Patents Issued in April 16, 2024
  • Patent number: 11958284
    Abstract: A method for screen printing of a material on a substrate is provided. The method includes moving a process head assembly having at least one deposition device from a first position to a second position to perform a stroke, wherein the stroke includes at least a first phase for material processing of a material on a screen device using the at least one deposition device and a second phase for a material transfer from the screen device to the substrate. The at least one deposition device moves in a first direction in the first phase. At least one device moves in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction in the first phase. The at least one deposition device and the at least one device simultaneously move during at least a part of the first phase. The at least one device is selected from the group including the at least one deposition device, a material processing device, the screen device, and a substrate support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Davide Colla, Luigi De Santi
  • Patent number: 11958285
    Abstract: A printer includes a platen roller, a substrate, a heating element, a first defining part, and a second defining part. The platen roller conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The substrate has a front surface which faces the platen roller in a facing direction intersecting an axis direction of the platen roller and the conveyance direction. The heating element is provided on the front surface of the substrate. The heat sink is in contact with a back surface of the substrate. The first defining part and the second defining part define the conveyance path. The first defining part is provided on a further upstream side than the heating element in the conveyance direction. The second defining part is provided at the heat sink on a further downstream side than the substrate in the conveyance direction. and has a contact surface with which the medium comes into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koshiro Shimoda
  • Patent number: 11958286
    Abstract: A printer includes a transport part that transports a sheet, a printing part that prints on the sheet, a cutting part that cuts the sheet by moving a movable blade toward a stationary blade, and a controller that controls the transport part and the cutting part. When the sheet is label paper having an adhesive layer, the controller controls the transport part and the cutting part to transport the sheet rearward before moving the movable blade that cut the sheet, move the movable blade in a direction away from the stationary blade in a state where the sheet is fed in rearward, and thereafter transport the sheet frontward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsuhisa Beniya, Hiroyuki Kataoka, Taichi Sakakura
  • Patent number: 11958287
    Abstract: A cartridge that makes it possible to simultaneously set a printing tape and a cartridge in a tape printing device. A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device includes: a cartridge case; a cartridge-side tape introduction port that introduces a printing tape introduced from a device-side tape introduction port into the cartridge case and a cartridge-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to an outside of the cartridge case toward a device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in a cartridge installation part; and a tape retention part that retains the printing tape that is introduced in advance into a tape path between the cartridge-side tape introduction port and the cartridge-side tape ejection port before the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Ishimoto, Taishi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11958288
    Abstract: A printing system comprises an intermediate transfer member (ITM), an image forming station, a conveyer for driving rotation of the ITM, and a treatment station disposed downstream of the impression station and upstream of the image forming station configured for coating the ITM surface with a layer of a liquid treatment formulation, the treatment station comprising an applicator for applying the liquid treatment formulation to the ITM, a coating thickness-regulation assembly comprising a plurality of blades, a blade-replacement mechanism, and a blade-replacement controller for controlling the blade-replacement mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LANDA CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Uriel Pomerantz, Vitaly Burkatovsky
  • Patent number: 11958289
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head control circuit controls a liquid ejecting head and a switching circuit. The liquid ejecting head control circuit includes a drive signal output circuit, and a switching control circuit. The switching control circuit outputs an ejection control signal defining an amount of a liquid to be ejected from a nozzle, a switching timing signal defining switching timing of the switching circuit, and a state selection signal defining a state of the switching circuit in a control period defined by the switching timing signal. The state selection signal for a first time period for which the liquid ejecting head is controlled so as to eject the liquid from the nozzle is different from the state selection signal for a second time period for which the liquid ejecting head is controlled so as not to eject the liquid from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sukehiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11958290
