Patents Issued in January 12, 2021
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Patent number: 10889118Abstract: In an example, a wiper system includes a first wiper blade, a second wiper blade, and a cam. In that example, the cam is coupled to the first wiper blade to move the first wiper blade to a first wipe position when the cam is in a first cam position and coupled to the second wiper blade to move the second wiper blade to a second wipe position when the cam is in a second cam position.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Francesc Tarrida Tirado, Sara Molins Cabani, Xavier Gasso Puchal
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Patent number: 10889119Abstract: A wiping device includes a wiping member configured to wipe a nozzle forming surface of a liquid discharging head that discharges a liquid from a nozzle, the wiping member containing fabric; and a pressing member configured to press the wiping member to the liquid discharging head, wherein the wiping member satisfies the following relationship 1: 0.8<(Sb/Ss)<1.2, relationship 1, where, at 60 seconds after a coloring liquid containing a coloring material and distilled water is dripped onto a surface of the wiping member in contact with the nozzle forming surface and Ss represents a spreading area of the coloring material on the surface of the wiping member in contact with the nozzle forming surface and Sb represents a spreading area of the coloring material on a surface of the wiping member not in contact with the nozzle forming surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yohta Sakon, Hiroko Ohkura, Takumi Atake, Akira Izutani
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Patent number: 10889120Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a tank, a cap, a cap detector, a notification device, and a controller. The tank is configured to store ink therein. The tank is formed with a filling port for filling ink. The cap is configured to be attached to the filling port so as to close the filling port. The cap detector is configured to detect whether the cap is attached to the filling port. The notification device is configured to output particular information. The controller is configured to control the notification device to output a warning, in response to determining based on a detection signal of the cap detector that a particular period or longer has elapsed in a state where the cap is detached from the filling port.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Ayaka Shimano
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Patent number: 10889121Abstract: In an example, a liquid dispenser is for dispensing liquid into a liquid reservoir with reduced foam formation. The liquid dispenser has a baffle element, guiding element and a discharge element. The baffle element is to receive liquid, the guiding element is to guide liquid from the baffle element to the discharge element, and the discharge element is to discharge liquid into the liquid reservoir. The baffle element, the guiding element and the discharge element are arranged in cascade to flow liquid from the baffle element to the discharge element.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.Inventors: Michael Vinokur, Alex Lipnizkiy, Shai Valdman
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Patent number: 10889122Abstract: The present subject matter relates to accessing memory units in a memory bank. In an example implementation, a bank select transistor is common to a plurality of memory units in a memory bank. The bank select transistor facilitates accessing a memory unit of the plurality of memory units based on a bank select signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Boon Bing Ng, Noorashekin Binte Jamil
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Patent number: 10889123Abstract: An ink refill container 63 includes a container main body 64 including an ink storage chamber 76, an ink outlet-forming portion 66 provided on an end portion of the container main body forming an ink outlet 65 that allows the ink to flow out from the ink storage chamber, and a valve 74 provided in the ink outlet-forming portion configured to openably seal the ink outlet, in which the ink outlet-forming portion includes a positioning portion 73 on an outer side of the ink outlet-forming portion. in which the positioning portion 73 is closer to the container main body than the valve 74 is to the container main body in a central axis direction of the ink outlet, and in which the positioning portion partially abuts against an ink tank 41-45 when the valve is opened for refilling the ink to the ink tank, to thereby position the valve relative to the ink tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Makoto Kobayashi, Naomi Kimura, Hideki Okumura, Shoma Kudo, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroaki Sakai
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Patent number: 10889124Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid accommodated in a liquid container, a detection unit that detects a remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container, and a control unit that operates in a normal mode and a special mode. In the normal mode, the control unit prohibits ejection of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when the detection unit has detected that the remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container has become smaller than a predetermined threshold value. In the second mode, the control unit allows ejection of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head with an instruction from a user as a requirement when the detection unit has detected that the remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container has become smaller than the predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventors: Ryo Oguchi, Yasuaki Hirai
