Patents Issued in June 25, 2019
  • Patent number: 10328723
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a container; a conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium contained in the container; a recording head configured to record an image on the recording medium that has been conveyed through a conveying path by the conveying mechanism; a moving mechanism including a carriage and configured to move the carriage reciprocatingly together with the recording head; a first sensor installed in the carriage and configured to detect the recording medium; a second sensor configured to detect a change of a state of the container; a storage unit configured to store width information of the recording medium that is conveyed by the conveying mechanism; and a controller configured to control the conveying mechanism, the moving mechanism, and the recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Samoto, Yusuke Arai
  • Patent number: 10328724
    Abstract: Certain examples described herein relate to printing systems and methods of operating the same. In an example of a printing system, a porosity determiner determines a porosity of a print medium and a signal generator generates a signal relating to a state of a printing fluid collector based on the porosity determined. In an example of a method of operating a printing system, a pressure measurement is obtained from a vacuum system of the printing system when a print medium is present on a media path of the printing system. This is compared to at least one predefined pressure range and, based on the comparison, an indication is provided setting out a state of a printing fluid collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mikel Zuza Irurueta, Albert Crespi Serrano, Oriol Borrell Avila, Frederic Barnel
  • Patent number: 10328725
    Abstract: A device detects at least one position of at least a part of a printing material while the printing material is transported in a printing machine. The device includes an optical sensor for establishing a distance between a printing machine component and the printing material. The distance established by the optical sensor is temperature-compensated by a computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Stefan Knauf, Andreas Henn, Juergen Ritz, Olaf Lorenz, Thomas Schmidt, Stefan Muench, Thomas Goebel, Wolfgang Kabus, Stephanie Weinig-Kress, Stefan Mutschall, Nicklas Raymond Norrick, Steffen Neeb
  • Patent number: 10328726
    Abstract: A label creation apparatus includes a control unit that controls, at a time of continuously creating a plurality of labels by a label creation unit, the label creation unit to resume the creation of the labels from an n-th label when determining a tape-end state in which a tape end of the tape has passed through a printing position based on a detection result of a detection unit in a tape-end detection period for the n-th label, the tape-end detection period for the n-th label indicating a period from a point at which an (n?1)-th label has been determined to be completed to a point at which the n-th label has been determined to be completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinsaku Kosuge
  • Patent number: 10328727
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus of the present invention including: a printing portion which performs printing by a line type printing head; a transport portion which transports a printing medium along a transport path that faces the printing head; a region detection portion which analyzes printing data and detects a non-printing region which is a region that does not become a target of a printing operation; and a transport control portion which controls a transport speed when the non-printing region passes through the printing head to be higher than a transport speed when the other printing region passes through the printing head, in which the transport control portion performs an acceleration control at least at a part while the non-printing region passes through the printing head and performs a constant speed control while the other printing region passes through the printing head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Harigae
  • Patent number: 10328728
    Abstract: This image recording apparatus includes recording heads and a detector for detecting a thick part of a recording medium. Before the thick part reaches a recording region, printing by means of the recording heads is stopped, and the relative position of the recording heads and the recording region is switched to a retracted position in the image recording apparatus. After the thick part passes through the recording region, the relative position of the recording heads and the recording region is switched to a printing position, and the printing of a new unit image is started from a position an integral multiple of a printing period apart from a last start position. This restrains a difference between the periods of image recording positions before and after the suspension of a printing step while restraining contact between the recording heads and the thick part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takagi, Toshio Maeda
  • Patent number: 10328729
    Abstract: A printer according to an embodiment includes a communication interface that receives print data from an external device. A print head prints on a sheet, line by line according to the received print data. A motor drives a roller to transport the sheet, line by line according to the received print data. A processor configured determines, for a current print line, a target transport speed for transporting the sheet, and determines one or more intermediate speeds defined in advance and between a current transport speed of transporting the sheet and the target transport speed. The processor controls the motor to transport the sheet at each determined intermediate speed and the target transport speed, sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chen Pang Lim, Noriyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10328730
