Patents Examined by Stephen T. Gordon
  • Glass transport trailer
    Patent number: 10518688
    Abstract: A trailer for carrying plate glass has an elongated deck and an elongated rigid beam that extends above the deck. The beam supports plate glass transported by the trailer. The deck and the beam may be made from aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Trail King Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Scot J. Vander Pol, John J. Job
  • Two piece shipping container as covered flatbed trailer
    Patent number: 10518823
    Abstract: A flatbed deck with corner castings connects to the intermodal equipment trailer chassis. Twist locks are retractable in upper corner castings to provide an absolutely flat deck to facilitate loading and unloading. Lower corner castings are connected to corner twist locks of a trailer chassis. Cargo is loaded and a rigid three-dimensional lid is lowered onto the flatbed deck. The rigid lid has corner castings that cooperate with twist locks at corners of the new flatbed deck. Lid corner castings are recessed in the lid. The lid seals to the deck to prevent moisture ingress. Corner castings extend slightly downward from the corners of the lid. Two or more short individual lids are secured separately to the new decks. Partial loads are individually covered and protected by the short lids which are seated and sealed to the deck by securing lid corner castings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Cakeboxx Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Louis Deak Childress, Daine Eisold
  • Pick-up truck bed with rope tie-down cleats and method of manufacturing tie-down cleats
    Patent number: 10518692
    Abstract: A tie-down assembly for a pick-up truck bed that includes a cleat including a base having first and second feet defining first and second fastener receiving holes, a body portion extending from an outer side of the feet, and first and second arms extending from the body portion that are spaced from the feet and define tie-down holes. Fasteners inserted into the first and second fastener holes secure the cleat to the pick-up truck bed. A method of making a tie-down cleat for a pick-up truck bed by extruding an elongated bar having a pair of feet portions connected by a body portion to a pair of arm portions. The elongated bar is cut into a plurality of planar cleat blanks and the cleat blanks are drilled to form fastener holes in the feet portions and tie-down holes in the arm portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dragan B. Stojkovic, Joshua R. Hemphill
  • Truck body
    Patent number: 10518686
    Abstract: A truck body includes a front wall, side walls, and a floor. The floor has panels disposed at predetermined angles from the horizontal that, with the other parts of the body, form a payload volume within the body. The floor also includes a tail panel disposed at a lesser angle from the horizontal to facilitate the shedding of the payload when dumping, and further to maintain the center of mass of the payload in a generally forward position during dumping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: AUTIN ENGINEERING USA SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Reynolds, Ronald L. Hehn
  • Truck bed with selectively actuated magnetic floor sections
    Patent number: 10507756
    Abstract: A pick-up truck bed having controllably magnetized areas for retaining cargo or attachment devices. A first permanent magnet may be attached below the lower surface of the truck bed with a second permanent being rotatable relative to the first permanent magnet to control the magnetic flux provided to retain objects in the truck bed. Alternatively, one or more electromagnets may be provided that may be turned on to retain objects in the truck bed and turned off to allow removal of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad R. Aghili, Kevin Lucka, Aed M. Dudar, Dennis Seung-Man Yang
  • System for immobilizing a semi-trailer kingpin on a transport vehicle
    Patent number: 10501130
    Abstract: A system for immobilizing a semi-trailer kingpin on a transport vehicle includes a balance arm and a substantially horizontal rigid linking structure designed to guide the vertical movement of the receiving nacelle, hold it in position above the lifting system in a horizontal plane and take up the forces exerted thereon. The longitudinal rigid linking structure is hingedly linked to the receiving nacelle and to the transport vehicle in order to take up the longitudinal forces from same, and the balance arm includes preloaded springs that take up the forces exerted on the balance arm when the receiving nacelle is temporarily inclined relative to the horizontal plane. The lifting system for lifting the receiving nacelle is mounted pivoting on the railway unit at a pivot pin transverse to the longitudinal axis of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LOHR INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jacques Ober, Jean-Luc Andre
  • Structure of vehicle luggage compartment
    Patent number: 10493921
    Abstract: A structure of a vehicle luggage compartment of the present invention can be produced at a low cost; secure a luggage placing base; and prevent breakage of a partition member, and includes a luggage base on which a luggage is placed; and a partition having a belt shape configured to separate the luggage base from other luggage placing bases, wherein both ends of the partition are detachably engaged with a pair of hooks attached to a vehicle body; and at least one of the pair of hooks is deformed to disengage from the partition if a load equal to or bigger than a predetermined magnitude is applied to the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujiro Goto, Koji Saido
  • Pallet adapter
    Patent number: 10494142
    Abstract: A pallet adapter, system and method for restraining air cargo during flight are disclosed. A pallet adapter shifts a shipping container in an inboard direction of an aircraft so that the container does not contact an interior structure of the aircraft. Rigid restraints restrain the container from moving in the vertical direction during flight. Corner fittings restrain the container from moving in the fore-and-aft direction and the side-to-side direction during flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING CO.