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Patent number: 10889125Abstract: Provided is a printer including an ink tank having a mark at a side surface of the ink tank, a print head performing printing by using ink in the ink tank, a photoelectric conversion device provided outside the side surface having the mark among side surfaces of the ink tank, and detecting light from the ink tank, and a processing unit determining a position of an interface of the ink based on an output of the photoelectric conversion device and detecting an amount of ink in the ink tank based on a position of the mark and the position of the interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takahiro Netsu
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Patent number: 10889126Abstract: A printing method wherein a scanning-type printer, or a printer comprising a page-wide array of multiple printheads, is used for printing an image on a substrate in a plurality of adjacent swaths, the method comprising a step of determining positions of boundaries between the adjacent swaths on the basis of image contents to be printed, preferentially in such a way that artefacts are least likely to be visible.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Bianca P. S. Slaats, Eduard T. H. De Grijs
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Patent number: 10889127Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head having at least one nozzle array including a plurality of nozzles lined in a nozzle array direction; a two-dimensional image sensor to capture an image formed by the liquid discharge head; and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to divide the nozzles into a plurality of nozzle units; form a pattern including a plurality of unit patterns with liquid discharged from the nozzle units, respectively; and detect a defective nozzle based on a captured image of each of the unit patterns. The unit patterns are arranged in a staggered manner. Each unit pattern is smaller in size than an image capture range of the two-dimensional image sensor. Each unit pattern includes a number of columns of lines extending in a direction perpendicular to the nozzle array direction, and the number of columns is not smaller than twice the number of nozzle arrays.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Suguru Yokozawa, Takayuki Ito, Nobuyuki Satoh, Kohtaroh Ikegami, Kenta Sasaki
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Patent number: 10889128Abstract: An intermediate transfer member (ITM) for use with a printing system, the ITM having (a) a support layer; and (b) a release layer having an ink reception surface and a second surface opposing the ink reception surface, the second surface attached to the support layer, the release layer formed of an addition-cured, hydrophobic silicone material, wherein the release surface of the release layer has relatively hydrophilic properties with respect to the addition-cured, hydrophobic silicone material.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.Inventors: Benzion Landa, Sagi Abramovich, Moshe Levanon, Helena Chechik, Tatiana Kurtser
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Patent number: 10889129Abstract: A thermal transfer print ribbon having radiation curable ink thereon is used to print on a surface of a plastic card. The use of radiation curable thermal transfer printing to print on the card surface increases the durability of the printing compared to regular (i.e. non-radiation cured) thermal transfer printing once the radiation curable ink is cured. As a result, a protective laminate or coating need not be applied to the card surface to protect the printing.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Entrust Datacard CorporationInventor: Brian Beech
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Patent number: 10889130Abstract: A device for printing a closure device for containers includes a first body and a second body each of which has a respective relative positioning element configured at least in a step of use of the closure device, to be arranged and/or oriented with respect to each other in a predetermined position. The printing device includes a supporting device for at least one of the bodies, a device for detecting the position or orientation of the relative positioning element of the body supported by the support device, and a device for digital printing of at least one portion of the body supported by the supporting device in order to perform a printing operation in a predetermined position and/or with a predetermined orientation with respect to the position and/or orientation of the respective relative positioning element.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SACMI IMOLA S.C.Inventors: Fabrizio Pucci, Fiorenzo Parrinello, Gastone Sassatelli
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Patent number: 10889131Abstract: An irradiator that emits electromagnetic waves through a lattice-like or net-like protective member, and a controller that causes the irradiator to irradiate an irradiation target with the electromagnetic waves while causing relative movement between the irradiation target and the irradiator in a first direction. The protective member is configured or disposed such that no more than one lattice of a plurality of lattices and no more than one node of a plurality of nodes that are formed in the protection member exist in a row along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinji Nagumo
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Patent number: 10889132Abstract: A machine for digital printing on tape, which comprises a frame that supports elements of entraining at least one tape along an advancement path and is provided with at least one printing assembly, which comprises at least one ink-jet printing head; downstream of the printing assembly, along the advancement direction of the tape, there is at least one assembly for drying the inks applied to the tape; the drying assembly comprises a temperature-adjustable drum for supporting and entraining the tape, adhesion elements adapted to allow the retention in adhesion of the tape on the outer lateral surface of the drum, and hot air emitter elements which face at least one portion of the outer lateral surface of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: UTECO CONVERTING S.P.A.Inventors: Agostino Pertile, Mauro Cattaruzza, Stefano Russo, Mario Gazzani
