Patents Issued in March 21, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240092108
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of indirect printing with an aqueous ink. In some embodiments, this method is performed with (i) a first aqueous ink component, the first aqueous ink component optionally being transparent; and (ii) a second aqueous ink component comprising colorant particles. Related apparatus, systems and treatment formulations are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Moshe LEVANON, Tal SHIMONY-COHEN, Yelena YUSUPOV, Natalia ZLOTNIKOV
  • Publication number: 20240092109
    Abstract: There are provided a useful resin composition for a back-surface layer and a heat-sensitive transfer recording material using the same, wherein under the circumstances where the temperature of thermal heads has been increased, the back-surface layer of the formed heat-sensitive transfer recording material has more excellent heat resistance, damage to a thermal head can be alleviated, and durability is excellent in that bleeding is suppressed even if the silicone content is increased. The present invention provides a resin composition for a back-surface layer to be used for forming a back-surface layer of a heat-sensitive transfer recording material, the resin composition containing, as film-forming components, a siloxane-modified urethane- or urea-based resin A, a resin B, and a cross-linking agent C, wherein the resin A contains a polysiloxane component in a range of 5 to 55%, the resin B has at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and has a glass transition point of lower than 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Mikiyoshi NAMURA, Takeshi KAWAGUCHI, Motoaki UMEZU
  • Publication number: 20240092110
    Abstract: A method operates a facility, which serves for the continuous production of multiple gang runs for forming individual signatures or signature packs from which type-specific print products are made in a downstream print further processing machine. An endless web is the basis for the formation of these multiple gang runs. The endless web, in the non-folded state, is imparted complementary handling by facility-internal means according to the following criteria: i) in a 2-gang run, the individual signatures or the folded signature packs are only deflected in a second longitudinal air folding station disposed downstream of the first longitudinal air folding station; and ii) in a 3 or 4-gang run, the individual signatures or the folded signature packs are additionally folded in a second longitudinal air folding station disposed downstream of the first longitudinal air folding station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Christian Troxler, Heinz Oberholzer
  • Publication number: 20240092111
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a book on demand, including a cover printing or receiving station designed to respectively print or receive a cover, a body printing or receiving station designed to respectively print or receive a body, a binding station designed to join together the body and the cover, a conveyor designed and/or programmed to convey the cover and/or the body between the different stations, the device is designed to deposit glue in a gluing region on the verso of the cover inside the binding station before the cover and the body are joined together by gluing, forming a book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Hubert PEDURAND
  • Publication number: 20240092112
    Abstract: A pop-up object with double canopies includes a lower canopy that serves as a base for the pop-up object, an upper canopy, and a pop-up scene positioned between the upper and lower canopies. The upper canopy, lower canopy, and pop-up scene can simultaneously move between a first, folded, flat position and a second, unfolded, upright position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Seth Larson
  • Publication number: 20240092113
    Abstract: Proposed is a security element, preferably in the form of a security stripe, security thread, or a security patch, comprising a machine-readable code and an optically variable security feature, which has a visual appearance that depends on the viewing angle. The machine-readable code is a magnetic encoding, which is produced by printing at least one opaque magnetic printing ink containing magnetic pigments, with the magnetic printing ink being incorporated or applied in at least one defined code region such that the visual appearance of the optically variable security feature is determined at least in part by the at least one incorporated or applied magnetic printing ink. The optically variable security feature comprises a micro-optical micro-lens arrangement, which covers the at least one code region in which the at least one magnetic printing ink has been incorporated or applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Matthias PFEIFFER, Stefan BICHLMEIER, Christoph MENGEL, Andreas HOLZMEISTER
  • Publication number: 20240092114
