Patents Issued in June 7, 2016
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Patent number: 9358816Abstract: Upon a misfeeding of any of second and subsequent sheets in paper feeding by a paper feeding unit during duplex printing, a controller drives the paper feeding unit to perform a paper feeding retry at one or more of paper feeding timings in a paper feeding schedule for duplex printing. The paper feeding schedule for duplex printing specifies the paper feeding timings by the paper feeding unit and paper refeeding timings by a paper refeeding unit for a case other than the misfeeding of any of the second and subsequent sheets in the paper feeding by the paper feeding unit such that the sheet refed from the paper refeeding unit and the sheet fed from the paper feeding unit are alternately conveyed to a printing unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Yamagata, Masashi Hara
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Patent number: 9358817Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a conveyance unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a print medium. The conveyance unit has a belt member to convey the print medium in a state in which an end of the print medium in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the print medium is placed outside an end of the belt member in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Yuuzoh Obata, Makoto Kikura, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Kondo, Gaku Hosono, Yoshinori Uchino, Norikazu Yanase, Daisuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 9358818Abstract: A fluid ejection module mounting apparatus, including a module mount having a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, a fluid ejection module mounted to the module mount, and a clamp assembly including a recessed portion, a clamp along a wall of the recessed portion, and a lever coupled to the clamp and configured to move the clamp from an open position to a closed position. The horizontal portion has an opening configured to receive a fluid ejection module and the vertical portion has a protruding portion. The protruding portion of the module mount is configured to mate with the recessed portion of the clamp assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Von Essen, Paul A Hoisington, Michael Rocchio
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Patent number: 9358819Abstract: A printer system comprising a printer having a printhead operatively installed therein, the printer including a housing having opposing thumb screws extending outwardly therefrom, and a mount comprising a printer bracket having opposite printer bracket side members each terminating in a distally extending side member leg configured for attachment to the rail, the printer bracket side members each further having a mounting slot formed therein with a vertical slot portion and at least one horizontal slot portion and a rail bracket having a rail bracket top member with opposite substantially downwardly extending rail bracket side members terminating in outwardly extending side member legs configured for attachment to the rail, whereby the printer is received within the mount and selectively positioned therein as by engaging the thumb screws within the mounting slots so as to position the printhead as desired beneath the rail bracket top member.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventors: Nadeepuram K. Ranganathan, Barry Brucker, John P. Clary, Hugh Clary, Alexander E. Shafer, Robert Ruiz
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Patent number: 9358820Abstract: An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing. The apparatus operates the printhead or printheads in the printer to form test pattern on a thermal substrate. The heat of the materials used to form the test pattern change the optical density of the areas where the materials land. The area where the test pattern is formed is imaged and the image data are analyzed to identify inoperative inkjets.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Patricia J. Donaldson, William H. Wayman
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Patent number: 9358821Abstract: A tape cartridge is detachably installed on a cartridge installation portion of a tape printing apparatus having the cartridge installation portion and a press switch. The cartridge installation portion has an installation base portion and an installation peripheral wall portion surrounding the installation base portion and allows the tape cartridge to be installed on the cartridge installation portion. The press switch has a stem projecting in a direction crossing an installation direction of the tape cartridge and provided on the installation peripheral wall portion. The tape cartridge includes a detected portion that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the tape cartridge and corresponds to the stem when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion. The detected portion has an installation guide slant surface that presses the stem when the tape cartridge is installed on the cartridge installation portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hideki Sakano
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Patent number: 9358822Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting device (1) for connecting a stamp plate (7) to a stamp plate carrier (8) arranged, preferably in a movable manner, in a stamp housing (18), having a preferably plate-like base (2) and having at least one orienting element (4) arranged on a top side (3) of the base (2), the orienting element (4) delimiting a receiving region (5) for a stamp plate (7), the dimensions of which correspond approximately to those of an impression side (10) of the stamp plate carrier (8).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: COLOP Stempelerzeugung Skopek Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KG.Inventor: Ernst Faber