    Abstract: There is provided droplet discharging apparatus including: nozzle configured to discharge liquid by energy generating element; first signal generator configured to generate, based on first and second data representing first and second driving waveforms, first time division multiplex signal; first separator configured to separate first or second driving waveform signal representing the first or second driving waveform from the first time division multiplex signal; second signal generator configured to generate, based on third and fourth data representing third and fourth driving waveforms, second time division multiplex signal; and second separator configured to separate third or fourth driving waveform signal representing the third or fourth driving waveform from the second time division multiplex signal. The energy generating element is driven by the first or second driving waveform signal separated by the first separator, or by the third or fourth driving waveform signal separated by the second separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11958291
    Abstract: an adhesive having a first amount exists on a side of the first piezoelectric element line, of a joint of the wiring substrate and the pressure chamber substrate or the vibration plate, an adhesive having a second amount that is larger than the first amount exists on a side of the second piezoelectric element line of the wiring substrate, of the joint, and a first discharging element related to the first piezoelectric element line is different from a second discharging element related to the second piezoelectric element line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Mizuta, Hiroaki Okui
  • Patent number: 11958292
    Abstract: A composite photoresist material and method of making the composite photoresist material. The composite photoresist material includes: a photoresist layer devoid of a phenoxy resin, and a photoresist layer containing a phenoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sean T. Weaver
  • Patent number: 11958293
    Abstract: In some examples, a fluid ejection die includes a plurality of nozzles arranged in a plurality of nozzle columns, the plurality of nozzle columns distributed across a width of the fluid ejection die in a staggered manner, wherein nozzles of each respective nozzle column of the plurality of nozzle columns are spaced apart along a length of the fluid ejection die, wherein the plurality of nozzle columns includes a first pair of neighboring nozzle columns that are spaced by a first distance across the width. The plurality of nozzle columns includes a second pair of neighboring nozzle columns that are spaced by a second distance across the width, the second distance being larger than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Galen Cook, Garrett E Clark, Michael W Cumbie, James R Przybyla, Richard Seaver, Frank D Derryberry, Si-lam J Choy
  • Patent number: 11958294
    Abstract: A cartridge includes: a liquid accommodating portion; a liquid supply portion having a central axis and a supply portion flow path which communicates with the liquid accommodating portion; and a valve mechanism arranged in supply portion flow path, wherein the valve mechanism has a valve seat having an insertion port into which liquid introduction portion is inserted, a valve body having a closing surface which abuts on the valve seat to close the insertion port, and a biasing member biasing valve body toward the valve seat, the valve mechanism is opened by the valve body being pushed by the liquid introduction portion, and the closing surface has a flat surface portion, and an inclined surface portion formed around the flat surface portion and inclined toward an edge of the closing surface, and at least a part of the inclined surface portion faces the introduction portion flow path in mounted state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shun Oya
  • Patent number: 11958295
    Abstract: A cartridge detachably mounted in a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid introduction portion includes: a liquid supply portion having a supply portion flow path; a valve seat having a valve seat insertion port; a valve body upstream of the valve seat; a biasing member biasing the valve body toward the valve seat; a cap located downstream of the valve seat; and a liquid absorbing material in contact with the cap, in which the cap has a first surface facing the valve seat, a second surface facing the first surface and contacting the liquid absorbing material, a cap insertion port formed over the first and second surfaces, into which the liquid introduction portion is inserted, a groove formed in the first surface and facing the valve seat, and a hole formed over the first and second surfaces and coupled to the groove, and liquid absorbing material is in the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shun Oya
  • Patent number: 11958296
    Abstract: A fluid interconnect system including a mating component having an inlet port and a liquid outlet, the inlet port configured to support an interconnector and the liquid outlet configured to engage with a print cartridge so that liquid flows from a liquid source, through the interconnector and the inlet port, and out of the liquid outlet into the print cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Steven R. Komplin
  • Patent number: 11958297
    Abstract: Printing methods and devices identify distortable ink colors in a print job. These distortable ink colors interact with one another when printed in the same printing pass on the same area of a sheet. These methods and devices control printheads and sheet feeders to separately print the distortable ink colors in different print passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Seemit Praharaj, Douglas K. Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11958298
