Patents Examined by Morgan McClure
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Patent number: 9408767Abstract: The present invention relates to a lightweight and durable surgery table (1), which particularly facilitates performing spinal surgical operations, is transparent to radiographic rays and can be adjusted according to the position of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: YEDITEPE UNIVERSITESIInventors: Basar Atalay, Cem Tutcu, Onur Deryahanoglu
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Patent number: 9394723Abstract: Pin tumbler locks are provided that include features for detecting tampering. Tampering may be detected in a number of different ways. As an example, abnormal movement of one or more of the driver pins in a pin tumbler lock can be an indication of tampering. In addition, one or more sensors can be included at the end of a keyway that detect picking or bumping beyond the length of normal key insertion. A mechanical actuator can be used for detection.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Alexander Zissis Ginos
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Patent number: 9376841Abstract: A lock comprising a shackle and a shackle-receiving portion. The shackle can comprise a resilient flexible portion, which, absent any external deformation forces, can retain an overall substantially U-shaped form. The shackle-receiving portion can comprise a locking mechanism operable to secure the shackle to the shackle-receiving portion. The substantially U-shaped form can comprise substantially straight and parallel legs. The flexible portion can further comprise a heat-treated coil spring that maintains the overall substantially U-shaped form, and the shackle can further comprise a cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Bell Sports, Inc.Inventor: Andy Yu Sang Chan
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Patent number: 9375376Abstract: A wheelchair bed insert device facilitates transfer of a person from a bed to a wheelchair. The device includes a bed frame having an open space extending into a lateral side of the bed frame. A mattress has a slot therein aligning with the open space of the bed frame when the mattress is positioned on the bed frame. A chair frame is positionable in the open space. A chair pad is coupled to the chair frame occupying the slot in the mattress when the chair frame is positioned in the open space of the bed frame. Chair wheels are coupled to the chair frame wherein the wheels facilitate transport of a person seated on the chair pad.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Inventor: Ray Latney
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Patent number: 9370261Abstract: An inclined pulmonary-assisting mattress with a profile assisting infants and small children with respiratory problems and other adverse medical conditions, including asthma, wheezing, colic, SIDS, ear infections, and acid reflux. It can be used with a crib, bassinette, or other defined infant sleeping area, as long as it appropriately fills that sleeping area to eliminate all injury, entrapment, or breathing obstruction risk for the child using it. The mattress is not used on top of a crib mattress, but instead replaces a crib mattress until the child recovers or outgrows the breathing difficulty or adverse medical condition. At such time, the inclined pulmonary-assisting mattress is removed and the child is allowed to sleep on a regular crib mattress or other substantially horizontal surface. Intended applications include, but are not limited to, use in hospital neo-natal units, children's nurseries, and by parents of infants suffering from breathing or digestive issues.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Inventors: Gun B. C. Strandberg, Jessica C. Kent
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Patent number: 9371671Abstract: A lockset has an actuator unit, a mounting unit and a latch retractor mechanism. The mounting unit attaches the lockset to a door and supports the actuator unit and latch retractor mechanism. The actuator unit includes inside and outside door knobs and a cam mechanism that move together within the mounting unit. During rotational movement, a first cam of the cam mechanism engages the latch retractor mechanism to retract the latch. The actuator is axially movable along an axis of the actuator unit when one of the knobs is pushed or pulled. During axial movement, a second cam of the cam mechanism engages the latch retractor mechanism to retract the latch. A locking mechanism is selectively actuable to act between the actuator unit and the mounting unit to prevent both rotational and axial movement of the actuator unit relative to the mounting unit, thereby locking the lockset.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: HAMPTON PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Steven T. Weathersby
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Patent number: 9359805Abstract: Disclosed are a security safe (1) and a self-service terminal provided with the security safe (1), wherein the security safe comprises a safe body (10) with a safe door (11) on at least one side thereof, the safe door (11) is provided with a safe door locking engagement system (12), and the safe door locking engagement system (12) comprises a movable latch (121) for achieving the locking engagement between the safe door (11) and the safe body (10). The locking engagement system (12) also comprises a brittle part fixedly provided on the inner side of the safe door (11), the brittle part controls at least one safe pin (123), and when the brittle part is broken the safe pin (123) keeps the movable latch (121) locked. The security safe (1) can solve the problem that there are weak areas in existing safes, and it has low cost and high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: GRG Banking Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongan Tan, Pengying Xu, Yuxuan Xie