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Patent number: 10889133Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a liquid ejector configured to eject liquid droplets towards a medium. A particle delivery device is configured to deliver particles to the medium. The particles are configured to combine with at least some of the liquid droplets and change at least one property of the liquid droplets. The particle delivery device is configured to deliver the particles after or substantially simultaneously as the liquid droplets are ejected. A curing device is configured to cure the combination of the liquid droplets and the particles onto the medium. A controller is configured to independently control the liquid ejector and the particle delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Warren B. Jackson, Robert Street, Steven E. Ready
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Patent number: 10889134Abstract: To shorten the time to be taken to start executing a process to handle conveyance trouble of a print medium after the occurrence of the conveyance trouble, a printing apparatus of the present invention, upon sensing of conveyance trouble by a sensing unit during a printing operation, stops the conveyance of the print medium in the conveyance trouble and any print medium located upstream of it, and moves a printing head from a first position at which the printing head performs printing on a print medium to a second position to which the printing head is retreated from the first position, in parallel with a discharge operation for conveying, to a discharge unit, any print medium located downstream of the print medium in the conveyance trouble.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takaaki Ishida, Seiji Ogasawara, Masakazu Tsukuda, Shuichi Tokuda, Masaaki Matsuura, Kazuki Matsuo, Tomofumi Nishida, Yuna Hattori
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Patent number: 10889135Abstract: A mechanism for an ADF having upper and lower trays, a base connecting the trays, and a cover pivotally connected to the upper tray includes a housing provided within the base and movable relative thereto. A transmission has a gripping position for transporting paper along a path from the upper tray to the lower tray and a release position allowing a paper jam along the path to be remedied. The cover is pivotable between a first condition maintaining the transmission in the gripping position and a second condition allowing the housing to move relative to the trays to place the transmission in the release position.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ryan M Smith, Keng Leong Ng, Eric Andersen
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Patent number: 10889136Abstract: A printing target holder includes a platen to hold a printing target portion of a printing target to which printing is applied, and the platen is configured to hold the printing target in a flat state. The platen includes a support face disposed on a top side of the platen and configured to support the printing target portion of the printing target; and an escape portion lower in height than the support face.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kunioka, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Masaharu Ohtani
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Patent number: 10889137Abstract: A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer includes a ribbon feeding core on which an ink ribbon is wound so as to be capable of being fed and a ribbon winding core that winds the ink ribbon fed from the ribbon feeding core. In the tape cartridge, the ribbon feeding core includes a core body that winds the ink ribbon and a shaft engaging part formed at an end portion of the core body and engaged with a feeding-side driving shaft of the tape printer. The shaft engaging part protrudes in an axial direction of the core body from an end surface of the core body and is formed in a crown shape in which a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions are alternately arranged side by side in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Taishi Sasaki
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Patent number: 10889138Abstract: There is disclosed a book with a front cover formed by a front base layer and a front decorative layer. The front base layer has a first front face portion, a second front face portion, and a front free edge. The front decorative layer is disposed on the second front face portion. The book has a rear cover formed by a rear base layer and a rear free edge. A binding layer extends across the rear base layer and along the first face portion of the front base layer cover. The binding layer is adhered with the rear base layer and the first face portion so that the front decorative layer extends from the front free edge and across the second front face portion. An edge of the binding layer abuts an edge of the front decorative layer. This arrangement eliminates a free edge between along the front cover of the book. The book includes one or more pages disposed between the front and rear covers. The pages each include respective page base layers and each base layer including a page binding edge.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Melissa & Doug, LLCInventors: Lyndall Carvell Fry, Ayokunle S. Adeniran
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Patent number: 10889139Abstract: A security document has a security substrate, a security device and a structural weakness element, wherein the security device is coupled to the security substrate, wherein the structural weakness element is integrated with at least one of the security substrate or the security device, the structural weakness element defining an anti-harvesting area and a bulk area, and wherein the anti-harvesting area has one or more of structural fidelity or optical fidelity with the bulk area.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Giles D. Prett, Kraig M. Brigham, Manish Jain
