Patents Examined by Paul N. Dickson
  • Patent number: 11453262
    Abstract: A void bush for a vehicle suspension includes: inside bumps formed in an inside stopper and outside bumps formed in an outside stopper. In particular, the inside bumps and the outside bumps are configured to cross perpendicularly to each other to allow the inside bumps and the outside bumps to be brought into point-contact with each other during behavior of the suspension. The inside bumps are not arranged in parallel to each other and the outside bumps are not arranged in parallel to each other. Accordingly, contact area between the inside bumps and the outside bumps is greatly reduced and contact abrasion positions therebetween are diversified so that durability and lifespan of the void bush are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dae Un Sung, Kyung Jung Hwang, Yong Hyun Ryu, Hee Jung Lee, Tae Hee Lee, Se Young Kim, Jin Wook Park, Seong Jun Heo
  • Patent number: 11447007
    Abstract: A system for averting the threat posed by a vehicle rampage. The system includes at least one device for bringing the vehicle to a halt by external intervention. The system has a sensor arrangement which is connected to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Marcus Lohr
  • Patent number: 11447095
    Abstract: An alert device alerts a driver sitting on a driver's seat in a vehicle by winding a seat belt on the driver's seat with a retractor. The alert device includes a seat position information acquisition unit configured to acquire seat position information relating to a position of the driver's seat, a height estimation unit configured to calculate art estimated height that is an estimated value of the driver's height based on the seat position information, a winding strength setting unit configured to set a winding strength that is a strength for winding the seat belt with the retractor based on the estimated height, and a retractor control unit configured to operate the retractor to wind the seat belt with the winding strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKIKAISHA TOKAIRIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Toshihiro Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 11447052
    Abstract: A control pod bracket assembly for an operator seat of a work machine adjusts a spacing distance between a right control pod and a left control pod. A right side bracket and a left side bracket having the control pods mounted thereon may be slidably coupled to a center bracket to move between inward and outward positions. Right side bracket and left side bracket locking mechanisms are selectively engageable to lock the side brackets at the inward or outward positions, and to unlock and allow the side brackets to move between the inward and outward positions. Adjustment of the side brackets allows the control pod spacing to be varied between a minimum control pod spacing distance and a maximum control pod spacing distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Daniel Koshiol, Joel N. Thieschafer, Michael W. Ries
  • Patent number: 11447087
    Abstract: A canopy assembly includes a lower canopy installed fixedly in a side of a driver's seat and including a pair of first and second lower pipes that extend upwardly respectively, a pair of fastening blocks inserted and fixed into the first and second lower pipes respectively, each of the fastening blocks having a receiving hole therein that extends from an upper surface into the inside thereof, and an upper canopy including a pair of first and second upper pipes that are inserted and fixed into the receiving holes of the fastening blocks respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DOOSAN INFRACORE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sangkyoo Lee, Minkyu Yang
  • Patent number: 11440495
    Abstract: A seat assembly having an occupant protection system. The occupant protection system may have a deployable shield. The deployable shield may extend around multiple sides of the seat assembly, may extend at least partially around a front of a seat occupant when deployed, may be deployable along a dynamic deployment path based on a detected position of a seat occupant, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Arjun Yetukuri, Mladen Humer, Karl Henn, Peter Festag
  • Patent number: 11440402
    Abstract: Provided are a control method, a vehicle frame, a power driving assembly and a vehicle. The vehicle frame is configured to be connected with the power driving assembly, and the vehicle frame is provided with a manipulation assembly and a controller for controlling the power driving assembly. The control method includes that: after the vehicle frame is connected to the power driving assembly and a communication connection is established between the controller and the power driving assembly, the controller detects a manipulation instruction from the manipulation assembly; and in response to detecting the manipulation instruction from the manipulation assembly and determining that the manipulation instruction corresponds to the power driving assembly, the controller generates, according to the manipulation instruction, a control instruction for controlling the power driving assembly, and sends the control instruction to the power driving assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Ninebot (Beijing) Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Lin, Xingle Li, Yi Lou