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Patent number: 9359789Abstract: A security assembly for use with a security console having a body and a door. The body of the security console has a plurality of walls defining an interior of the security console. The door of the security console is rotatably coupled to a first wall of the plurality of walls along a fixed edge of the door and movable between open and closed positions to provide and restrict, respectively, access to the interior of the security console. The security assembly comprises first and second cooperating members. The first cooperating member is configured to be mounted to the door near a free edge of the door. The second cooperating member is configured to be mounted to an inner surface of a second wall of the plurality of walls near an edge of the second wall, such that when the door is in the closed position, the first cooperating member is configured to securely engage the second cooperating member to restrict lateral deflection of the second wall relative to the free edge of the door.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: ALL SOURCE SECURITY CONTAINERS MFG CORP.Inventor: Peter Michael Pancel
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Patent number: 9347243Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operable locking device for locking a gate. The electrical lock has a frame for mounting the locking device to the gate, and a housing slidably movable with respect to the frame between an upper position and a lower position and comprising a drop bolt arranged to move between an extended drop bolt position and an retracted drop bolt position and a mechanical locking mechanism arranged to lock and unlock the housing to the frame and comprising a key-operated cylinder lock to unlock the housing to the frame. The gate is locked if said housing is in the lower position and said drop bolt is in the extended position. The locking device further has a resilient element positioned between the frame and the housing and arranged to lift the housing relative to the frame when the housing is unlocked from the frame by operation of the key-operated cylinder lock.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Inventor: Joseph Talpe
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Patent number: 9345334Abstract: A bedding or seating product comprises a pocketed spring assembly comprising a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. The strings of springs may extend from head-to-foot or side-to-side of the product. Adjacent individually pocketed springs are separated from each other by at least one separating seam. Each of the separating seams comprises a pair of Y-shaped or U-shaped seams which may be joined together or spaced apart.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: L&P Property Management CompanyInventors: Niels S. Mossbeck, Darrell A. Richmond
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Patent number: 9333131Abstract: A system and method for patient transfer, including patient transfer from a bed to a rollable chair and patient transfer from a wheelchair to a bed. A docking assembly can connect a rollable chair to a bed for transfer. The systems and methods can provide a safe, dignified, and comfortable transfer for patients. A transfer bed, a docking assembly, and a wheelchair can be used together as a system and can reduce the physical and psychological burden of bedridden patients and their caregivers. The transfer bed, docking assembly, and wheelchair can be appropriate for use within a patient's home, nursing home, hospital or any location where a patient is transferred between a bed and a wheelchair. The transfer bed, docking assembly, and wheelchair can be controlled such that a patient is transferred from a bed to a wheelchair or from a wheelchair to a bed.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Next Health, LLCInventors: Lee F Griswold, Edward A Gilchrest, Bruce Eidinger, David Beckstrom
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Patent number: 9328539Abstract: In a restraining device for releasably securing a person's wrists or legs in which a pair of manacles are made of flexible loops or straps with ratchet teeth at one end of each strap and a lock housing at the opposite end of each strap, each housing is characterized by being of hollow generally triangular configuration with a channel for extension of the free end of each strap through the housing beneath a pawl arm in the housing which is controlled by a specially designed key. The key is guided into engagement with the pawl arm by an extension wall on a cover plate which is permanently attached to the outer side walls of the housing by a combination of notched ends on the cover plate and ultrasonic molding together of the cover plate with the outer side walls and an inner support wall in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Inventors: Anthony E. Lonardo, Ewan R. Grantham
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Patent number: 9322193Abstract: The present invention is to provide a structure of key part having hideable lock cylinder, which comprises a base unit having an end able to be fixed on an object body; a lock cylinder unit mounted at the other end of the base unit and provided with a cylinder column at an end thereof; and a key unit provided with a locking piece at a side edge of an end thereof, having the other end pivoted on the lock cylinder unit at a position near the cylinder column, and having a groove axially provided thereon for accommodating the cylinder column; whereby the cylinder column can be inserted into a lock adjusting slot of a handcuff, or can be hidden in the key unit while not in use. Thus, a user needs not to worry that pocket of his or her clothing will be hooked and damaged by the cylinder column.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Inventor: Shun-Fu Chen