    Abstract: A liquid discharge method for a liquid discharge apparatus having a plurality of print modes includes determining and changing. The determining determines the print modes by a determiner. The changing changes, based on the print mode determined by the determiner, a use nozzle width and a discharge amount of a spot color head in a line feed direction such that a print mode having a low print speed has a narrower nozzle width and a larger discharge amount than a print mode having a high print speed by a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Saito, Atsushi Hada, Yuki Tsuchiya, Daisuke Mezaki
  • Patent number: 11958299
    Abstract: A printing apparatus that performs printing on a medium while being manually moved relative to the medium, the printing apparatus including a first discharger including a first nozzle row that discharges a first liquid, a second discharger including a second nozzle row that discharges a second liquid, a mode determination section that evaluates whether the printing apparatus operates in a first mode in which the printing apparatus is movable in an oblique direction with respect to a first direction or a second mode in which the printing apparatus is not movable in an oblique direction with respect to the first direction, and a first control section that restrains printing using both the first and second dischargers when the mode determination section determines that the printing apparatus operates in a first mode in which the printing apparatus operates in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 11958300
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage on which the recording head is mounted and in which a first measuring area and a second measuring area are provided, a platen disposed to face the recording head, a reference portion disposed on the platen at a position faceable by the recording head; a distance sensor provided on either of the carriage or the reference portion and configured to measure a distance between a measuring area and the reference portion, and a controller that determines an inclination of the carriage with respect to the platen based on a measurement result of the distance sensor, and controls execution of a predetermined process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Murayama, Shinya Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11958301
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to print an image on a print medium, an acquiring unit configured to acquire temperature information of the printing unit, and a control unit configured to control the printing unit so as to start relative scanning in a case where a temperature that is indicated by the temperature information has reached a print permission temperature. The print permission temperature in a first print mode whose speed at a time of a constant speed in relative scanning is a first speed is a first temperature. The print permission temperature in a second print mode whose speed at the time of the constant speed is a second speed that is faster than the first speed is a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Murase, Kazuhiko Sato, Taku Yokozawa, Noboru Kunimine, Hiroshi Taira, Hiroshi Kawafuji, Sae Mogi, Akiko Aichi
  • Patent number: 11958302
    Abstract: An ink printing device has a dryer chamber that is connected via two openings with the internal space of the printer. To detect whether operational exhaust air flows, as leakage air, from the drying chamber into the internal space, the temperature in the opening region may be measured and compared with a reference value. Given a temperature difference above a threshold value, an error signal is generated and/or corresponding countermeasures are taken in order to reduce the leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Stefan Röhl
  • Patent number: 11958303
    Abstract: Provided is a printing apparatus including: a guide unit configured to guide movement, in a first direction, of the printing apparatus held and moved by a user; a printing unit configured to print an image onto a print medium with the movement in the first direction; a second guide unit configured to guide movement of the printing apparatus in a second direction crossing the first direction; a detection unit configured to detect a relative moving amount between the printing apparatus and the print medium; and a control unit configured to cause a notification unit to make a predetermined notification according to a first distance in the first direction between the printing unit and the detection unit and a position at which an operation of printing a single line by the printing unit is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuyo Ohashi, Hiroshi Nakai
  • Patent number: 11958304
    Abstract: An ink-jet textile printing pretreatment liquid is discharged by an ink-jet nozzle, and contains a specific solvent and a specific resin particle. The specific solvent contains water and polyvalent alcohol. The specific resin particle contains a cationic resin having a cationic group. A particle size of the specific resin particle is 30 nm or more and 150 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Jun Hioki
  • Patent number: 11958305
    Abstract: A method of producing a spectacle lens includes providing a substrate having a front surface and a back surface and coating or covering at least one of the front surface or the back surface of the substrate, in full or in part, with a layer. The surface topography of the substrate surface is changed by bringing the surface into contact with a medium and the medium is removed. A product made according to the method and including (i) a spectacle lens or (ii) a representation of the spectacle lens in the form of computer-readable data present on a data medium or (iii) a data medium including a virtual representation of the spectacle lens in the form of computer-readable data or (iv) a representation of the spectacle lens in the form of a computer-readable data signal, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Michel-Rene Christmann, Christian Lischer, Andreu Llobera Adan, Yujing Liu
