Patents Issued in April 30, 2024
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Patent number: 11970099Abstract: A sleeve device for a headrest includes a sleeve body for insertion into a vehicle seat. The sleeve body includes a tubular wall describing an inner axial passage configured to receive a rod of the headrest, and having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a central portion between the upper and lower portions; and at least one elongate rib member overmoulded to an inner surface or an outer surface of the tubular wall and extending along the tubular wall, preferably between the lower portion and the upper portion, wherein the at least one rib member is configured to contact an outer surface of the rod when extending along the inner surface, or is configured to engage an external component, for example the frame of the vehicle seat, when extending along the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Jordi Bielsa Bonet
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Patent number: 11970100Abstract: A table device for an interior of a vehicle includes a table element that is positionable from a non-use position into a use position. The table element, secured to a pivot arm in the non-use position, forms a trim element of a center console of the vehicle. The pivot arm is secured to a frame element and the frame element is guided by a guide element through a predefined movement path. The frame element is liftable by a first drive unit through the predefined movement path such that the table element pivots out in part, through a predefined angle, from a housing formed by the center console. The table element is liftable by a second drive unit into the use position.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Valentin Maier, Christoph Menzel, Bernd Plocher, Benno Stamp
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Patent number: 11970101Abstract: A vehicle is equipped with a body that includes a floor panel, a door that is attached to a body, a door lock mechanism that includes an outer hook and an inner hook and that is attached to a lower portion of a door to lock the door on the floor panel, and a slope device attached to a lower side of the floor panel. Tip portions of the outer hook and the inner hook penetrate the floor panel downward outside a vehicle outer end of a slope with respect to the vehicle, and restrain the slope from being deployed outward of the vehicle, when the door is locked.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naoya Ishida
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Patent number: 11970102Abstract: A liftgate assembly, such as a for a delivery vehicle, includes a liftgate that is movable by hydraulic power between a raised position and a lowered position. The hydraulic power unit includes an energy-recovery mechanism that stores energy while the liftgate is being lowered under load. Energy stored by the energy-recovery mechanism, such as in an accumulator, may be used to raise the liftgate. The hydraulic power unit includes a pump that pumps hydraulic fluid for providing hydraulic pressure. The liftgate assembly thereby uses energy more efficiently, enabling repurposing part of the energy from lowering the liftgate (and any cargo thereupon) in raising the liftgate.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Hiab USA Inc.Inventor: Alexander S. Kacludis
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Patent number: 11970103Abstract: The present technology provides a cargo adapter that can be inserted into a passenger compartment of a mixed-use vehicle that can be anchored to existing anchor points in the vehicle. The cargo adapter can then receive, secure, and support a cargo locker in a way that safely secures the cargo and avoids wear on the interior surfaces of the passenger compartment. The present technology further provides a system for transporting a cargo locker to a vehicle and inserting the cargo adapter and cargo locker into the vehicle quickly and easily.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLCInventors: Rajat Basu, Vincent Falzon, Jordan Hart, Miles Kodama
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Patent number: 11970104Abstract: One embodiment of an unmanned protective vehicle (UPV) includes a chassis, wheels, an engine, a barrier fixed to the chassis, and an autonomous driving system. The UPV has an opening which enables a manned vehicle to enter a space that is protected by the barrier. And the autonomous driving system is configured to drive the UPV in cooperation with the manned vehicle, while the manned vehicle is located inside the space. Having the manned vehicle inside the space of the UPV improves the survivability of the manned vehicle following a collision, while the manned vehicle is located inside the space, compared to the survivability of the manned vehicle following a collision, while the manned vehicle is not located inside the space.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: Gil Thieberger, Ari M Frank
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Patent number: 11970105Abstract: A universal device adapted to fit or be inserted within the cavity of a one directional ratchet gear to tighten tie-down straps utilized to secure cargo transported on car haulers, flatbed trailers or the like. The device includes but not limited to an elongated cylinder shape adaptor insert or hub with the ability to lock in place and having a standard, customized or dog ratchet mechanism fixed at one end thereof. A cylindrical bar socket and ratchet gear pulley extends from one side of the ratchet mechanism. The cylindrical bar socket is designed to encompass a standard, customized or dog ratchet drive shaft or opposite the elongated cylinder shape insert may encompass the aforementioned. The device herein permits the marrying of old or existing one-way ratchet gear assembly and shaft to new two-way directional or freewheel and drive without dismantling the old ratchet gear assembly; allowing old and new to rotate as one single unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventor: Jomoko Tamboura Graves