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a housing which configures at least a portion of an outside of an apparatus main body which is provided with a recorder which performs recording on a medium, a lid body which opens and closes at least a portion of a top portion of the apparatus main body and is capable of tilting, and a tilting shaft of the lid body, in which the tilting shaft is capable of being displaced in a direction intersecting an axial line direction of the tilting shaft, and in which the lid body is capable of tilting from a closed state in which a gap between the housing and an end portion of an opposite side from a free end side is filled to an opened state by the displacement of the tilting shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Shirota, Yoshiyuki Okazawa, Tetsuya Tamura, Kensuke Tamai, Shintaro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10328731
    Abstract: A printer for printing objects for marking electrical components, having a housing, a printing space formed inside of the housing, a printing device, a receiving device for a replaceable magazine for receiving the object to be printed, a control and evaluation unit, and an input and display device, wherein the receiving device can move between a loading and unloading position outside of the printing space and a printing position inside of the printing space. The printer has lower and upper housing parts, wherein the printing space, the printing device, the receiving device, and the control and evaluation unit are arranged in the lower housing part. A tablet computer is pivotably attached on the top side of the upper housing part, whereby the tablet computer can be locked in an upwardly pivoted position, and the upper housing part is mounted to pivot about a rotational axis on the lower housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sandra Klocke, Peter Isaak, Albrecht Schierholz
  • Patent number: 10328732
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Sakano
  • Patent number: 10328733
    Abstract: A sublimation thermal transfer sheet having first, second, and third dye layers frame sequentially provided on a surface of a substrate in this order, and a back-face layer provided on another surface of the substrate. The first, second, and third dye layers contain an each individual sublimable dye and an each individual binder resin. One of the first and second dye layers further contains a releasing agent selected from a first group consisting of silicone oils, silicone-modified resins and phosphoric esters, and another dye layer further contains either one or both of at least a releasing agent selected from the first group and a cellulosic resin. The third dye layer (1) contains no releasing agent of the first group, or (2) contains the releasing agent at an amount of not more than 0.3% by weight based on the total weight of the solid content of the third dye layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoda, Emi Matsuba, Junpei Oomura, Kenzo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10328734
    Abstract: A method for forming a print obtained by transferring a transfer layer from which a removal region has been accurately removed onto a transfer receiving article and a method for peeling off a transfer layer by which a removal region of the transfer layer can be accurately removed. The method for forming a print comprises, by using a transfer film in which a transfer layer is provided on one surface of a support, a thermal transfer sheet in which a peel-off layer is provided on one surface of a substrate, and a transfer receiving article, a step of removing a removal region of the transfer layer of the transfer film by means of the peel-off layer of the thermal transfer sheet and a step of transferring the transfer layer from which the removal region has been removed onto the transfer receiving article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzo Hayashi, Shinya Yoda, Yuki Iwasaki, Junpei Oomura
  • Patent number: 10328735
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material has a web-shaped substrate, having a front side and a reverse side opposite the front side, a heat-sensitive recording layer disposed to the front side of the web-shaped substrate, including at least one dye precursor and at least one (color) developer reactive with this at least one dye precursor. A front-side surface of the heat-sensitive recording material is formed dehesively with respect to layers of adhesive applied to the reverse side of the web-shaped substrate. The dehesive front-side surface includes a furnish which is disposed above the heat-sensitive recording layer and comprises at least one release agent. A diffusion layer is formed between the furnish and the heat-sensitive recording layer. A method for producing a heat-sensitive recording material of this kind, and possibilities for its use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Jagiello, Matthias Marx, Martin Schreer
  • Patent number: 10328736
    Abstract: A foil composite material usable as a layer in a card body of a portable data carrier, that includes one outer plastic layer, one inner plastic layer and one second outer plastic layer. All the layers jointly form a coextruded composite, and the plastic of one outer layer is a thermoplastic polymer or a mixture thereof. The plastic of the one inner layer is a mixture of at least one thermoplastic elastomer and at least one thermoplastic polymer. The plastic of the second outer layer is a thermoplastic polymer or a mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Riedl, Andreas Braun