  • Patent number: 11958306
    Abstract: In an example of the disclosure, a priming lane and a non-priming lane are identified within an image frame to be printed by a printer. A line of molten wax is applied to the roller. The molten wax when cooled is to form a wax ridge upon the roller. The roller having the formed wax ridge is wetted with the primer. The wetted roller is rotated against the substrate to apply the primer. A first width of the wetted roller that does not include the wax ridge forms the priming lane upon the substrate. A second width of the roller that includes the wax ridge causes the primer to not transfer and thereby forms the non-priming lane upon the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chen Zigdon, Mirit Shitrit, Liora Braun
  • Patent number: 11958307
    Abstract: Provided are a material for pressure measurement, including a color forming layer that contains microcapsules A encapsulating an electron-donating colorless dye precursor and microcapsules B not encapsulating an electron-donating colorless dye precursor, in which a volume standard median diameter D50A of the microcapsules A and a volume standard median diameter D50B of the microcapsules B satisfy Equation 1; a material composition for pressure measurement; and a material set for pressure measurement: D50A<D50B??Equation 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11958308
    Abstract: A sheet for thermal printing is provided, which may include: a first layer including: a sheet material dyed in a specific color; and a second layer coextensive with the first layer and including a plurality of particles randomly and evenly arranged per a thickness unit and per an area unit of the second layer, the particles being at least partly transmissive to light in the visible light range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: G13 INNOVATION IN PRODUCTION LTD
    Inventors: Iakov Gozman, Dmitrii Derevitskii
  • Patent number: 11958309
    Abstract: A multi-material fluidic printing system including pressure source; regulator(s) having first end(s) and second end(s), first end(s) fluidically coupled to pressure source; flow selector(s) having third end(s) and fourth ends; cartridges capable of holding fluid materials, cartridge having fifth end and sixth end, fifth end fluidically coupled to corresponding fourth end; processor(s) configured to: control pressure source to generate first pressure; control regulator(s) to regulate first pressure to obtain second pressure at second end(s); control flow selector(s) to selectively distribute second pressure received at third end(s) to obtain third pressure(s) on fourth end(s), so that fluid material(s) held in cartridge(s) corresponding to fourth end(s) is/are dispensed from sixth end(s) of cartridge(s) onto fluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: BRINTER OY
    Inventors: Dhayakumar Rajan Prakash, Tomi Kalpio
  • Patent number: 11958310
    Abstract: A method of providing a book binding assembly in the form of a stack of hardcovers for making hardcover books, with the hardcovers having pressure sensitive adhesives on both sides for securing a cover wrap onto the hardcovers. Liner sheets are disposed over the upper hardcover and intermediate the hardcovers of the stack to protect the various adhesive elements. The liner sheet is then used to accurately apply a cover wrap to the hardcover on which the liner sheet is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: POWIS PARKER INC.
    Inventor: Kevin P. Parker
  • Patent number: 11958311
    Abstract: Techniques for using additive manufacturing for applying personalization or serialization information to a substrate are described herein. The techniques may include providing a base substrate formed from a first material such as polyvinyl chloride, polyester, or polycarbonate and applying, via an additive manufacturing process such as three-dimensional printing, a layer to at least a portion of the base substrate. The layer can include at least one of personalization or serialization information. The layer can be formed from the same material as the substrate or formed from a second material with substantially similar material properties as the substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HID Global CID SAS
    Inventor: John Aldridge Keagy
  • Patent number: 11958314
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wheel connecting structure and a baby carrier. The wheel connecting structure includes a fixed base, a rotatable base, a rotating shaft and an anti-swing member. The rotatable base is rotatably connected to the fixed base by the rotating shaft. The anti-swing member has an abutting portion. The anti-swing member is arranged on one of the fixed base and the rotatable base, and the abutting portion abuts against the other of the fixed base and the rotatable base. The abutting portion is provided with a lubricating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wonderland Switzerland AG
    Inventors: Jihua Huang, Zhengwen Guo
  • Patent number: 11958315
