Patents Examined by Steve Clemmons
  • Patent number: 12697258
    Abstract: A patient transport apparatus for patients. The patient transport apparatus comprises a base having a base frame and an intermediate frame. The patient support further comprises a litter configured to be docked to and undocked from a trolley that is configured to slidably translate along the intermediate frame between a plurality of positions including a trolley forward position and a trolley docking position. The litter is configured to be supported by the base in a cantilevered position when the trolley is in the trolley docking position. The base includes a stabilizer that is configured for movement between a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. In the deployed configuration the stabilizer engages a floor surface to brace the base at an additional point of contact with the floor surface to stabilize the base when the litter is in the cantilevered position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Shawn Trimble, Christopher Gentile
  • Patent number: 12691922
    Abstract: A stroller is provided comprising a body having an upper body portion and a lower body portion, at least one of the upper body portion and lower body portion configured to rotate with respect to the other body portion; a first articulation coupling the upper body portion and lower body portion, the first articulation configured to exert an inward force on a gear; and an assembly coupled to the first articulation and configured to control the first articulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: MONAHAN PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Richard M. Bastien, Luis Alejandro Canas
  • Patent number: 12691923
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stroller with detachable auxiliary power structure, which includes a stroller body, a power control module, and a battery unit. The stroller body includes a front wheel member, a rear wheel member, a left folding member, and a right folding member. Front ends and rear ends of the right and left folding frames are pivotally connected to the front wheel member and the rear wheel member, respectively. The power control module is mounted to a bottom of the rear wheel member and includes a drive motor that outputs a rotational speed and a torque, a gear box, and a power output shaft that has one end connected to the gear box and an opposite end connected to the rear right wheel or the rear left wheel. The battery unit is connected to the drive motor to serve as a power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: New Century Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fu-Tsun Lin
  • Patent number: 12692831
    Abstract: An all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) comprising a frame, a plurality of ground engaging members supporting the frame, a straddle seat coupled to the frame for supporting at least one rider, a powertrain assembly operably coupled to the ground engaging members, the powertrain assembly comprising an engine, a storage container coupled to the frame at a position rearward of the straddle seat, an exterior surface of the storage container including an indentation, and a fuel system fluidly coupled to the engine, the fuel system including a fuel tank, a fuel vapor line fluidly coupling the fuel tank to the engine, and an evaporation canister positioned along the fuel vapor line, wherein the evaporation canister is positioned within the indentation in an exterior surface of the storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventors: Lindsay S.B. Edwards, Joel B. Kelso
  • Patent number: 12679190
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle includes a chassis, a body, and a cab. The chassis is configured to support a tractive element. The chassis includes a battery box. The body is supported by the chassis. The cab is supported by the chassis. The battery box includes a shell defining an internal cavity. The battery box is configured to receive a module. The module comprises a battery and a module terminal. The battery box is configured to transfer energy from the module to a component of the vehicle. The internal cavity of the battery box comprises a system terminal configured to contact the module terminal of the module to facilitate the transfer of the energy from the module to a component of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Colin Wheeler, Christopher Yakes, Jeremy Andringa, Erik S. Ellifson, Ryan Wolf, Martin J. Schimke, Chad Smith, Peter Kramer, Nader Nasr
  • Patent number: 12679705
    Abstract: A safety caster assembly comprising a beam assembly. The beam assembly having a pair of side plates. The safety caster assembly further comprising a safety mechanism assembly. The safety mechanism assembly having a pair of shear plates and each shear plate of the pair of shear plates has a bolt receiver corresponding to the slot. The safety caster assembly further comprising a wheel assembly. The safety caster assembly further comprising a structural cradle assembly. The structural cradle assembly having a mount. The structural cradle assembly further having a cradle positioned on the mount. The safety caster assembly having a fastener assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Inventor: Stacey W. Mack
  • Patent number: 12670753
