Patents Issued in July 24, 2018
  • Patent number: 10029486
    Abstract: A first pattern P1 is formed with a first material for converting electromagnetic wave energy into heat energy, on a first surface BS of a print medium M including an expansion layer M2 that expands by heating. A second pattern P2 for expanding the expansion layer M2 to complement expansion of the expansion layer M2 by the first pattern P1 is formed with a second material for converting electromagnetic wave energy into heat energy, on a second surface FS which is an opposite surface of the print medium M to the first surface BS and is closer to the expansion layer M2 than the first surface BS. The first material forming the first pattern P1 is irradiated with electromagnetic waves from the first surface BS. The second material forming the second pattern P2 is irradiated with electromagnetic waves from the second surface FS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kunio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10029487
    Abstract: A printer includes a table configured to hold a substrate, an ink jet dispenser carried by a print head and configured to jet UV-curable ink onto the substrate in a target region, and a UV curing system configured to emit UV irradiance in a radiation field that covers the target region and provides sufficient intensity to at least pin the UV-curable ink in the target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Direct Color LLC
    Inventors: Blair Allen, Bill Allen, Steve Chamberland, Lawrence Erikson, Matthew Sands
  • Patent number: 10029488
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport drive roller that transports a medium, a roller support unit that supports the transport drive roller on one side in a first direction, a base member that supports the roller support unit on the one side in the first direction, and a first fulcrum portion via which the roller support unit and the base member are made to contact each other. The roller support unit is configured so as to pivot upon the first fulcrum portion about an axis oriented in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Murotani, Kenichi Miyazaki, Naotoshi Yanagidaira
  • Patent number: 10029489
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints an image on a sheet by using ink, a feed path along which the sheet is transported toward the printing unit, a switchback mechanism that, when two sides of the sheet are to be printed, switches back the sheet of which one of the two sides has been printed and sends the sheet to the feed path, and a correction roller pair capable of correcting skew of the sheet by having firm contact with the sheet transported along the feed path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akinobu Nakahata, Takamasa Ikagawa, Hiroki Chino, Yosaku Tamura
  • Patent number: 10029490
    Abstract: Paper has a detection pattern having a length in a main scanning direction, the length becoming shorter from upstream to downstream along a paper feeding direction. An image sensor detects the detection pattern and outputs a detection signal including data in the main scanning direction (length y). A control unit calculates a position of a vertex of the detection pattern, by using the detection signal, a feeding speed, an angle being half of the vertex angle of the pattern, and an imaging time, so as to correct an image forming position on the back side to coincide with an image on the front side. The detection signal from the sensor with a low operation speed is processed according to a method utilizing a shape feature and the like of the detection pattern, thereby precisely detecting the position of the paper in the feeding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Momen
  • Patent number: 10029491
    Abstract: A measuring device includes an optical device which includes a window on which light is incident, a shutter which includes a white reference surface on an optical device side and is configured to block the window, a first moving mechanism which moves the optical device in a direction, and a second moving mechanism which relatively moves the window and the shutter between a first position at which the window is blocked by the white reference surface and a second position at which light is incident on the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuo Tatsuda
  • Patent number: 10029492
    Abstract: There is provided a printing device which can suppress a decrease in printing quality with respect to a following medium which is generated when performing a consecutive overlap-feeding operation of transporting a preceding medium and a following medium together to a printing start position of the following medium in a state where the preceding medium and the following medium partially overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuji Yatsunami
  • Patent number: 10029493
    Abstract: A base material processing apparatus detects the amount of widthwise misregistration of a base material in each detection position (Po, and Pa to Pd) lying on a transport path, and then calculates a difference between a detection value in the reference position (Po) and a detection value in each of the remaining detection positions (Pa to Pd) as a meandering amount. Subsequently, the base material processing apparatus determines coefficients obtained when a variation with time in each meandering amount is applied to a predetermined model function, and thereafter calculates coefficients of the model function predicted as the meandering of the base material in each processing position (P1 to P4), based on the determined coefficients and a positional relationship between the reference position (Po), the remaining detection positions (Pa to Pd) and the processing positions (P1 to P4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamigiku, Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10029494