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Patent number: 9358823Abstract: An improved Braille erasure mechanism may comprise a reverse-embosser or impressing mechanism to imprint a negative Braille cell. A negative Braille cell is the reverse of a normal Braille cell, with one or more dots lowered or pressed into the printing medium in an opposite direction to the raised dots of a normal Braille cell. Because the dots of a negative Braille cell are lowered past the surface of the printing medium, they may be ordinarily undetectable to the fingers of a Braille user. Accordingly, by imprinting a full negative Braille cell on top of a Braille cell to be erased, all of the previously raised dots of the Braille cell may be lowered beyond the surface of the printing medium. Any further Braille cell embossed over the erased cell will be free from corruption, because any dot not used by the new cell will remain lowered and undetectable.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Perkins School for the BlindInventors: Michael Schmidt, Jude Jonas
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Patent number: 9358824Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multi-layered matte film comprising at last one layer of a coating comprising the condensation reaction product of the combination of a polyalkylimine and an acetoacetonate (“AcAc”)-functional material or an oxirane-functional material, each comprising an ethenic unsaturation group, the coating adhered to a sealant film layer; a sealant layer comprising a polyolefin and having a Tm within the range of from 120° C. to 170° C.; and a Flexural Modulus within the range from 500 to 1200 MPa; a core polypropylene layer; and a matte layer between the sealant layer and core layer, the matte layer comprising a blend of at least two incompatible polymers such that the Haze is at least 50%.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Jindal Films Americas LLCInventors: David A. Liestman, Dennis E. McGee
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Patent number: 9358825Abstract: In a gravure printing plate, a ratio of an area ratio of part of a second portion excluding second protrusions to the second portion, to an area ratio of a part of a portion excluding first protrusions to a portion that is part of a first portion that is located closer to the second portion than a line-shaped portion of a first protrusion located closest to the second portion ((an area ratio of the part of the second portion excluding the second protrusions to the second portion)/(an area ratio of the part of the portion excluding the first protrusions to the portion, the portion being a part of the first portion that is located closer to the second portion than the line-shaped portion of the first protrusion located closest to the second portion)) is about 0.3 or more and about 0.9 or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sawada, Yasuyuki Shimada
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Patent number: 9358826Abstract: A system for externally binding flat media by hand for presentation purposes without a need for creating a spine, hole-punching paper, permanent covers or insertion into pre-constructed sleeves. It employs a slim, external bar, placed in the margin area on the front side of a flat media stack and a rigid backing board on the rear side. The entire assembly is held together firmly by threaded bolts and adjoining screw posts that are adjusted depending upon the quantity of sheets included and their thicknesses. The stack is compressed and decompressed by tightening or loosening the threaded bolts whenever sheets are added or removed. The low-profile system firmly grips sheets with unlikely slippage, requires no heat or adhesives, and provides the ease of turning the pages or sheets as typical in a perfect-bound book. It accommodates common lengths of paper stock and fabric swatches, and multiple thicknesses within the same stack.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Michael A. Seng
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Patent number: 9358827Abstract: A note includes a note sheet having an opening and at least two slits and a binder clip. Both slits extend to touch the opening. One slit extends to touch an edge of the note. A binder clip is inserted into one of the slits and positioned to block the opening from a front view of the note.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Janet K. Lau
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Patent number: 9358828Abstract: A mechanical pencil is provided which does not require operation of removing or re-fitting a cap but allows writing immediately after supplying a writing lead. A lead fixing chuck 4 which is moved back and forth in conjunction with knock operation of a knock bar 22 to release and grip the writing lead L, and a holder chuck 9 which is provided in front of the lead fixing chuck and holds the writing lead frictionally are arranged such that the writing lead can be gradually inched out by repeating the knock operation. An open/close mechanism having an open/close valve 27 is provided in which a writing lead feeding unit is opened in a situation where the grip of the lead fixing chuck 4 on the writing lead is released by the knock operation, and the holder chuck 9 is disposed proximate to a writing lead outlet.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirotake Izawa, Kei Oomoto
