Patents Issued in December 24, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200398586
    Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided, including a first transport section which transports a recording medium; a recording section which is formed with a plurality of nozzles and which records an image on the recording medium by discharging ink droplets from the nozzles; an interference member which is provided at a position separated from the recording section; and a control unit which controls the recording section so that only a part of the nozzles is used for a certain area of the recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Kohei TERADA
  • Publication number: 20200398587
    Abstract: A printing device includes a printing mechanism, a first member, a second member and a RFID. The printing mechanism is configured to perform printing. The first member has a portion constituting a receiving portion. The receiving portion configured to receive therein a holder. The holder retains therein a consumable goods and is provided with a RFID. The holder is contactable with the portion of the first member when the holder is attached to the receiving portion. The second member is movable relative to the first member. The RFID reader is provided at the second member and is configured to read data stored in the RFID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Mizutani, Kentaro Murayama, Shota Iijima
  • Publication number: 20200398588
    Abstract: A web loader includes a web holder configured to hold a web, a traction member configured to hold the web holder and travel along a loading path of the web, a drive rotation body configured to drive the traction member to travel, and a limiter configured to limit a drive force applied to the drive rotation body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ohba
  • Publication number: 20200398589
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, an irradiator, a carriage, and a conveyance controller. The liquid discharge head discharges liquid to a recording medium to form a liquid application surface. The irradiator emits active energy rays toward the liquid application surface. The carriage is mounted with the liquid discharge head and the irradiator. The conveyance controller conveys the carriage. The irradiator includes a first irradiator that is provided on one side surface of the carriage in a direction in which the carriage is conveyed and a second irradiator that is provided on another side surface of the carriage in the direction in which the carriage is conveyed. A position of the first irradiator and a position of the second irradiator in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the carriage is conveyed, on irradiation of the active energy rays, are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi HADA, Daisuke MEZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200398590
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a first feeding part configured to feed print media from a first support part supporting the print media, a second feeding part configured to feed print media from a second support part supporting the print media, and a print head configured to print on the print media fed by the first feeding part or the second feeding part. Further, the printing apparatus includes a first conveying path where the print media fed by the first feeding part are conveyed to the print head, and a second conveying path where the print media fed by the second feeding part are conveyed to the print head. At least a part of the second feeding part protrudes in a predetermined spatial area within the first conveying path during a feed operation of feeding print media from the second support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Masakazu Tsukuda, Seiji Ogasawara, Takaaki Ishida, Shuichi Tokuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Kazuki Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20200398591
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a tray unit, a recording unit disposed above the tray unit, an outer guide defining a curved path extending from the tray unit to the recording unit, a sheet feeder configured to feed a sheet from the tray unit to the curved path, and a return guide disposed between the recording unit and the tray unit. The return guide pivots about a shaft and guides the sheet having an image recorded thereon back to the curved path. The tray unit includes at least one supporting portion. The return guide includes at least one supported portion. The at least one supporting portion of the tray unit engages the at least one supported portion of the return guide such that the return guide takes a guiding position in which the return guide defines a return path extending to the curved path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo ASADA, Hirotaka AOKI, Satoru NAKAKITA, Shota IIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200398592
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for printing labels (1), in particular labels provided on a liner (2). The apparatus includes at least one label feed device (3) for providing and feeding labels, a transport device (4) including at least one transport element (9, 10) for transporting the labels, which have been fed by the label feed device, in a transport direction, a printing device (11) including a printing head (11a) for printing the labels transported by the transport device, and a capturing device (12) for capturing the position of the respective label in a section of the transport device. The capturing device has a line-scan or area-scan camera (13) with which the side of the transport element that faces the labels during correct use and/or a gap (19) formed between two transport element sections (17, 18) in the transport direction is optically capturable in a capturing region (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Peter WOLFF