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a printer including an opening/closing lid, a first spring member, and a second spring member. The second spring member is separated from the opening/closing lid without applying an urging force in the closing direction to the time the opening/closing lid has pivoted from a closed state by a first predetermined angle and comes into contact with the opening/closing lid to apply the urging force when the opening/closing lid has pivoted from the closed state in the opening direction by the first predetermined angle. The opening/closing lid comprises a contacting part configured to be separated from a contacted part of the housing in the closed state, and to come into contact with the contacted part from the time the opening/closing lid has pivoted from the closed state by a second predetermined angle to the time the opening/closing lid has pivoted by a third predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10029495
    Abstract: A carriage guide surface for guiding a carriage traveling in a main scan direction, and a main scan direction regulating unit and a sub-scan direction regulating unit which position a print medium, are provided on the same member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Abe, Takeshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10029496
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus that can alleviate an adverse influence by ink mist or airflow turbulence with an inexpensive and small-sized configuration without using power. A printing unit includes a first opening that is parallel to a main scanning direction and is formed at a first surface facing a space defined between an ejection port surface having ejection ports formed thereat and a print medium and a second opening formed at a second surface that is parallel to the main scanning direction and different from the first surface. The first opening and the second opening communicate with each other via a first communication path. The first opening and the second opening are formed in different pressure regions, respectively, in which pressures different from each other are produced when the printing unit is moved in the main scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Arimizu, Masahiko Kubota, Nobuhito Yamaguchi, Yusuke Imahashi, Arihito Miyakoshi, Yoshinori Itoh
  • Patent number: 10029497
    Abstract: Gas bearing systems, print gap control systems, and methods of print gap control are provided. The gas bearing systems can accommodate one or more print module packages. The systems and methods can be used for inkjet and/or thermal printing applications such as manufacturing organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). Gas bearing systems can employ one or more of pressurized gas and vacuum. For oxygen-sensitive applications, an inert gas, such as nitrogen gas, can be employed as the pressurized gas. Fluid channels and apertures of the gas bearing systems can be varied in terms of size and relative position to one another. Fluid channels and apertures can be grouped and paired with one or more manifolds and ultimately a pressurized gas and/or vacuum source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Lowrance, Michael Miller, Sass Somekh, Conor F. Madigan, Eliyahu Vronsky, Manoocher Birang
  • Patent number: 10029498
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a first component; a second component; a first housing configured to house the first component; a second housing configured to house the second component and movably supported on an installation surface on which the printing apparatus is installed; and a connector configured to connect the second housing openably and closably to the first housing in a horizontal direction and to allow a tilt of a turning axis of the second housing to the first housing and an upward and downward movement of the second housing to the first housing upon opening and closing of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 10029499
    Abstract: A storage case 30 for a portable printer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a case body 31 configured to store a portable printer 1; a lower cover 32 configured to open and close so as to cover the lower part of the front surface in which the ejection port M, which a label is ejected after printed therefrom in the portable printer 1, is provided; an upper cover 33 configured to open and close the upper part of the front surface of the portable printer 1; and a printer holder 35 that holds the portable printer 1 in the storage case 30. The printer holder 35 includes a pair of protrusions that protrude partially to the front side of the portable printer 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ikuo Koshigoe
  • Patent number: 10029501
    Abstract: A method of identifying a component of a system, the component including an RFID tag, and the system including a reader to read a signal transmitted by the RFID tag, the method including: varying an angular position of the component relative to the reader, taking readings of the strength of the signal transmitted by the RFID tag at a plurality of angular positions of the component, storing signal strength values at the plurality of angular positions of the component, and comparing the stored signal strength values versus angular position of the component relative to the reader with expected signal strength values versus angular position of the component relative to the reader to identify whether the component is an expected component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Dover Europe Sàrl
    Inventor: Simon Starkey
  • Patent number: 10029502
    Abstract: A method of forming an image on a substrate by applying energy, involves a substrate in or on which there are at least two different colour-change agents, i.e. a first colour-change agent capable of giving rise to at least two different colours; and a second colour-change agent capable of giving rise to at least one different colour than achievable with the first colour change agent. A preferred embodiment of the invention is a multi-layer laminate comprising, in order, a layer comprising the first agent, a barrier layer, and a layer comprising the second agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DataLase Ltd.