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Patent number: 11970106Abstract: A positioning device (10) for pivoting at least one relevant component (20) for a motor vehicle headlight about a first and a second axis (X, Y), comprising a holding element (100) for a relevant component (20), said holding element comprising a first sliding surface (110), which is designed as part of a spherical surface, a support frame (200), which comprises a second sliding surface (210), which is designed as part of a spherical surface, the holding element (100) being supported in the support frame (200) by means of a bearing apparatus such that the first sliding surface (110) of the holding element (100) can be displaced along the second sliding surface (210) of the support frame (200) about the first and second axis (X, Y), an adjusting apparatus (300), which has a positioning component (301) and a first moving apparatus (310) and a second moving apparatus (320), which are each arranged on the positioning component (301), which is mechanically connected to the holding element (100) by means of a conType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ZKW Group GmbHInventors: Johann Steinkellner, Lukas Ederer
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Patent number: 11970107Abstract: A dimming mechanism, which is used for dimming a lighting unit and includes a fixed ball head connecting piece, a first adjustable ball head connecting piece, and a second adjustable ball head connecting piece; one end of the fixed ball head connecting piece is connected to the lighting unit, and the other end is connected to a support frame or lamp body; one end of the first adjustable ball head connecting piece is connected to the lighting unit, and the other end is supported on the support frame or lamp body; and a sliding slot is provided on the lighting unit, and one end of the second adjustable ball head connecting piece (1c) is slidingly connected to the sliding slot so that the sliding slot is, by means of the back and forth motion of the second adjustable ball head connecting piece, driven to rotate, and the lighting unit is, by means of the rotation of the sliding slot, driven to rotate so as to achieve dimming in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HASCO VISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiping Qiu, Langrun Jin, Cong Li, He Zhu, Wenhui Sang
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Patent number: 11970108Abstract: A headlight device includes a light source unit to emit first light, a first optical unit to change a light distribution pattern of incident first light, a light-reception unit to detect incident second light, a second optical unit to project the light distribution pattern in a predetermined projection direction and receive incident light traveling in a direction opposite to the projection direction, a third optical unit to emit the first light toward the second optical unit and emit incident light that has passed through the second optical unit as second light toward the light-reception unit, and a fourth optical unit to focus the second light and direct toward the light-reception unit. The light distribution pattern is controlled based on a detection result of second light in the light-reception unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masashige Suwa, Ritsuya Oshima, Muneharu Kuwata
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Patent number: 11970109Abstract: An electronic device for an automotive lighting device, including a driver and a mixer. The driver includes a power and signal input and has a supply voltage threshold, in such a way that the microcontroller is configured to reset if the voltage value in the power and signal input is lower than the supply voltage threshold. The mixer includes an output connected to the power and signal input of the driver, and is configured to provide an output signal which is related to the highest between the non-permanent signal and the permanent signal inputs.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: Juan Lara-Cabeza, Antonio Domingo Illan Cabeza, Miguel Angel Peña Pulido
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Patent number: 11970110Abstract: A vehicular frameless interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting portion. The mirror head includes a mirror reflective element and a mirror casing. The mirror reflective element includes a glass substrate having a planar front side and a planar rear side. No portion of the mirror casing overlaps the planar front side of the glass substrate of the mirror reflective element. A camera is disposed within the mirror casing. With the mounting portion of the mirror assembly mounted at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle, the camera views a driver of the vehicle, and when the mirror head is moved by the driver of the vehicle to adjust the rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element to the driver, the camera moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head. The camera is part of a driver monitoring system of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventors: Darryl P. De Wind, Donald S. Rawlings, John T. Uken