    Abstract: Provided are an optical anti-counterfeiting element and a product thereof, the optical anti-counterfeiting element includes: a substrate; a reflective curved mirror array, located on a surface of the substrate; and a micro graphic-text array, formed on the reflective curved mirror array, the micro graphic-text array and the reflective curved mirror array are located in a same plane and are overlapped without an interval, and after the reflective curved mirror array samples to synthesize the micro graphic-text array with a coupling effect with the same, a dynamic effect is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Haibo Cui, Baoli Zhang, Jun Zhu, Xiaoli Wang
  • Publication number: 20240092115
    Abstract: A clipboard with fold-out, extendable legs. This allows the user to set the extended legs on the floor leaving the clipboard standing in a horizontal position at a convenient hip height. With this, the user has both hands free for the task and a practical, convenient place for the clipboard to rest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Graham
  • Publication number: 20240092116
    Abstract: A writing instrument extending along an axis and comprising a writing tip and an eraser, a first helical cam propelling mechanism configured to move the writing tip along the axis between a retracted position and a protruded position and a second helical cam propelling mechanism configured to move the eraser along the axis between a retracted position and a protruded position, the first helical cam propelling mechanism comprising a first cam follower and a first helical cam, the second helical cam propelling mechanism comprising a second cam follower and a second helical cam, each of the first cam follower, the first helical cam, the second cam follower and the second helical cam being provided on distinct elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventor: Etienne MICHENAUD
  • Publication number: 20240092117
    Abstract: An enclosure forms the structure of a cosmetic pencil sharpener, featuring an entry point for pencil insertion and a sharpening mechanism that interacts with this entry. This sharpening mechanism consists of a pair of opposing planar cutting blades, each possessing straight cutting edges directed away from the entry. When put into action, these cutting blades separate upon pencil insertion, and they are designed to come together with a bias. This results in the cutting edges engaging the pencil's tip from opposite directions as the pencil is withdrawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Katri Pagliaro
  • Publication number: 20240092118
    Abstract: The invention is a hybrid inserter/wrapper system comprising a hybrid inserter/wrapper system comprising a modular document inserter system and a unique wrapper-like envelope creation module operably connected thereto. The wrapper-like envelope creation module is configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the wrapper-like envelope creation module is configured to fabricate wrapper-like outer envelopes and feed such outer envelopes to the inserter system. In the second mode, the wrapper-like envelope creation module is configured to allow the inserter to be loaded with premade envelopes and feed such envelopes to the inserter system. In either mode, the document inserter system further carries out downstream operations to thereby produce a finished mailpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Eddy Edel, John Robert Masotta, Anthony E. Yap
  • Publication number: 20240092119
    Abstract: A material transfer system transfers 2-dimensional (2D) material to or from a substrate. The system comprises a transfer apparatus having a transfer material holder for retaining a transfer material, and a stamping apparatus having an intermediate portion with a longitudinal axis and a distal end portion. The distal end portion has a proximal section, middle section and distal section forming a distal end face. The middle section is curved with respect to the longitudinal axis to form a stamper contact surface at the middle section. The stamper contact is surface configured to contact the transfer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Volker J. SORGER
  • Publication number: 20240092120
    Abstract: A device that utilizes the playing of a functioning instrument, such as a piano for example purposes, to cause a paint brush or similar object, which is attached to the instrument, to draw or paint onto an art medium such as a canvas. The result is a drawing or painting that includes a visual representation of what was played, as the brush strokes are caused by the playing of the instrument. In one embodiment, a piano is modified by attaching paint brushes or a similar device to the opposite side of the hammers that strike the strings to create sound. The paint brushes are saturated in paint, and a canvas is held in front of the brushes. The keys are played, and the hammers propel forward and then backward. When the hammers of the keys/notes played are propelled backward the touch the canvas, adding paint to the canvas only in the locations where keys/notes are played. The result is a painting depicting the notes on canvas, creating a visual representation of the music on canvas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Abraham Zev Wolf Melamed
  • Publication number: 20240092121