    Inventors: Anthony N. Jarvis, Christopher Anthony Wyres, William Green, Martin Robert Walker
  • Patent number: 10029503
    Abstract: Provided is a thermal transfer sheet which has satisfactory printability and provides a printed matter having excellent boiling resistance. Disclosed is a thermal transfer sheet which is provided with a substrate, at least a transferable protective layer and a transferable color layer in this order on one side of the substrate, and is provided with a back face layer on the other side of the substrate, characterized in that the transferable protective layer contains a cyclic olefin-based polymer having a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or more as a main component and further contains an incompatible resin with the cyclic olefin-based polymer, and the transferable color layer contains a colorant and a phenolic resin having a softening point of 100° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Ishida, Masato Takao
  • Patent number: 10029504
    Abstract: A system and method for presenting data items on a card comprising a media device, a radio frequency transceiver, a memory unit and a processor. The media device is configured to render at least one type of media content items. The device is disposed on the card. The radio frequency transceiver receives a data item from at least one user terminal. The memory unit stores a set of program modules. The set of program modules comprises an input module, an output module, and an optimizer module. The input module, is configured to receive the data item from the radio frequency transceiver. The optimizer module is configured to convert the data item into a first media content item, the first media content item being in a format capable to be rendered by the media device. The output module renders the first media content item on the media device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventors: Zohreh Mizban, Mostafa Yousefi, Abazar Yousefi
  • Patent number: 10029505
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a multilayer body (100, 200, 300, 400), as well as a multilayer body (100, 200, 300, 400) produced thereby. A single- or multi-layered first decorative ply (3) is applied to a carrier ply with a first (11) and a second (12) side. A metal layer (5) is applied to the side of the first decorative ply (3) facing away from the carrier ply and structured such that the metal layer (5) is provided with a first layer thickness in one or more first zones (8) and is provided with a second layer thickness different from the first layer thickness in one or more second zones (9), wherein in particular the second layer thickness is equal to zero. A single- or multi-layered second decorative ply (7) is applied to the side of the metal layer (5) facing away from the first decorative ply (3) and structured using the metal layer (5) as mask such that the first (3) or second (7) decorative ply is at least partially removed in the first (8) or second (9) zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ludwig Brehm, Tibor Mannsfeld, Juri Attner, Thorsten Schaller
  • Patent number: 10029506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optically variable surface pattern having a substrate that comprises a first and a second surface region, the two surface regions being developed in such a way that the first surface region presents, in a first viewing angle range (?1) a bulged-appearing first depiction, and the second surface region presents, in a second viewing angle range (?2) that is different from the first viewing angle range (?1), a bulged-appearing second depiction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Fuhse
  • Patent number: 10029507
    Abstract: Identity document comprising a data medium with data. These data comprise an image of a face. This image consists of two component images that are observed at different angles. By simultaneously viewing the two images, the person studying the identity document can obtain further information about the face. This is possible because the two images are applied at a relatively small angle of 5° to 20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SDU Identification B.V.
    Inventor: Jan van den Berg
  • Patent number: 10029508
    Abstract: A method for thermoforming synthetic paper is provided, more concretely for thermoforming holding strips of synthetic paper, the strips being used to produce sheet-holding devices of a specific configuration. The devices can be used in the assembly of sheet holders such as calendars, white sheet dispensers or information cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventors: Jose Daniel Vargas-Cervantes, Mabel Guadalupe Diaz-Lopez, Eduardo Diaz-Lopez
  • Patent number: 10029509
    Abstract: A device for marking a surface, the device comprising: a body configured to store a marking substance; a guide arrangement having a first end and a second end, at least a portion of an outer surface of the guide arrangement tapering from the first end to the second end which is narrower than the first end, wherein an output path is provided through the second end at substantially the center of the guide arrangement; an activation arrangement; and a delivery arrangement which is configured, in response to triggering of the activation arrangement, to deliver a quantity of the marking substance from the body, along the output path and out of the second end, wherein, in use, a user inserts at least the second end of the guide arrangement into an aperture in an element positioned adjacent a surface until the outer surface of the guide arrangement contacts the aperture, and the user triggers the activation arrangement to deliver a quantity of the marking substance through the second end and onto the surface to mark
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Marxman Limited
    Inventor: Martin Chard
  • Patent number: 10029510
    Abstract: The invention describes an embossing stamp comprising at least a base unit in which a retaining device is disposed on one side to retain a die plate holder and an operating device is disposed on a further side. The operating device is constructed such that it directly or indirectly acts on the retaining device, wherein a pivot of the operating device is disposed in the base unit. The base unit and/or the operating device are modular in construction, wherein the side walls are at least partially formed by panels which are positioned with respect to each other and fastened via half-shells and/or connecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Trodat GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Riegler, Helmut Lindner
  • Patent number: 10029511
    Abstract: A spoke for an at least partially muscle-powered bicycle and wheel including a spoke where the spoke comprises a spoke body with a hub-side, first end and a rim-side, second end and the first end and the second end are remote from one another. The spoke body is elongated and includes at least one first center region disposed closer to the first end than to the second end, and at least one second center region disposed closer to the second end than to the first end. The first center region and in the second center region of the spoke body each include flattened cross-sections substantially accommodated in a longitudinal plane. In the second center region the spoke body is configured more asymmetric than in the first center region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DT SWISS INC.