    Inventor: Darrin Michael Noe
  • Tracked dumping compartment and a dump truck using said tracked dumping compartment
    Patent number: 10479254
    Abstract: A tracked dumping compartment including frame cross members and frame rails, a guide rail fixed on the frame cross members, and said guide rail supporting a chain; the chain includes inner link plates, outer link plates, rollers and pins, the rollers rollingly fit to the guide rail; carrier plates are fixed on irregularly shaped outer link plates, and a rubber track is fixed on the carrier plates; blocking plates are fixed on the frame cross members and frame rails, the blocking plates including a first angled section and a vertical section, the rubber track positioned below the first angled sections and between the vertical sections, the angle between the first angled sections and the top surface of the rubber track being 30°-70°, and the width of the rubber track when in a free state being less than or equal to the distance between the vertical sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Shandong Girou Automobile Refitting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongwen Wang
  • Cargo rack and collapsible stand
    Patent number: 10479416
    Abstract: The invention comprises an overhead storage rack for vehicles. The invention may further comprise a rack with a first surface and a second surface that have different altitudes. The invention may even further comprise an overhead rack for utility vehicles with a cab and a bed. The invention may even further comprise an overhead rack that includes a hoist system. The invention may even further comprise a collapsible stand for mounting atop the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Jonathon David Martin
  • Cargo systems for use with vehicles, such as autonomous delivery vehicles
    Patent number: 10479418
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering a requested payload using an autonomous delivery vehicle are described herein. In some embodiments, a cargo system for use with an autonomous delivery vehicle can include a frame defining a cargo space having an opening. A plurality of partitions can be positioned within the cargo space and configured to divide the cargo space into compartments. In some embodiments, the partitions are movable so that the cargo space can be divided into efficiently-sized compartments based on, for example, size characteristics of the payload. The cargo system can further include an access system configured to selectively define an aperture over the opening of the cargo space. The access system can vary the size and position of the aperture to provide access to only a selected one of the compartments regardless of the size and/or position of the selected compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: UDELV INC.
    Inventors: Akshat Patel, Daniel Laury
  • Locking device for containers
    Patent number: 10471880
    Abstract: A locking device for containers on a vehicle chassis, having a housing, a plug-in pin which is mounted displaceably in the housing and/or a rotary pin which is mounted rotatably in the housing, wherein the plug-in pin and/or the rotary pin can be moved between an open position and a locked position. The invention was based on the problem of providing a locking device for containers which is triggered automatically by way of the loading operation. According to the invention, the problem is solved by the fact that a spring element which interacts with a triggering element acts on the plug-in pin or the rotary pin, wherein the triggering unit has at least one sensing bolt which protrudes out of the housing in the direction of a container fitting in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JOST-WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Paulekuhn, José Manuel Algüera, Stephan Albers
  • Integrated extended bed assembly for vehicle
    Patent number: 10472003
    Abstract: An integrated extend bed assembly for a vehicle is provided. The extended bed assembly includes a bed assembly that is mounted at a rear of the vehicle and a bed extension that is slidably fitted into the bed assembly. The bed extension is extendable rearward of the bed assembly in a linear motion. Additionally, sliding members are mounted to the bed assembly and the bed extension to support the bed extension in an extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Santhosh Karumuri, Jonathan Green, Adrien Wang, Shawn Slovesko
  • Protector assembly for flexible pipe coils and method of using same
    Patent number: 10464468