  • Patent number: 10328737
    Abstract: High refractive index coatings having metal oxide particles are disclosed. Dispersions of metal oxide particles in solvent are also disclosed. These find use in the protection of surface relief structures. In some disclosed embodiments, the coatings or dispersions contain UV-curable resins. The coatings and dispersions find application in the field of security devices and documents and tokens incorporating security devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CCL Secure Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Phei Lok, Gary Fairless Power, Odisea Batistatos
  • Patent number: 10328738
    Abstract: A security element, preferably a security wire, for a secure document, may include a masking structure for reducing the visibility of a surface of the element when the latter is located inside the document or on the surface thereof, the masking structure comprising a mixture of at least two nanometric fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE SAS
    Inventors: Jacques Machizaud, Aurelie Maman, Michel Camus
  • Patent number: 10328739
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents such as for example banknotes and identity documents against counterfeit and illegal reproduction. In particular, the invention relates to processes for producing optical effect layers (OELs) comprising a motif made of at least two areas made of a single hardened layer on a substrate comprising a photomask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Evgeny Loginov, Mathieu Schmid, Claude-Alain Despland, Pierre Degott
  • Patent number: 10328740
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a slide tray having excellent practicality, convenience, and the like. [Solving Means] A slide tray includes a slide tray body having a first surface on which one or more slides can be mounted, and one or more first convex portions that protrude from the first surface of the slide tray body and set an area in which paper sheets can be mounted on the first surface while being held from one side in a first axis direction of two axis directions orthogonal to each other on the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuichi Machida, Yu Hirono, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Takamichi Yamakoshi
  • Patent number: 10328741
    Abstract: A binder including a front cover including a front cover exterior layer, a front cover interior layer, a front cover base plate between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover interior layer, an exterior pocket formed between the front cover exterior layer and the front cover base plate, and an interior opening formed through the front cover interior layer and the front cover base plate to the exterior pocket. Methods of manufacturing the binder are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventors: Dale Loree, Jim Warner
  • Patent number: 10328742
    Abstract: A new design for a marker holder and eraser has a front side and a back side, the back side having a recess. The front side has two openings for retaining markers. A metal plate and a magnet holder are disposed within the recess and an erasing material covers the recess. Projections extend from the magnet holder into openings on the front side to engage markers disposed in the openings, thereby holding the markers at any angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Chameleon Corporation, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Green, Alfred Darrel Shanbour, II
  • Patent number: 10328743
    Abstract: A writing instrument attachment includes first and second band portions and a coupling mechanism. The first band portion include a first inner surface defining a passageway along a longitudinal axis and a first outer surface having a first outer radius that encompasses the first inner surface. The second band portion is integrally affixed to an end of the first band portion. The second band portion includes a second inner surface defining a chamber along the longitudinal axis having an inner radius that is greater than the first outer radius. The coupling mechanism includes a groove located at a first position on the second inner surface and a tab located at a second position on the outer surface. The first position and the second position are collinear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: UFAB MOMS, LLC
    Inventors: Annette M. Marshall, Mellissa Dianne Craig
  • Patent number: 10328744
    Abstract: A motor fixing structure of an engraving machine is provided. A lifting platform has a through hole, at least three protruding walls spaced and arranged around the through hole, and notches each defined between every two of the protruding walls. The outer side of each notch is provided with a clamping block. The lifting platform has a radial guide hole corresponding in position to the clamping block. The clamping block has a vertical aperture. The bottom surface of the lifting platform has an adjustment seat with a peroration. The protruding walls are fitted with a turning disc. The turning disc has at least three oblique curved holes. The turning disc is pivotally connected with a shaft. A drive rod is screwed to the shaft. A quick release assembly is inserted in the corresponding oblique curved holes, the aperture and the guide hole for tightening or loosening the clamping block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: KINGSAND MACHINERY LTD.