    Inventors: Martin Walthert, Paul Schuler, Adrian Scheidegger, Jean-Paul Victor Ballard
  • Patent number: 10029512
    Abstract: A preform for fabricating a wheel rim and a method of making a preform is provided. The preform includes a main section and at least one secondary section, each section being formed from composite materials, such as triaxially braided composite material that includes fibers oriented in at least three directions. The main section forms at least part of a lateral section of the preform and the secondary section forms at least part of a radial portion of the preform, the radial portion of the preform being generally perpendicular to the lateral section of the preform. The preform is fabricated from a plurality of composite layers, at least some being custom composite layers having a plurality of axial fibers interwoven intermittently with substantially consistent first and second sets of biased fibers. In some embodiments, the preform is initially fabricated in an intermediate configuration prior to being moved to a final configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Eve Wheels LLC
    Inventor: Colin S. Snyder
  • Patent number: 10029513
    Abstract: A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member with a body mounting flange to be mounted on a knuckle that forms part of a suspension apparatus. An inner member includes a wheel hub and at least one inner ring. The inner ring is press fit onto a cylindrical portion of the wheel hub. Double row rolling elements are contained between double row inner raceway surfaces and double row outer raceway surfaces, respectively, of the inner member and the outer member. The outer member is adapted to be fastened to the knuckle through securing bolts. A vibration damping member is interposed between opposite surfaces of the body mounting flange of the outer member and the knuckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawamura, Shunsuke Morita
  • Patent number: 10029514
    Abstract: A tensioning device for bicycle front and rear wheel assemblies. A skewer assembly with a thumbnut is securable to the wheel assembly with a quick-release assembly. Portions of the skewer assembly are removable from the quick-release assembly by turning the thumbnut a partial turn, such as a quarter of a turn. Removal of the skewer assembly allows the front wheel to be removed. In another embodiment, the skewer assembly is able to be removed by turning the quick-release assembly by a partial turn, such as a quarter of a turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Darrell W. Voss
  • Patent number: 10029515
    Abstract: Tire (1) for a heavy vehicle of construction plant type with tread (2) comprising raised elements (3), separated by grooves (4), extending radially outwards from a bottom surface (5) as far as a contact face (6) over a height (H) and comprising base compound (9) and coating compound (10). Coating compound (10) has a constant maximum thickness (emax), at the contact face (6) of each raised element (3), at most equal to 0.15 H, the coating compound (10) has a constant minimum thickness (emin), at each groove bottom (8), at least equal to 0.04 H, and the elongation at break at 23° C. AR2 of the coating compound (10) is at least equal to 1.05 times the elongation at break of 23° C. AR1 of the base compound (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventor: Lucien Bondu
  • Patent number: 10029516
    Abstract: Tire comprising a tread which has at least one central rib (411-413) and two lateral ribs (421-422) which are separated by circumferential grooves (141-144), in which tire a first lateral rib (421) adjacent to the outer axial edge of the tread and at least one (and preferably each) of the central ribs have a first portion (4211, 4111, 4121, 4131) the axial width of which exceeds 2 % of the axial width of the relevant rib made and the depth of which is less than that of the relevant rib, from a rubber composition containing an elastomer and a reinforcing filler consisting predominantly of carbon black, and an axially adjacent second portion (4212, 4112, 4122, 4132) made of a rubber composition containing an elastomer and a reinforcing filler a minority proportion of which consists of carbon black, in which the rubber compositions that make up the second portion of the first lateral rib and the second portion of the central rib all have a tan 50 value which is higher than the tan 50 value of the rubber composit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Frédéric Bourgeois, François-Xavier Bruneau, Patrice Fraysse, Emmanuel Igier