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Patent number: 11970111Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mounting arm and a mirror head at one end of the mounting arm distal from an attachment portion of the mounting arm that is configured for attachment at a vehicle. A mirror reflective element is fixedly attached at the mirror head. An innermost side of the mirror reflective element is attached at a front side of an attachment plate. The mirror reflective element moves in tandem with movement of the mirror head relative to the mounting arm when the driver of the vehicle operates an electrically-operable actuator. The attachment plate includes wall structure that extends from the front side of the attachment plate and circumscribes and spans the perimeter circumferential edge of the glass substrate and does not encroach onto and does not overlap the front surface of the glass substrate of the exterior mirror reflective element.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MAGNA MIRRORS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: John T. Uken, Darryl P. De Wind, Keith D. Foote, Joseph M. Mambourg, Rodney K. Blank, Mark L. Larson, Niall R. Lynam
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Patent number: 11970112Abstract: A vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a powerfold actuator electrically operable to pivot a mirror head relative to a mounting base. The powerfold actuator includes a biasing element disposed between an upper housing and an upper end of a pivot tube and releasably retains the powerfold actuator in at least one detent state. The powerfold actuator includes (i) a lower detent disposed between the base portion and a lower housing, (ii) an output gear disposed between the lower housing and the upper housing and (iii) an upper detent disposed between the lower housing and the upper housing. When the powerfold actuator is in a primary detent state, the lower detent and the output gear are rotationally fixed relative to the pivot tube and the upper detent is axially movable along the pivot tube. When the mirror head is manually moved, a secondary detent state is engaged.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventors: Matthew V. Steffes, Mitchell J. Wesley
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Patent number: 11970113Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes a forward-viewing camera located behind and viewing through a vehicle windshield, a rearward-viewing camera located at a rear of the vehicle, and a common image processor operable for processing captured image data. A video display screen is located within the interior cabin of the vehicle viewable by a driver of the vehicle. The common image processor processes first image data captured by the forward-viewing camera to detect at least one vehicle present exterior the equipped vehicle. Responsive to the vehicle being shifted into a reverse gear and while the driver is executing a reversing maneuver, video images derived from image data captured by at least the rearward-viewing camera are displayed by the video display screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Andrew D. Weller, Mark L. Larson, Ian A. McCabe, Niall R. Lynam, Rodney K. Blank, Joseph P. McCaw, John T. Uken
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Patent number: 11970114Abstract: A system for capturing and presenting views of a vehicle. In an example embodiment, the system captures video data rearward and along a side of the vehicle and/or behind the vehicle. The system includes video cameras for capturing video data at one or more resolutions and in one or more fields-of-view. The displays present the video data to the driver for use during operation of the vehicle. The displays present the video data at one or more resolutions. The resolution of capture and/or display may be in accordance with an operating mode of the vehicle, such as turning, direction of travel and/or driver selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ATLIS MOTOR VEHICLES INC.Inventors: Mark Hanchett, Matt Wilkins, Sean Lamont, Derek Duff, Benoit le Beourgeois
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Patent number: 11970115Abstract: A vehicular lighted exterior rearview mirror system includes a lighted exterior rearview mirror assembly and a light module. With the mirror assembly attached at a side of a vehicle, the light module is at least in part disposed at a portion of the mirror head of the lighted exterior rearview mirror assembly that faces in a direction of forward travel of the vehicle. The light module includes a two dimensional array of illumination sources that has at least two rows of illumination sources, each row of illumination sources having a plurality of illumination sources. With the mirror assembly attached at the vehicle, the two dimensional array of illumination sources, when electrically powered, emits light at least in the direction of forward travel of the vehicle. The illumination sources of the two dimensional array of illumination sources are controlled responsive to a turn signal of the vehicle being actuated.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Huizen, Keith D. Foote
