Patents Examined by Syed A. Islam
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Patent number: 12291133Abstract: An infant car seat includes a seat base and a stability leg. The stability leg is rotatably disposed under the seat base. The stability leg includes an upper leg tube, a rotary member and a first latch. The upper leg tube includes at least one opening. The rotary member includes a pivoting portion and an encircling portion. The pivoting portion is rotatably connected to the seat base. The encircling portion is connected to the pivoting portion and slidably disposed on the upper leg tube. The first latch is disposed on the rotary member, and adapted to detachably engage with the at least one opening for constraining a movement between the rotary member and the upper leg tube.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Andrew Ma, Kyle S. Mason
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Patent number: 12291130Abstract: The present disclosure provides a seat cushion extension device for a fold-and-dive seat. The seat cushion extension device may include a pair of seat cushion side frames arranged at a predetermined interval, a seatback frame rotatably connected to the pair of seat cushion side frames and having a guide pin formed on an outer surface thereof, a seat cushion frame, a pair of links rotatably connected between the pair of seat cushion side frames and a front end of the seat cushion frame, and a pair of extension frames. Each of the pair of extension frames may have a front end connected to the seat cushion frame, and a rear end formed with a guide hole, into which a guide pin may be inserted. The seat cushion extension device may facilitate a forward extension of a seat cushion regardless of a position of a seatback of the fold-and-dive seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Dong Hoon Keum, Sang Do Park, Sang Soo Lee, Hoon Bok Lee, Mu Young Kim, Chan Ho Jung, Da Eun Lee
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Patent number: 12286039Abstract: Disclosed herein are child car seats configured to be installed in an associated vehicle using a safety belt of the associated vehicle and a top tether. The child car seat includes a seat shell supported on a base and at least one of a tensioner mechanism and a recline frame. The tensioner mechanism, which may include a panel, is configured to engage and tension each of the safety belt of the associated vehicle and the tether. The recline frame operatively attaches the seat shell to the base such that each of the seat shell and the recline frame are rotatably supported on the base, and the recline frame is further configured to permit the seat shell to recline with respect to the base.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: CYBEX GmbHInventors: Guy Dingman, Alexander Douglas Goare, Lyle James, James Meehan
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Patent number: 12285110Abstract: A bench system is provided. The bench can include a seat with an opening, a plurality of rear legs and a console door. The plurality of rear legs can include a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg. The third leg can be disposed between the first leg and the second leg and have a hollow interior. The console door can be disposed adjacent to the hollow interior of the third leg and the opening of the seat. The console door can also be movable between an open position and a closed position. The bench system can include a first bench and second bench in a stacked arrangement. A method for stacking benches is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Findlay Machine & Tool, LLCInventor: Nickolas Reinhart
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Patent number: 12286042Abstract: There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Sachio Kobayashi, Hayato Shimazaki, Kazuhiro Oshima
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Patent number: 12280700Abstract: A tray table tuning mechanism having a mount member; a pivot limiting member coupled to the mount member and having a mating surface defining a groove; a paddle arm deployment member pivotably coupled to the mount member and pivotable relative to the pivot limiting member; and a paddle arm pivotably coupled to the paddle arm deployment member, pivotable between a stowed state and a deployed state, and having at least one stop member; wherein, in the deployed state of the paddle arm, the at least one stop member is positioned within the groove and mates with the mating surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventor: Tyler L. Newbold
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Patent number: 12269372Abstract: A seat for a vehicle with a cushion tip-up and down function is provided. The seat is configured such that a cushion leg provided in a cushion is held, in a fitted manner, by a support spring of a support structure provided in a seat base, and when the cushion is rotated, the cushion leg is allowed to be folded and ejected by being automatically rotated, thereby improving the convenience of use.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Hyundai Transys Inc.Inventors: Jung Sang You, Han Su Yoo, Guk Mu Park, Dong Woo Jeong, Myung Hoe Kim, Eun Sue Kim, Dae Hee Lee, Jae Hoon Cho, Han Kyung Park, Jae Sung Shin, Hae Dong Kwak, Gwon Hwa Bok, Jun Sik Hwang