  • Patent number: 10029517
    Abstract: A heavy-duty pneumatic tire includes a tread pattern including center lug grooves, shoulder lug grooves, a pair of circumferential primary grooves formed in wave-like shapes by alternately connecting ends of the center lug grooves and ends of the shoulder lug grooves and having a smaller width than the width of the shoulder lug grooves, center blocks defined by the center lug groove and the circumferential primary grooves, and a circumferential secondary groove extending in the tire circumferential direction so as to divide regions of the center blocks. The belt portion includes two or greater pairs of belts. The ratio of the width W8 of a belt having a smaller width in each of the belt pairs to the width W7 of a belt having a greater width is 0.75 or greater and 0.90 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Manabe, Shoei Kakuta, Hideki Hamanaka, Yukihito Yamaguchi, Risa Tauchi, Toshiyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10029518
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a sidewall portion provided in the outer surface with a serrated area defined by radially-extending circumferentially-arranged ridges. The serrated area has circumferentially-arranged groups each including: at least one first ridge being straight over the entire length; and a plurality of second ridges, circumferentially arranged side-by-side, and each provided with an irregular part and otherwise being straight. In each of the ridge groups, the irregular parts of the second ridges are gradually radially shifted so that the irregular parts are arranged along a line inclined with respect to a tire radial direction, and by the irregular parts, an oblique pattern is formed in the ridge group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Mukai
  • Patent number: 10029519
    Abstract: Described is an operating head (1) for a tire changer machine (2), having a longitudinal axis (L) and a supporting element (9) elongate along a transversal axis (T) relative to the longitudinal axis (L) and facing in a first direction, wherein the supporting element of (9) has a protrusion projecting along an operating direction (W) substantially perpendicular to a reference plane containing the longitudinal axis (L) and the transversal axis (T), and wherein the operating head (1) has a drive element (10), elongate along the transversal axis (T) in a second direction opposite the first direction in which the supporting element (9) faces and a fin (11) protruding in the operating direction (W) to define a guide surface (11a) inclined relative to a plane which is perpendicular to the reference plane and contains the longitudinal axis (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEXION S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giulio Corghi
  • Patent number: 10029520
    Abstract: The bead breaking unit includes: a bead breaking arm having a substantially horizontal longitudinal direction, a first extremity hinged to the base frame of a tire changing machine around a substantially vertical rotation axis and an opposite second extremity having a bead breaking tool; an operating actuator for moving the bead breaking arm interposed between the base frame and the bead breaking arm; and a control lever, associated with the bead breaking arm in proximity of the second extremity for controlling the operating actuator, wherein the control lever is hinged around an oscillation axis substantially horizontal and parallel to the longitudinal direction and is associated with return elements for maintaining the control lever in a substantially vertical balance position, the actuator being controlled in a first direction for bead breaking the tire when the control lever is rotated towards the wheel starting from the balance position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SICAM S.R.L.