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Patent number: 11970116Abstract: An operating method of an optical system in a vehicle is provided. The optical system includes a display device. The display device includes a display panel and a plurality of light emitting units. The light emitting units are configured to emit a light to the display panel. The operating method includes the following steps. An emphasized portion of an object is determined. An image corresponding to the emphasized portion is displayed by the display device by adjusting a light intensity of at least a portion of the light emitted from the light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Innolux CorporationInventors: Yu-Chia Huang, Tsung-Han Tsai, Kuan-Feng Lee
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Patent number: 11970117Abstract: A display system includes: an outputter that is provided behind a windshield of a conveyance in a front-back direction of the conveyance and includes an output surface from which image light is outputted toward the windshield; a reflector that is provided between the windshield and the output surface and includes a reflecting surface at which the image light outputted from the output surface is reflected; and optics that includes a polarizing plate and is provided on the windshield or between the windshield and the reflector, the polarizing plate absorbing or reflecting the image light outputted from the output surface and not reflected at the reflecting surface, and allowing outside light that is light outside of the conveyance to pass through the polarizing plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nagatomi, Norihiro Imamura
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Patent number: 11970118Abstract: An optical unit includes an optical sensor, a protective cover disposed in a direction of view from the optical sensor, an actuator to drive the protective cover, and a casing including a space between the casing and the protective cover and to which the optical sensor and the protective cover are attached. A first region on the casing adjacent to an outer edge of the protective cover with the space interposed between the casing and the outer edge of the protective cover is a hydrophobic region where a contact angle of a droplet is equal to or larger than a predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Nishiyama, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Masaki Nagata
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Patent number: 11970119Abstract: An attachment device for attaching an electronic device to a vehicle structure includes a base attached to the vehicle structure for supporting the electronic device, and a cover attached to the base by a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion. The first engagement portion includes an engagement concave formed in one of the base and the cover, and an engagement piece formed in the other of the base and the cover and inserting into the engagement concave. The engagement concave includes a first wall and a second wall facing each other in a first direction and opening toward a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The engagement piece includes a first portion abutting against one of the first wall and the second wall, and a second portion extending from the first portion and abutting against the other of the first wall and the second wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIFCO INC.Inventor: Tatsumi Yamada
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Patent number: 11970120Abstract: In a soundproof member 10 including a polyurethane foam 11 and disposed apart from an engine E on a vehicle interior side of a dash panel 50 partitioning a space into an engine room having the engine E as a sound source and a vehicle interior, the polyurethane foam 11 has a surface layer 12 on at least a part of the surface thereof, a one side surface of the polyurethane foam 11 directly facing the vehicle interior side of the dash panel 50 has at least a surface layer 12A in an open cell state or a core, and a surface layer 12B of the other side surface opposite to the one side surface is a surface layer in a closed cell state.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: INOAC CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Yasunari Kojima
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Patent number: 11970121Abstract: An in-vehicle power supply system includes first to sixth power supply hubs connected to a main feed line, electronic devices connected to the first to sixth power supply hubs via a sub feed line, and a control device configured to control power feeding to the electronic devices. The control device is configured to control, based on a condition regarding a current consumption of the electronic devices, power feeding to the electronic devices such that the current consumption of the electronic devices is lower than an allowable current consumption that is predetermined in accordance with a scene of using a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Sadahisa Yamada, Kazuichi Fujisaka, Masaaki Shimizu
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Patent number: 11970122Abstract: A motor vehicle bumper assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a main bumper body and an actuator. The actuator includes a bracket mounted to the main bumper body, a screw jack supported by the bracket, and a trolley driven to translate by the screw jack. A lower support is mounted to the trolley. The actuator is configured to translate the lower support relative to the main bumper body from an integrated position to a deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Brian Glickman, Aaron Peter Klop, Dennis Yee, Satvinder Singh Matharu