  • Publication number: 20200398593
    Abstract: A printer including a printing part which prints on a recording paper; a cutter part which cuts the recording paper; and a conveying part which includes a conveying route having a curving shape and through which the recording paper conveyed through the cutter part is conveyed; a conveying route cover which is attached to the conveying part and covers a portion of the conveying route; and a flapper which is provided at a curved portion of the conveying route, has a curved shape, and is rotatably attached to the conveying route cover so as to rotatably open or close relative to a main body of the printer, wherein the conveying route cover and the flapper are movable together so as to separate from or contact the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Tatsuya Oguchi, Sumio Watanabe, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20200398594
    Abstract: In one example, a system can include a media pathway to transport a media into a stacking region, a clamp pathway to move a clamp along the clamp pathway, and a registration surface. The registration surface may be positioned between an edge of the media pathway and the clamp pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Matthew REIER, Luke P SOSNOWSKI, Elliott DOWNING, Robert YRACEBURU, Arturo AYAIA, Robert Scott BEALE, Bruce G JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20200398595
    Abstract: A housing case includes a tape roll housing section configured to house a tape roll of a wound tape to be fed to a tape printing device, a tape discharge side removal portion removably provided in a first wall section, the tape discharge side removal portion to be removed to form a tape discharge in the first wall section through which the tape fed from the tape roll is fed, and a cartridge housing section configured to house a ribbon cartridge having an ink ribbon, the ribbon cartridge to be mounted into the tape printing device and being configured to hold the tape fed from the tape roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi YANAGISAWA, Akio ISHIMOTO, Mizuki BIZEN
  • Publication number: 20200398596
    Abstract: A mounting table on which a housing section including a tape supply section having a tape roll around which a tape to be sent to a tape printing device is wound, and a housing case that houses the tape supply section is mounted, the mounting table includes: a mounting surface on which the housing section is mounted; and a rotation support portion that is provided to protrude from the mounting surface, is inserted into a shaft portion of the tape supply section when the housing section is mounted on the mounting surface, and rotatably supports the tape supply section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio ISHIMOTO, Taishi SASAKI, Atsushi YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20200398597
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tape supplying body including: a tape roll on which a tape to be fed to a tape printing apparatus is wound; a first member provided on a bottom surface of the tape roll; and a second member, wherein the second member has a running-onto prevention part that is provided at an upper surface of the tape roll and prevents the tape from running onto the tape roll, a tape receiving part that is provided at a bottom surface of the first member and receives the tape dropping from the first member, and a connection part that is provided on a radially outer side of the tape roll and connects the running-onto prevention part and the tape receiving part to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki BIZEN, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Yuki HATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200398598
    Abstract: Disclosed is an accommodation body including: a tape roll accommodation part in which a tape roll on which a tape to be fed to a tape printing apparatus is wound is accommodated; a wall part that is provided with a tape discharge port from which the tape fed from the tape roll is to be discharged; and a cartridge accommodation part in which a ribbon cartridge that has an ink ribbon and is to be installed in the tape printing apparatus while retaining the tape fed from the tape roll is accommodated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki BIZEN, Taishi SASAKI, Akio ISHIMOTO, Yuki HATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200398599
    Abstract: In a seal-type thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, the total thickness thereof is 250 ?m or less, a seal portion has a layered structure in which a pressure-adhesive layer, a seal portion substrate, and a receiving layer are layered in this order from a release portion side. A release portion has a layered structure in which a surface resin layer, a release portion paper substrate, and a back face resin layer are layered in this order from a seal portion side. One or both of the seal portion substrate and the surface resin layer includes a layer made of polyethylene terephthalate is 50 ?m or more. The sum of the thickness of the seal portion substrate and the thickness of the surface resin layer is four times or more the thickness of the back face resin layer, and the thickness of the back face resin layer is 20 ?m or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo ITO, Masayuki TANI