    Inventor: Chin-Feng Chang
  • Patent number: 10328745
    Abstract: An artist's container having a bottom wall and a peripheral wall of non-uniform height surrounding the bottom wall. The peripheral wall defines a footprint of the container when viewed from the top. The container includes one or more interior walls positioned within the footprint of the container to divide the interior into a plurality of storage compartments. The container also includes a plurality of support posts. The plurality of support posts extend to varied heights above the bottom wall such that an imaginary support plane is collectively defined by the tops of the plurality of support posts. The support plane is inclined relative to the bottom wall and is configured to support an artist's palette near the edges of the palette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Be ArtSmart, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Charles D. John, Richard W. Chatham
  • Patent number: 10328746
    Abstract: A wheel hub unit having a central hub and a single central nut that includes respective shaped profiles radially oriented facing towards an axis (A) is provided. The wheel hub unit further includes an anti-unscrewing element interposed between the central hub and the single central nut to prevent accidental unscrewing of the single central nut. The anti-unscrewing element is provided with respective shaped profiles both radially oriented facing away from the axis (A) to engage with shaped profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Fabio Falsetti, Michele Appendini, Maurizio Bertola, Alessandro Galeazzi
  • Patent number: 10328747
    Abstract: A wheel fastening system for a wheeled mobile robot includes a chassis, a motor, a wheel, a thrust bearing, a stud, and a screw. The chassis has a base and a cover. The cover covers the base. The motor is disposed in the chassis. The motor has a shaft. The wheel has a hub by which the wheel is centered on the shaft of the motor. The thrust bearing is an interference fit between the wheel and the chassis and provides axial support for the wheel. The stud passes through the hub of the wheel to couple to the shaft of the motor. The screw is coupled to the stud, and is clamped between the base and the cover of the chassis. The stud and the screw prevent the wheel from radially shifting relative to the shaft of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Chun Sun, Zhan-Sheng Lu, Ze-Min Wu
  • Patent number: 10328748
    Abstract: An offset caster is described. The offset caster includes a wheel, an axle connected to the wheel, and an offset base connected to the axle. The offset base is offset by a distance. The offset base includes a connection to a computing device support. Computing device supports that include at least one offset caster are described. Systems for moving a computing device that include a computing device and a computing device support with at least one offset caster are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Young Soo Kim, Timothy Guyton Escolin, Ryan Eugene Whitaker, Kae-Ling Jacquline Gurr, Jonne Aapi Harju, Mack Ho
  • Patent number: 10328749
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel tire cord fabric or strip made of alternating PET and nylon 6.6 warp cords which is used as tire reinforcement. Such a novel tire cord fabric or strips improve high speed durability, tread separation resistance and impact resistance when used as zero degree spirally wound cap ply in pneumatic radial tires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: KORDSA TEKNIK TEKSTIL ANONIM SIRKETI
    Inventor: Mehmet Sadettin Fidan
  • Patent number: 10328750
    Abstract: Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements, a first layer C of rubber compound being placed between at least the ends of the said at least two working crown layers, a second layer S of polymer compound being in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement and the crown reinforcement comprising at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of the first layer C is less than 8 MPa, the maximum tan(?) value, denoted tan(?)max, of the first layer C is less than 0.100, and the complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60° C. on the return cycle, of the said second layer S of polymer compound is greater than 1.35 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Hichem Rehab, Jean-François Parmentier
  • Patent number: 10328751
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with a circumferentially and continuously extending zigzag shoulder main groove located adjacent to a tread edge, a shoulder lateral groove extending axially outwardly from the shoulder main groove and a central lateral groove extending axially inwardly from the shoulder main groove. The shoulder main groove includes an inner corner portion protruding axially inwardly. The central lateral groove includes a first groove portion, a second groove portion and a confluence portion at which the first groove portion and the second groove portion meet. The confluence portion of the central lateral groove is communicated with the inner corner portion of the shoulder main groove. The shoulder lateral groove is located so that an extended portion in which the shoulder lateral groove is extended axially inwardly overlaps with the confluence portion at least partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Oji
  • Patent number: 10328752
    Abstract: Adapter providing the connection between one tire bead and the rim. An axially inner end of the adapter is mounted on the rim seat, an axially outer end is mounted on the rim seat, a body connects said outer end to said inner end, a substantially cylindrical adapter seat receives one of said beads, and an adapter bearing face is substantially contained in a plane perpendicular to the axis. The reinforcer element of the axially outer end is entirely situated axially outside the bearing face. The body comprises, opposite the adapter seat, an annular seat protuberance, said protuberance comprising at least one rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Arthur Topin, Michel Ahouanto, Jacky Pineau