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Patent number: 12268308Abstract: Chairs are provided as frames and fabric coverings that operate together as an integrated system so that the chairs have the appearance of being permanently upholstered even while the fabric coverings can be easily detached and re-attached, such as for washing or replacement. The fabric coverings attached using a variety of attachment mechanisms including zippers, flexible loops and grooved wheels, and snap-in buttons. The detachability of the fabric coverings of the chairs allows them to be washed as frequently as desired by a consumer, using consumer washing machines, rather than requiring expensive cleaning by a specialty upholstery cleaner. These covers also allow for changing the pattern, color, and texture of the chair as frequently as the consumer desires, at a cost that is a fraction of the price of a new chair or reupholstering a chair.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Ruggable LLCInventors: Jayson Yagi, Max Sieck, Robert Westphal Vera, William Stanhope St. Amant
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Patent number: 12262817Abstract: A playground rocker provides a rigid platform with lateral side edges suspended from side rails extending along the lateral side edges of the rigid platform. The rigid platform is suspended using broad flexible belts extending along substantially full lengths of the lateral side edges of the platform with the upper edges of the belts wrapped around the side rails and lower edges attached or wrapped along the lateral side edges of the platform. The broad flexible belts allow the rigid platform to sway side to side in a direction generally perpendicular to the side rails.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: BCI Burke Company, LLCInventors: Bart Mayer, Ryan Gentner
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Patent number: 12257942Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided with a seat cushion and a seat back, the seat back includes: left and right side members extending up and down; a lower cross member extending laterally and joined to the left and right side members, a cross member extending laterally above the lower cross member and joined to the left and right side members; at least one wire member extending up and down and joined to the lower cross member and the cross member; and at least one shoulder support member supported on an upper portion of the wire member. The shoulder support member includes: a first plate part facing in a front-rear direction and joined to the upper portion of the wire member; and a second plate part facing in the front-rear direction and connected to the first plate part via a flexible part.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takanori Yamaguchi, Heehyeok Park
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Patent number: 12246788Abstract: A dropper post assembly for supporting a bicycle seat may have an outer tube and an inner tube having a clearance portion and an upper end that includes an inward facing axial stop surface that defines a laterally extending abutment plane. A spring cartridge assembly has a cartridge cross-sectional that is less than 90% of the interior cross-sectional area of the clearance portion. A lower engagement member is disposed toward a lower end of the inner tube and substantially fills a lateral between lower end of the cartridge tube and the inner tube. A post head member has a front fastening aperture, a lowermost part of which lies in a laterally extending post head plane that is disposed axially inboard from the abutment plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: D3 Innovation Inc.Inventor: Jonathan Staples
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Patent number: 12246628Abstract: The present invention is directed to a child car seat head retainer. The child car seat head retainer may comprise a two-part retainer strap. The two-part retainer strap may be adapted to couple to a car seat occupied by a child in order to retain the child's head in an upright position while the child sleeps. The two-part retainer strap may comprise a first strap segment and a second strap segment. The left end of the first strap segment may couple to the left side of the car seat. The right end of the second strap segment may couple to the right side of the car seat. The right end of the first strap segment and the left end of the second strap segment may be adapted to overlap and couple to each other in front of the child's forehead to retain the child's head.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventor: Bryon Willis
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Patent number: 12240364Abstract: A carrier body includes a main body, a headrest and a height adjusting mechanism. An engaging portion is formed on the main body. The headrest is movably disposed on the main body. The height adjusting mechanism is installed on the headrest and for cooperating with the engaging portion to adjust a height of the headrest relative to the main body. The height adjusting mechanism includes a driving component slidably disposed on the headrest and a locking component. The locking component includes a rotating connecting portion rotatably connected to the headrest, a locking portion and a driving connecting portion movably connected to the driving component. The driving component slides to drive the locking component to rotate relative to the headrest to drive the locking portion to engage with or disengage from the engaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: BAMBINO PREZIOSO SWITZERLAND AGInventor: Da Liang Zhang