    Abstract: A manually adjustable movable base for an outdoor umbrella includes a base assembly, a screw rod rotatably fitted at the center of the foundation base assembly, a cranking rod which is in transmission fit with the screw rod and is used for driving the screw rod to rotate, a plurality of pull rods rotatably fitted with the base assembly, and a plurality of bottom wheels which are arranged on the base assembly and are correspondingly fitted with the pull rods. The lower end of the screw rod is in threaded connection with a lifting block, and the lifting block is fitted with and connected to the pull rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LINHAI LIJU ARTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hongwei Yang
  • Patent number: 11958316
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion being provided with circumferential grooves extending continuously in a zigzag manner. One of the circumferential grooves includes first inclined elements inclined in a first direction with respect to the tire circumferential direction, second inclined elements inclined in a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the tire circumferential direction, and intersections where the first inclined elements and second inclined elements intersect. Each of the first inclined elements and the second inclined elements is provided with at least one first protrusion that projects outwardly in a tire radial direction from the groove bottom and connects the pair of groove walls. At least one of the intersections is provided with a second protrusion that projects outwardly in the tire radial direction from the groove bottom and is separated from the pair of groove walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoko Tsujibayashi
  • Patent number: 11958317
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a plurality of lands include a first land, the first land comprises a plurality of circumferential grooves that extend in a tire circumferential direction and that are arrayed in a tire axial direction, the plurality of circumferential grooves are respectively arranged at portions in the tire circumferential direction of the first land, the plurality of circumferential grooves include a first circumferential groove which is arranged in inwardmost fashion in the tire axial direction, and a second circumferential groove which is arranged in outwardmost fashion in the tire axial direction, and as viewed in a tire meridional section, an inner space area of the first circumferential groove is greater than an inner space area of the second circumferential groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiko Kanamura
  • Patent number: 11958318
    Abstract: A tread portion of a pneumatic tire includes a pair of first main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction formed at a position on either outer side in the tire lateral direction of a first land portion including a tire equatorial plane; a pair of second main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction formed at a position outward from the first main grooves in the tire lateral direction; and first lug grooves formed in a second land portion between the first main grooves and the second main grooves, the first lug grooves opening to one of the first main grooves at one end and opening to one of the second main grooves at an other end. The first lug grooves have a groove width of 2 mm or greater and have the same inclination direction in the tire lateral direction with respect to the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruna Mizushima
  • Patent number: 11958319
    Abstract: A heavy truck tire directional tread is provided that has two successive asymmetrical sipes (14) in the longitudinal direction that share at least some of the same offset from a tread edge in the lateral direction. Each of the two asymmetrical sipes (14) has a body (28) and a tear drop (30). The surface of the bottom of the sipe (14) has a radius of curvature that is not the same along the entire surface of the bottom. The geometry of the sipes resists crack initiation and propagation and is governed by the equation RA.B-avg>1-4×Rref, wherein Ra.B-avg is the average radius of a particular portion of the bottom of the sipe, and Rref is a reference radius of the bottom of the sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventor: Victor Abarotin
  • Patent number: 11958320
    Abstract: A tire having a tread portion provided with a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove each extending in the tire circumferential direction, and lateral grooves connecting between the first circumferential groove and the second circumferential groove. The first circumferential groove extends zigzag and comprises a radially outer first portion having the smallest width and a radially inner second portion having a width larger than that of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11958321
    Abstract: Techniques are described for using one or more wireless host devices to perform tire localization of TPMS sensor data by determining received signal strength indicator (RSSI) signatures that are unique to the wireless communication channel between a host device and each TPMS sensor. RSSI signatures represents a periodic variation of the wireless communication channel between a host device on the car body and a TPMS sensor in a rotating tire. Characteristics of the communication channel is a function of the wheel angle and is periodic with wheel rotations. The RSSI signatures may be created by matching RSSI measurements of packets received by the host device from a TPMS sensor with wheel angles derived from wheel speed sensor (WSS) data of the anti-lock braking system (ABS). The RSSI signatures are a unique marker of each wheel that may be used to identify the locations of the TPMS sensors for tire localization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Kolych, Victor Simileysky, Kiran Uln, Michael Kandler
  • Patent number: 11958322