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Patent number: 10889140Abstract: There is described a security element (EL) or document (BN), such as a banknote, comprising (i) a substrate (S) with first and second sides (I, II) and exhibiting at least one window region (W) made of a substantially transparent material, (ii) a micro-optical structure (OP) provided on the first side (I) of the substrate (S) and extending over at least a part of the window region (W), and (iii) a printed feature (P1-P3) printed on the second side (II) of the substrate (S) over at least a part of the window region (W), the printed feature (P1-P3) being provided in register with the micro-optical structure (OP) to produce an optically-variable effect (EF) upon looking at the printed feature (P1-P3) from the first side (I) of the substrate (S) through the micro-optical structure (OP) and the window region (W).Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: KBA-Notasys SAInventors: Emmanuel Thony, Hervé Guillerey, Mathieu Brichon, Aurélie Berthon, Johannes Schaede
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Patent number: 10889141Abstract: The invention relates to an optical security device with multiple hidden images which become visible by arranging a polarizer above or below the device. Additional images become visible upon rotation of the polarizer. The optical device comprises two patterned optical retarders and a polarizer between the retarders.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ROLIC AGInventors: Reto Genini, Julien Martz, Etienne Berner, Benoit Schill
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Patent number: 10889142Abstract: A device for storing and transporting personal items where the device has a folder; a plurality of slots on a first side of the folder; and a strap wherein the strap comprises a first strap end that is inserted through an individual slot of the plurality of slots and a second strap end configured to have an anchor so that the strap stops before going completely through the individual slot and inserting the strap through an individual slot expands or condenses a size capacity of the folder while the strap is secured to the folder.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Tiki Tianqi Wang
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Patent number: 10889143Abstract: The present invention, in general, describes a refillable writing instrument. The writing instrument may comprise one or more master reservoir, one or more slave reservoir, one or more slave reservoir gate and one or more master reservoir gate. The slave reservoir may have reducing cross-section, facilitating fluid flow towards nib of the writing instrument. The slave reservoir gate may comprise at least one of blocking element, blocking element seat, one or more gates, one or more covers and a combination thereof. The slave reservoir gate provides a connection between the master reservoir and the slave reservoir. Further, the blocking element rests over the blocking element seat due to gravity, restricting return flow of the fluid to the master reservoir. The master reservoir gate facilitates clean, easy and fast refilling of master reservoir using fluid container or fluid nozzle without the need of opening the master reservoir cap.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Ganesh Ram Jangir
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Patent number: 10889144Abstract: A decorative panel formed from at least a display panel secured to a frame. In some embodiments the panel comprises a transparent or translucent display panel and an interchangeable decorative insert disposed between the display panel and a supporting surface. In other embodiments an opaque display panel acts serves the function of both the display and decorative layers. A retaining frame is disposed about the periphery of the panels and retains the layers in generally abutting relation, the retaining frame being removable so as to permit replacement of the decorative insert or display panel. The retaining frame comprises a return flange disposed forwardly of the supporting surface at the position of the groove, such that the display panel is retained by the flange seated in the groove, generally concealing the retaining frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ALEX-ANDRITE DESIGN INC.Inventor: Stephen Boychuk
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Patent number: 10889145Abstract: A paint brush suspension lid for a paint can which incorporates a resilient brush holder insert designed to hold a paint brush handle at a desired static vertical position, enabling the bristles to be immersed in the paint without touching the bottom or sides of the paint can, thereby protected from the ambient air when not in use, without damaging the paint brush by immersing the brush ferrule. The lid is a bright coloured, high visibility material evocative of a caution cone, and is shaped to permit unobstructed use of a paint can handle while the lid is in place atop the can.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Jeremy Stapleton
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Patent number: 10889146Abstract: A pneumatic object is provided with an elastomer layer which is gastight to inflation gases, said elastomer layer comprising, as predominant elastomer, a thermoplastic elastomer in the form of a block copolymer which comprises: (a) an elastomeric block comprising at least units derived from isobutylene, and having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to ?20° C., and (b) one or more thermoplastic blocks, the thermoplastic block(s) each comprising at least one first block consisting of units derived from at least one polymerizable monomer and at least one second block, said second block(s) being a random copolymer consisting of units derived from ?-methylstyrene and of units derived from ?-pinene. A process for rendering a pneumatic object gastight to inflation gases is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements MichelinInventors: Marc Greiveldinger, Emmanuel Custodero