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Patent number: 9358829Abstract: A ruler having an arch member on an upper surface of a ruler body for allowing the ruler body to closely contact a target object by being pressed from above. The ruler has a pair of parallel standing walls facing each other on the upper surface of the ruler body in a longitudinal direction, and the arch member is fitted along the longitudinal direction of the standing walls. In addition, bending pieces which bend inward towards each other are formed on upper end edges of the standing walls, projections which are positioned below the bending pieces project on both of outer side surfaces of the arch member, and the projections are guided by the bending pieces and are inserted between the standing walls.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: YUGEN-KAISYA TAPIROInventor: Nobuaki Iso
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Patent number: 9358830Abstract: A canvas having a border capable of being transformed into a frame or shadowbox is provided. The canvas may be blank or may be imprinted with a graphic design. The canvas may be transformed from a first orientation to a second or a third orientation wherein in the first orientation the canvas is in a generally flat configuration and wherein in the second and the third orientation the border of the canvas is folded backward to form a frame (in the second orientation) or forward to form a shadowbox (in the third orientation). In an embodiment, a slightly raised ridge may be present on the back of the canvas to allow the frame to lock into position when the canvas is folded backward. The extended tab portions of the top, the bottom, the front and the back may be removed to insert the canvas into a standard frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: DIRECT EDGE DENVER, LLCInventor: Sean McLaughlin
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Patent number: 9358831Abstract: A safety device (10) for a vehicle wheel (12), the device securing the attachment elements (16) of the rim (18) of the wheel onto a hub (14), wherein the device (10) includes elements (20) for blocking the rotation of the attachment elements and elements (21) for supporting the blocking elements on the attachment elements, the rotation-blocking elements including female parts (24) and at least one peripheral wall (26, 26I, 26E) against which the female parts abut when rotating, wherein at least a portion of the attachment elements receives a female part, the supporting elements (21) include an upper wall (36) that covers the attachment elements provided with the female parts, and the upper wall (36) blocks the translation of the female parts along the attachment elements, wherein the device includes elements (22) for rigidly connecting to the wheel, and the rigid connection is mechanically locked.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Bernard De Lima
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Patent number: 9358832Abstract: An axle assembly includes an axle member having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a first axle hub assembly operably coupled to the first end of the axle member, and a second hub assembly operably coupled to the second end of the axle member and including an axle hubcap coupled to the second end of the axle member by a first coupling arrangement located at a first position. The axle assembly further includes a mounting bracket coupled to the second hub assembly by a second coupling arrangement located at a second position that is at least a select one of inwardly and outwardly radially spaced from the first position, and a hubometer attached to the mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Helmer, Riley Carter, Perry Thomas
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Patent number: 9358833Abstract: A sealing device including a first annular rotating shield, a second annular shield, fixed and arranged in front of the first shield for delimiting therebetween a first annular chamber and a sealing ring provided with at least a first and a second annular lips that extend axially and radially project from a flange portion of the second shield and towards a flange portion of the first shield, inside the annular chamber. At least one of the first and second lips cooperates with the flange portion of the first shield without touching it for defining a first dynamic labyrinth seal therewith. The first shield integrally supports a third annular lip that extends projecting from the first shield towards one of the first and second lips without touching it for defining a second dynamic labyrinth seal between the first and second shield and inside the annular chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventor: Carmelo Gulli
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Patent number: 9358834Abstract: A backing device, adapted to equip an axlebox comprising a bearing unit and supporting an axle. The backing device comprises: (a) an inner ring having an inner surface and at least one outer surface; (b) at least one outer ring having an inner surface facing the outer surface of the inner ring; and (c) a tightening component inserted inside at least one of the inner ring and the outer ring. When actuated, the tightening component presses the inner surface of the outer ring and the outer surface of the inner ring against each other and narrow the inner surface of the inner ring by elastic deformation thereof. The axlebox can be integrated into a vehicle. Mounting and dismounting methods are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Thierry Le Moigne, Arnaud Turmeau