    Abstract: A bassinet includes a base, a column assembly rotatably connected to the base at a first end of the column assembly, an arm rotatably connected to a second end of the column assembly, a tub frame pivotably connected to the arm, an infant tub retained within the tub frame, the infant tub including a front wall, a back wall, and two side walls and having areas of reduced height along the front wall and at least one of the side walls to provide enhanced access to the infant located within the infant tub, and an insert configured to reversibly fit within an interior of the infant tub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kristin Patricia Tully, Catherine Sullivan, Carl John Seashore, Alison Mann Stuebe, Ty Hagler, Patrick Murphy, Prasad Joshi, Charity Grace Kirk
  • Publication number: 20240092122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of at least one N,N-dimethylamide as an additive in an elastomeric composition for producing a tread band for vehicle wheels, wherein the N,N-dimethylamide has the formula: formula (I), wherein: R is a C6-C12 alkyl group, and R? and R? are methyl. A further aspect of the present invention concerns a vulcanised elastomeric material for producing a tread band for vehicle wheels obtained by vulcanising an elastomeric composition comprising (a) at least one elastomeric polymer, (b) at least one reinforcing filler selected among hydroxides, oxides and hydrated oxides, salts and hydrated salts of metals or mixtures thereof and (c) at least one N,N-dimethylamide of formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Achim Fessenbecker, Ralf Bohlander
  • Publication number: 20240092123
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to reinforced-rubber spokes for a non-pneumatic tire and non-pneumatic tires comprising a plurality of reinforced-rubber spokes. The spoke comprises a radially outer end for connecting the spoke to a shearband, a radially inner end for connecting the spoke to a hub and a web extending between the radially inner end and the radially outer end, the web comprising therein reinforcement cord serpentining between the radially inner end and the radially outer end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Francesco Sportelli, Claude Ernest Felix Boes
  • Publication number: 20240092124
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for inhibiting the occurrence of uneven wear at shoulder-side edges of blocks in a motorcycle tire having a block pattern. A motorcycle tire (100) includes plural blocks (11) and (12) that are arranged on a tread ground-contact surface. In a tire widthwise cross-section of a tread portion (1), when regions obtained by bisecting a tread half-width region measured along the tire surface from a tire equator CL to a tread ground-contact end TE are each defined as a tread center portion Tc and a tread shoulder portion Ts, a middle block (12) among the plural blocks, whose outer wall surface (12A) on the tire width-direction outer side is positioned in the tread shoulder portion Ts, is configured such that an upper end portion is chamfered only for the outer wall surface (12A) and a chamfered part (12B) is thereby formed on the middle block (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norimasa YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20240092125
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire for a vehicle comprising: a rotation axis, a midplane at a central position along the rotation axis; a circumferential tread portion around the rotation axis, the circumferential tread portion comprising: a tread pattern exhibiting at least a first pitch pattern and a second pitch pattern each comprising: a center block crossed by the midplane, and two side block alignments, said side block alignments being inclined with respect to one another and extending from the center block; the first pitch pattern including: a first pitch length, a first number of blocks; the second pitch pattern including: a second pitch length which is shorter than the first pitch length, and a third number of blocks which is greater than the first number of blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastien Willy Fontaine, Thomas Charles Pierre Roland, Armand René Gabriel Leconte, Frederic Ngo
  • Publication number: 20240092126
    Abstract: A tire tread (1) for a heavy-duty vehicle to improve resistance to attack by stones. The tread (1) in the new state having at least one complex cut (5) with, along a mean line (Lm), an alternation of external cavities (6), opening onto the tread surface (2), and internal cavities (7), not opening onto the tread surface (2), two consecutive cavities, respectively an external cavity (6) and an internal cavity (7), being connected to each other by a connecting channel (8) of non-zero length, the height (H11) of each external cavity (6) being at least equal to half the height (H) of the complex cut (5), the height (H3) of each connecting channel (8) being at most equal to one third of the height (H) of the complex cut (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Xavier NEAU
  • Publication number: 20240092127