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Patent number: 9297185Abstract: In the invention the lock cylinder of the padlock can be released from the body of the padlock without releasing the cam member or locking balls. In the invention the cam member remains in the body of the padlock because at least one locking ball is against the cam member keeping it at place.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: ABLOY OYInventor: Jukka Lasaroff
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Patent number: 9273493Abstract: Provided is a key cylinder for an electronic locking device including a cylinder housing forming an appearance and a cylinder plug installed in the cylinder housing to lock and release the cylinder housing, wherein the cylinder plug includes a lock head including a key insertion hole into which a key head of a publicly known electronic key is removably inserted to a front side, a printed circuit board exchanging power and authentication data from the publicly known electronic key by installing key connection pins in a connection housing installed through the lock head, accessing to the key connection pins and equipping with a microprocessor and EEPROM, a driving motor performing normal rotation and reverse rotation drive in accordance with an input signal of the printed circuit board, a spur gear installed in an axis of the driving motor, a lock pin guider fixed in a rear direction of the cylinder plug, a direction conversion rotary ring rotating in accordance with drive of the driving motor by an internal geType: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Inventor: Bum Soo Kim
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Patent number: 9260887Abstract: A lock assembly including a lock bolt, a first hub, a first electrically powered hub locker assembly and a manually driven hub locker assembly. The lock bolt is movable between a latching position and an unlatching position. The first hub is adapted to move the lock bolt in response to movement of a first handle. The first electrically powered hub locker assembly is positionable to selectively prevent or allow movement of the lock bolt in response to torque being applied to the first handle and is configurable for fail safe operation. The manually driven hub locker assembly is positionable to selectively prevent or allow movement of the lock bolt in response to torque being applied to the first handle.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: GAINSBOROUGH HARDWARE INDUSTRIES LIMITEDInventors: Harris Lambrou, Ian Bartos
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Patent number: 9255426Abstract: A deadbolt lock cover is removably attachable to an anchor plate. While a door is opened, the deadbolt lock cover may be removably engaged with the anchor plate by means of bolts and hooks. When the cover has been engaged with the anchor plate and the door is closed, the interior portion of the deadbolt lock, having the manually operable knob, is inaccessible, being completely covered by the deadbolt lock cover. Thus, the deadbolt lock may only be unlocked by using a key on the outside tumbler of the lock. The cover may include a frame for supporting the bolts and may be of a variety of different geometries.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Inventor: Larry Storey
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Patent number: 9249603Abstract: A lock is provided, the lock having: a lock mechanism having a first member and a second member, the first member and the second member each being slidably mounted to a housing of the combination lock, wherein the first member is capable of movement between a first position and a second position and the second member is capable of movement between a first position and a second position and wherein movement of the first member from the first position to the second position causes the second member to move from the first position to the second position; a bolt configured for movement between a locking position and an unlocking position, the bolt preventing the second member from moving from the second position to the first position when the bolt is in the locking position.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: ZEPHYR LOCK, LLCInventors: Wai-Ho Choy, Patrick E. Wind, Kevin Houlihan, Cheung Yi Lam
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Patent number: 9237813Abstract: An adjustable height device for aiding in the stretching of a sheet. The device may include a bracket for attaching the device to a bottom surface of a bed frame, a first connector attached to the bracket by a first rotating element so that the first connector can rotate about the first rotating element with respect to the bracket, a telescoping shaft attached to the first connector by a second rotating element so that the telescoping shaft is rotatable about the second rotating element with respect to the first connector, and a gripping device attached to the telescoping shaft by a second connector. The telescoping shaft may be made of an inner shaft slidably inserted into an outer shaft. The gripping device may include a base having a first gripping surface and a movable element having a second gripping surface rotatable about a rotational axis with respect to the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: Fixacouette SASInventor: Philippe Dubois
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Patent number: 9228377Abstract: The invention relates to a bicycle lock for multiple connection uses, which is consisted of a body, a fit seat, a push rod, a lock cylinder module, a first clamping block, a second clamping block, a external locking element and an external connecting element. By the composition of the above structure, a quick release handle connected to a seat tube of a bicycle may be locked, and also, lock of connecting the external locking element and the external connecting element may be provided, to thereby achieve the purpose of preventing theft from a bicycle seat, front and rear wheels or other objects within a bicycle, and the purpose of conveniently locking and unlocking.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: VULCAN SPORTS CO., LTD.Inventor: Chin Shu Chang