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Patent number: 11970123Abstract: A computing device is provided to monitor or ascertain various characteristics of one or more of a wheeled mobility device securement system, a wheeled mobility device, and an occupant of the wheeled mobility device. The computing device can send any and all data available to it, including but not limited to time, dynamic information concerning the vehicle, the wheeled mobility device securement system, the wheeled mobility device, and the occupant, the actions taken by the computing device during an adverse driving condition, and when those actions were taken, to memory for use after the adverse driving event for analysis purposes to understand and recreate the event.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Valeda Company, LLCInventor: Patrick Girardin
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Patent number: 11970124Abstract: An occupancy sensor is provided for detecting the occupancy status of a wheeled mobility device securement system. The occupancy sensor may additionally confirm adequate “tightness” of the wheeled mobility device securement system and/or provide an indication of the magnitude of “tightness.” In one embodiment, the occupancy sensor comprises a spring-loaded follower that breaks the straight-line path of a wheeled mobility device tie down as it travels between two touch points. The follower is displaceable from an extended position to a compressed position in response to the magnitude of tension applied to the tie down. Proximity sensors are used to detect the displacement distance of the follower, thereby providing an indication of occupancy, adequate securement, and/or the magnitude of tension.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Valeda Company, LLCInventors: Damian Jackson, Edgardo Cardona
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Patent number: 11970125Abstract: The present invention discloses a seat misuse alarm device (100). The seat misuse alarm device (100) includes a base (1), a seat (2), an alarm mechanism (3), and a switch triggering device (4). The seat (2) has a forward facing position and a rearward facing position relative the base (1). The alarm mechanism (3) has a switch (31). The switch triggering device (4) triggers the switch (31) to close for making the alarm mechanism (3) send out an alarm when the seat (2) is located at the forward facing position relative to the base (1).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BAMBINO PREZIOSO SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Zu Jian Liu, Zhengwen Guo
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Patent number: 11970126Abstract: An assembly includes a vehicle body including an opening. A track is supported by the vehicle body and extends along the opening. A screen is supported by the vehicle body and is slideable along the track and across the opening between a retracted position and an extended position. The assembly includes a motor supported by the vehicle body and connected to the screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Anil Kalra, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 11970127Abstract: A vehicle passenger seat airbag device includes: an airbag main body that is stored on a lower side of an instrument panel and that is partitioned by an upper partition member to a lower chamber that restrains lower limbs of an occupant and an upper chamber that restrains an upper body of the occupant; and a flow straightening cylinder that is provided so as to be passed through the upper partition member inside the airbag main body and that distributes gas ejected from an inflator to the lower chamber and the upper chamber. The flow straightening cylinder is provided such that a sectional shape of at least a region passing through the upper partition member is provided in a flat shape with its longitudinal direction in a vehicle width direction when the flow straightening cylinder expands and deploys due to ejection of the gas.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seiji Hioda, Toshimitsu Negishi, Kazuma Suzuki
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Patent number: 11970128Abstract: A sealed modular trim supplemental side air bag inflatable curtain (SABIC) module assembly includes a SABIC and a vehicle trim assembly encapsulating the SABIC. The SABIC is sealed within the vehicle trim assembly and provided as a complete compact module configured for subsequent attachment to a vehicle roll bar.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: FCA US LLCInventors: William Mar, Alan R Kirby, Grant T Smith, Michael J Jarvis, Mark A Steinbach, Jerry Domulewicz
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Patent number: 11970129Abstract: The present invention relates to a tensioning apparatus for a safety belt component and to a method for producing such a tensioning apparatus, comprising a gas generator for generating a pressurized gas, a piston which can be driven by the pressurized gas, a traction cable which is connected to the piston and can be connected to a safety belt component to be set into tensioning motion, and a tensioner tube for receiving and guiding the piston, wherein the gas generator is located in the tensioner tube, the tensioner tube has a cut-out in the jacket thereof between the gas generator and the piston, and a cable deflection is provided, by means of which the traction cable is guided through the cut-out and out of the tensioner tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Zoltan Zorgel, Stefan Dan, Robert Bugulet, Paul Imre