  • Patent number: 10328753
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a reinforcing rubber layer disposed in the sidewall portions, the reinforcing rubber layer having a crescent-like meridian cross-section. When the tire is assembled on a regular rim and in an unloaded state with an internal pressure of 0 kPa, a radius of curvature (RP) is smaller than a radius of curvature (RO), an arc of the radius of curvature (RP) joining an intersection (Pa) of a carcass layer and a straight line (La), an intersection (Pb) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lb), and an intersection (Pc) of the carcass layer and a straight line (Lc), and an arc of the radius of curvature (RO) joining an intersection (Oa) of the straight line (La) and a tire external contour, an intersection (Ob) of the straight line (Lb) and the tire external contour, and an intersection (Oc) of the straight line (Lc) and the tire external contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiraku Kouda
  • Patent number: 10328754
    Abstract: A method for self-positioning tires and a tire pressure monitoring system are provided. The method for self-positioning tires includes: acquiring first position information detected by the first positioning circuit; acquiring second position information of each emitter respectively via corresponding second positioning circuit; and acquiring corresponding relative position information respectively between the receiver and each emitter based on the first position information of the receiver and the second position information of each emitter. In this way, compared with the method for achieving self-positioning function in the art, extra wires may not be needed and the origin wires of a vehicle may not be altered in the method of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AutoChips Inc.
    Inventor: Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 10328755
    Abstract: A method and system for estimating the load acting on a tire, wherein data are obtained, representative of the deformation undergone by the tire on a rolling surface. The data obtained are processed in order to obtain a first quantity representative of the deformation extent within a first deformation region substantially corresponding to the footprint between the tire and the rolling surface and a second quantity, different from the first quantity, representative of the deformation extent in a second deformation region, the second region including the first deformation region and having a circumferential extension greater than the circumferential extension of the first deformation region, the second quantity being obtained starting from at least a part of the obtained data, which corresponds to a portion of the second deformation region which is external to the footprint. The load is estimated based on the first quantity and the second quantity thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Riccardo Tebano, Giorgio Audisio, Anna Paola Fioravanti
  • Patent number: 10328756
    Abstract: A method for detecting a displacement of a motor vehicle including a plurality of wheels each including a tire inflated by inflation gases, includes the steps of: periodically measuring (E1), at a standby frequency, the temperature of the inflation gases of the tire, comparing (E2) the values measured over a predetermined time interval for detecting movement of the vehicle, detecting (E3) a movement of the vehicle when the temperature of the inflation gases of the tire increases by at least a first predetermined temperature value during the predetermined time interval for detecting movement of the vehicle, and periodically measuring (E4), at an activation frequency higher than the standby frequency, the temperature of the inflation gases of the tire when a movement of the vehicle has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Nicolas Guinart, Christian Niggel
  • Patent number: 10328757
    Abstract: A detachable chain apparatus for use with a vehicular tire is provided. The chain apparatus includes a plurality of chain assemblies disposed on the vehicular tire, each chain assembly having an elongated cable extending through a pair of slider members to create a first end loop portion proximate the first slider member, a second end loop portion proximate the second slider member, and an intermediate parallel cable portion of the elongated cable between the pair of slider members disposed on a tread portion of the vehicular tire, a plurality of sleeves rotatably mounted to the intermediate parallel cable portion of the elongated cable, and an elastic strap coupled to both the first and second end loop portions of the elongated cable. Tension in the elastic strap secures both the first and second end loop portions of the elongated cable within an interior of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Edward Goodson
  • Patent number: 10328758
    Abstract: An anhydrous ammonia trailer hitch incorporating a base; a vehicle mounting receiver hitch fixedly attached to and extending forwardly from the base; a bolt mounted to the base, the bolt being adapted for moving between latching and releasing positions; a release plate having a first eye fitted for receiving the bolt, the bolt extending into the eye upon movement to the latching position; a remotely actuatable linear motion actuator connected operatively to the bolt for moving the bolt between the latching and releasing position; a tongue mount fixedly attached to the release plate; and at least a first safety chain mount fixedly attached to the release plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin C. Parks, John Froese