    Abstract: The present application provides a programming method and a programming device based on tire pressure sensing, which is related to the technical field of pressure sensing. The programming method includes: transmitting a region identification including at least one of a country, a region and a customer to an intelligent terminal through near-field communication for requesting the intelligent terminal to automatically match a database with the region identification and return a manufacturer code corresponding to a preset vehicle model identification from the database; receiving the manufacturer code sent by the intelligent terminal through near-field communication; and programming the tire pressure sensing device based on the manufacturer code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jianer ZHANG, Haijun DING, Mingguang YU
  • Publication number: 20240092128
    Abstract: An articulating tire valve install-removal tool and related methods for use. The articulating tire valve install-removal tool has a body comprising an outer perimeter, an inner recess, a threaded member, a linkage, and a contact member. The articulating tire valve install-removal tool components are connected to each other and secured within the body so one or more components can rotate around one or more axes. Together these components facilitate in the valve being installed and removed perpendicular or generally perpendicular to the valve hole on the wheel. The articulating tire valve stem tool includes a linkage assembly that is attached to the body to facilitate in ensuring the valve is installed and removed with the valve perpendicular to the valve hole in the wheel rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: George Walter Tatum, Graham Kendall Snyder, Mackenzie John Owen Snyder, Scott R. Lakin, Kristopher Jon Soderstrom, Brian Patrick Rigney
  • Publication number: 20240092129
    Abstract: A waterproof UAV that records camera footage while traveling through air and while submerged in water. The UAV alters speed and direction of propellers dependent on the medium that the UAV is traveling through to provide control of the UAV. The propellers are capable of spinning in both directions to enable the UAV to change its depth and orientation in water. A machine learning (ML) model is used to identify humans and objects underwater. A housing coupled to the UAV makes the UAV positively buoyant to float in water and to control buoyancy while submerged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sharon Moll, Dawei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240092130
    Abstract: A front suspension device comprises a suspension arm, one end of which has a front-wheel support portion to support a front wheel of a vehicle and the other end of which is positioned on an inward side, in a vehicle width direction, of the front-wheel support portion and has a vehicle-body attachment portion to be attached to a vehicle-body member of the vehicle and a damper supported at a damper support portion which is provided at a portion of the suspension arm which is positioned in the vicinity of the front-wheel support portion at a lower portion thereof and connected to the vehicle-body member at an upper portion thereof. The damper support portion of the suspension arm has a breakage ease portion to cause breakage of the suspension arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei YOSHIDA, Koshi TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI, Kota OKANO, Yosuke SAWADA, Hiromasa HONJI, Kosuke MUKAIGAWA, Ichiro TANABE, Ryota HANATE
  • Publication number: 20240092131
    Abstract: A suspension for a vehicle provides a configuration in which a bolt is screw-fastened to a stud part of a ball joint in a state in which the stud part is inserted into a knuckle, an outer diameter of the stud part is increased at the time of fastening the bolt so that the stud part and the knuckle are coupled to each other. Thus, a position of a hard point corresponding to a center of the ball joint is not changed when the ball joint is coupled by the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jong Min Kim, Byung Gu Kang
  • Publication number: 20240092132
    Abstract: An air spring may include a first member, a second member, a flexible bellows, and/or an isolator/bumper. The first member may include a first member axial extension that may extend in an axial direction. The second member may include a second member axial extension that may extend in the axial direction. The flexible bellows may be connected to the first member and the second member. The flexible bellows may define a pressurized fluid volume. The isolator/bumper may include an inner radial portion and an outer radial portion. The inner radial portion may be disposed radially inward of the first member axial extension or the second member axial extension. The outer radial portion may be disposed radially outward of the first member axial extension or the second member axial extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Bashar Nofal Kasrawi, Shawn Michael Freyhof, Daniel Johan Kaldner, Philipp Werner
  • Publication number: 20240092133
