Patents Examined by Monica E. Millner
  • Patent number: 11585481
    Abstract: A wall mount type display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a main body on which a display is provided, a wire having opposite ends connected to the main body, and a wall mount assembly which is fixed to a wall and to which the wire is hung to support the main body. The wall mount assembly may include a pair of supporting bars which support the wire and extend in a direction closer to each other toward the upper side, a first link rotatably connecting upper end portions of the pair of supporting bars to each other, a long hole formed through the supporting bar and extending in a longitudinal direction of the supporting bar, a second link located at a height lower than the first link, a protrusion protruding from opposite ends of the second link and inserted into the long hole, and a fixing member fixed to the wall through the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Chanwoo Kim
  • Patent number: 11572193
    Abstract: A toggle assembly includes a first joint member having a first lug and a second lug, a second joint member, and a third joint member. The second joint member has a first arm that receives a first rolling element, a second arm that receives a second rolling element, a third arm, and a fourth arm. The second joint member is pivotally connected to the first joint member via a first pin that extends through the first lug, the first rolling element, the second rolling element, and the second lug. The third joint member has a third lug and a fourth lug disposed opposite the third lug. The third joint member is pivotally connected to the second joint member via a cross rod pin that extends through the third lug, the third arm and the fourth arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Bortoli, Gary Sasscer
  • Patent number: 11572248
    Abstract: A flange for use on a reel, a flange adapter, and a flange stand are provided. The flange may include an outer circumference, a hub assembly, and an arbor hole adapter that is adapted to engage an arbor hole to secure the flange to the reel. The arbor hole adapter may include an expandable portion that is movable between an extended position and a retracted position. First and second expansion plates may be coupled to the arbor hole adapter and connected by shoulder bolts that guide movement of the plates between an abutting configuration and a spaced-apart configuration, allowing movement of the expandable portion relative to the reel for modified engagement. The flange stand may include a base, a support portion, and a coupler for engaging a central extension of the flange to allow the flange to be supported in an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Mike Temblador, Myron Dale Deese, Harry William Kent, Jr., Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez, James Phillip Tuggle, Franklin Clarence Calhoun
  • Patent number: 11572974
    Abstract: A display module comprises a support, a plurality of light-emitting elements coupled to the support and a latch mechanism to removeably couple the support to a chassis. The latch mechanism includes a movable member, a latch member, and a linkage mechanism. The movable member is moved from a first position to a second position when magnetically engaged by a tool magnet. The latch member moves between a first latch member position and a second latch member position and can engage a chassis mating structure when in the first latch member position. The linkage mechanism mechanically connects the movable member to the latch member so that they move together such that the latch member is in the first latch member position when the movable member is in the first position and is in the second latch member position when the movable member is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Daktronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashton Flowers, Kent Shane Miller, Jon Settingsgard
  • Patent number: 11566662
    Abstract: A flexure device comprising an interior flexure member having first and second interior flexible blades each formed with an interior end portion and separate interior body portions. An exterior flexure member can have first and second exterior flexible blades each formed with separate exterior end portions and an exterior body portion. The first interior end portion and the first exterior end portion form a first flexure end portion, the second interior portion and the second exterior portion form a second flexure end portion. The interior and exterior body portions are coupled to form a flexure body portion, such that the first interior and exterior flexible blades form a first flexure that facilitates rotation between the first flexure end portion and the flexure body portion. The second interior and exterior flexible blades form a second flexure that facilitates rotation between the second flexure end portion and the flexure body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Christopher A. Cox, Andrew L. Bullard
  • Patent number: 11564515
    Abstract: A bowl holder including a base for supporting the device on a surface and a holder for receiving a bowl on top of the device. The base may include a plurality of support legs and a threaded aperture in the center of the base. The holder may include a threaded shaft which engages the threaded aperture in the base. The threaded shaft may be placed vertically so that rotating the holder causes it to raise or lower on the threads. The bowl holder is useful for supporting a bowl and adjustably raising the bowl's height above a table or countertop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Fried
  • Patent number: 11559454