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Patent number: 9358835Abstract: A wheel for a non-motorized vehicle (e.g., a shopping cart) can include a housing assembly and a tread assembly. The housing assembly can be configured to sealingly house electronics or other components. The tread assembly can removably mate with the housing assembly such that the electronics or other components remain closed and/or sealed within the housing assembly when the tread assembly is mated or unmated with the housing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Gatekeeper Systems, Inc.Inventor: John C. McKay
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Patent number: 9358836Abstract: An axle mounted on a vehicle chassis includes a central box section, a first support arm connected to a first wheel and slideably mounted inside the central box section, and a second support arm connected to a second wheel and capable of longitudinal translational movement inside the first support arm, a guiding box section fixed to the central box section, including a rectangular tube and defining an external annular volume included between the central box section and the tube, and an internal volume included inside the tube, the first support arm being housed inside the external annular volume and able to be guided by the guiding box section along a first longitudinal translational path, the second support arm being housed inside the internal volume and able to be guided by the guiding box section on a second longitudinal translational path. A vehicle equipped with such an axle is described.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: HAULOTTE GROUPInventors: Eric David, Slaheddine Beji
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Patent number: 9358837Abstract: A pneumatic tire reduces the columnar resonance noise of the tire while controlling the lowering of wet performances, wherein four circumferential grooves continuously extending in the circumferential direction of the tire are disposed in a treading face and a plurality of lateral grooves each having one end opened to the circumferential groove and terminated in a land portion are formed with respect to two circumferential grooves among the four circumferential grooves, and these lateral grooves and the respective circumferential grooves have such a groove width that both groove walls of the groove do not contact with each other in a ground contact face and one or more lateral groove are always completely included in the ground contact face, and an extending length of a portion of each lateral groove in the ground contact face having a groove width of the lateral groove corresponding to not less than 30% of a groove width of the circumferential groove is made not less than 40% of an extending length of the ciType: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Keita Yumii
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Patent number: 9358838Abstract: The pneumatic tire 1 satisfies both SW?175 mm and OD/SW?3.6, where SW is the width of the pneumatic tire 1 and OD is the outer diameter of the pneumatic tire 1. Moreover, the pneumatic tire 1 satisfies both SW?175 mm and OD/RD?1.4, where SW is the width, OD is the outer diameter, and RD is the inner diameter of the pneumatic tire 1, which is the diameter of a portion of the pneumatic tire 1 (an end portion of a bead portion) in contact with a wheel in a state where the pneumatic tire 1 is fitted to the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Yukihiro Kiwaki
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Patent number: 9358839Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic tire has a belt and a tread such that ratio of width of the belt to width of the tread is greater than or equal to 0.95 and is not greater than 1.0. The tread has shoulder land portions on outer sides in axial direction, each shoulder portion has a cap layer including a body portion and a pad, the pad has complex elastic modulus greater than complex elastic modulus of the body portion, the body portion has loss tangent less than loss tangent of the pad, and each shoulder portion has ground-contact surface which has outer and inner ground-contact surfaces separated by boundary between the body portion and pad such that ratio of average ground-contact pressure of the outer ground-contact surface relative to average ground-contact pressure of the inner ground contact surface is greater than or equal to 0.85 and is not greater than 0.95.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventor: Taro Okabe
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Patent number: 9358840Abstract: Tire carrying heavy loads comprising a tread band having a plurality of grooves of transverse overall orientation, formed of at least three rubber materials: —a first material M1, in the median part of the tread band, having a secant modulus at 10% elongation measured at a temperature of 23° C. at least equal to 4.0 MPa and hysteresis losses tan(?)max greater than 0.19, —a second material M2, on the edge parts, having a secant modulus at 10% elongation, at 23° C., lower than the first material, and a hysteresis losses value tan(?)max lower than the first material and at least 0.15, —a third material M3, radially below the materials M1 and M2, having a hysteresis losses value tan(?)max lower than 0.12, —wherein first material M1 has a resistance to wear at least 15% better than the second and third materials, which have substantially the same resistance to wear.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERAL DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventor: Denis Bijaoui