  • Publication number: 20200398600
    Abstract: A method for producing a printed product is provided. The method capable of producing the printed product is superior in a friction fastness and a texture. And, a printing system is also provided. The method includes a printing step in which an ink composition for inkjet, containing a colorant and a crosslinkable binder component, is inkjet-printed onto a textile good to obtain a print body; and a heat-treatment step in which, by heat-treatment of the print body with steam, the crosslinkable binder component is caused to melt or soften, and to crosslink to be a film, thereby fixing the colorant to fibers of the textile good. The printing system includes a printing apparatus and a heat-treatment equipment with which a print body after printing is heat-treated with steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20200398601
    Abstract: A printing rubber blanket includes base layer, a surface rubber layer provided on one surface of the base layer and metal layer provided on the other surface of the base layer on the opposite side of the surface rubber layer. The metal layer includes a passivation layer on at least a surface thereof on the opposite side of the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ryuta TANAKA, Masakuni KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200398602
    Abstract: A modular notebook system includes a cover having a plurality of surfaces. The system also includes a binding coupled to the plurality of surfaces via a flexible and/or foldable material. The binding forms a magnetic spine by having at least one magnetic pad configured to receive a magnetically attractive binding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Jacob Epstein, Joseph Lemay
  • Publication number: 20200398603
    Abstract: An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron, John Patrick Desmet, Nathan Andrew Rowell
  • Publication number: 20200398604
    Abstract: An array of printed information sheets to be placed in a business establishment includes at least two stacks of printed information sheets being detachably connected to each other. Each stack of printed information sheets includes at least a first multiple product information sheet and a second information sheet that are removably attached to each other or to the stack. The first multiple product information sheet has printed thereon first product information about a first product to be displayed in the business establishment and a first location indicator indicating a first predetermined location in the business establishment where the first multiple product information sheet is to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Information Planning and Management Service Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest James Dale, James Fernando Jiron
  • Publication number: 20200398605
    Abstract: A writing felt pen including a barrel and a nib attached to the barrel, and a deformable pouch comprising a mix of absorbent polymer and fibres, an ink being absorbed in the absorbent polymer and the nib being in fluidic communication with the mix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Arnaud BEZ, Franck ROLION
  • Publication number: 20200398606
    Abstract: A chalk holding device may include an elongate shaft having a first end, a second end, and a bulging center portion that slightly curves away from a longitudinal axis of the elongated shaft. It is noted that the bulging center portion is configured to provide a comfortable holding portion for the user, so it is easier for the user to hold the apparatus. The chalk holding apparatus further includes a tightening ring at each of the first end and second end, which is configured to threadedly engage with the first end and the second end to secure the chalk at each end. It is noted that it is easy for the user to replace the chalk when needed. The user can simply untighten the tightening ring, replace the chalk, and secure the new chalk with the tightening ring again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Abel Ocampo
  • Publication number: 20200398607
    Abstract: A multi-function writing instrument comprises a body extending in an axial direction and a radial direction, and having at least two writing elements arranged inside the body, each writing element comprising a writing head and a button, at least one button extending in the radial direction through a window and allowing the writing element to be moved between a retracted position in which the writing head is retracted into the body and a writing position in which the writing head projects from the body, and one of the writing elements being a leadholder system comprising a leadholder mechanism and a lead container, the button of the leadholder system comprising a lead-insertion channel extending in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SOCIETE BIC
    Inventors: Arnaud BEZ, Myriam OGER, Etienne MICHENEAU, Franck ROLION
  • Publication number: 20200398608
    Abstract: There is provided an article comprising at least a first surface having: (a) a first binder layer; (b) a plurality of transparent microspheres partially embedded in the first binder layer such that about 20% to about 70% of the average diameter of the transparent microspheres is exposed at the outermost surface of the article, wherein the transparent microspheres have refractive indices that are less than a refractive index of the first binder layer and wherein the plurality of transparent microspheres consist of microspheres having a refractive index of no more than 1.490.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Vivek Krishnan, John C. Clark, Thomas B. Galush, Jean A. Tangeman