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Patent number: 10889147Abstract: A rubber composition is based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crosslinking system and a hydrocarbon-based resin. The hydrocarbon-based resin has a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of between 700 and 1000 g/mol, an average molecular weight Mz of greater than 6000 g/mol and a polydispersity index (PI) of greater than 2.4.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements MichelinInventors: Julien Chatard, Benoit De Gaudemaris, Alain Hut, Fabien Hellot, Francois Dimier
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Patent number: 10889148Abstract: The present invention is directed to airless tires. Exemplary airless tires include a hub configured for attachment to an axle and includes a hub support extending away from the hub. Such exemplary airless tires also include a heel configured around the hub and connected at a distal end of the hub support, whereby the heel includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the hub support. Such exemplary airless tires also include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel. Other exemplary airless tires include a centerless hub assembly configured for attachment to an axle and a heel configured around the centerless hub assembly. The heel in such exemplary airless tires includes an elastomer base oriented in a ring around a circumference of the centerless hub assembly. These other exemplary airless tires include elastomeric tubes extending radially outward from the heel.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: John McGill
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Patent number: 10889149Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion including a contact patch which occurs when the tire is mounted on a standard wheel rim with a standard pressure and loaded with a certain tire load at zero camber angle. The contact patch, on a respective tire load, defines a ratio Lc/Ls of a crown contact circumferential length Lc at an axial center of the contact patch to a shoulder contact circumferential length Ls at an axial location of 80% of an axial maximum width of the contact patch. The ratio Lc/Ls upon being loaded with 40%, of a standard tire load is equal to or less than 125% of the ratio Lc/Ls upon being loaded with 70% of the standard tire load.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Tatsuta, Kozo Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10889150Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire which has both improved driving stability performance on a dry road surface and improved on-snow performance. A pneumatic tire has defined on the tread first lands and second lands. The first lands and the second lands are provided with recesses. The recesses include first recesses provided in first edges of the first lands, and also include second recesses provided in second edges of the second lands. The second recesses are provided so as not to intersect projection regions formed by projecting the first recesses onto the second edges in the axial direction of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Oji, Tatsuo Kimura
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Patent number: 10889151Abstract: In a method for capturing the state of wear of at least one vehicle tyre on a vehicle wherein at least one measurement signal is captured with a least one sensor device of the vehicle it is provided as essential to the invention that a quantity of water striking at least one section of the vehicle is determined by means of at least one precipitation detection device, a measurement value of the water thrown up from the road by at least one tyre to be monitored is captured by means of at least one additional sensor device, and that at least one standard value for the measurement value of the water thrown up measured with the additional sensor device (7) is calculated from the quantity of water determined with the aid of the precipitation detection device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAAInventor: Thomas Niemann
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Patent number: 10889152Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods to determine vehicle tire wear are disclosed. A disclosed apparatus includes a vehicle controller configured to determine, based on data associated with operation of a vehicle, behavior of one or more drivers of the vehicle that causes tire wear. The controller is also configured to calculate, based on the behavior, a condition of a tire of the vehicle. The controller is also configured to generate, via an output device, a notification indicating the condition of the tire to a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Raja Shekar Kilaru, Joshua Cocke Batie, Aghyad Majdi Saleh
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Patent number: 10889153Abstract: A trailer hitch cover assembly, which includes an inflatable object capable of withstanding about 2000 pounds per square inch internal pressure, a first attachment plate disposed within the inflatable object, a second attachment plate disposed in physical contact with but external to the inflatable object, a housing comprising a plurality of threaded apertures extending therethrough and dimensioned to be received by a trailer hitch receiver, where a corresponding plurality of threaded members are attached to the first attachment plate, extend outwardly from the first attachment plate through a surface of the inflatable object, extend through the second attachment plate, and intermesh with the plurality of threaded apertures.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Inventor: Maher Pedersoli
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Patent number: 10889154Abstract: A spring device for a motor vehicle wheel suspension that includes a first leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic and a second leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The second leaf spring is shorter than the first leaf spring and together with the first leaf spring forms a V-shaped structure, which, in the region of the joined ends of the V-shape, has a first fastening device for the vehicle-body-side support and at the free ends of the V shape has a second fastening device on the first leaf spring for wheel-side support and a third fastening device on the second leaf spring for vehicle-body-side support.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventor: Ingo Winter