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Patent number: 9358841Abstract: A winter tyre with improved traction on snow surfaces; the tyre has a tread with a raised pattern defined by a number of longitudinal and transverse grooves which form at least one longitudinal row of blocks projecting radially from a base surface of the tread. Each block has two longitudinal lateral surfaces bounding two corresponding longitudinal grooves, and two transverse lateral surfaces bounding two corresponding transverse grooves. At least one of the blocks has lateral channels, each of which is formed on the lateral surface of a corresponding block, extends from the base surface of the tread to a top surface of the block, and is designed to impede radial spin-out of snow trapped inside the lateral channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Stefano Ducci, Antonio Tirone, Alessandro Martini
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Patent number: 9358842Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 which includes a plurality of rib-shaped land portions extending in a tire-circumferential-direction and in which a circumferential groove is formed extending in the tire-circumferential-direction between the land portions. The circumferential groove is provided with an intra-groove groove formed to recess inwardly in a tire-radial-direction from the circumferential groove while having its upper ends at a groove bottom of the circumferential groove. Paired inner wall surface and outer wall surface forming the intra-groove groove each continuously extend in tire-circumferential-direction while meandering in tread-width-direction. The intra-groove groove includes a wide groove portion in which a groove width of the intra-groove groove in tread-width-direction is a predetermined width; and a narrow groove portion which is continuous with the wide groove portion and which has a narrower width than the predetermined width.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Keiichi Kato
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Patent number: 9358843Abstract: In a pneumatic tire 10, inclined grooves 120, 170 are formed, the groove 120 with groove depth becoming larger and groove width in circumferential-direction becoming smaller as the groove 120 extends toward the inner side in width-direction, the groove 170 with groove depth becoming larger and groove width in the circumferential-direction becoming smaller as the groove 170 extends toward the outer side in the width-direction. An outer end portion of the groove 120 in the width-direction is continuous with a land portion 110 and an inner end portion of the groove 120 in the width-direction extends toward circumferential groove 22 along an end portion of a land portion 160 in the circumferential-direction. An inner end portion of the groove 170 in the width-direction is continuous with the land portion 160 and the groove 170 extends along an inner end portion of the land portion 110 in the width-direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takamitsu Nakamura, Shungo Fujita
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Patent number: 9358844Abstract: Tire comprising two beads and a carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead, each bead comprising a plurality of annular reinforcing structures forming at least one anchoring alignment, parallel to a portion of the carcass reinforcement, and an additional stiffening reinforcement formed by one single alignment of at least two annular reinforcing structures and extending between a first end situated a distance H1 from the tangent to the seat-forming bead portion being 20-70% of the anchoring alignment minimum distance H0, the first end lying an axial distance L1 from the interior surface of the tire being 50-85% of the maximum axial width L0 of the bead; and a second end, the second end being radially and axially at the same level as or on the outside of the first end such that the distance LA separating the first and second ends is ?30% of the mean anchoring alignment length.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.Inventor: Luc Schaffhauser
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Patent number: 9358845Abstract: A wheel assembly for use on vehicles in rugged conditions including, without limitation, off-road and trail conditions. A rim assembly having a rim flange is supported by a central hub member. The rim flange has a bead seat and allows a tire—including an under inflated tire—to flex without chaffing or cutting of the tire. A sacrificial abrasion ring is mounted to the outer surface of the rim flange. An optional removable accessory cap can mount to the wheel assembly to prevent mud, snow and/or other debris from collecting in the center of the wheel assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Interco Tire CorporationInventor: Dennis Franklin
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Patent number: 9358846Abstract: A load estimation system and method for estimating vehicle load includes a tire rotation counter for generating a rotation count from rotation of a tire; apparatus for measuring distance travelled by the vehicle; an effective radius calculator for calculating effective radius of the tire from the distance travelled and the rotation count; and a load estimation calculator for calculating the load carried by the vehicle tire from the effective radius of the tire. A center of gravity height estimation may be made from an estimated total load carried by the tires supporting the vehicle pursuant to an estimation of effective radius for each tire and a calculated load carried by each tire from respective effective radii.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Kanwar Bharat Singh, John Michael Fenkanyn, Amrita Patel, Peter Jung-min Suh, Arthur Allen Goldstein
