Patents Examined by Philip F Gabler
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Patent number: 11963616Abstract: A seating furniture chassis comprises a seat surface frame, a lever mechanism, a footrest, a guide element, and a guide rail. The footrest is connected to the seat surface frame by the lever mechanism and is convertible between a folded-in state in which the footrest is arranged below the seat surface frame and a folded-out state in which the footrest forms an obtuse angle with the seat surface frame. The guide element is rigidly connected to the seat surface frame. When the footrest is converted between the folded-out and folded-in states, the guide element is guided in the guide rail, which has a curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Innotec Motion GmbHInventor: Michael Mackert
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Patent number: 11958559Abstract: Seat for a bicycle including a frame and a cover. The frame includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a central portion between the front portion and the rear portion. The cover includes a seating panel and at least one side panel or at last one tensioning panel. The seating panel includes a seating surface facing an upward direction. The seating panel is supported by the front portion of the frame and the rear portion of the frame and spans from the front portion of the frame and the rear portion of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Terry Hermanson
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Patent number: 11957253Abstract: A rocking chair for children, comprising a seat body, a supporting frame and a seat body limiting mechanism, a driving motor, a driving motor power output part and a rotating shaft; one end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the driving motor power output part, and the seat body pivots around the other end of the rotating shaft; when the rotating shaft rotates, the pivot point between the other end of the rotating shaft and the seat body moves relative to a fixed connection point between one end of the rotating shaft and the driving motor power output part at a certain distance; and the seat body limiting mechanism can limit the included angle between the seat body and the rotating shaft to be kept within a set angle when the driving motor drives the rotating shaft for forward and reverse rotation in a reciprocating mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ZHONGSHAN CITY TONGYIN BABY CO., LTD.Inventor: Weibing Liu
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Patent number: 11958392Abstract: A seat pad manufacturing method is provided. The method includes disposing a sheet member inside a foaming mold for shaping a seat pad, then injecting a foaming resin material into the foaming mold and foaming a resin foamed body through mold clamping, and demolding the resin foamed body in a state in which the sheet member is buried in the resin foamed body. Both end parts of the sheet member in the right-left direction and both end parts of the sheet member in the extending direction are each temporarily fastened to the surface of the mold through a fastener. The foaming resin material is injected into a space between the mold surface and the sheet member. A central part of the sheet member deforms into a shape curved in a convex shape as the sheet member is pressed upward through expansion of the foaming resin material.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Archem Inc.Inventors: Yukiko Yamaguchi, Taisuke Yonezawa, Yoshiyuki Takahashi
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Patent number: 11958417Abstract: A system or device for mounting personal electronics such as tablet computers, smart phones, or laptops to seatbacks during travel. The device uses a series of jointed elements to allow for securing the device to a variety of seatbacks commonly found in automobiles, buses, trains, aircraft, and watercraft. The device also allows for personal electronics of varying shapes, sizes, and configurations to be secured to the seatback through the device so that a user may comfortably use his or her personal electronics without interfering with a tray table or requiring the user to hold his or her personal electronic items.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The MACK LLCInventor: Dennis Earl Mcloyd
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Patent number: 11958435Abstract: A seat assembly includes a seat portion having a frame assembly. A routing mechanism includes a plate member that is operably coupled to the frame assembly. The plate member includes a first portion having first and second raised portions spaced-apart from one another to define a channel therebetween. The routing mechanism further includes a connection assembly having upper and lower tabs spaced-apart from one another with a routing column assembly interconnecting the upper and lower tabs. A tether member includes a body portion that is routed through the routing mechanism, in that the body portion of the tether member is received in the channel of the routing mechanism and is wrapped around the routing column assembly and directed in forward direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Joseph Michael Kish, Macit Aktas, Benjamin Yilma, Derek Board, Kevin Michael Pline, Raed EL-Jawahri, Jeffrey Charles Paddock, James Robert Chascsa, II, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Rachel Demerly, Robyne McBride
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Patent number: 11950707Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a detachable chair leg and a chair. The chair includes feet and a central support. The central support includes a support body and a plurality of mount portions, one side of the foot is provided with a mount groove. The mount portion is horizontally embedded in the mount groove, and a fastening assembly is provided between the foot and the central support to prevent the mount portion from removing laterally from the mount groove. The mount portion is provided with first limit portions, the foot is provided with second limit portions, at least one first limit portion is located at the outer side of the second limit portion along a longitudinal direction, the first limit portions and the second limit portions cooperate to form a longitudinal limit structure that prevents the foot from being separated from the mount portion in the longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ANJI HENGFENG METAL DIE-CASTING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yiqun Huang