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile robot that can simultaneously absorb an impact received from an uneven road surface while moving and estimate the position or orientation of the mobile robot while functioning. The mobile robot according to the present invention has an operation mechanism having a multi-jointed arm, and a movement mechanism that causes the operation mechanism to move, the mobile robot being characterized in that: the movement mechanism has a first support part and a second support part, which support the weight of the movement mechanism; and the second support part is installed at a position that is nearer to an outer peripheral section, in terms of the movement direction of the movement mechanism, than is the installation position of the first support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Toshifumi MITSUYAMA, Yoshiki KANAI, Toru SHIBATA, Yuuko OKADA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240092134
    Abstract: A vehicle-height control system of an independent corner module, includes a suspension link connected to a wheel and configured to be rotated according to upward-downward displace of the wheel, a gear unit connected to a vehicle body and a rotational center portion of the suspension link and configured to receive a rotation force from the suspension link, a control torsion bar, a first end portion thereof being connected to the gear unit and the second end portion thereof being connected to a torsion variation unit, the torsion variation unit applying a drive force to adjust a height of the control torsion bar and to maintain the adjusted height, and a controller connected to the torsion variation unit and adjusting the height of the control torsion bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sehyun CHANG, Sang Woo HWANG, Min Jun KIM, Youngil SOHN
  • Publication number: 20240092135
    Abstract: A wireless electronic shock assembly is disclosed. The wireless electronic shock assembly includes at least one electronically adjustable valve, a wireless receiver to receive an adjustment for said at least one electronically adjustable valve, a motor controller to enact said adjustment on said at least one electronically adjustable valve, and a power source to provide power to said wireless receiver and said motor controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Randall, Rick Strobel
  • Publication number: 20240092136
    Abstract: An electronic bypass (eBypass) cartridge assembly and method for installing such, including a bypass valve defining a first chamber; a valve body defining a second chamber; and a check valve preventing flow from the second chamber to the first chamber. A bypass tube defining a third chamber, and a solenoid assembly, wherein the solenoid assembly controls flow between the first chamber, the second chamber, and the third chamber. The eBypass cartridge assembly may also include a cartridge attachment interface, and a sealing surface defined by the bypass valve, or an LVDT assembly configured to sense a position of bypass valve, or a valve seat formed on a spring housing, wherein the sealing surface is configured to seal to the valve seat in a fully closed position, or a single bypass input tube and a single bypass output tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Off-Road Research LLC
    Inventor: Thomas J. Sawarynski, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240092137
    Abstract: A thermal management system for a vehicle includes a heat exchange unit coupled with a compartment of the vehicle via an interface in the compartment. A container is moveable between a first position and a second position. The container is configured to be in fluid communication with the heat exchange unit via the interface in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Manfred Koberstein, Chris Robert Sculthorpe, Craig Martin Spinneweber, John Azar, Michael M. Azzouz, Scott Nydam
  • Publication number: 20240092138
    Abstract: A thermal management system includes a heat pump, a battery waterway, a heat exchange waterway, a heat dissipator waterway, an electric assembly waterway, a first heat exchanger, and a control valve group. A first heat exchange path of the first heat exchanger is connected to the heat pump, and a second heat exchange path of the first heat exchanger is connected to the heat exchange waterway. The electric assembly waterway may be connected to the heat dissipator waterway or the heat exchange waterway in series. The battery waterway may be connected to the heat dissipator waterway or the heat exchange waterway in series. The battery waterway, the heat exchange waterway, the heat dissipator waterway, and the electric assembly waterway may be connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Dongsheng YANG, Yunhui BAI, Junyan ZHANG, Shangzhong ZHAO, Yifeng TANG
  • Publication number: 20240092139
    Abstract: Disclosed is heating, ventilation, and air conditioner (HVAC) of an electric vehicle. The HVAC includes: a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, a four-way reversing valve connected to four flow paths including a flow path connected to a discharge end of the compressor and a flow path connected to a suction end of the compressor, a first heat exchanger connected to the four-way reversing valve and configured to operate as a condenser or an evaporator according to a circulation direction of the refrigerant, and a second heat exchanger of which one end is connected to the first heat exchanger and the other end is connected to the four-way reversing valve and which operates as a condenser or an evaporator according the circulation direction of the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nam-Seok Yun