  • Patent number: 11440369
    Abstract: A crane, in particular a pick and carry crane, may have a front chassis with front wheels and a back chassis with back wheels, the front chassis being articulated relative to the back chassis so that the crane can travel whilst carrying a load suspended from a boom. The back and front wheels have independent suspensions which are capable of connection to one another so that movement of a left wheel influences movement of a right wheel, thereby improving the handing of the crane, particularly over rough terrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TEREX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventor: Clayton McPherson
  • Patent number: 11440500
    Abstract: A partition portion that partitions a cabin in a front-rear direction of a vehicle is disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to a seat. A restraint device is partially attached to the partition portion, and a webbing of the restraint device is withdrawn from a partition portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jumpei Watanabe, Yasuhiro Hara, Norimasa Koreishi, Hirotaka Ishioka
  • Patent number: 11440438
    Abstract: A vehicle including a front wall to form a cabin space to accommodate passengers, communication seats for the passengers seated thereon to talk face-to-face, and front and rear wheels. Front ends of upper and lower portions of the front wall are positioned forward of a rear end of an intermediate portion of the front wall. The front wall includes a front face-up surface, of which a front end is not forward of the front end of the lower portion of the front wall, and is not rearward of front ends of the front wheels, and of which a rear end is not forward of the front end of the upper portion of the front wall, and is not rearward of the rear end of the intermediate portion of the front wall. A front end of an upper portion of the cabin space is positioned forward of a front end of the intermediate portion of the cabin space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Arato Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11440576
    Abstract: Agricultural vehicle (V) includes an operator's seat (S), a vehicular structure (C), a wheel support arrangement (100), a front bumper assembly (200), a position and draft control mechanism (30), a brake pedal linkage mechanism (500), a steering mechanism (600) and an exhaust device (700). The operator's seat S is configured to be provided in the vehicle (V) at at least one of a first seating position (Sf) corresponding to a first driving position, and a second seating position (Sr) corresponding to a second driving position, where the second seating position (Sr) is opposite to the first seating position (Sf). The vehicular structure (C) is configured to be moved between at least one lowered position in which each final drive housing (FH) is locked to vehicular structure (C) at corresponding first locking positions, and at least one raised position in which each final drive housing (FH) is locked to vehicular structure (C) at corresponding second locking positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA LIMITED
    Inventors: Avinash Tighare, Vikas Singh
  • Patent number: 11440364
    Abstract: A method for producing a component by a 3D winding method, a filament or a plurality of parallel filaments having a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material is or are laid down on a core in a combination of a plurality of different winding patterns. Every filament is preimpregnated. Every winding pattern influences at least one mechanical characteristic of the component. The mechanical characteristics of the component are selectively adjusted by the sequence, repetition, mixing, and material selection of the individual winding patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Ingolf Müller, Manfred Bürgmann, Jens Heimann, Andre Stieglitz, Carsten Sohl, Valentin Hörtdörfer
  • Patent number: 11434954
    Abstract: A pivot bearing arrangement for a steering column of a motor vehicle, having a steering shaft which is rotatably mounted in a casing unit in the direction of its axis of rotation but rigidly mounted in the radial direction, is improved in terms of a simple and cost-effective construction in that the casing unit is provided with at least one first sliding bearing shell, which comprises a first circumferential radial projection, which engages in a first circumferential groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Huber
  • Patent number: 11433850
    Abstract: A gas generator for use for a safety device in vehicles comprises a pyrotechnical propelling charge, wherein the propelling charge is formed from a first and at least a second master batch which are in a mixed state in a filling. Each master batch has a plurality of molded propellant bodies having defined geometry and having a relative quickness. The relative quickness RQ2 of the second master batch is less than the relative quickness RQ1 of the first master batch, wherein RQ2=RQ1·fq and fq?0.9. The invention further relates to a method for producing the propelling charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TRW AIRBAG SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Friedrich Jörg, Siegfried Jahnel