    Abstract: Moving an individual with limited mobility from one seated position to another requires a significant effort from the caregiver and can expose the individual and the caregiver to several injuries. The rotational support apparatus is useful in safely assisting individuals with limited mobility to move from one seated position to another with minimal effort. The apparatus is lightweight and portable. The base of the apparatus rotates so the caregiver can easily move the position of the individual. The base can be coupled with a stabilizing device that the individual with limited mobility can hold on to while the caregiver rotates them to another position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Walker-Go-Round Medical Supply, LLC
    Inventor: James Bryan Esworthy
  • Patent number: 11554726
    Abstract: A paving machine includes an implement, an elongated structure, a sensor arrangement, and one or more breakaway couplers. The implement modifies a surface during a movement of the paving machine. The elongated structure is coupled to a side portion of the paving machine and extends along a direction of the movement. The sensor arrangement includes sensor units arranged sequentially along the elongated structure. The breakaway couplers correspondingly normally retain the sensor units to the elongated structure. Each breakaway coupler includes a mounting structure and a retainer unit. The mounting structure is secured to one of the elongated structure or a corresponding sensor unit, while the retainer unit retains the other of the elongated structure or the corresponding sensor unit to the mounting structure by a retention force, which is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Paul Steinhagen
  • Patent number: 11554827
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses various brackets with various mounting interfaces for engaging (e.g., mechanically) with various surfaces that are correspondingly configured. For example, one of such brackets can clamp onto a bar (e.g., a handlebar of a vehicle) and then an electronic device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, a dedicated navigational unit) can removably secure (e.g., mate) to that bracket. This form of removable securing can be via that bracket having a latch configured to engage a detent of the electronic device (or vice versa) in order to linearly mount the electronic device onto the bracket (or vice versa) and disengage the detent in order rotationally unmount the electronic device from the bracket (or vice versa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hammerhead Navigation Inc.
    Inventors: Laurence John Wattrus, Evan Charles Huggins, Robert David Martinez, Zakery Allen Koster, Paul Thomas Reamey
  • Patent number: 11558075
    Abstract: A hanger band is connected at one end to an electronic device having a display screen and an opposite end connected to a preexisting fixed support so that the electronic device is hung by said hanger band and assumes an upright orientation in being hung by the hanger band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Edgson
  • Patent number: 11548580
    Abstract: A telescopic apparatus for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first hydraulic chamber, a second hydraulic chamber, a valve member, a cam member, and an actuator. The second hydraulic chamber is configured to be in fluid communication with the first hydraulic chamber. The valve member is configured to control a fluid communication between the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic chamber. The cam member is rotatable about a rotational axis to move the valve member in a movement direction. The actuator is configured to rotate the cam member. The actuator includes an output shaft rotatable about an actuation rotational axis. The actuation rotational axis is offset from the rotational axis as viewed in the movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Sakagawa, Toyoto Shirai
  • Patent number: 11536418
    Abstract: A telescopic bracket has a retracted state and an extended state. The telescopic bracket comprises a fixed assembly, a moving member, and a spring. The moving member is movably coupled to the fixed assembly to move along an axial direction of the fixed assembly, causing the telescopic bracket to switch between the retracted state and the extended state. The spring is disposed between the fixed assembly and the moving member to provide an elastic restoring force to the moving member, and the cross section of the spring could be a trapezoidal shape, a rectangular shape, a square shape, a parallelogram shape, or an unequal quadrilateral shape. An open-up device using the telescopic bracket is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHANGHAI CHUNGRONG SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin-Yung Lin
  • Patent number: 11517186
    Abstract: The endoscope herein described has a unique steering capability allowing the highly flexible distal end of the shaft of the device to be moved to a full range angular positions without rotating the device on its long axis, thus enabling the device to be steered within the cavity of interest. The relative lengths of the control cables used to move the distal end of the bendable shaft can be changed whenever the flexible or malleable shaft is to be re-shaped to a new configuration thus preventing the distal end or the steering mechanism from assuming an undesired angular position. When used as an endotracheal device, a novel tongue retractor is described which forms an internal conduit, allowing passage of the bendable shaft of the endotracheal intubation device and an endotracheal tube therethrough. Methods for performing a tracheal intubation and changing the relative lengths of the cables are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Richard Rutgers