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Patent number: 12240611Abstract: An aircraft seat assembly including first and second stanchions forming interior spaces open through forward slots. A seat pan is pivotally attached to the stanchions and includes rearward extensions that extend through the forward slots and are received in the interior spaces. First and second spring mechanisms reside in the respective first and second interior spaces and are attached at opposing ends to their respective stanchion and to the seat pan. In use, rotating the seat pan toward a deployed position elongates the first and second elongation springs thereby energizing a return force of the spring mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: AMI Industries, Inc.Inventors: Martin S. Day, Chad Pacheco, Douglas Foisie
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Patent number: 12240361Abstract: An infant car seat is adapted for being installed on a seat carrier. The infant car seat includes a seat shell, a latch, a release unit, and a resilient member. The seat shell is formed with a receiving space having an opening. The latch is disposed in the receiving space, and is adapted for engaging with a ledge of the seat carrier. The release unit includes an actuating member operable to drive the latch to move from a rest position, where a portion of the latch protrudes out of the opening for engaging with the ledge of the seat carrier, to a retracted position, where the latch is retracted into the receiving space. The resilient member is connected between the seat shell and the latch for biasing the latch toward the rest position.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Kyle S. Mason, Colin F. Eggert-Crowe
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Patent number: 12233758Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat that can absorb energy with a link while maintaining engagement of gears in a lifting device. One embodiment of the present disclosure is the vehicle seat including a seat cushion, a cushion frame supporting the seat cushion, and the lifting device configured to raise and lower at least a portion of the seat cushion. The lifting device includes a pinion gear held by the cushion frame, a sector gear engaged with the pinion gear, and the link to which the sector gear is fixed and which is rotatably coupled to the cushion frame. The link is made of a material with a lower yield stress than a material forming the sector gear.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hayato Matsui, Tatsuya Irie
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Patent number: 12233762Abstract: A mechanism disposed between a frame structure and a base structure, the mechanism comprising a damper including a piston rod. The damper is mechanically connected between the frame structure and the base structure in a normal mode of operation. The damper enables a longitudinal and suspended upward and downward movement of the frame perpendicular to a plane. An energy-absorbing arrangement that includes a plastically deformable absorbing element. The plastically deformable absorbing element is adapted to plastically deform in response to stresses greater than a predetermined threshold stress along an axis perpendicular to the plane. A bar mechanically attached to the plastically deformable absorbing element and having an engagement portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Mobius Protection Systems Ltd.Inventors: Anan Hasan, Oren Goor, Shy Mindel
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Patent number: 12226026Abstract: The disclosure refers to a headrest for a seat. The headrest has at least a headrest cushion which is mountable to the seat. The headrest cushion may have an adjustment device configured to at least partially deform a front surface of the headrest cushion along at least one extending direction of the headrest cushion. Further, the disclosure relates to a seat with such a headrest.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Adient US LLCInventors: Dalibor Dimovski, James D. Biebel, John J. Gomez
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Patent number: 12214701Abstract: Proposed is a recliner for a vehicle, the recliner including a mobile flange including a support portion having a multistage structure having stages with different outer diameters, an eccentric ring installed in a seating space of the mobile flange by being fitted with the support portion of the mobile flange, the eccentric ring including a corresponding end corresponding to the multistage structure of the support portion and formed on an inner surface being in contact with the support portion, a gear plate including an external gear configured to engage with the internal gear of the mobile flange, and a cam disposed between the eccentric ring and the gear plate and configured to press the gear plate to one side.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Hyundai Transys IncorporatedInventor: Seung Hun Chang
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Patent number: 12214839Abstract: The present application relates to a saddle, in particular to a saddle with a water bottle. The saddle with the water bottle adopts the following technical solution: the saddle includes a saddle body and a water bottle body, the saddle body is provided with an accommodating cavity allowing the water bottle body to be inserted thereto, and the water bottle body is fixed in position relative to the saddle body after being inserted into the accommodating cavity. The space taken up by the water bottle placed between the saddle and the front wheel is saved.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: ROYALBABY CYCLE BEIJING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yixiong Wang, Zhiwei Chao