bracket is selectively engaged with the upper restricting portion. The leaning angle is adjustable, meeting the needs of players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Xizhen Lin
  • Patent number: 11945351
    Abstract: A seat system for a vehicle including a flexible seatback structure and an adjustment device coupled thereto. The adjustment device is configured to alter a contour of a seating surface of the seatback structure by causing at least a portion of the seatback structure to move toward or away from the occupant of the seat system. The adjustment device includes at least one actuating element connected to a side portion of the seatback structure and an actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Adient US LLC
    Inventors: Xin Wei Jolene Ng, Joseph Gasko, Reinier Soliven
  • Patent number: 11938852
    Abstract: A sensor disposition structure in a seat includes a cushion pad and a board-like member which is disposed under the cushion pad. A concave is formed in an upper surface of the board-like member, and a sensor is disposed in the concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soichiro Kamei, Hiromi Taniguchi, Koji Onuma
  • Patent number: 11938851
    Abstract: A bracket for attaching an actuator is easily bonded to a side frame while avoiding interference with a shaft for driving a reclining mechanism. In a seat side frame which is provided at each of both ends of a seat back frame in the width direction, a reclining mechanism, and an actuator, the reclining mechanism is attached to a side wall of the side frame, and the actuator is fixed to an attachment bracket bonded to an inner surface of a portion to which the reclining mechanism is attached in the side wall in the width direction. An upper portion which is disposed above the attachment portion of the reclining mechanism and a lower portion which is disposed below the attachment portion thereof are connected to each other at the rear ends thereof and are separated from each other at the front ends thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hoshi
  • Patent number: 11918121
    Abstract: A chair for particular use in clinical or hospital environments has a frame to which a support material is secured. The support material may form a chair back and/or a seat for the chair to provide support to the chair occupant. The support material may be made from a textile of interwoven strands wherein some of the interwoven strands include copper containing particles, such as copper iodide or copper oxide within the textile fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Via. Inc.
    Inventor: John Charles Hepler
  • Patent number: 11918106
    Abstract: A picnic table includes first and second structures detachably connected to each other by linking assemblies. One of the first and second structures is a table and the other of the first and second structures is a bench. A linking assembly includes a linking member, which has a first end portion connected to the first structure and a second end portion detachably connected to the second structure. When the second end portion is disconnected from the second structure, the linking member is retractable or rotatable toward the first structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Inno-Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwan Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11918105
    Abstract: A picnic table includes first and second structures detachably connected to each other by linking assemblies. One of the first and second structures is a table and the other of the first and second structures is a bench. A linking assembly includes a linking member, which has a first end portion connected to the first structure and a second end portion detachably connected to the second structure. When the second end portion is disconnected from the second structure, the linking member is retractable or rotatable toward the first structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Inno-Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kwan Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11912180
    Abstract: An impact absorption assembly for a seat back is provided having a deformation zone as least partially disposed above a top surface of a seat back structure. The deformation zone deforms plastically upon an impact from a rearward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Harald Fischer, Jaroslav Solc, Ulrich Schneider, Raphael Markert, Dorit Bachmann, Sybille Bruns
  • Patent number: 11912232
    Abstract: A seat-belt heating assembly and a seat are provided. The seat-belt heating assembly includes a safety belt body and a safety-belt heating mechanism. The safety belt heating mechanism connected to the safety belt body. The seat includes a safety belt body, a seat body, a heating component, and a control component. The heating component includes a heating mechanism provided in the safety belt body. In the use state, the heating mechanism has one end terminating in the safety belt body at the front end of the fixing member, and the other end terminating in the safety belt body at the front end of the retractor. The control component includes an ECU heating controller, a safety-belt heating switch, and an insertion detection unit configured to detect whether the latch is inserted into the buckle. Each of the safety-belt heating switch, the insertion detection unit, and the heating mechanism is connected to the ECU heating controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LANGFANG GOLDEN TIME TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haitao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11912183
    Abstract: A shaft locking mechanism includes a rack disposed on a translating shaft and a toothed locking lever disposed on a corresponding translation post. The toothed locking lever engages the rack in a locked orientation to prevent the shaft translating within the translation post. The toothed locking lever is disengaged during translation and the shaft may be translated and locked in place with very granular adjustability. A control rod release mechanism may be biased to maintain the toothed locking lever in the locked orientation. A cam feature on the toothed locking lever engages the body of the control rod which defines a recessed portion that coincides with the cam while in an unlocked orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AMI Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas E. Hoover
  • Patent number: 11904741
    Abstract: An adjustment mechanism of nursery equipment includes a string connecting a fixed portion and a movable portion, a reel that is rotatable in both forward and reverse directions and that changes the position or shape of the movable portion by winding up and feeding out the string, a biasing member that biases the reel in such a way that the reel rotates in a winding direction of the string, and a lock member that prohibits rotation of the reel. A biasing force of the biasing member is selected to be smaller than a biasing force with which the movable portion tends to move downward in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GRACO CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Shibata, Tadashi Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Honda
  • Patent number: 11903492
    Abstract: A light-emitting seat includes a seat body, a strip light module, a skin layer, and a power supply assembly. The seat body includes a chair frame and a plurality of bandages disposed on the chair frame. The strip light module includes a strip light and a light guide material layer covering the strip light, and the strip light module is disposed on the bandages. The skin layer covers the seat body (1) and the strip light module, and at least an area of the skin layer covering the strip light module is made of light-transmitting material. The power supply assembly is electrically connected to the strip light to supply energy. In the invention, the strip light is covered by the light guide material layer, so the light is refracted in the light guide material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DAKANG HOLDING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rujia Mao, Xiaoyu He, Guofei Yuan, Haitao Ouyang
  • Patent number: 11904747
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes right and left side frames 10, and an elastic member (cushion spring 20) run between the right and left side frames 10. The right and left side frames 10 include side walls 11 disposed opposite to each other in a lateral direction, and flange portions (upper flange portions 12) respectively extending laterally inward from the side walls 11, and the elastic member is attached to the flange portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teppei Ito
  • Patent number: 11896142
    Abstract: Parents are always looking for ways to maximize the time spent on developing their baby's motor, communication, and sensory skills. The various embodiments of this invention gives parents a safe and secure alternative to the standard position of a baby while in an infant bucket seat. Baby can easily be turned around to experience all of the benefits of tummy time while parents shop, walk, or simply stay stationary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Lauren Patricia Venostini
  • Patent number: 11897378
    Abstract: A ventilated molded seat trim cover for a vehicle seat and a ventilated vehicle seat having a ventilated molded seat trim cover, comprising a stacked assembly of an upper textile layer, a first adhesive layer, an air permeable polyurethane cellular foam interlayer thermo-moldable at temperatures between about 104° C. and about 127° C., a second adhesive layer, a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) film, a third adhesive layer, and a scrim backing layer. The stacked assembly is compression molded in a 3-dimensional mold while at least a portion of the foam interlayer is heated to a temperature between about 104° C. and about 127° C. to form the ventilated molded seat trim cover. The TPU film prevents airflow passing through a bottom surface of the seat trim cover. Airflow in the foam interlayer can pass through the upper textile layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Seating Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno D Carraro, Eric Kozlowski, Craig Prasatek, Cynthia Puchalski