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Patent number: 10889155Abstract: A device for adjusting the height of a motor vehicle body (3), including an actuator (1) for actuating a vertically adjustable spring seat of a suspension spring (15), characterized in that a pin (4) is provided for connecting the device to the vehicle body (3), an actuator side pin section (10) extends through a support eye (6) in a support plate (7) of the actuator (1), and an elastomer support (2) is disposed at least on the face of the support plate (7) facing the vehicle body, between the support plate (7) and a flange (9) provided on the bolt (4).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Markus Kraus, Christian Harkort, Szilard Josvai, Michael Loos
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Patent number: 10889156Abstract: A suspension bearing unit for a motor vehicle, comprising an upper cup, a lower cup and a bearing interposed between the upper cup and the lower cup in rotation in relation to each other about a principal axis. The suspension bearing unit also comprises at least one seal in a hollow housing provided on one face of a first element from among the lower cup and the upper cup. The hollow housing comprises a plurality of protruding ribs spaced apart circumferentially, the ribs protruding into the base of the seal.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Bruno Montboeuf, Charles Bedeau, Francois De Lemps
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Patent number: 10889157Abstract: A battery cooling system may include a first cooling device including a first radiator and a first water pump connected through a first coolant line and circulating a coolant in the first coolant line to cool at least one electrical component and at least one motor; a second cooling device including a second radiator and a second water pump connected through a second coolant line and circulating the coolant in the second coolant line; a battery module mounted on a battery coolant line selectively connectable to the second coolant line through a valve; and a chiller mounted on the battery coolant line and through which the coolant passes, connected to a refrigerant line of an air conditioning device through a refrigerant connection line, and making the coolant which selectively flows exchange heat with a refrigerant supplied from the air conditioning device to control a temperature of the coolant.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jae Yeon Kim, Kilwoo Lee, Wan Je Cho, Tae Hee Kim, Gun Goo Lee, Boram Yang, Yeon Ho Kim, Dong Seok Oh, Su Whan Kim
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Patent number: 10889158Abstract: This disclosure relates to a motor vehicle including a climate control system with an accumulator, and a corresponding method. An example motor vehicle includes a powertrain and a climate control system configured to meet a thermal conditioning demand. The climate control system includes an accumulator and a compressor driven by the powertrain. Further, a controller is in electronic communication with the climate control system, and the controller is configured to selectively command the climate control system to charge the accumulator when an amount of energy available to the compressor from the powertrain is in excess of an amount of energy required to meet the thermal conditioning demand.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Ram Sudarsan Devendran, John Edward Brevick, Steven Anatole Frait
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Patent number: 10889159Abstract: A control device that includes a body, a movable element that is movable according to a first degree of freedom relative to the body, an actuator for moving the movable element relative to the body, and a secondary control device. The secondary control device has a switch movable between an open position in which a function is deactivated and a closed position in which the function is activated. The actuator is movable according to a second degree of freedom between a spaced apart position and a control position in which the actuator moves the switch between its open position and its closed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIEInventors: Fabien Gougeon, Wassim Bouzerda
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Patent number: 10889160Abstract: A method for natural ventilation of a vehicle interior includes steps of: determining, by a controller, formation of an interior negative pressure in an interior space while driving of a vehicle is maintained as an internal air mode, determining, by the controller, an over-production of a harmful gas in an exhaust gas using an air-to-fuel ratio or an Accelerator Position Scope (APS), in an air conditioning system; regarding satisfaction of the formation of the interior negative pressure and satisfaction of the over-production of the harmful gas as an entry condition and mixing an exterior air into the interior space so as to mitigate the interior negative pressure in the internal air mode; and after mixing the exterior air, regarding the non-satisfaction of the over-production of the harmful gas as a cancellation condition and blocking the exterior air.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Tae-Hun Jung, Eun-Jung Yeo, Gi-Lyong Jang, Jeong-Sik Seo, Jae-Yeon Moon, In-Uk Ko
