Patents Examined by Timothy Brady
  • Patent number: 11679421
    Abstract: The invention discloses a multifunctional rigid-flexible operation engineering rescue accessory. The accessory comprises a frame, two working hydraulic cylinders, eight gripping device connecting rods, two gripping claws, a flexible cleaning device base, a movable guide sleeve, a guide slider, a guide slider rail, a rotary guide sleeve, eight sweepers brush, a functional hydraulic cylinder, and a working hydraulic motor. A gravel clearing function and a stone grabbing function are achieved by using one accessory, and different from a traditional engineering accessory integrating rigid movement, the accessory has the advantage of integrating rigid operation and flexible operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jing Zhao, Zichen Song, Ziqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11642776
    Abstract: A dismantlable portable sawhorse utilizes a bracket plate having a plank aperture and a support aperture that have lengths that are substantially orthogonal to each other and intersect to form a continuous aperture having an intersection space. The plank and support apertures are configured to receive various arrangements of plank lumber and support lumber, respectively. The bracket plate also has a front and back leg cup configured to receive leg lumber therein to lift the bracket plates up from the ground. The sawhorse is formed with two bracket plates configured with at least one of support and plank lumber configured in the respective apertures and extending between the two bracket plates and with leg lumber configured in each of the front and back leg cups of each bracket plate. The bracket plates may lean inward toward each other at a stand angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Roger Tschida, Shane Tschida
  • Patent number: 11641995
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a suction motor actuator that is actuatable to actuate the suction motor to operate in a first mode of operation and to operate in a second mode of operation, the first mode of operation defining a first discrete power level for the suction motor and the second mode of operation defining a second discrete power level for the suction motor. The first mode of operation is enabled when the first power pack having a first level of power is provided to power the surface cleaning apparatus and the second mode of operation is not enabled until a second power pack is provided such that the surface cleaning apparatus has a second level of on board power that is greater than the first level of on board power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11627851
    Abstract: A separating device that is connectable to a vacuuming device for separating dirt particles from an air stream drawn in by the vacuuming device, containing at least one separator. The at least one separator contains an inlet opening for the air stream and a first and second outlet opening, wherein the first outlet opening serves for the exit of drawn-in dirt particles from the separator and the second outlet opening serves for the exit of the drawn-in air stream and of the drawn-in dirt particles from the separator, and wherein a first and second collection vessel for collecting the dirt particles separated from the separator is contained, and wherein the first collection vessel is positioned in a direction beneath the first outlet opening and the second collection vessel is positioned in a direction beneath the second outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Oliver Ohlendorf
  • Patent number: 11617481
    Abstract: A handheld electric vacuum configured to perform sucking work includes: a pipe including a suction port at one end and a discharge port at the other end; a blower provided outside the pipe and driven by an electric motor; a handle provided outside the pipe and near the discharge port in a longitudinal direction of the pipe, and configured to be held by a hand; and an ejector provided near the suction port in the longitudinal direction of the pipe, and configured to feed pressurized wind generated by the blower into the pipe from around the pipe, and to eject the pressurized wind to the discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11602836
    Abstract: A modular workbench system for quickly and easily interchanging a portion thereof may include a workbench with a cutout therein and a modular insert panel designed to removably engage with the cutout in the workbench. The edge of the cutout may include bench grooves, such as a bench finger joint, and the modular insert panel may include insert grooves, such as an insert panel finger joint, on an outer edge thereof, wherein the insert grooves are designed to removably engage with the bench grooves. The modular insert panel may include a tool premounted thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Edgar Hartley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11596283
    Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus may include a first agitator, a second agitator, and a drive system configured to cause the second agitator to rotate concurrently with the first agitator, the drive system including at least a first magnetic gear and a second magnetic gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Jason B. Thorne, Alden Kelsey
  • Patent number: 11597074
    Abstract: A convertible sawhorse and work table assembly includes two sawhorse legs, a worktable and two pivoting support rods. The two support rods are pivotably attached to the work table near one end thereof and to one of the sawhorse legs at the other end thereof. When in the closed condition, the sawhorse legs are folded against each other, with the worktable folded along one of the legs and the two support rods folded against the other sawhorse leg. In a second condition, the sawhorse legs are pivoted away from each other with the worktable and support rods remaining folded against the legs. In a third condition, the table is pivoted upwardly away from the one sawhorse leg until it is disposed substantially horizontally above the sawhorse legs, and is then slid rearwardly relative thereto until the pivot support rods are fully extended away from the other sawhorse legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Stanley Works Israel Ltd.