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Patent number: 9358847Abstract: A transmitter apparatus can detect and transmit tire information, such as tire air pressure information, even when a puncture in the tire is repaired by a repairing agent. The transmitter apparatus includes a sensor detecting the state of gas in a tire cavity region as tire information; a transmitter transmitting the detected tire information; and a wall covering the sensor and transmitter. The wall forms an internal space divided from the tire cavity region and includes a communicating hole providing communication between the internal space and tire cavity region. An inside opening part of the hole in a housing surface facing the internal space has a greater opening area than an outside opening part of the hole in the housing surface facing the tire cavity region. A wall surface facing the communicating hole includes a recessed part recessed toward the housing surface including the outside opening part.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Daisuke Kanenari
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Patent number: 9358848Abstract: A device for adapting actual tire pressure of a tire of a wheel of a vehicle axle to a current setpoint tire pressure during travel includes a chassis-side central device and a wheel-related pneumatic pressure-control device. The pressure control device includes a second connection which is at the actual tire pressure. A control valve with an open position connects a first connection to the second connection, and with a blocking position blocks this connection. A pilot control valve performs pilot control of the control valve. The pressure control device also has a bypass line, which bypasses the control valve and the pilot control valve, connects the first connection to the second connection, and has a non-return valve which opens in the inflation direction of the tire and blocks in the deflation direction of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Andras Voith, Janos Toth, Attila Mihalyi, Kornel Kantor
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Patent number: 9358849Abstract: A towing bar assembly that may convert from an articulated assembly extracting a vehicle in an inaccessible location to a rigid assembly for safely towing a vehicle on a road and having an automatic locking mechanism for locking the towing assembly in the articulated position.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Defense Products and Services Group Holding CompanyInventor: Charles Kennith Fincher
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Patent number: 9358850Abstract: A security device for a coupler for a trailer includes a bracket, a clamp lever cover, and a cover lock. The bracket is connected to the coupler, which includes a socket, a ball clamp, and a clamp lever. The clamp lever cover is engaged with the bracket and, in a secured arrangement, prevents movement of the clamp lever, thereby holding the ball clamp in a clamped arrangement, in turn retaining a hitch ball within the socket or preventing insertion of a hitch ball into the socket; in an unsecured arrangement the cover permits movement of the clamp lever from the engaged structural arrangement to the disengaged structural arrangement, thereby releasing the hitch ball or permitting insertion of a hitch ball. When unlocked the cover lock permits movement of the clamp lever cover to the unsecured arrangement; when locked retains the clamp lever cover in the secured arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Bruce H. Bale
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Patent number: 9358851Abstract: An independent wheel suspension for the non-driven wheels of a vehicle comprises a wheel carrier for rotatably mounting a wheel of the vehicle, the wheel carrier being connected to a first transverse link and a second transverse link. The first transverse link is configured to be torsionally stiff and comprises a U-shaped opening in the link. The first transverse link is connected to the vehicle body via two link bearings on a body side and is connected to the wheel carrier via two link bearings on a wheel carrier side. The wheel suspension includes a bearing spring supported on the vehicle body and on the wheel carrier and positioned within the U-shaped opening of the first transverse link.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Paul Zandbergen, Daniel Mainz, Steve Scott Allen
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Patent number: 9358852Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel suspension for motor vehicles, with at least one upper transverse arm and two lower separated transverse arms per wheel, which are each arranged at a defined angle to one another and are articulated to the body of the vehicle and also to a wheel carrier, furthermore with a track rod which acts on the steering lever of the wheel carrier and with a McPherson strut unit which, aligned at a defined angle to the vertical, is coupled to the body of the vehicle and to the forward lower transverse arm via a rubber-metal sleeve bearing. To achieve improved driving comfort of the motor vehicle it is suggested that at least the forward lower transverse arm (12) is arranged such that the coupling point (12c) of the McPherson strut unit (20) on the transverse arm (12) when the wheel is deflected viewed in the transverse direction of the vehicle (30) runs parallel to the longitudinal axis (28) of the McPherson strut unit (20).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Frank Zuge, Achim Glas, Hans-Jurgen Langhoff, Christian Bschierl