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Patent number: 10889161Abstract: An electric vehicle includes an electric motor, a power storage device, a control device, and a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first indoor heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, and a second indoor heat exchanger. The control device repeats an operation of performing the other of a first operation and a second operation after performing one thereof when a remaining capacity of a power storage device is equal to or larger than a predetermined value. In the first operation, the first expansion valve is not decompressed and the second expansion valve is decompressed. In the second operation, the first expansion valve is decompressed and the second expansion valve is not decompressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Takeuchi, Ryoma Taguchi, Takahiro Ohmi, Osamu Ishida
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Patent number: 10889162Abstract: A system for vehicle component cooling includes a main body defining a passenger compartment to support passengers of the vehicle. The system also includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit to output conditioned air into the passenger compartment. The system also includes a vehicle component to generate heat and having a component temperature. The system also includes a cooling channel having an inlet located in the passenger compartment and an outlet to output the conditioned air from the passenger compartment towards the vehicle component. The system also includes at least one sensor to detect data corresponding to the component temperature of the vehicle component. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) to control the HVAC unit to increase or decrease a cabin temperature to adjust the component temperature based on the detected data.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: David W. Cosgrove, Hidekazu Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 10889163Abstract: A heat pump system includes a heat pump cycle, a heat medium circulation circuit, and a refrigeration cycle device. The refrigeration cycle device is configured to perform a defrosting operation when a frost formation determiner determines that frost is formed. A throttle opening degree controller is configured to increase an opening degree in the defrosting operation. A pumping capacity controller is configured to increase a pumping capacity in the defrosting operation with increase of a required heating capacity required for heating a heating target fluid, the pumping capacity controller increasing the pumping capacity such that heat of refrigerant discharged from a compressor is transferred to heat medium in a first heat exchanger within a range in which a temperature of the refrigerant flowing into an outside heat exchanger is capable of melting the frost formed on the outside heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuhiro Tada
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Patent number: 10889164Abstract: Flow heater comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a plate shaped heating insert that is arranged in the housing and defines a flow path from the inlet to the outlet. According to this disclosure the plate shaped heating insert comprises a first heating plate, a second heating plate, and a plate support arranged between the first heating plate and the second heating plate, wherein the first heating plate and the second heating plate are arranged on opposite sides of the plate support, and the first heating plate and the second heating plate each comprise a substrate plate carrying a resistive layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbHInventors: Cian McCarthy, Stephen Sweeney, Dara O'Carroll, Hermida Xoan
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Patent number: 10889165Abstract: A door assembly for a vehicle can include a front door assembly and a rear door assembly. A rear portion of the front door assembly can terminate at a rear edge. At least a portion of the rear edge can be spaced away from a side frame member in the longitudinal direction toward the first side frame member. A front portion of the rear door assembly can terminate at a front edge. The front edge can be adjacent to the rear edge of the front door. At least a portion of the front edge can be spaced away from the side frame member in the longitudinal direction toward the first side frame member such that at least a portion of the front edge of the rear door assembly is located between the rear edge of the front door assembly and the second side frame member.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Sebastian Osorio
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Patent number: 10889166Abstract: A roll shade device includes: a fixed shaft fixed to a roof of a vehicle and extending in a vehicle width direction; a flexible rotation shaft into which the fixed shaft is inserted; a light shielding sheet whose first terminal end portion is fixed to the rotation shaft, and which is in an unfolded state where light passing through a light transmitting portion provided to the roof is blocked or is in a winding state where light is allowed to pass; and a torsion spring which is accommodated between the fixed shaft and the rotation shaft, and which biases the rotation shaft in a rotation direction in which the light shielding sheet is wound so that twist of the rotation shaft becomes symmetrical in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shinichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10889167Abstract: A sunroof device includes a panel bracket that holds a movable panel capable of opening and closing an opening portion disposed to a roof panel, a guide portion that is disposed to the panel bracket, and a sliding bracket that slidably engages with the guide portion. Further, the sunroof device includes a rear link, serving as a support member, that, while being coupled to the panel bracket via the sliding bracket and thereby changing a coupling position thereof with the panel bracket according to an opening-and-closing movement position of the movable panel, supports the panel bracket. On a sliding contact surface of the panel bracket with the guide portion of the panel bracket, a plurality of groove portions extending in a sliding direction of the sliding bracket along the guide portion are disposed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Aisei Kawazu, Ryuta Fukada, Akinori Osamura