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Patent number: 11951886Abstract: A vehicle-mountable child safety seat assembly is disclosed. The seat assembly includes a safety seat and a prop assembly mounted with respect to the safety seat. The prop assembly has a stowed position and a safely deployed position. The prop assembly includes: a leg assembly; a foot assembly mounted to the leg assembly; and a first sensor, for example a tilt sensor, for sensing when the prop assembly is not in the stowed position. A second sensor for sensing when the prop assembly is not in the safely deployed position is also provided. A warning system is also disclosed. The warning system changes from a timing state to the warning state if the second sensor senses that the prop assembly is not in its safely deployed position by a pre-determined time after the change from a standby state to a timing state.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BRITAX RÖMER KINDERSICHERHEIT GMBHInventors: Bernd Häußler, Nabil Kzaiz, Marcel Brenner
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Patent number: 11945350Abstract: Provided is to stabilize a fixed state of each bag body provided at a vehicle seat and configured to expand to push a corresponding one of the shoulders of a seated passenger. Of a seat back provided at the vehicle seat, each shoulder support configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand by injection of air. The air cell includes protrusions extending in a predetermined direction and provided at respective end portions of the air bag in the extending direction thereof. The air cell is attached to the inside of the seat back in such a manner that each of the protrusions provided at respective end portions in the extending direction is fixed to a corresponding one of fixing positions separated from each other in the width direction of the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensuke Mizoi, Ryuzaburo Abe, Kenichi Niitsuma, Soichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11938846Abstract: A system for securing a passenger seat to a track can include a fitting coupled with or forming a portion of the passenger seat; a shear plunger coupled with the fitting including a shear plunger body defining a shear plunger locking surface; a guide pin assembly that may include a guide pin movable along a lift axis between a retracted state and an extended state and a locking member extending laterally from the guide pin that may travel in response to a movement of the guide pin from the retracted state to the extended state and may engage the shear plunger locking surface in response to a rotation of the guide pin in the extended state; and a quick install tool operable to raise and twist the guide pin assembly such that the locking member is held in tension against the shear plunger locking surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventors: Charles Michael Parker, Romain Tranier, Reza Mansouri
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Patent number: 11939061Abstract: A vehicle includes an occupant space and seats for occupants. The seats are arranged, viewed in a travel direction of the vehicle, one behind the other in the occupant space. The vehicle also includes an image capturing device configured to capture an image of a respective seat and/or an occupant sitting in the respective seat, and a display device configured to display an image captured by the image capturing device in a region of another seat and/or in a field of view of an occupant sitting in the other seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Stefan Bender
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Patent number: 11930931Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a user includes a faceplate, an arm, a bridge, and a base. The bridge is rotatably attached to the faceplate to allow the faceplate to be pivotably adjusted. The bridge includes a hub with first and second hub bodies. Locking pins on the hub bodies slidingly engage pivot adjustment holes in first and second pivot adjustment rings. First and second buttons can be depressed to slide the hub bodies inwardly to separate the locking pins from the pivot adjustment holes to allow the hub to rotate, thereby allowing the faceplate to pivot. When the buttons are released, the hub bodies slide outwardly to insert the locking pins into the same or different pivot adjustment holes to prevent the hub from rotating.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hypnap LLCInventors: Michael Anthony Disimoni Stone, Brian Edward Hack, Jurgen Paul Frasch
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Patent number: 11932339Abstract: The invention includes apparatus and methods of use for an adjustable disarticulated seat, which in a preferred embodiment may include one, or a plurality of independently or synchronously adjustable disarticulated inserts positioned within insert interface apertures on the distal extended portion of a saddle. An actuator element may be responsive to the one or more disarticulated inserts through one or more cords configured to be retracted or release in response to the action of the actuator causing the extension upward or release downward movement of the one or more inserts within the insert interface aperture.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventor: Joe Johnson
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Patent number: 11926249Abstract: A system may include an adjustable headrest assembly. The adjustable headrest assembly may include a headrest center bracket, a left vertical side plate track, a left headrest side plate assembly including a left headrest side plate, a right vertical side plate track, and a right headrest side plate assembly including a right headrest side plate. The left headrest side plate may be configured to move up and down relative to the left vertical side plate track based on the engagement of the left headrest side plate assembly with the left vertical side plate track. The right headrest side plate may be configured to move up and down relative to the right vertical side plate track based on the engagement of the right headrest side plate assembly with the right vertical side plate track.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventors: Arnold J. Wickham, Richard Dishman, Brett A. Hall