  • Publication number: 20200398609
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to surface panels for covering a building surface. The disclosure relates more particularly to a surface panel kit and system including a set of panels for attaching to a support structure. Each of the panels includes opposing ends, and each end includes one of a group of end configurations. A first end configuration is mateable with a first portion of the group and is unmateable with a second portion of the group, and a second end configuration is mateable with a third portion of the group and is unmateable with a fourth portion of the group. The set of panels includes at least three panel types including a first panel type with the first and second end configurations, a second panel type with the first and without the second end configurations, and a third panel type with the second and without the first end configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy Briggs, Brice Dubost
  • Publication number: 20200398610
    Abstract: A paint preservation device prevents leftover paint from drying by minimizing exposure of the leftover paint to air. The device may have a plunging lid for insertion into a bucket containing paint. A seal is formed between the plunging lid and the sidewall of the bucket. A hole through the lid allows air to escape when a user presses down on the lid, thereby removing the air to prevent the paint from drying. The aperture may be sealed with a cap. A tube may be attached at the aperture of the lid for extracting a smaller volume of paint from the bucket to a small container as a user presses down further on the lid, forcing paint through the tube. A method of use of a paint preservation device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Pavel Dragomir
  • Publication number: 20200398611
    Abstract: A bicycle hub assembly comprises a hub axle, a hub shell, a sprocket support body, a first ratchet member, a second ratchet member, a first biasing member, at least one receiving member, and a second biasing member. The first ratchet member is provided between the second ratchet member and the first biasing member in an axial direction. The at least one receiving member is provided between the first ratchet member and the first biasing member in a radial direction with respect to a rotational axis. The at least one receiving member includes a radially receiving part having a radially outer surface. The second biasing member contacts the radially outer surface of the radially receiving part to bias the radially receiving part toward the rotational axis in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SHIMANO INC.
    Inventor: Jun NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200398612
    Abstract: A vehicle traction mat for use to extricate a vehicle stuck on a slippery road surface is provided. The traction mat comprises at least a main mat segment having a plurality of surface cleats, knobs, and knob cleats on a road-facing surface thereof. The cleats and knobs provide traction between the traction mat and the slippery surface. The traction mat may be provided with edge mat segments foldably connected to opposite ends of the main mat segment. The traction mat may have cleats, knobs, and knob cleats on the tire-facing surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: SBI Smart Brands International (America) Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Joyce
  • Publication number: 20200398613
    Abstract: A fiber cord for reinforcing rubber includes an organic fiber covered with a resin for which the average integration value of hardness measured by AFM is 150 MPa or less. A fiber cord for reinforcing rubber which could not be achieved with prior art, can be achieved with improved initial adhesiveness and heat-resistant adhesiveness as well as excellent stress relaxation for the rubber-cord composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hayakawa, Ryohei Iwama, Yoshito Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20200398614
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes beads, apexes, an inner liner, a cushion ply, a tread rubber, sidewall rubbers, and a first carcass ply; and further includes sidewall support layers and a crown support layer. The sidewall support layers are located at the locations of sidewalls and interposed between the inner liner and the first carcass ply. The crown support layer is located at the location of a crown, and interposed between the inner liner and the first carcass ply or between the first carcass ply and the cushion ply. Both ends of the crown support layer respectively extend toward the sidewalls and are partly overlapped with the sidewall support layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Hebei Wanda Tyre Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Peng GENG, Qinghua ZHANG, Chuan LIU
  • Publication number: 20200398615
    Abstract: A tire includes tire frame members including bead cores, a bead filler, an inner liner, side-wall rubber and cushion rubber; and an electronic unit provided at an interface of tire frame members, in which the electronic unit is disposed between the tire frame members; and a carcass ply extending from one bead core to another bead core and including a rubber-coated reinforcement cord, or a belt provided on an outer side of the carcass ply in a tire-radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20200398616