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes an inner ring having an axis of rotation and an outer ring coaxial with the inner ring. The non-pneumatic tire further includes support structure extending from the inner ring to the outer ring. The support structure is constructed of a thermoplastic material and having reinforcement cords embedded therein. The non-pneumatic tire also includes a circumferential tread extending about the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventor: Adam K. Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 11958323
    Abstract: A coupler lock device is configured for use with a self-latching trailer coupler securing a hitch ball in the coupler socket. The coupler lock device has a housing that includes a top panel portion defining a cavity configured so that, when the housing is secured in position over the trailer coupler, the housing top panel prevents seating of the hitch ball in the coupler socket by restricting upward movement of the release lever when an attempt is made to insert the hitch ball into the coupler socket. Also, when the housing is secured in position over the trailer coupler with a hitch ball seated in the coupler socket, the housing top panel prevents removal of the coupler socket from the hitch ball by restricting upward movement of the release lever that would otherwise release the coupler socket from the hitch ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Marco Garcia
  • Patent number: 11958324
    Abstract: A multifunctional all-terrain vehicle having a body for accommodating people and cargo, an engine, and a transmission having axles and wheels. Disposed on the axles are brake discs gripped within brake pads which are actuated by brake cylinders disposed in a carriage and forming a brake system, and can be used for traveling over land, water, swamps, snow. According to the invention, a single frame is configured as a three-dimensional structure, and waterproofing is additionally provided with a vertically adjustable seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventor: Kseniya Maksimovna Belonogova
  • Patent number: 11958325
    Abstract: A device includes a lower support cap, an upper bearing cap, at least one bearing disposed between the caps and at least one annular seal. The seal provides a claw secured by mechanical connection to the upper support cap, a sealing lip extending obliquely from the claw in the direction of the upper bearing cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Benoit Arnault, Baptiste Vidil, Thomas Lepine, Christophe Houdayer
  • Patent number: 11958326
    Abstract: An actuator whose total length can be reduced is provided. An actuator (2) includes: a casing (7); a hollow shaft (8) rotatably supported by the casing (7) via a bearing (9a, 9b), the hollow shaft (8) including a bottom portion (8b); a screw shaft (14) coupled to the bottom portion (8b) of the hollow shaft (8), the screw shaft (14) sharing a common center line with the hollow shaft (8); and a nut (15) threadedly connected to the screw shaft (14). The nut (15) is capable of moving in an axial direction of the screw shaft (14) to enter between the hollow shaft (8) and the screw shaft (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Oshida, Takashi Sakuyama, Tetsuhiro Nishide, Hiroshi Kaneshige, Sho Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11958327
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a collision determination ECU determining whether a possibility of collision is present, based on a detection result of a detection sensor detecting outside of the vehicle, a motor, a boosting circuit and a battery supplying a high voltage to the motor, and an electric suspension control ECU controlling the boosting circuit and the motor, and in a case where the collision determination ECU determines that the possibility of collision is present, the electric suspension control ECU limits the supply of the high voltage to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Konada, Satoshi Ohno
  • Patent number: 11958328
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed that assist a user in performing proper setup of a vehicle suspension. A user may utilize a device equipped with an image sensor to assist the user in proper setup of a vehicle suspension. The device executes an application that prompts the user for input and instructs the user to perform a number of steps for adjusting the suspension components. In one embodiment, the application does not communicate with sensors on the vehicle. In another embodiment, the application may communicate with various sensors located on the vehicle to provide feedback to the device during the setup routine. In one embodiment, the device may analyze a digital image of a suspension component to provide feedback about a physical characteristic of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Galasso, Joseph Franklin, Andrew Laird, Charles Bass, Ryan Bavetta
  • Patent number: 11958329
    Abstract: A roll vibration damping control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: compute a sum of a product of a roll moment of inertia and a roll angular acceleration of a vehicle body, a product of a roll damping coefficient and a first-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, and a product of an equivalent roll stiffness of the vehicle and a second-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, as a controlled roll moment to be applied to the vehicle body; compute a roll moment around a center of gravity of a sprung mass as a correction roll moment, the roll moment being generated by lateral force on wheels due to roll motion; and compute a target roll moment based on a value obtained by correcting the controlled roll moment with the correction roll moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shota Tanzan, Etsuo Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 11958330