    Inventors: Bjoern Dressler, Marco Vescovini, Davide Ruspaggiari
  • Patent number: 10029521
    Abstract: Described is a machine (1) for fitting and removing a tire (2) from a corresponding rim (3) of a wheel (4) of a vehicle, comprising: a wheel-holder unit (6) rotating about a first axis (A); a column (8); an upper operating head (16), provided with at least one upper fitting tool (18), at least one further tool, angularly spaced from the upper fitting tool (18), by a predetermined angle, and a wall pressing tool (21) that can be placed in a working position which is operatively in contact with the wheel simultaneously with the upper fitting tool (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEXION S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giulio Corghi
  • Patent number: 10029522
    Abstract: A vertical hitch pin for connecting a tongue to the hitch on a vehicle. The hitch pin has an elongate opening for receiving a pivoting bar. The bar rotates clockwise from a center position where the bar fits substantially inside the hitch pin during insertion of the pin through aligned openings in the trailer tongue and the hitch to a first laterally extending position where the bar is rotated under the force of gravity until a portion of the bar engages with a first portion of a surface of the body bordering the elongate opening. The bar may also be capable of rotating counterclockwise from the center position to a second laterally extending position where the bar is rotated under the force of gravity until a portion of the bar engages with a second portion of the surface of the body bordering the elongate opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Evan Gerhardt
  • Patent number: 10029523
    Abstract: A clevis and drawbar system for coupling an implement to a tractor includes a tractor that has a drawbar. A clevis is selectively positioned on the drawbar. The clevis engages a tow bar on an implement thereby facilitating the tractor to tow the implement. A pin is selectively extended through the clevis and the drawbar. The pin engages the implement thereby facilitating the implement to be coupled to the tractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Mel Pederson
  • Patent number: 10029524
    Abstract: The disclosed inventive concept provides a robust tow hook mounting structure for use with vehicles having curved frames in which the tow hook remains fixed to the vehicle during a front end impact event. The structure includes weld nuts aligned in a vehicle longitudinal direction. A frame reinforcement to which the tow hook is attached is welded to the front tip of the curved frame. Mounting bolts are aligned in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle to secure the tow hook and the tow hook reinforcement to the frame weld nuts. The shear capacity of the mounting bolts is higher than the towing capacity and the crash load during an impact event. The structure generates high bending moments that trigger favorable bending deformations in the kick down area of the frame in which the structure functions as a backup arrangement in an impact event and reduces high crash pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jungmao Michael Chang, Daniel J. McCarthy, Marwan Ahmad Elbkaily, John Martin Knittel, Viktor Kostrominov
  • Patent number: 10029525
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a chassis and a pushing device. The pushing device comprises at least one docking assembly and at least one absorber unit. The absorber unit is fixed to the chassis of the road finishing machine and comprises at least one piston-cylinder unit which comprises a cylinder and a working piston movable therein which subdivides the piston-cylinder unit into at least one first and one second chambers and is coupled to the docking assembly. The docking assembly may be positioned, by the movably mounted working piston, relative to the chassis between an extended position and at least one retracted position. In the piston-cylinder unit, at least one flow channel is provided between the first and the second chambers for letting a fluid enclosed in the piston-cylinder unit pass through, the fluid being prestressed in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Tobias Gotterbarm, Thomas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10029526
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring arm device (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising two flanges (2) arranged at a distance from each other and which are made of a first fiber composite material (4) having fibers (6) each oriented in a longitudinal direction (5) of the flanges (2). The spring arm device (1) also comprises a web (3) which connects the flanges (2) and is made of a second fiber composite material (7) having the fibers (8) oriented at positive angles to the longitudinal directions (5) of the flanges (2). The spring arm device (1) can be fastened in end regions (15) opposite to each other to vehicle parts as part of a wheel suspension. The end regions (15) comprise end segments (14) of the two flanges (2) associated with each other and each comprise an end segment (9) of the web (3) that connects the end segments (14) of the flanges (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Inventor: Tobias Keller
  • Patent number: 10029527
    Abstract: A suspension assembly includes an axle member, a first trailing beam assembly and a second trailing beam assembly. The first trailing beam assembly and the second trailing beam assembly each include a first end operably coupled to a vehicle frame and a second end that includes a downwardly opening recess, wherein the recess includes an outer periphery, the axle member is positioned within the recess, and wherein a weld extends about a periphery of the recess, thereby securing the trailing beams to the axle member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SAF-HOLLAND, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Galazin, Edward Hammer, William Broene, Greg Thorwall, Roger L. Jansen, III
  • Patent number: 10029528
