Hinge Elements Deformed In Situ Patents (Class 220/842)
  • Patent number: 11396406
    Abstract: A mobile cooling box having a box main body and at least one lid for opening the box and providing access to the inside of the box. The at least one lid is pivotally attached to the box main body by at least two hinge modules. Each hinge module comprises a pin module having a hinge pin with a front end, a rear end, a longitudinal axis about which the lid is pivotable and predominantly a smooth outer surface of a cylindrical shape. Each hinge module further comprises a bearing module having a hinge bearing accommodating the hinge pin. The hinge pin laterally extends with its front end into the hinge bearing. A bolt portion extends from the rear end of the hinge pin so that so that the pin module is mountable by the bolt portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Dometic Sweden AB
    Inventors: Weixian Guan, Peng Wang, Wenmin Tan, Yuelong Chen
  • Patent number: 9164553
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a bezel, a door and a resilient component. The bezel includes an accommodating portion and a fixing portion. The accommodating portion has a lateral wall whereon a pivot hole is formed. The fixing portion is disposed on the lateral wall. The door is rotatably disposed on the bezel. The door includes a supporting arm, a pivoting portion and at least one engaging portion. The supporting arm is detachably disposed on the accommodating portion. The pivoting portion passes through the pivot hole. The engaging portion is disposed on the pivoting portion. The resilient component is disposed on the bezel by the fixing portion and presses the pivoting portion. The supporting arm rotates relative to the accommodating portion via the pivoting portion to engage the resilient component with the engaging portion, so as to constrain a relatively rotary angle between the door and the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Zhong-hui Mao
  • Patent number: 8845520
    Abstract: A wire-operated selective compliance mobile platform (100), in particular for endoscopic surgery devices, obtains a perfect and precise mobility and thus it allows to handle, in the most effective way, the supported instruments, and comprises a mobile surface (1), a connecting base (2) apt to be connected to a flexible tubular duct (4) for endoscopic uses, a plurality of supporting elements (3), apt to permit the motion of said mobile surface (1) relative to said base (2), characterized in that said supporting elements (3) have at least a selective compliance turning pair (31) and a number of joints (32, 34) so as to provide a predetermined number of degrees of freedom to said platform (100), neither determining any over-constraining, nor forcing the system to be deformed in unselected directions, each supporting element (3) being operated by moving means (51, 52) so as to move said mobile surface (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Universita' degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
    Inventors: Nicola Plo Belfiore, Massimillano Scaccia, Francosco Ianniello, Massimillano Presta, Luca Perfetti
  • Patent number: 7721912
    Abstract: A hinge assembly incorporates a substantially straight hinge pin for securing a lid to a container. At least one end of a hinge line is initially closed via a plastic wall. The substantially straight hinge pin is secured in the hinge line via passing the hinge pin through the plastic wall. Subsequently, residual axial and radial stresses caused by passing the hinge pin through the wall cause the opening to contract, thereby retaining the pin. By providing a hinge assembly including a substantially straight hinge pin, the assembly process can be more easily automated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Monoflo International, Inc.
    Inventor: Henning Rader
  • Patent number: 7419067
    Abstract: A cup and lid in combination. The cup includes a side wall, a closed bottom and an open top. One of the side wall and the lid includes a recess defined therein, and the other of the side wall and the cup lid includes a connector that is adapted to be temporarily secured in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Halo Cups, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony Bouie, Ray Zuckerman
  • Patent number: 6875405
    Abstract: A tube rack comprises a base having an array of vertical openings extending therebetween, the openings being configured and dimensioned to receive a plurality of tubes, with the upper ends of the tubes being accessible at the top surface. The base includes base sidewalls that each include a co-axial trunnion extending from the associated sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Matrix Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Mathus, Daniel J. Seguin, Victor A. Torti
  • Publication number: 20040144793
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container having a lid hingedly connected thereto and so configured that the hinged elements cannot be separated from one another whereby the lid cannot be opened or removed from the body of the container to allow access to the contents of the container
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: IPL INC.
    Inventors: Claude Lessard, Pascal Normand
  • Patent number: 6141984
    Abstract: A cover for a freezing counter includes two reciprocably pivotable oblong profile elements, and a heat emitting element and a drain along one of the profile elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Lop Lundgren & Perzon AB
    Inventors: Bjorn Perzon, Kenneth Lundgren