    Abstract: Assembly in a compressed air system of a vehicle provided with an air ride suspension, the assembly being configured to lift the vehicle body by filling at least one air spring, the solenoid valves being switchable in cooperation with an electronic control device, and the assembly including a pressure line for filling the air springs, and the pressure line including a first branch line connectable to the pressure line via a pilot-controlled solenoid valve for filling the air springs and including first supply pipes and pilot-controlled solenoid valves for each air spring as well as a second branch line for providing a control pressure which includes second supply pipes for the pilot-controlled solenoid valves, wherein the second branch line is connected to the pressure line via a check valve, the check valve providing a block position against venting or pressure drop in the second branch line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZF CV Systems Global GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Jovers, Johann Lucas, Przemyslaw Zak
  • Patent number: 11958331
    Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a rear suspension assembly which has a trailing arm generally extending longitudinally. The trailing arm includes a joint along a longitudinal length of the trailing arm. Also, the rear suspension assembly includes an upper radius rod extending in a generally lateral direction relative to a centerline of the vehicle. Additionally, the rear suspension assembly includes a lower radius rod extending in a generally lateral direction relative to the centerline of the vehicle. The rear suspension assembly further includes a suspension member configured to control toe of the at least one rear ground-engaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Alex R. Scheuerell, David D. Helgeson, Aaron S. Norton
  • Patent number: 11958332
    Abstract: A vehicle cooling/heating system includes a coolant line in which coolant is circulated between a heat source component of a vehicle that provides waste heat and a chiller and a refrigerant line in which refrigerant is circulated through a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The refrigerant line performs indoor cooling through the evaporator. A controller controls the coolant line such that, during a drying mode in which it is necessary to dry the evaporator, the coolant in the coolant line is circulated or not circulated through the heat source component and the chiller, and such that the refrigerant in the refrigerant line flows, in order, through the compressor, the evaporator, and the chiller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Won Kim, Sang Shin Lee, Uk Il Yang
  • Patent number: 11958334
    Abstract: A heat recovery system for an electric vehicle, including first and second switchable heat sources and a controller operable to selectively switch one of the heat sources into thermal communication with a compressor in a thermodynamic cycling system, the thermodynamic cycling system being in thermal communication with a heat sink; and a detector of a temperature differential between each of the switchable heat sources and a fluid entering the compressor; wherein the controller is operable to switch one of the first and second switchable heat sources into thermal communication with the thermodynamic cycling system when a temperature differential is detected between the fluid entering the compressor in the thermodynamic cycling system and the heat available from the switchable heat source, the temperature differential being such that the compressor is operable to upgrade low grade heat from the switchable heat source to a higher grade heat upon operation of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Chris Chatham, Dhillip Asokan, Kate Rouse, Oliver Stocks, Nilabza Dutta, Richard Cook
  • Patent number: 11958335
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric actuator (1) suitable for driving a movable element for a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system for a motor vehicle, comprising: an electric motor (10) comprising a stator (100) and a rotor (101); a satellite ring gear (12) comprising at least one satellite (120); an output wheel (13) suitable for being rotated by said satellite ring gear (12); wherein: said electric actuator (1) further comprises a drive wheel (11), directly connected to said rotor (101), suitable for being rotated by said rotor (101) and suitable for rotating said satellite ring gear (12); said output wheel (13) comprises an output star wheel (130) suitable for driving said movable element (20) of said ventilation, heating and/or air conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Rawane Seck, Laurent Tellier, Didier Barat, Sébastien Colinet, Dione Gomis
  • Patent number: 11958336
    Abstract: A multi-port rotary disc valve includes a valve housing having chamber walls that segregate an internal space of the housing into subchambers that each provide a portion of one or more fluid paths through the valve housing. The valve housing includes valve ports, where each valve port communicates with a subchamber and is an axially-extending through hole that resides in a plane that is common to all valve ports. The valve also includes a diverter assembly that is disposed in one of the subchambers and is configured to control fluid flow through the valve housing. The valve also includes seal assemblies disposed in the chamber so as to be aligned with the diverter assembly along a rotational axis of the diverter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Chapman