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Patent number: 9358853Abstract: A vehicle height adjusting device includes a front fork and a rear suspension capable of changing a relative position between a vehicle body frame and wheels (front wheel, rear wheel) of a motorcycle, and a control device for controlling the front fork and the rear suspension. The control device includes a driving scene determination unit that determines a driving scene of the motorcycle on the basis of driving information, and a control unit that controls the front fork and the rear suspension in response to the determined driving scene.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATIONInventor: Fumiaki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9358854Abstract: An air suspension control system for a vehicle such as an ambulance, a bus or a semi-truck. The control system includes an air supply, such as a compressor, which is configured to pneumatically communicate with a lift mechanism for moving the lift mechanism between a ride height position and a kneeling position and vice versa. The controller is configured to return or recover the lift mechanism to its ride height position during the time the lift mechanism is moving from its ride height position to its kneeling position by only deactivating the kneel input. The controller is configured to return or recover the lift mechanism to its ride height position after the lift mechanism has reached kneeling position by both deactivating the kneel input and activating the recover trigger input by pressing the brake pedal. The control system also has a transmission park feature and an ignition timer feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: LINK, MFG., LTD.Inventors: Arlin G. Sandbulte, Tye B. Davis, W. Charles Boden
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Patent number: 9358855Abstract: A vehicle air suspension system includes at least two spring bellows assigned to pneumatic springs on opposite vehicle sides of a vehicle axle. The springs can be connected via connection lines, each of which is provided with a level-regulating valve, to a main pressure line and can be shut off with respect thereto. The main pressure line can be connected via a main pressure valve alternately to a compressed air source and to a compressed air sink. The connection lines of the spring bellows are connected to each other via a connection line provided with a throttle and can be shut off by a shut-off valve. A mechanically activatable shut-off valve is coupled to one of the level-regulating valves arranged on the offside of the vehicle such that the shut-off valve is open when the level-regulating valve is closed and is closed when the level-regulating valve is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventors: Tobias Gomann, Michael Haverkamp, Andreas Rutsch
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Patent number: 9358856Abstract: A system off configuration for an automotive climate control system is provided. The climate control system includes a compressor having two downstream flow paths. The two downstream flow paths may be selectively used to provide multiple modes of operation. When the compressor moves to an off condition the valves found in each flow path immediately downstream from the compressor are closed so that a refrigerant oil blend is kept in the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Franco Ragazzi
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Patent number: 9358857Abstract: The present invention relates to an infrared sensor assembly for measuring temperature in a vehicle, including: a support bracket 3 configured to be detachably coupled with an inner surface of a garnish on one side inside the vehicle to form a base; a casing 5 configured to be detachably coupled on the support bracket 3 and form an inner installation space between the support bracket 3 and the casing 5; a main PCB 7 configured to be inserted into a PCB housing 17 so as to be interposed between the support bracket 3 and the casing 5; and an infrared sensor 9 configured to be inclinedly bound with the main PCB 7 to measure the temperature in the vehicle. By this configuration, the overall size of the infrared sensor assembly may be compacted, the infrared sensor assembly may be easily commonly used in different types of vehicles, and the infrared sensor assembly may be embedded in a garnish of an interior material, such as an A-pillar to improve an aesthetic of the interior of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Jeong Hoon Lee, Seung Cheol Song, Chang Hyu Baek
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Patent number: 9358858Abstract: An opening and closing device of an air vent for a vehicle is provided for raising or lowering the air vent so as to open or close a ventilating part. The opening and closing device includes first and second link parts rotatably provided at both sides of the ventilating part, a hydraulic cylinder part having one side fixed to the air vent and the other side connected to the first link part, a piston rod part having one side connected to the second link part and the other side slidably coupled to the hydraulic cylinder part, and an adjusting part fixing the piston rod part to not slide into the hydraulic cylinder part or release the piston rod part to be slidable.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventor: Ja Sang Song