    Abstract: A vehicle has at least one axles with wheels operated by at least one electric motor; a sound transmission system transmits a sound indicative of the operation of the axle inside the passenger compartment; said sound transmission system has at least one acoustic conduit provided with an inlet mouth arranged in the area of the axle and/or of the electric motor and with an outlet opening arranged in the area of the passenger compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: FERRARI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Ballatore, Francesco Carosone, Tomas Pedraza, Antonio Palermo
  • Patent number: 12662181
    Abstract: An item carrier includes a cooler or other container configured to store at least one item. The item carrier further includes a set of wheels rotatably attached to the container, and a pair of skis comprising a left-side ski and a right-side ski. A ski support assembly secures the pair of skis to the container and is operable to selectively reposition the pair of skis with respect to the container. By operating the ski support assembly, the item carrier may switch between a first configuration, in which the left-side and right-side skis are positioned in respective stowed positions and do not provide ski-travel ability to the container, while the set of wheels provides rolling mobility to the container, and a second configuration, in which the left-side and right-side skis are positioned in respective deployed positions at which the pair of skis provides ski-travel mobility to the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Inventor: David Santos
  • Patent number: 12643383
    Abstract: A vehicle fluid controller to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle fluid controller includes a jet generator, a wind detector, and a jet controller. The jet generator is configured to generate a jet of air and is disposed at an edge of a vehicle-body opening through which a vehicle cabin of the vehicle is allowed to be open to an outside of the vehicle. The wind detector is configured to detect a speed and a direction of wind acting on the vehicle body of the vehicle. The jet controller is configured to control the jet from the jet generator in accordance with the speed and the direction of the wind in such a manner as to disturb an airflow passing over the vehicle-body opening along a surface of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusaku Dogahira, Naoto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12643478
    Abstract: A running board assembly for a vehicle includes a body member, a first end member, and a second end member. The body member has a first end and a second end. The first end member is connected to the first end of the body member. The second end member is connected to the second end of the body member. The body member is formed by extrusion. The first and second end members are formed by die casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: NISSN NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Sam Kaddouh
  • Patent number: 12638072
    Abstract: A case includes a rotary electric machine housing chamber that houses a rotary electric machine, and an oil storage space provided in a lower part of the rotary electric machine housing chamber. At least one of a pair of output members is disposed in a space that communicates with the rotary electric machine housing chamber. An oil pump is disposed in the oil storage space at a position on a lower side of a first axis that is a rotation axis of the rotary electric machine and a second axis that is a rotation axis of the pair of output members so as to overlap an output gear in an axial view along the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Suzuki, Nozomu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12631001
    Abstract: A working vehicle includes a control valve unit, a first drive unit, a travel unit, a lower body, an upper body, a second drive unit, a cab, a plurality of work units and a plurality of traveling hydraulic motors, an operation unit, and a controller. The first drive unit includes a first hydraulic pump, a first electric motor. The controller performs a control of the first electric motor and the second electric motor to adjust a first rotation speed of the first electric motor and a second rotation speed of the second electric motor such that a total rotation speed of the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed matches a target rotation speed calculated from required amount of pressure oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: TAKEUCHI MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kobayashi, Shumpei Okutani, Kengo Kumeuchi
  • Patent number: 12626991
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a high-voltage battery, and a method of manufacturing such a motor vehicle. The high-voltage battery includes a battery housing having a tank defined by at least lateral tank walls and a tank cover to cover the lateral tank walls at an upper region of the lateral tank walls and which leaves an open at a bottom region of the tank that is covered by a carrier plate forming the base of the high-voltage battery, and a plurality of battery cells mounted vertically on the carrier plate in the battery housing such that electrical contacts of the battery cells are oriented upwardly and cell bases of the battery cells are oriented downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Bernhard Hofer, Thomas Mokina, Werner Schwarzl
  • Patent number: 12623709