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Patent number: 11926250Abstract: A sleeve device for a headrest, the device including a sleeve body for insertion into a vehicle seat, the sleeve body including a tubular wall describing an inner axial passage and a rod-engaging portion which is deformable inwardly relative to the tubular wall, the rod-engaging portion including a flexible pad on its external side, wherein the pad is configured to be urged, in use, to force the engaging portion into the axial passage and/or against a rod received within the axial passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Albert Moreno
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Patent number: 11919424Abstract: The disclosure includes a first upper rail coupled to a first lower rail so as to be movable in the forward-backward direction, a second upper rail coupled to a second lower rail, which is disposed parallel to the first lower rail, so as to be movable in the forward-backward direction, drive motors respectively provided at the first upper rail and the second upper rail, a first rotation guide coupled to the first upper rail and provided with a first gear having a plurality of gear teeth, a second rotation guide coupled to the second upper rail and provided with a first gear having a plurality of gear teeth, and a seat cushion provided with second gears engaged with the first gears and configured to rotate when the first upper rail and the second upper rail move in opposite directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC.Inventors: Jae Sung Lee, Eom Seok Yoo, Byung Mo Kim
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Patent number: 11912173Abstract: The present disclosure provides a canopy locking assembly suitable to be installed on a baby carrier. The baby carrier includes a handle and a foldable canopy mechanism at least having a folded state and an unfolded state. The canopy locking assembly includes a locking member and a matching member that are separable and lockable, the locking member is installed on the canopy mechanism, the matching member is installed on the handle. The locking member moves relatively close to the matching member when the canopy mechanism is switched from the folded state to the unfolded state, and the canopy mechanism is kept in the unfolded state constantly when the locking member and the matching member are locked. The canopy locking assembly can keep the canopy mechanism unfolded constantly when in use to avoid from being folded by accident. In addition, the present disclosure further provides a baby carrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AGInventor: Xiaohong Xiao
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Patent number: 11912362Abstract: The present invention relates to a bicycle saddle including: a saddle frame disposed on a bicycle frame; a saddle plate disposed on top of the saddle frame; and a saddle seat disposed on top of the saddle plate to elastically support the hips, wherein the saddle seat is divided into a first seat and a second seat having top portions rounded with a given radius of curvature and disposed spaced apart from each other to a band-like shape along both longitudinal edges of the saddle plate, and between the first seat and the second seat is disposed an arch-shaped ischium accommodation portion for accommodating the ischial tuberosities of the pelvis thereinto to prevent the arteries, veins, and nerves from a rider's anus to the genitals from being compressed against the saddle seat by his or her body weight.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Huan Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yong Joo Kim
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Patent number: 11904797Abstract: A buckle fastening assembly is adapted for a child safety seat and includes a cushion body whereon a through hole is formed, and a belt body including a protecting pad and a positioning structure. One end of the positioning structure is connected to the cushion body, another end of the positioning structure passes through the through hole to connect with the protecting pad, and the positioning structure biases the protecting pad away from a working position. When the belt body is not in use, the positioning structure can drive the protecting pad away from the working position by elasticity, so as to prevent the protecting pad from randomly falling on an upper surface of the cushion body, which will not affect a child's riding and can improve the riding comfort. The buckle fastening assembly has advantages of simple structure and easy disassembly, which is convenient to use by caregivers.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Bambino Prezioso Switzerland AGInventors: Yingzhong Chen, Qinrui Wei
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Patent number: 11904748Abstract: A rotatable armrest includes: a housing; a button system; and a hinge system engaged to the button system, in which the button system and the hinge system are provided in the housing, in which the hinge system includes a hinge shaft, and the rotatable armrest is fixed at a first position, a second position, or a third position by being rotated about the hinge shaft, and in which the rotatable armrest is configured to be positioned to be folded downward at the first position, the rotatable armrest is configured to be positioned to be directed forward horizontally at the second position, and the rotatable armrest is configured to be positioned to be directed rearward horizontally at the third position.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, NIFCO KOREA INC., SEOYON E-HWA CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheng Kun Li, Chun Lei Sang, Won Young Bae, Bong Ju Choi, Dae Kyo Kim