  • Patent number: 10328759
    Abstract: A snowmobile floater attachment assembly for adapting a snowmobile into a land vehicle and watercraft includes a snowmobile that has a top side and a bottom side. The snowmobile includes a left ski, a right ski and a track that extends outwardly from the bottom side. A primary floater is removably attachable to the snowmobile and provides buoyancy to a rear side of the snowmobile. A plurality of back couplers is included. Each of the back couplers removably attaches the primary floater to the snowmobile. A first ski floater and a second ski floater are included. The first ski floater is positioned on the left ski and the second ski floater is positioned on the right ski to provide buoyancy to a forward side of the snowmobile. The snowmobile floats in water when each of the primary, first ski and second ski floaters is attached to the snowmobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Inventor: Paul Sittig
  • Patent number: 10328760
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension system having a twist beam axle including a crossbeam and two trailing arms connected thereto. The rear ends of each trailing arm, in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction, having with a wheel mount for fastening a motor vehicle wheel. The front ends of each trailing arm connected via a bearing to the motor vehicle body. Each bearing associated with a MEMS designed as an actuator wherein movements of the bearings and therefore the twist beam axle about the vertical motor vehicle axis can be caused or unfavorable movements of the twist beam axle can be counteracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Arndt Dr habil, Uwe Gussen
  • Patent number: 10328761
    Abstract: A suspension controller includes a target current setting unit configured to set a target current value, a current limitation setting unit configured to set a current limitation value, a current detector configured to detect a current value of a first current supplied to a solenoid that is configured to control a damping force of a suspension, a duty ratio setting unit configured to set a duty ratio based on the target current value, based on the current limitation value, and based on the current value detected by the current detector; and a current outputting unit configured to supply the solenoid with a second current that corresponds to the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit and to a power supply voltage. The current limitation setting unit is configured to change the current limitation value based on the duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Sugimoto, Hiroaki Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10328762
    Abstract: An electric damper for a vehicle may include: a housing body fixed to a vehicle body; a gear bar including a first end coupled to a knuckle of a wheel, and a second end extending into the housing body, with a rack gear provided on the gear bar; a first intersection gear unit installed in a direction intersecting a movement direction of the gear and configured to engage with the rack gear and rotate; a first power transmitting gear unit configured to engage with the first intersection gear unit and rotate, and including a rotating shaft installed parallel to the gear bar; a rotator configured to engage with the first power transmitting gear unit, and provided in a shape enclosing an outer surface of the gear bar; and a stator installed in the housing body at a position facing the rotator and having a magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyung Ryul Park
  • Patent number: 10328763
    Abstract: A suspension apparatus may include an internal cylinder having fixing grooves, an intermediate cylinder rotatably provided around the internal cylinder to allow a shock-absorber to be moved up and down, and having connection holes, an external cylinder rotatably provided around the intermediate cylinder and having locking pins to be inserted into the fixing grooves through the connection holes such that the locking pins are decoupled from the fixing grooves, but remain inserted into the connection holes, and a driving device connected to the external cylinder to rotate the intermediate cylinder to allow the shock-absorber to be moved up and down, adjusting a height of a vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motor Company
    Inventors: Sang Hoon Lee, Chang Sin Lee, Youn Hyung Cho
  • Patent number: 10328764
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment apparatus includes a control device. The control device controls the opening degree of the solenoid valve to allow a movement amount of the support member to reach a movement amount target value that corresponds to the vehicle height set in advance, in accordance with the weight applied to the vehicle. The control device controls the opening degree of the solenoid valve to change the movement amount of the support member based on a difference between a value based on the information related to the vehicle height and a vehicle height-related target value, on condition that the movement amount of the support member reaches the movement amount target value and the value based on the information related to the vehicle height obtained by the information obtaining device does not reach the vehicle height-related target value that corresponds to the vehicle height set in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Murakami, Hiroyuki Miyata, Fumiaki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10328765