  • Publication number: 20240092140
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an output temperature of a fluid after flowing through a PTC heater with a PTC heating element. In the method a current of the PTC heating element, a supply voltage of the PTC heating element and a duty cycle of the supply voltage are determined, and the output temperature of the fluid is calculated based on the current (I), the supply voltage and the duty cycle (PWM). The invention also relates to a PTC heater for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Guillaume DAUDON, Timo HENKE, Florian LEFEVRE, Jean-Francois WALTER
  • Publication number: 20240092141
    Abstract: An air conditioning device for a vehicle includes: a housing having an inside divided into an inflow space, a heat exchange space, and an outflow space, which are straightly arranged, and having a plurality of discharge ports, which communicates with an interior, at the inflow space; a blowing unit disposed at the inflow space of the housing and configured to blow air; a heat exchange unit disposed at the heat exchange space of the housing and configured to adjust a temperature of conditioned air by exchanging heat with air; and an opening-closing door disposed at the outflow space of the housing and configured to open and close the plurality of discharge ports such that conditioned air at an adjusted temperature selectively flows to the plurality of discharge ports. The air conditioning device adjusts the temperature of conditioned air for respective modes and reduces a flow resistance of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, DOOWON CLIMATE CONTROL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Ok Han, Young Tae Song, Yong Chul Kim, Gee Young Shin, Su Yeon Kang, Jae Sik Choi, Dae Hee Lee, Byeong Moo Jang, Ung Hwi Kim, Jae Won Cha, Won Jun Joung, Byung Guk An
  • Publication number: 20240092142
    Abstract: An air conditioning system includes an air conditioning unit that includes an introduction part that introduces air, a plurality of temperature adjustment parts that cool or heat introduced air, and a discharge part that discharges cooled or heated air to an inside of the vehicle. The air conditioning system further includes an outdoor duct connected to a discharge-part side of the air conditioning unit and extending toward an outdoor side of the vehicle to discharge the cooled or heated air to an outside of the vehicle. Additionally, the air conditioning system includes an outdoor door provided on the outdoor duct or on the discharge part of the air conditioning unit around the outdoor duct to control air flow through the outdoor duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Min Han Kim
  • Publication number: 20240092143
    Abstract: A system for detecting external leaks in a cabin of a vehicle includes sensors and onboard vehicle controls disposed on the vehicle. Control modules of the system have processors, memory, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports communicate with the sensors and onboard vehicle controls. The control modules execute program code portions stored memory. The program code portions include first and second algorithm portions. The first algorithm portion receives data from the sensors and controls and determines that the data from the sensors and controls meets initialization threshold values. When the data from the sensors and controls meets the threshold values, the second algorithm portion generates a cabin leak detection output including: a first output, a second output, or a third output. The first output indicates a large leak, the second output indicates no leak, and the third output indicates that a small leak has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Dhruv Patel, Joseph F. Szczerba, David Alexander Hinz, Rupesh Sonu Kakade, Cynthia A. Nicholson
  • Publication number: 20240092144
    Abstract: A car air conditioning system has a pneumatic circuit to feed an air flow into a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and a cooling circuit to cool the air flow fed along the pneumatic circuit; the pneumatic circuit being provided with a three-way joint, which has an inlet connected to a first pneumatic duct, a first outlet connected to a second pneumatic duct, a second outlet communicating with the passenger compartment of the vehicle, and a shutter, which is movable from and to a closing position, wherein the inlet is separate from the two outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Klajdi VATA
  • Publication number: 20240092145
    Abstract: A heat management system includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a heat pump, an electric assembly waterway, a radiator waterway, a battery waterway, and a heat exchange waterway. The heat pump module includes a first heat exchange pipeline and a second heat exchange pipeline. A first heat exchange passage and a second heat exchange passage of the first heat exchanger are respectively disposed on the second heat exchange pipeline and the heat exchange waterway. A third heat exchange passage of the second heat exchanger is disposed on the first heat exchange pipeline, and a fourth heat exchange passage of the second heat exchanger is in communication with the radiator waterway. The radiator waterway and the electric assembly waterway may be in communication in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Dongsheng YANG, Yunhui BAI, Junyan ZHANG, Shangzhong ZHAO, Tao LIANG