    Inventors: Victoria Shechtman, Ohad Waissengreen
  • Patent number: 11590629
    Abstract: A method of processing a workpiece includes sticking an adhesive layer side of a resin sheet having a layered structure that includes the adhesive layer and a base material layer, to a support base, forming surface irregularities on a face side of the base material layer that is opposite the adhesive layer; placing a face side of the workpiece and the face side of the base material layer in facing relation to each other and pressing the workpiece against the resin sheet or pressing the resin sheet against the workpiece, thereby bringing the workpiece into intimate contact with the resin sheet to fix the workpiece to the resin sheet; holding a surface of the support base that is opposite the resin sheet on a holding surface of a chuck table, and grinding a reverse side of the workpiece with a grinding stone disposed in facing relation to the holding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Murata, Kazuhiro Koike, Byeongdeck Jang, Youngsuk Kim, Takeshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11591193
    Abstract: A jack, comprising: a top plate adapted to contact a load; a base plate positioned below the top plate; at least one actuator coupled perpendicularly between the base plate and the top plate; wherein the at least one actuator is operable to move the top plate between a lowered position and a raised position to thereby lower and raise the load; and, at least one locking assembly adapted to lock the top plate in the raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NORDIC MINESTEEL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Wayne Desormeau, Jeff Weaver, Guy Mathieu
  • Patent number: 11589721
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cleaning unit, comprising: a columnar body part having a rotation guide opening formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof; a shaft installed to reciprocate a predetermined distance in the longitudinal direction thereof in a hollow formed in the body part; a drive part that protrudes from the shaft in the radial direction thereof; a brush part that has one side installed on the outer circumferential surface of the body part along the longitudinal direction thereof and rotates on the basis of the one side as a rotation axis; and a driven part that extends from the brush part toward the drive part, passes through the rotation guide opening, and is inserted into a rotation guide groove formed in the drive part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongho Park, Sangik Lee, Woo Hong
  • Patent number: 11583151
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner including: a cleaner body configured to generate a suction force; and a suctioner configured to have a brush drum rotatably provided on a suction port sucking foreign objects by the suction force. The brush drum includes a cylindrical drum, a blade assembly provided on an outer circumferential surface of the drum to extend along a rotational shaft direction, and a cleaning member provided on the blade assembly to clean dust or the foreign objects on a cleaning surface. The blade assembly includes a cleaning member support part configured to accommodate and support a part of the cleaning member and a stopper provided in the cleaning member at intervals to restrict the cleaning member from being deformed in an opposite direction to a rotational direction of the brush drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiwon Choi, Byoungjin Lee, Kihwan Kwon, Dongjun Kim
  • Patent number: 11565384
    Abstract: A toggler structure for a ratchet wrench includes an elongated toggler arranged between a locking member and a direction switch member of the ratchet wrench. The rear side of the toggler includes at least two connecting portions. At least two elastic elements are arranged between the connecting portions of the direction switch member and the toggler in order to provide an elastic force to push the toggler to abut against the locking member. The elongated toggler can be applied to a ratchet structure of a greater thickness in order to increase the structural strength and operational torque of the ratchet wrench. Furthermore, the elastic elements can provide a uniform elastic force in the length direction of the toggler, thereby allowing the locking member to engage with the ratchet structure properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KABO TOOL COMPANY
    Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11564544
    Abstract: It is disclosed an adapter device for a vacuum cleaner comprising a hollow tubular body comprising a first end configured to engage a part of the vacuum cleaner and a second end configured to engage an accessory or a flexible tube, wherein the hollow tubular body is at least partially of a deformable material with elastic return and comprises a ring protruding radially outwards from the external surface of the tubular body. The adapter device could comprise a plurality of rings protruding radially outwards from the external surface of the tubular body. The rings of the plurality of rings could have an increasing diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEW ERMES EUROPE S.r.l.