  • Patent number: 11506332
    Abstract: An assembly for mated dual support stands is presented. The assembly comprises two support stands. Each support stand includes three or more legs operable between a closed conformation and an open conformation, such that in the closed conformation, the two support stands reversibly mate with each other. A support interface is positioned opposite the legs so that the support interface is reversibly attachable to an elongated tube via attachment components. A center adaptor is positioned connected to the support interface on one end and the three or more legs on the opposite end. The center adaptor and support interface are rotatably coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: FURIOUS DESIGNS LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Scott Wilkoff
  • Patent number: 11506254
    Abstract: A low-profile shock isolating payload mounting assembly comprises a first mount, a second mount, and an isolator. The second mount is movable relative to the first mount and comprises a riser comprising an inclined surface. The isolator comprises an inner frame and an outer frame. The inner frame couples to the first mount and comprises a platform and a leg extending from the platform. The leg is inclined to be complementary to the inclined surface of the second mount. The outer frame couples to the second mount and comprises an opening for accessing the platform of the inner frame. The rail is inclined so as to be complementary to the leg to capture the leg between the rail of the outer frame and the inclined surface of the second mount. The isolator operates to dampen vibrations and shocks propagating between the first and second mounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Roger C. Esplin, Peter H. Vo
  • Patent number: 11502386
    Abstract: An antenna device for a vehicle includes a base plate, an expansion element formed by a first expansion element part and a second expansion element part mated with the first expansion element part, and an actuating element cooperating with the base plate and the expansion element. Each of the first expansion element part and the second expansion element part has a flat area, a side arm protruding at an angle from the flat area, and a laterally open breakthrough in the flat area. The laterally open breakthrough of each of the first expansion element part and the second expansion element part when mated forms a single passage opening for the actuating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hirschmann Car Communication GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Schiemann
  • Patent number: 11493214
    Abstract: A termination block of an HVAC unit comprises an elongated body that is coupled to the frame of the HVAC unit. The elongated body securely retains a refrigerant pressure gauge port therein and mounts a filter drier thereto such that copper tubing to and/or from the refrigerant filter drier and the refrigerant pressure gauge port is held in position to assist with brazing the copper tubing to other copper tubing and/or components of the HVAC unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Long, Kenneth D. Frederick, Karl S. Tallakson
  • Patent number: 11484086
    Abstract: A magnetic fastening device for releasably fastening a first unit and a second unit to each other, the magnetic fastening device comprising at least one pair of magnets, wherein one of the units is provided with at least one protrusion, while the other of the units is provided with at least one recess for receiving the at least one protrusion, and wherein a first magnet and a second magnet of each pair are displaced relative to each other by a displacement distance in a displacement direction such that, in a state in which the units abut against each other, a component of the attractive force maintains the at least one protrusion in the at least one recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cardo Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Avram Kushnirov
  • Patent number: 11479950
    Abstract: A load sharing block includes a body including a flat outer surface defining a first end and a second end, a first arcuate outer portion extending from the first end of the flat outer surface, and a second arcuate outer portion extending from the second end of the flat outer surface. The first arcuate outer portion terminates at a first free end and includes a first elliptical outer surface extending from the first free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Eric T. Sinn, Douglas C. Serrurier, Rammagy Yoeu
  • Patent number: 11479939
    Abstract: In one or more arrangements, a stackable pad system is provided. The system has a plurality of blocks with each block having a flat upper surface with an upward extending lip positioned at opposing ends of the flat upper surface. Each block has a flat lower surface with a downward extending lip positioned at opposing ends of the flat lower surface. In some arrangements, the system includes a bottom locking plate and a top locking plate. When placed together, in a stacked arrangement, wherein a bottom most pair of blocks are stacked on top of the bottom locking plate with bottom lips fitting within the recesses of the bottom locking plate, additional pairs of blocks are stacked on the first pair of blocks and the top locking plate placed on the top most pair blocks, the blocks are all locked together and resist shifting and movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DICA MARKETING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kris Koberg, Bob Olsem, Joel Atchison