    Abstract: A tire includes tire frame members including bead cores, a bead filler, an inner liner, side-wall rubber and cushion rubber; and an electronic unit provided at an interface of tire frame members, the tire further including: a carcass ply which extends from one bead core to another bead core and includes a rubber-coated reinforcement cord, a belt disposed on the outer side in the tire-radial direction of the carcass ply, in which the cushion rubber is disposed at an end of the carcass ply or at an end of the belt, in which the side-wall rubber is disposed on an outer side in a tire-width direction of the cushion rubber, and in which the electronic unit is disposed between the cushion rubber, and the bead filler or the side-wall rubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki OHTA
  • Publication number: 20200398617
    Abstract: A tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) sensor module as provided herein includes a pressure sensor configured to measure an internal air pressure of a tire and generate tire pressure information; a transducer configured to receive a structure borne sound signal induced by sound waves; a receiver circuit electrically connected to the transducer and configured to detect the structure borne sound signal and generate a detection indication that the structure borne sound signal has been detected; a processing circuit electrically connected to the pressure sensor and the receiver circuit, and configured to receive the tire pressure information from the pressure sensor, receive the detection indication from the receiver circuit, and generate a communication signal in response to receiving the detection indication; and a transmitter electrically connected to the processing circuit and configured to transmit the communication signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Michael KANDLER, Thomas ENGL, Maximilian WERNER
  • Publication number: 20200398618
    Abstract: The invention relates to design of all-terrain vehicles. The vehicle comprises a gas line which is connected to all of the wheel tires simultaneously and is coupled to a system for inflating the tires. A suspension comprises a wheel springing system connected to the wheel tires, a pneumatic drive and a system for inflating the tires, wherein the wheel springing system is configured in the form of an gas line formed from the cavities of the pipes from which a frame is welded, or is configured outside the frame, forming a closed loop that is connected to each of the tires by means of pipes with closure members, and wherein the pneumatic drive and the system for inflating the tires are constituted by an engine exhaust system which is provided with a baffle and is coupled to the air line by means of a pipe with a closure member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Aleksey Garagashyan
  • Publication number: 20200398619
    Abstract: A tyre changing apparatus (1) for demounting and mounting a tyre relative to a respective rim of a vehicle wheel (2) comprises: a frame (10); a chuck (11), connected to the frame (10) to rotate about an axis of rotation (A); a working tool (12), connected to the frame (10) and movable towards and away from the chuck; an electric motor (13), connected to the chuck (11) to impart a rotation speed and a working torque to it; a controller (14), including a power unit (141) configured to supply voltage and current as a function of a drive signal (101); a processing unit (142) configured to generate the drive signal (101) and programmed to derive a control parameter (102) representing the working torque delivered to the electric motor (13) and to apply a torque-limiting function as a function of the control parameter (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: GIULIO CORGHI
  • Publication number: 20200398620
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods of towing, hitching, and connecting devices. In particular, this disclosure relates to tow devices, hitches, and connections for towing item containers behind vehicles, both autonomous and manually guided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Leung Man Shiu, Edward F. Houston, Anthony B. Taylor, Tuyen Thanh Nguyen, Scott R. Bombaugh, Christopher Robert Simpson
  • Publication number: 20200398621
    Abstract: Connecting straps for use for example in sports activities and methods of attaching the connecting straps. In one example, a connection strap system includes a connecting strap and a peg strap configured to be attached to the connecting strap. An example of the connecting strap includes (a) a sleeve of webbing having a first end and a second end and having a loop at each end, each loop having a base and a free end, (b) disposed within the sleeve of webbing, a band of elastic material extending in a continuous loop, and (c) an attachment strap, adjacent each loop, configured to secure a portion of the band to the webbing at the base of each loop. In some cases, the band has a solid, polygonal cross-sectional shape. The peg strap has a peg-loop at each end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Eric Michael LANDIS
  • Publication number: 20200398622