  • Publication number: 20240092146
    Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for managing client control systems of a fleet of vehicles. In one aspect, a method includes (i) receiving, at a controller from a fleet server remote from at least one vehicle, at least one graphics instruction relating to a state of the at least one vehicle's auxiliary power source, and (ii) displaying on a graphical user interface (GUI), (a) a parameter associated with a climate control system of the at least one vehicle, and (b) a ring surrounding the parameter. The ring represents the state of the auxiliary power source that changes color, intensity, or size based on a degree of energy efficiency of the climate control system of the at least one vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Brett Sean Connell, Aaron Dale Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20240092147
    Abstract: A cooling medium distribution apparatus includes a valve housing having a valve body, a plurality of through-holes, and a plurality of distribution channels communicating with the respective through-holes, the plurality of distribution channels allowing a cooling medium to be distributed; a reservoir tank that communicates with the distribution channels, the reservoir tank storing or distributing the cooling medium; and a water pump that communicates with the through-holes and the distribution channels, the water pump distributing the cooling medium through the plurality of through-holes depending on a rotational position of the valve body. The cooling medium distribution apparatus may be installed in a vehicle to distribute the cooling medium to various cooling system parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Je Min Yeon, Sang Min Lee, Woo Yeon Cho
  • Publication number: 20240092148
    Abstract: Vehicular air conditioning system improving the ease of assembly and the maintainability of a photocatalyst module by structural improvement of an intake case and suppressing an air vortex generated at the air intake side during air intake process in a blower and a rumbling noise caused by the air vortex. The vehicular air conditioning system includes an intake part configured to suck indoor or outdoor air and blow air into a vehicle interior, a photocatalyst module purifying the air by emitting superoxide radicals toward the air blown into the vehicle interior from the intake part, which is installed on a downstream outer surface portion of a blower casing of the intake part, and an interference avoidance groove for avoiding interference with the photocatalyst module is formed on an outer surface portion of the intake case corresponding to the periphery of the photocatalyst module installed in the blower casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Chan Young LEE, Sung Jin KIM, Young In KIM, Jun Min LEE
  • Publication number: 20240092149
    Abstract: A glass panel having a noble material appearance, including in order: a glass sheet having a luminous transmission LTD of at least 85% and having a thickness in a range of 0.1 mm to 6 mm, a decorative layer having a noble material pattern and where the decorative layer is continuous, an opaque top layer where the opaque top layer is discontinuous. The glass panel thereby has opaque zones defined by an optical density OD>1.5, and semi-transparent zones that correspond to one or several patterns and defined by a luminous transmission LTD of from 3 to 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Sébastien CALIARO, Thomas LAMBRICHT, Cécile MUSIALSKI, Charlotte JACOB, Florent DELSAUX
  • Publication number: 20240092150
    Abstract: A windshield retention assembly includes a windshield, a windshield retention bracket including a lower bracket portion and a tab extended from the lower bracket portion, and an outer adhesion bead bonding the lower bracket portion to the windshield, wherein the tab is extended beyond an edge of the windshield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Juan Antonio VELA GONZALEZ, Hirofumi TAKEMOTO, Sumeet JAIN
  • Publication number: 20240092151
    Abstract: The idea of this invention is to increase the visibility of the road and traffic signals for drivers as they are driving facing the sun directly. The main concept is to block the sun rays completely from the road view without darkening the total view through the visor shades. The invention still uses a light shaded panel attached to the visor to reduce the glare from the entire view, but in addition, it eliminates completely sun rays going straight to the eyes. This elimination concept is achieved by creatively placing two dark blocking circles on the shade to stop the sun rays going directly to the eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Bassem Alhalabi
  • Publication number: 20240092152