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Patent number: 9358859Abstract: A transport refrigeration system includes a diesel engine equipped with a combustion air pressurization device, such as a turbo-charger or a supercharger. The diesel engine powers at least one component associated with the transport refrigeration system, such as a refrigeration compressor or an air-moving device.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Michael F. Taras, Russell G. Lewis, Nader S. Awwad, Benjamin E. Ferguson, John T. Steele
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Patent number: 9358860Abstract: A vehicle air vent includes a plurality of vanes installed in an air discharge port in a body to be rotatable in a horizontal direction. By coupling the vanes to each other, when a knob provided on one vane is operated, all of the vanes are rotated together, and a hinge shaft provided at each of an upper end and a lower end of each vane is inserted into and connected to a hinge hole of a spacer provided at each of an upper end and a lower end of the air discharge port of the air vent body. A damper bushing connected to a front end portion of the vane hinge shaft passing through the hinge hole is installed below the hinge hole of a spacer to which each hinge shaft of the vane provided with the knob is connected.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: NIFCO KOREA INC.Inventor: Ki Young Park
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Patent number: 9358861Abstract: The invention concerns a shade system (10,40,50) for a motor vehicle, said system being adapted to obscure a transparent bodywork element. Said shade system comprises at least one shade guideway (12), a winding shaft and lateral guide elements (18, 20) wherein are guided the lateral edges of the shade guideway (12). The lateral edges of the shade guideway (12) have each a flat and flexible driving band (22A, 22B). In order to ensure that said driving bands (22A, 22b) are wound on the winding shaft (16) and are unwound therefrom in specific manner, a lateral winding guide (28A, 28B;42;52) is arranged at the winding shaft (16) for each driving band (22A, 22B), said winding guides (28A, 28B;42;52) preventing the driving bands (22A, 22B) from being laterally offset at the winding shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: WEBASTO AGInventors: Andreas Rockelmann, Andreas Sedlmeir, Armin Frommer, Frank Koslowski
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Patent number: 9358862Abstract: A weatherstrip includes a welt section in a substantially letter U shape cross section attached to a flange, and a trim lip formed on an outer surface of an inner side wall section to cover an end edge of a vehicular body trim. The flange is held from both sides by holding lips extending obliquely toward a summit section from the inner surfaces of the respective side wall sections. A projection section is projected on a back side of the outer holding lip. When the flange is fitted, the outer holding lip is struck on the projection section and positioned.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: KINUGAWA RUBBER IND. CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi One
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Patent number: 9358863Abstract: A protective cover for a vehicle front end is formed of a stretch-recovery fabric of mesh construction with mesh openings across the entire or substantially the entire fabric. The mesh openings are large enough such that vehicle front end components covered by the protective cover remain visible to view through the protective cover. For example, the mesh openings may have opening width or diameter of about 0.25 to about 1 mm when the protective cover is in an unstretched condition. The protective cover includes one or more fasteners to engage mating fastener stud(s) on the vehicle. A stretch-recovery reinforcing material is joined to at least portion of the outer periphery of the protective cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Novigo Designs, LLCInventors: Harold D. Holeman, Andrew S. Holeman
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Patent number: 9358864Abstract: A device is provided for fastening a battery module (2) to a bodyshell (1) of a motor vehicle. The battery module has a battery (15) and a support (16) connected fixedly to the battery. The support (16) has an undercut (22) that interacts with an undercut (11) on the bodyshell. Such a connection can be produced in a simple manner and, moreover, is reliably secure in the event of a crash, in particular a rear crash of the motor vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventor: Steffen Meier
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Patent number: 9358865Abstract: A flywheel operated vehicle. The engine drives the flywheel using a differential axle, while also driving a pair of other differentials each of which is connected to a respective drive wheel. The rotation of half shafts of the pair of differentials are controlled to determine the extent of power transferred from the flywheel to the drive wheels during acceleration, and determines the power transferred from the drive wheels to the flywheel during deceleration of the vehicle. The flywheel can be tilted about a roll axis of the vehicle to counteract roll tendencies of the vehicle when turning a sharp corner.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Inventor: Raymond C. Sherry