    Abstract: The mounting system may be utilized for towing vehicles wherein the mounting system may selectively accommodate either a fifth wheel hitch or a gooseneck hitch. The mounting system may include a structural frame member including at least one rail capable of being connected to a vehicle frame, wherein the rail includes at least one socket. The socket may be engaged with a receiving member, wherein the receiving member may be engaged with a leg of a fifth wheel hitch. A mid rail may be connected to the rails and may include a hitch ball socket that is capable of engagement with a hitch. Also provided is an underbed hitch mounting system having at least one socket and receiving member exposed above a bed of a vehicle. The system includes trim and ring brackets configured to cover the exposed socket and receiving members along the bed of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Michael J. McGory, Piyush Pradeepkumar Khater, Joel Thomas Runyan
  • Publication number: 20200398623
    Abstract: A tri-ball trailer hitch coupler lock has three differently sized ball substitute members. A lanyard extends in two directions off a portion which adjoins the ball substitute members, with mating portions of a lock permanently attached to each free end of the lanyard. One portion of the lock terminates in a pin sized to fit in the latch pin opening of the coupler, and the other portion of the lock is matably lockable onto the pin after the pin has been extended through the coupler pin opening. The lanyard preferably passes through an opening in the adjoinment portion offset from the center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Curtis M. Bowe, Benjamin D. Fisher
  • Publication number: 20200398624
    Abstract: Autonomous craft capable of extended duration operations as lighter-than-air craft, having the ability to alight on the surface of a body of water and generate hydrogen gas for lift via electrolysis using power derived from a photovoltaic system, as well as methods of launching an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having a deployable envelope from a surface of a body of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Scott Hartshorn, Keith Daniel Humfeld
  • Publication number: 20200398625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a suspension system for an all-terrain vehicle. The suspension system includes a mount for a rear wheel shaft having a front portion and a rear portion; a toe controlling rod having an outer end coupled to the front portion and an inner end opposite the outer end; and a brake coupled to the rear portion. The present disclosure also relates to another suspension system for an all-terrain vehicle and an all-terrain vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Wei Han, Yongjun Liu
  • Publication number: 20200398626
    Abstract: The suspension system includes a stabilizer bar which has an opening. The suspension system also includes a linkage, which includes a rod-shaped link and a pair of bushings that are made of a compressible material. The link presents male threads which extend to an end face and a stop out which is spaced from the end face, and the link extends through the opening of the stabilizer bar. One of the bushings is disposed on the rod-shaped link between the stop out and the opening of the stabilizer bar, and the other bushing is disposed on the link between the opening of the stabilizer bar and the locking nut. A locking nut is threadedly engaged with the link such that the end face of the link contacts a closed end of the locking nut. The bushings are partially compressed against the stabilizer bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Brennan James Sugg, Steve Schmitt, Eric M. Kopsie, Russell Andert
  • Publication number: 20200398627
    Abstract: A method for controlling a pitch of a vehicle, in which a control unit of a vehicle controls actuators of a suspension of a vehicle, which set a pitch of the vehicle, in dependence on a slope of a roadway section of a route of the vehicle and also a control unit and a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas ZECHERLE, Harald HAGEN
  • Publication number: 20200398628
    Abstract: A powered weight distribution system is provided for a vehicle having a platform on which a load is supported. The powered weight distribution system includes a shiftable axle assembly. The shiftable axle assembly includes a drivable axle and a frame supporting the drivable axle. The frame is configured to be supported on the platform. The frame is switchable between a locked configuration in which the frame is fixed relative to the platform and an unlocked configuration in which the frame is shiftable relative to the platform. The shiftable axle assembly further includes a powering element configured to rotatably drive the drivable axle, such that the frame and the drivable axle shift relative to the platform when the frame is in the unlocked configuration and the drivable axle is rotated by the powering element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Nidec Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Schardt, Oran Henry Wiseman
  • Publication number: 20200398629
    Abstract: An inertial regulation active suspension system based on posture deviation of a vehicle and a control method thereof are provided. The system comprises a vehicle body, an inertial measurement unit, an electronic control unit, a servo controller group, a plurality of wheels, suspension servo actuating cylinders respectively corresponding to the wheels, and displacement sensors for measuring a stroke of the suspension servo actuating cylinders. The electronic control unit reads posture parameters of the vehicle body measured by the inertial measurement unit, and calculates a deviation between the postures of the vehicle body at a current moment and at a previous moment, and then outputs posture control parameters to the servo controller group. The servo controller group controls extension and retraction of each of the suspension servo actuating cylinders according to the posture control parameters and displacement feedback values of the displacement sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Dingxuan ZHAO, Mingde GONG, Shuang LIU, Zhuxin ZHANG, Zhiguo SUN, Bin YANG, Tao NI, Qinghe GUO, Mengke YANG