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Patent number: 11970130Abstract: Disclosed are a pillar anchor for an automobile and a method of manufacturing the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the pillar anchor for an automobile includes a pair of first and second anchor plates including metal, integrated in one body, and guiding a movement of a seat belt of a vehicle, wherein each of the first and second anchor plates includes a belt movement guide recess portion protruding toward one side of the first and second anchor plates through drawing processing, and guiding the movement of the seat belt, and a reinforcement flange formed at edge portions of the first and second anchor plates to reinforce the first and second anchor plates.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KUMTOIL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Jin Hee Kang
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Patent number: 11970131Abstract: A seatbelt retractor comprises a housing having a first end and a second end. The seatbelt retractor includes a spool having a first end and a second end each rotatably supported by the housing, the spool being elongated on an axis from the first end to the second end. The seatbelt retractor includes a torsion bar having a first end fixed to the first end of the spool and a second end operatively engaged with the housing. The torsion bar includes a wire elongated along the axis and connected to the first end of the torsion bar and the second end of the torsion bar.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 11970132Abstract: A pyrotechnic tightening device 1 of a safety belt unit having a force limiting unit, comprising—a gas generator, and—a piston 19, which is guided in a pipe and which closes a pressure chamber inside the pipe, wherein—a pressure can be applied to the pressure chamber by the gas generator, and—the piston can be driven by the pressure present in the pressure chamber to perform a tightening movement which can be transmitted by means of a force transmitting unit to the safety belt, wherein—the piston is formed in two parts consisting of a main body and a contact part arranged on the side of the main body facing the force transmitting unit, wherein—the contact part has a greater strength than the main body, wherein—the main body surrounds the contact part form fittingly at the end face facing the force transmitting device.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventor: Christian Fischer
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Patent number: 11970133Abstract: The invention relates to a safety belt, which is in particular intended to be installed in an aircraft seat, comprising: a closing loop comprising a male element and a female element, a first strap which is connected to the male element and a second strap which is connected to the female element, the first strap and the second strap being capable of being attached together by means of the closing loop, which can change from an open state to a closed state through cooperation between the male element and the female element, the safety belt further comprising: a system for detecting that the safety belt is in the closed stated, the system being capable of generating an information item relating to a closed state of the safety belt, and a system for detecting that the safety belt is in a mechanically tensioned state, said system being capable of generating an information item relating to a mechanically tensioned state of at least one strap of the safety belt.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Safran SeatsInventors: Jean-Marc Obadia, Lisandre Marcovici-Soulage, Léo Pouy
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Patent number: 11970134Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a processing device provided in a vehicle, an application unit (app unit) implemented by execution of an application program by the processing device, a function restriction determining unit determining whether function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a used key code, and a function restriction applying unit instructing the app unit to apply a determination result of the determination. The function restriction determining unit determines whether the function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a key code of the used electronic key at a plurality of predetermined times, and the function restriction applying unit instructs the app unit to apply the determination result upon activation of the application unit and when a notification of the determination result is received from the function restriction determining unit after the activation.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigenori Hiruta, Takashi Mori, Hiroyuki Hayashi
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Patent number: 11970135Abstract: The present systems, devices, and methods relate to managing shared vehicle access. Authorization policies are stored at a network device, and are provided to vehicle devices. Authorization policies each include an authentication scheme, a list of permitted vehicle operations, and a list of requirements to perform vehicle operations. In this way, whether even if a user is authenticated to access a vehicle, vehicle access is controlled based one whether the user is permitted to perform vehicle operations, and whether requirements are met to perform vehicle operations. This provides a flexible and roust vehicle access system. Authorization Policies are distributed to vehicle device in an Access Configuration, which can be updated.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Geotab Inc.Inventors: Mobaderin Akinsanya, Bruno Gomez de Oliveira, Paul Ayooluwa Soladoye, Matthew Frederick Snow, Gabriel Francklin Yano de Sousa