    Abstract: A urethane bumper spring is produced from a urethane raw material containing a polyester-based polyol as a polyol component and diphenylmethane diisocyanate as an isocyanate component, and includes: a skin layer; and a core portion, in which the skin layer has a density (Da) and a foamed cell diameter (Ra), and the core portion has a density (Db) and a foamed cell diameter (Rb). The density (Da), the foamed cell diameter (Ra), the density (Db), and the foamed cell diameter (Rb) satisfy relationships shown in the following expressions: 1.0?Da/Db<1.34 (1) and 0.53<Ra/Rb?1.0 (2). Accordingly, the urethane bumper spring can achieve a cost reduction while having durability and settling resistance under high load and high deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasuo Suzuki, Takuya Hasegawa, Yorikazu Nakamura, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 10029529
    Abstract: A controller for determining a load weight associated with a plurality of pneumatically independent circuits of a vehicle suspension system is adapted to identify each of the respective pneumatically independent circuits, in turn, as a currently selected one of the pneumatically independent circuits, measure a respective pneumatic pressure of the currently selected one of the pneumatically independent circuits, determine a calculated pneumatic pressure based on the respective measured pneumatic pressures of the pneumatically independent circuits, determine the load weight based on the calculated pneumatic pressure, and control an operation of a function of an associated vehicle based on the load weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Joseph M. Macnamara, Jon D. Intagliata
  • Patent number: 10029530
    Abstract: A pressure damper includes: a cylinder containing fluid; a defining member disposed in the cylinder movably in an axial direction and configured to define a space in the cylinder into a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber that contain the fluid; a passage forming portion configured to form passages of the fluid that flows in accordance with a displacement of the defining member; first passages as defined herein; second passages as defined herein; a control member that opens and closes the first passages and the second passages so as to control flows of the fluid in the first passages and the second passages; and a load application member as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Tsukahara
  • Patent number: 10029531
    Abstract: A shock absorber provided with a suspension spring, the shock absorber includes a tube whose lower end portion is joined to a vehicle axle side portion provided with a tire, and a lower spring bearing that is provided on an outer circumference of the tube and supports a lower end of the suspension spring. An increased diameter part is provided on the outer circumference of the tube above the lower spring bearing, the increased diameter part having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KYB Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10029532
    Abstract: The invention relates to strut bearing with a cap and a guide ring which is mounted in a rotatable manner about a rotational axis (D) relative to the cap. An axial bearing is arranged between the cap and the guide ring, and the cap includes a soft component and a hard component. Furthermore, the soft component has at least two circumferential sealing lips which rest against the guide ring in a sliding manner in order to seal the axial bearing. According to the invention, the soft component is formed on a hard component end face oriented towards the guide ring, and a hard component end face oriented opposite the guide ring has a profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Wollner, Rainer Lutz, Ralf Stautner
  • Patent number: 10029533
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension control system is disclosed for use in load-carrying vehicles. The system controls a response of a suspension cylinder configured to support a main body of a vehicle in relation to a ground-contacting portion of the vehicle. A main accumulator is configured to contain a main compressible gas volume and is fluidly connected with the suspension cylinder. An auxiliary accumulator is configured to contain an auxiliary compressible gas volume. A valve is configured to selectively fluidly connect the auxiliary accumulator to the suspension cylinder. When the valve is open, compressing the suspension cylinder compresses both the main compressible gas volume and the auxiliary compressible gas volume. When the valve is closed, the auxiliary accumulator is fluidly isolated from the suspension cylinder. A processor is configured to automatically open or close the valve using a solenoid actuator based on one or more operating parameters of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Jason Prakash Wigg, Andrew Ellis Diecker
  • Patent number: 10029534
    Abstract: Various embodiments related to hydraulic actuators and active suspension systems as well as their methods of use are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ClearMotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Marco Giovanardi, Clive Tucker, Ross J. Wendell, Zackary Martin Anderson, Colin Patrick O'Shea, Vladimir Gorelik, Tyson David Sawyer, Jonathan R. Leehey, Johannes Schneider, Robert Driscoll, Patrick W. Neil, Shakeel Avadhany
  • Patent number: 10029535
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to a method for estimating extent of wear of a suspension system in a vehicle using a computing device. The baseline operational parameters of the suspension system are received, and motion parameters of vehicle are detected. Actual operational parameters of the suspension system are estimated based on the detected motion parameters. An alert to indicate the extent of wear of the suspension system is generated based on determining a deviation of the actual operational parameters from the actual operational parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Uwe Gussen, Christoph Arndt, Frederic Stefan
  • Patent number: 10029536
    Abstract: An HVAC system for a vehicle includes a housing, a front HVAC unit housed in the housing and having a front blower, a first airflow path, and a front air mix door, a rear HVAC unit housed in the housing and having a rear blower, a second airflow path, and a rear air mix door. The HVAC system further includes an evaporator having a first portion disposed in the first airflow path and a second portion disposed in the second airflow path, and a heating core having a first portion disposed in the first airflow path and a second portion disposed in the second airflow path. An airflow directional door is disposed between the first airflow path and the second airflow path to regulate airflow from the rear blower to the first airflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kakizaki, Junichi Kanemaru