  • Publication number: 20200398630
    Abstract: An active vehicle height control method may include securing a road surface profile for unevenness of a road ahead of a vehicle; forming a target vehicle height profile by filtering the road surface profile; forming, by a controller, a disturbance profile using the road surface profile and the target vehicle height profile; estimating, by the controller, vehicle behavior for the disturbance profile; determining, by the controller, an inverse-phase control force that minimizes the estimated vehicle behavior; and driving, by the controller, an actuator using the inverse-phase control force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Young Il SOHN, Min Woo SOH, Ki Hong PARK
  • Publication number: 20200398631
    Abstract: Provided is a system for estimating behavior of a vehicle to control damping force of a variable damper installed between an axle and a vehicle body. The system includes four dampers installed in wheels, two or more wheel sensors configured to detect vertical velocities of wheels, one integrated sensor installed on one side of the vehicle body, and an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to control damping force of the dampers on the basis of a roll value, a pitch value, and a bounce value of the vehicle body estimated through the integrated sensor and the vertical velocities of the wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Min Sang SEONG
  • Publication number: 20200398632
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension system comprising a hydropneumatic strut comprising a fluid interface, where supply of hydraulic fluid to the strut via the fluid interface causes the overall length of the strut to increase, and withdrawal of hydraulic fluid via the fluid interface causes the overall length of the strut to decrease, a first displacement system in fluid communication with the fluid interface, capable of supplying and withdrawing fluid to and from the strut as well as measuring the volume of fluid supplied or withdrawn from the strut, a second displacement system in fluid communication with the fluid interface, and a hydraulic fluid source for selectively supplying or withdrawing hydraulic fluid from the hydropneumatic strut via either of the first or second displacement systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: The Dynamic Engineering Solution Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Michael Newstead, Max O'Connell, Phillip Kuys, Oscar Fiorinotto
  • Publication number: 20200398633
    Abstract: An integrated thermal management module for a vehicle may include a chiller; a first reservoir portion through which electric part-cooling water passes, and a second reservoir portion through which high-voltage battery-cooling water passes; a first pump that circulates the electric part-cooling water through an electric portion, and a first valve that controls cooling water that has passed through the chiller or cooling water of the first reservoir portion to be selectively circulated through the electric portion by the first pump; and a second pump that circulates the high-voltage battery-cooling water through a high-voltage battery, and a second valve that controls the cooling water that has passed through the chiller or cooling water of the second reservoir portion to be selectively circulated through the high-voltage battery by the second pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Man Ju OH, So La CHUNG, Jae Woong KIM, Sang Shin LEE
  • Publication number: 20200398634
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a fluid flow passage having an inlet and an outlet, and with a first plate and a second plate in opposed facing relation to one another. The fluid flow passage is defined by a space between the inner surfaces of the first and second plates. An electrical heating element is outside the fluid flow passage and adjacent to the outer surface of the first plate, such that heat produced by the electrical heating element is transferred through the first plate to the fluid in the fluid flow passage during use of the heat exchanger. In an embodiment, the first plate has an opening to receive a heater plate component including a first plate portion having an inner surface bonded to a turbulence-enhancing insert and an outer surface bonded to the electrical heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Brian E. CHEADLE, Michael J.R. BARDELEBEN, Jeffrey O. SHEPPARD, Benjamin A. KENNEY
  • Publication number: 20200398635
    Abstract: A method for servicing a heater core installed in a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) assembly for a motor vehicle includes removing a sealing attachment from an interfacing connection interfacing with the heater core. The method includes sliding the heater core in a direction of insertion. The method includes disconnecting, from the heater core, the interfacing connection. The method includes removing the heater core in a direction of extraction, the direction of extraction being orthogonal to the direction of insertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Rademacher, Jason Kreucher, Heather Hartman