    Inventor: Riccardo Roschi
  • Patent number: 11560295
    Abstract: A floor jack and a frame therefor including a pair of arched side plates, hubs, axles, and spreader bars are provided. A first pair and a second pair of hubs are positioned at front ends and rear ends of the arched side plates respectively. A first axle and a second axle connect the arched side plates to the first pair and the second pair of hubs at the front ends and the rear ends of the arched side plates, respectively, using pairs of adjustable collars that pivot between lower and upper positions. The spreader bars separate the arched side plates along their length. The frame is configured for use in a conventional jack or in a mega jack with increased elevation by fixing the axles to the lower or upper positions of the adjustable collars. A frame is also provided for a fixed height floor jack including non-adjustable collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Harry Gottlieb Harding, IV
  • Patent number: 11493067
    Abstract: A toolless clamp comprises a shaft, a base, a latch, a first biasing member, and a clamping member. The base has a base bore configured and arranged to slidably receive a portion of the shaft. The latch has a latch bore configured and arranged to slidably receive a portion of the shaft and a portion of the base. The first biasing member is configured and arranged to bias the latch in a first direction away from the clamping member in an unclamped position and bias the shaft and clamping member in a second direction toward the base in a clamped position. The clamping member is operatively connected to a proximal end of the shaft and is configured and arranged to disengage the connecting member when the latch is in the unclamped position and engage the connecting member when the latch is in the clamped position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Domaille Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory A. Schumacher, Jill B. Christie, Timothy E. Kanne, Peter N. Torgerson, Brian M. Fredrickson
  • Patent number: 11490774
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a surface includes a liquid delivery system for storing cleaning liquid and delivering the cleaning liquid to the surface to be cleaned, a fluid recovery system and a control system. The control system includes a controller that is coupled to a fluid level sensing assembly. Methods of operating the same include sensing foam or liquid with the fluid level sensing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: BISSELL Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Scholten, Jacob Resch, Jacob S. Boles, Bryan Lee Villaroman, Victoria J. Royale, Timothy R. Lambrix
  • Patent number: 11479450
    Abstract: A jack, comprising: a top plate having at least one adapter block mounted thereon and adapted to contact a load; an intermediate plate; a base plate; a first pair of actuators coupled between the base and intermediate plates; and, a second pair of actuators coupled between respective lowered portions of the intermediate plate and the top plate; wherein one of the first pair of actuators is positioned on the base plate on either side of the respective lowered portions; wherein the actuators are operable to move the top and intermediate plates between respective lowered and raised positions to thereby lower and raise the load; and, wherein a top adapter plate of the at least one adapter block is operable to slide between first and second positions across the top plate as the load is raised and lowered to maintain alignment of the top, intermediate, and base plates below the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: NORDIC MINESTEEL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Wayne Desormeau, Jeff Weaver, Guy Mathieu
  • Patent number: 11471015
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus is described including a housing supporting a suction source, a dirt collection container, and a cyclonic separation device for separating dirt from the airflow passing through the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a ducting member having an inlet in communication with an outlet from the cyclonic separation device and an outlet in communication with a passage leading to the suction source. The ducting member is removably connected to the housing or the dirt collection container and is rotatably moveable between locked and unlocked positions, and rotational movement of the ducting member from its unlocked position to its locked position aligns the outlet of the ducting member with the passage leading to the suction source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew James Ward, Richard David Waters, Guy Lawrence Newsom, Darren David Holmes, Steven James Rogers
  • Patent number: 11458595
    Abstract: A tool driver for a power trowel, the tool driver comprising a combination of a magnetic fastening arrangement and a hook and loop based fastening arrangement for releasably holding an abrasive tool to the tool driver, wherein the magnetic fastening arrangement is configured symmetrically around a rotational center of the tool driver, wherein the hook and loop based fastening arrangement is adapted to provide increased shear strength during abrasive operation of the tool, and wherein the magnetic fastening arrangement is adapted to provide increased pull strength during lifting of the tool driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Tchavdar V. Tchakarov, Martin Renneson