    Abstract: A system includes a coil contacting base. The coil contacting base includes a radially curved outer surface with a radius of curvature less than or equal to a coil radius of curvature of an interior channel of a coil of spoolable pipe, and the coil contacting base includes a length greater than or equal to an axial dimension of the coil. The system also includes a side wall coupled to an inner surface of the coil contacting base. The side wall is configured to block circumferential movement of a coil restraint. The system also includes a passage disposed between the coil contacting base and the side wall. The coil restraint is configured to be disposed in the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: TRINITY BAY EQUIPMENT HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Max Reedy, Brett Hamner, Alexander Lee Winn, Matthew Allen Hegler, Sanjay Bhatia
  • Load securing bag for a pickup truck
    Patent number: 10457192
    Abstract: A load securing bag for a pickup truck comprises a cuboid-shaped bag made of durable weather-resistant material having a single gusset about the side edges of the bag. When not in use, the gusset is secured by a fastening device. There is a plurality of straps which are secured to the bag with each strap having a hook at the distal end of each strap. A bag cover made of nylon webbing also has a plurality of straps having a hook at the distal end of each strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Coralee Heimstra
  • Hinged truck bed stop
    Patent number: 10449890
    Abstract: A truck bed stop, including a bottom base; an upper base, hingedly attached to the bottom base; one or more attachment points disposed on the upper base portion; and one or more attachment rods, wherein a first end of one of the one or more attachment rods is configured to attach to one of the one or more attachment points disposed on the upper base and a second end of the one of the one or more attachment rods is configured to attach to one of one or more secondary anchor points, and wherein the one or more attachment rods are configured to hold the upper base in an angled position relative to the bottom base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Reid
  • Lock assembly with rotating inner pawl
    Patent number: 10450066
    Abstract: A lock assembly includes a pawl body having first restraint surface and a second restraint surface, wherein the pawl body rotates between an extended position and a retracted position, an inner pawl rotatably coupled to the pawl body, wherein the inner pawl is rotated away from the second restraint surface in the retracted position of the pawl body, and a biasing member associated with the inner pawl, wherein the biasing member urges the inner pawl to be aligned with the second restraint surface in the extended position of the pawl body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinodkumar Shivalinga, Narain Jayaprakash
  • Modular cargo containment systems, assemblies, components, and methods
    Patent number: 10435042
    Abstract: To provide a better way of protecting cargo on flatbed trucks, railcars, and so forth, the present inventor, devised among other things a cargo containment system formed from a set of interconnectable weatherproof panels that can be configured to define a rectilinear containment structure over and around a volume of cargo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventor: Ronald T. Weymouth
  • Elastomeric shock absorbers for gas turbine transportation
    Patent number: 10436072
    Abstract: This application provides elastomeric shock absorbers for turbine transportation. Example engine mounts may include a first plate, a second plate, and an elastomeric bearing positioned between the first plate and the second plate. The engine mount may be configured to absorb or dampen vibration along an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis of a turbine during transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Quoc Hoai Nguyen, Ashish Agrawal, Horacio Solis, Yunyi Zou, Tho V. Nguyen
  • Securing system for wheelchairs in a vehicles and a method for unlocking and locking a securing system for wheelchairs in vehicles
    Patent number: 10426674
    Abstract: Securing system for wheelchairs in vehicles, comprising a rigid bottom frame provided with; —a number of fixation elements which are connected to the if bottom frame and suitable for fixing a wheelchair relative to the bottom frame, wherein each fixation elements comprises a coupling element configured for coupling to a wheelchair, which coupling element is connected with a cable to a retractor, which retractor in unlocked mode exerts a retracting pulling force on the coupling element while the cable can be pulled out, and in locked mode locks the cable so that it cannot be pulled out, wherein the retractors are fixedly connected to the bottom frame and are preferably placed adjacently of each other, and a central securing control for simultaneous operation of the retractors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CARBOUW B.V.
    Inventors: Sjoerd Hendrik De Bijl, Xando Henricus Petrus Quirijnen, Marcel Johannes Hendrikus Schouten