  • Patent number: 11433956
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle, in particular an off-highway vehicle, comprising a first axle and a second axle and a sensor unit comprising at least one load sensor configured to produce a load sensor signal indicative of a load on at least one of the first axle and the second axle. The vehicle further comprises a movable weight configured to be moved relative to the first axle and to the second axle, an actuator system configured to move the movable weight relative to the first axle and to the second axle, and a control unit configured to control the actuator system based at least on the load sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DANA ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Josemir Calcagnotto Da Silva, Lorenzo Serrao
  • Patent number: 11433843
    Abstract: A vehicle occupant restraining device, comprising: a pair of air bags; an inner bag housed in at least one of the pair of air bags, is in communication with the at least one of the air bags, and is inflated and deployed inside the at least one of the air bags, on the sides of the body of a vehicle occu-pant; and a pair of pieces of tension cloth housed so as to extend along the respective sides of a housed pair of air bags, which are located on the opposite sides of the vehicle occupant, and then through the inside of the seat back of a seat into a seat cushion, wherein the inner bag completes inflation and deployment before the at least one of the air bags does, and the pair of pieces of tension cloth is deployed on the sides of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsushita, Hiroyuki Saito
  • Patent number: 11433725
    Abstract: The bushing includes an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder, and an elastic body therebetween. The outer cylinder has a central recess portion recessed from the inner peripheral surface in the radial direction at the central portion in the axial direction, and the thickness of both end portions is thicker than the thickness of the central portion. The central recess portion is formed in a curved shape or having a curved and a straight shape. The inner cylinder has a central convex portion swelling from the outer peripheral surface in the radial direction at a position corresponding to the central recess portion. The maximum outer diameter of the central convex portion is larger than the minimum inner diameter of the inner peripheral surface of the outer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: Mazda Motor Corporation, MOLTEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu Sano, Takahiko Shigyo, Hiroki Kimura, Masaya Hiramatsu, Haruaki Iseri, Kazuhiro Okuyama, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Eiji Okada, Naoki Kurata, Hiromi Miwade, Tadashi Yoshimura, Ryo Ogawa, Tomohiro Tuji, Masayuki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11428258
    Abstract: A steering stop mechanism including a fastener, a retention element disposed about the fastener, an adapter configured to receive at least a portion of the fastener therein, and a retention sleeve disposed about at least a portion of the fastener, the retention element, and the adapter. The retention sleeve is deformable and produced from a malleable material to allow the retention sleeve to conform to a shape of the retention element and the adapter during assembly of the steering stop mechanism with a working component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
    Inventor: Stoyan I. Stoychev
  • Patent number: 11427250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotary sensor assembly and a rear wheel steering system including the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a rotary sensor assembly includes: a rotary sensor subassembly configured to sense a stroke of a driving shaft configured to receive rotating power to move linearly; a sensing guide configured to be moved by receiving a moving force when the driving shaft moves such that the rotary sensor subassembly senses movement of the driving shaft; and fasteners which couple the sensing guide to the driving shaft, wherein the rotary sensor subassembly senses movement of the sensing guide to sense the stroke of the driving shaft when the driving shaft moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Han Sang Chae
  • Patent number: 11427068
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mount for a vehicle that is provided at a portion at which damping performance is desired and that is fastened by a stud bolt. The mount for the vehicle includes a flange into which the stud bolt is inserted and that supports the stud bolt, an insulator configured to surround the flange, a housing coupled to the other one of the vibrating body or the supporting body and to which the insulator is fixed, a chamber formed inside the housing as a space surrounded by the housing and the insulator, and the chamber is filled with a fluid. In addition, the mount for the vehicle includes a damping part mounted on the housing to divide the chamber into two spaces and to be disposed in the chamber. The mount for the vehicle is configured to appropriately absorb vibrations and reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sungwon Seo, Wang Jian Wen, Woon Ki Cho