    Abstract: A device for distribution of conditioning air for vehicle turret comprises at least one air duct sheath, the sheath comprising a chute adapted to be made integral with the vehicle and a shutter adapted to be made integral with the turret. The sheath is the form of an arch of circle coaxial with the rotation axis of turret. The device comprises at least one duct in the form of an arch of circle having the same average radius as that of the sheath and able to slide with respect to the sheath between a closed position in which the duct connects one end of the sheath to another end of said sheath, or to another sheath, for continuity of airflow between the sheaths, and an open position in which the duct is slid within the sheath so as to leave a passage transverse to the sheath along a circular sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NEXTER SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Xavier Descatoire, Aymeric Peloux
  • Patent number: 10328766
    Abstract: A rooftop-mounted air-conditioning installation, in particular for the roof of a bus, has at least having a condenser unit and an evaporator unit. It has an air-flow duct with at least one air intake opening and one air discharge opening. A heat exchanger and a radial fan are arranged in the air-flow duct between the air intake opening and the air discharge opening. An axis of rotation of a fan wheel of the radial fan is oriented parallel to an air flow main direction that extends through the air-flow duct from the at least one air intake opening through the heat exchanger to the radial fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Josef Rathgeb, Oliver Haaf
  • Patent number: 10328767
    Abstract: A device for filling air conditioning systems with a refrigerant during final vehicle assembly, wherein the air conditioning system comprises a connection valve on its low and high pressure sides, via which the air conditioning system can be pressure tested, evacuated, and filled, which facilitates maintenance operations in the life cycle of the system, wherein said connection valves have different geometrical contours between the high and low pressure side and to ensure that only the respective approved refrigerant is filled into the air conditioning system, and wherein the filling is performed using a filling system brought via adapters into an operative connection with the connection valves on the low and high pressure sides. The device is designed to allow filling with two different refrigerants using just two adapters and still ensures that a proper refrigerant is filled into the respective air conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: DÜRR SOMAC GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Wöhner, Frank Wieland, Daniel Wappler
  • Patent number: 10328768
    Abstract: A temperature door for an air handling system of a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system for a vehicle includes a first sealing surface and a second sealing surface spaced apart from the first sealing surface. A third surface extends between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface. A plurality of cells is formed on the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jayanthi R. Iyer, Jim Nolta, Eric K. Haupt
  • Patent number: 10328769
    Abstract: Provided herein is a system for precise delivery of an item to a consumer by an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle. The system performs image recognition algorithms to detect a primary entrance, navigate from a street address to the primary entrance, and to validate the customer upon delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: NURO, INC.
    Inventors: David Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu, Nan Ransohoff
  • Patent number: 10328770
    Abstract: The performance of a transport refrigeration system having a transport refrigeration unit powered by a diesel engine is optimized by matching a capacity output of the transport refrigeration unit to an available shaft power of the diesel engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: John T. Steele, John R. Reason, Michael Stockbridge
  • Patent number: 10328771
    Abstract: A compressor compresses a refrigerant. A eutectic plate cools a refrigerated space. An evaporator cools the refrigerated space. A mixture of the refrigerant and an oil flows through the evaporator and the eutectic plate. A control module controls the compressor, a first valve that permits or prevents flow of the mixture to the eutectic plate, and a second valve that permits or prevents flow of the mixture to the evaporator. In response to a temperature of the refrigerated space being greater than a predetermined temperature, the control module: increases a speed of the compressor; operates the compressor at the increased speed for a predetermined time period; after the predetermined period: opens the second valve; and closes the first valve, where the control module opens the second valve before closing the first valve, and decreases the speed of the compressor after closing the first valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Emerson Climated Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn W. Vehr, Joseph James Rozsnaki
  • Patent number: 10328772
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a ratio of friction to regenerative brake effort and running an electric air conditioning compressor to collect condensed water for water injection into an engine. In one example, a method may include adjusting the air conditioning compressor load of the electric AC system and the ratio of friction to regenerative brake effort based on a water level in a water storage tank of the water injection system. Further, the method may include directing energy from regenerative braking to a battery and/or to the AC compressor in response to the battery state of charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Leone, Kenneth James Miller