    Abstract: A vehicular laminated glass, which has a first glass plate and a second glass plate facing each other, an interlayer between the first glass plate and the second glass plate, and a light control film capable of switching the visible light transmission provided inside the interlayer, which further has a lower edge portion to which wiring to the light control film is connected, an upper edge portion facing the lower edge portion, and side edge portions connecting the upper edge portion and the lower edge portion, wherein the first glass plate has a first main surface located on the opposite side to the interlayer and a second main surface facing the interlayer, the second glass plate has a third main surface facing the interlayer and a fourth main surface located on the opposite side to the interlayer, which has a first shielding layer between the first main surface and the light control film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhei GIMA, Yukihiro Sumi, Satoshi Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240092153
    Abstract: The motor vehicle (1) provided with an improved car door comprises: one basic chassis (2); a plurality of wheels (3) movable along one anteroposterior direction (A); one compartment (4a, 4b); one car door (5) associated with the basic chassis (2) so as to be rotatable around one axis of rotation (R) horizontal and orthogonal to the anteroposterior direction (A); wherein: the car door (5) comprises one opening door (6) provided with a first side (7) rectilinear in shape and with a second side (8), associated with the first side (7), shaped in a semi-circumference; the motor vehicle (1) comprises one guiding and movement assembly (10, 11) adapted to move the car door (5) between one closing configuration, wherein the first side (7) is arranged horizontal, and at least one opening configuration, wherein the first side (7) is arranged vertical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Sator SRL
    Inventor: Fabrizio FERRARI
  • Publication number: 20240092154
    Abstract: A canopy system for a work machine includes a canopy assembly movable between a lowered position and a raised position. The canopy assembly includes a main canopy panel and a canopy wing, such that the canopy wing is movable relative to the main canopy panel between an extended position and a retracted position. The canopy system also includes a sensor system that generates a detection signal indicative of a presence of an object proximate to the work machine, and a controller communicably. The controller includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives the detection signal from the sensor system, determines a location of the object based on the detection signal, and generates a first control signal to partially move the canopy assembly towards the lowered position and away from the operator station or partially move the canopy wing towards the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventor: Jameson Michael Smieja
  • Publication number: 20240092155
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame, a tractive element coupled to the frame, an engine coupled to the frame and configured to drive the tractive element, and a debris shield coupled to the frame. The debris shield at least partially defines at least one of a left side or a right side of an engine compartment containing the engine. The debris shield includes an outer frame coupled to the frame and defining a ventilation aperture, an inner frame coupled to the outer frame, and a screen extending across the ventilation aperture. The screen extends between the outer frame and the inner frame such that the inner frame limits movement of the screen relative to the outer frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: David Booth, Michael Braun, Aaron Onken
  • Publication number: 20240092156
    Abstract: A battery pack for an electric vehicle includes a battery housing and a pair of rocker structures. The battery housing is configured to house power storage units. The pair of rocker structures are located at opposing sides of the battery housing and are configured to mount the battery pack to a vehicle body structure. Each rocker structure includes a variable width along a length of the rocker structure. The battery housing includes a region that corresponds to a widest portion of each rocker structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi
  • Publication number: 20240092157
    Abstract: A non-electric robotic crawler platform system and method for logically controlling a pneumatically driven multidirectional multi-motor crawler platform in a confined space that can include Zone 0 and 1 spaces. The system can include a robotic crawler platform and an air logic control system. The robotic crawler platform can include wheels and pneumatic motors. The pneumatic motors can be connected to the wheels. Wheels can be polymer, magnetic, rollers, sprockets for track driven system and other motion systems. The air logic control system can be in fluid communication with the pneumatic motors. The robotic crawler platform and the air logic control system are non-electric. The robotic crawler platform and the air logic control system are made from materials having anti-static properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Kimberley Anne Hayes