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Patent number: 11970136Abstract: A step is connectable to a receiver tube on a trailer hitch. The step includes a main body having a first surface and an opposing second surface. A resilient cover extends over the second surface. A mounting plate is connected to the main body. A mounting flange is connectable to the mounting plate. A hitch tube is connected to the mounting flange, with the hitch tube being configured to be connectable to the receiver tube on the trailer hitch. The main body is configured to be transitional relative to the hitch tube between a first position and a second position, with at least a portion of the main body moving away from the hitch tube as the main body transitions from the first position toward the second position.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NAADE, Inc.Inventor: Timothy J. Wymore
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Patent number: 11970137Abstract: A vehicle includes a storage compartment, a belt conveyor located in the storage compartment and having a slat belt supported by a pair of rollers, and a shelf operatively coupled to the slat belt and configured to move between a lower stowed position within the storage compartment and an upper deployed position extending outward from the storage compartment.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Jeff Robert Seaman, Annette Lynn Huebner, George Abram Thornton, Michael John Harmon
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Patent number: 11970138Abstract: An off-road vehicle has a frame, a motor, a steering input device, a storage bin disposed forward of the steering input device, the storage bin having side walls and a bottom wall, and an accessory holder assembly connected to the storage bin. The accessory holder assembly includes a receptacle having an upwardly facing receptacle aperture for receiving an accessory. The receptacle aperture is disposed within a perimeter defined by the side walls of the storage bin. The receptacle extends below the bottom wall of the storage bin. A height of a portion of the receptacle extending below the bottom wall of the storage bin being greater than a width of the receptacle aperture and greater than a length of the receptacle aperture.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC.Inventors: Kevin Poirier, Charles Roy, Louis-Rene Sauve
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Patent number: 11970139Abstract: A storage module connects to a frame forming a door opening of a vehicle. The storage module includes a housing conforming to the door opening and extending into the compartment in an installed configuration. The storage module further includes an exterior panel disposed on a first side of the housing. The exterior panel conforms to an exterior surface of the vehicle enclosing the door opening. At least one storage compartment is disposed inside the housing and the compartment in the installed configuration. The storage compartment includes an access panel forming a portion of the exterior surface and forms a first storage volume.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Hussein Berry, Adam Carlson, Peter Phung, Benjamin Richer
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Patent number: 11970140Abstract: A car tissue box holder is provided. The tissue box is secured to the sun visor of the vehicle by hook and loop or Velcro straps. A pair of straps securing a metal plate to the tissue box attaches to a magnet holder plate secured to the sun visor. The magnet holder plate has a magnetic component help by a plastic component of the magnet holder plate. The Velcro straps are thread through the respective plates. The plates allow adjustment to different sized of tissue box and sizes of sun visors and easy or removal of the tissue box.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Founder Plastics Inc.Inventor: Joseph Ho
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Patent number: 11970141Abstract: An attachment system includes a connector that is removably securable to a vehicle body or a mounting bracket that is securable to a vehicle body. The connector includes a housing and a connecting pin extending from a surface of the housing. The connecting pin is receivable in the mounting bracket or the vehicle body in a first position, and the connecting pin is moveable to a second position such that a portion of the mounting bracket or vehicle body is located intermediate a portion of the connecting pin and the housing. The connector further includes a locking pin moveable from a locking position to a release position. The locking pin is engaged with the mounting bracket or the vehicle body in the locking position, thereby inhibiting movement of the connecting pin from the second position. The locking pin is disengaged from the mounting bracket or the vehicle body when in the release position, thereby allowing removal of the connecting pin from the vehicle body or the mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventors: Marcus Moldaschel, David Vigen, Dayne Efta