    Abstract: Reconfigurable buggies are described, designed to releasably connect two individual buggies to form one in-line tandem buggy. Methods of coupling and uncoupling are also described along with a connection detail kit that a consumer may look to purchase separately to a buggy or buggies. In one aspect, the buggies are releasably coupled via a connection detail so that the first buggy is linked ahead of the second buggy via the connection detail to form an in-line tandem buggy. An advantage of the above may include versatility to the consumer allowing them to purchase individual buggies and separately a connection detail. This means the consumer may use the two buggies individually or combined together and operable by one person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: PHIL AND TEDS DESIGN LIMITED
    Inventors: Campbell Douglas Gower, Philip John Bracen
  • Patent number: 12617440
    Abstract: A wedge shaped game cart with handles and a fender over a single wheel. Struts support a forward end of the fender mounted on the handles forward of an axle for the wheel. An electric motor is mounted on the fender forward of the axle and is connected by a chain drive to a driven sprocket on the wheel. An idler sprocket for the chain drive when disconnected from the drive sprocket allows the cart to be manually pushed without engaging the motor and a cable selectively attached to the driven sprocket allows the cart to be pulled when connected to the drive sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Inventor: Bradley R. Emig
  • Patent number: 12612093
    Abstract: In one example, an organizer removably couples to a handle of a child carrier. The organizer has a tray, a storage container, and a flexible material. The tray has an opening that extends into the tray's upper end towards the tray's lower end and that can receive an item for storage. The storage container is disposed below the tray and has an open upper end and a closed bottom end. The flexible material is coupled to the tray and the storage container. The organizer transitions between an expanded configuration in which the flexible material defines sides of the organizer between the tray and the storage container, and a compact configuration in which the tray and storage container are positioned closer to one another. In another example, the child carrier has a handle that extends and retracts and that prevents installation of the organizer when the handle is extended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Daniel A. Sack, Patrick J. G. Bowers, Curtis M. Hartenstine, Andrew J. Horst, Colin F. Eggert-Crowe, Lance J. Clemmer
  • Patent number: 12606226
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a folding cart. The folding cart includes a cart frame assembly, a wheel assembly, and a handrail assembly. The cart frame assembly may include a plurality of sets of support rod assemblies and a base frame hinged to lower ends of the plurality of sets of support rod assemblies. The wheel assembly may be disposed at a lower end of the cart frame assembly to realize movement of the cart frame assembly. The handrail assembly may be disposed on the cart frame assembly. The cart frame assembly may be driven to move through the handrail assembly under an action of an external force. The handrail assembly may be rotatably connected to the cart frame assembly to make the handrail assembly rotate at least on a first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: SINOWELL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia Luo, Liang Zhou, Yunfei Duan
  • Patent number: 12595017
    Abstract: An electric off-road vehicle includes a drive assembly including an electric motor; wheels including front wheels and rear wheels; a frame assembly on which the electric motor arranged; a battery pack providing electric energy for the electric motor; and a drive train including a drive axle assembly and a drive shaft. The drive shaft is connected between the electric motor and the drive axle assembly. The electric motor transmits a torque to at least part of the drive axle assembly through the drive shaft, and the drive shaft is positioned below the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: Zhejiang CFMOTO Power Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiayang Hu, Changjiang Li, Yunqiang Huang, Fuying Cheng, Jiahui Hou
  • Patent number: 12594978
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an expandable platform cart, the core of which comprises a frame, a double-tier load-bearing platform, and an extension system. The double-tier platform supports categorized storage: the lower tier holds heavy items to lower the center of gravity, while the upper tier stores lightweight items; an X-shaped telescopic frame features a linked folding mechanism, allowing volume reduction for transport in a single step. An extension plate achieves rotational storage through oblong holes and a connecting shaft, working in tandem with the tension assembly to automatically tension and support the unfolded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: SANNWSG INC
    Inventor: Qingyun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12589787
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides a cart comprising a frame with casters underneath and sockets located above the casters with longitudinal grooves for receiving and locating uprights formed from square tubing. The frame of the cart provides storage for unused tubing in a way that forms a load-bearing surface for the cart. In one embodiment two carts can be connected side by side by square tubing to accommodate large loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: MAGNUM TOOL CORP., INC.
    Inventors: Livia Lin, Brian Liu