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Patent number: 11970142Abstract: A system for dislodging debris from one or more surfaces includes an air inlet, an air outlet fluidly coupled with the air inlet, an air jet forming a trainable air stream between the air inlet and the air outlet, and a vibration device comprising a vibration controller, and one or more vibrators. The vibration device creates vibrations such that debris on the one or more surfaces is dislodged such that debris is captured in the trainable air stream, and the air stream carries the dislodged debris to the air outlet.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: David M. Goemer, Evan Vijithakumara, Imad Zahid, Lizbeth Jurado, Lou Pope, Yuho Kozu
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Patent number: 11970143Abstract: A portable device is provided for cleaning vehicle rims. The device includes a connector having a first portion connected to a removable roller. A wheel base element is connected to a second portion of the connector. A handle is connected to an end of the wheel base portion. The removable roller includes multiple cleaning elements. Another device provides a frame for cleaning vehicle fender wells. A retractable frame is connected to a handle, a brush guide, a multiple guides, a leg guide, multiple ball guides, multiple swivel legs and a rest plate. A well brush is connected to the retractable frame and rotates on the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: Benjamin Pierre, Sr., Katie A. Pierre, Jules A. Pierre
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Patent number: 11970144Abstract: One embodiment of an outrigger footpad retainer system is described and depicted. The system may include a spider assembly that has an upper unit and a lower unit. The upper unit may have a retainer portion and two legs extending from the portion. The lower unit may have a retainer portion and two legs extending from the portion. The upper portion may at least partially overlap the lower portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Bil-Jax, Inc.Inventors: Robert Warren Reyes, Keith Raymond Bruner, Michael John Docis
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Patent number: 11970145Abstract: A brake system for a two-axle vehicle having a master brake cylinder. The brake system includes at least one connected brake circuit, each having front and rear wheel brake cylinders, front wheel inlet and outlet valves, rear wheel inlet and outlet valves, an accumulator chamber, and a control device via which, by opening the at least one rear wheel outlet valve, a brake fluid pressed out of master brake cylinder is displaceable via the open rear wheel outlet valve into the respectively downstream disposed accumulator chamber. When the at least one front wheel outlet valve is kept closed or closed, the control device is configured to increase and limit a brake pressure prevailing in the respectively associated front wheel brake cylinder to an accumulator chamber pressure actively prevailing in the accumulator chamber of the same brake circuit by keeping open or opening the at least one front wheel inlet valve.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Yasutaka Nagakura
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Patent number: 11970146Abstract: The invention relates to an electronically controllable secondary brake system (46), operated by pressure medium, useable as both as a parking brake system and an auxiliary brake system, with spring brake cylinders (68a, 68b) arranged on wheel brakes of at least one vehicle axle (8), with a directly or indirectly electronically controllable brake control valve (56). The brake force of the spring brake cylinder (68a, 68b) can be reduced by a feed of pressure medium and can be increased by a discharge of pressure medium, and with an electronic brake control unit (48) for controlling the brake control valve (56) dependent on the current value of a brake value signal (SBW). The brake control valve (56) is configured as a 3/3-way proportional valve with a pressure medium inlet, a pressure medium outlet, and a working connector, which is connected via a working line (60, 66) to the spring brake cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ZF CV Systems Europe BVInventors: Michael Haverkamp, Lars Volker
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Patent number: 11970147Abstract: The present disclosure concerns an assembly (100) for an electromechanical brake booster (200) of a vehicle braking system (1000). The assembly (100) comprises a housing (160) which has a longitudinal axis (L) and can be loaded with an electromechanically generated actuating force, and an output element (150) which extends away from the housing (160) and is configured for transmitting the actuating force to a brake cylinder (300) of the vehicle braking system (1000). The assembly (100) furthermore comprises an elastic element (190) which is supported on the housing (160) and configured to move the housing (160) away from the brake cylinder (300) into a starting position, and a guide (180) which is arranged on the housing (160) for the output element (150) and is configured to guide an angular deflection of the output element (150) with respect to the longitudinal axis (L) of the housing (160).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: ZF Active Safety GmbHInventors: José Manuel Calvo Martinez, Jennifer Klein
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Patent number: 11970148Abstract: A method for activating a parking brake function of a drum brake of a brake system of a vehicle, wherein a parking situation is taken into account in order to reduce the holding force to be exerted.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbHInventors: Ralf Scheib, Heinz-Anton Schneider, Christof Maron, Gunther Seipel, Giulio Brezza