Operators With Knobs Or Handles Patents (Class 292/336.3)
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Patent number: 12441252Abstract: A storage 3 of a utility vehicle 100 includes a storage body 4 in a vehicle body 10, the storage body 4 including a housing space 40; a lid 5 opening or closing the housing space 40; a supporter 6 supporting the lid 5 such that the lid 5 is rotatable relative to the storage body 4; and a spring 7 biasing the lid in a direction in which the lid 5 closes the housing space 40.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventor: Kenta Takada
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Patent number: 12435552Abstract: A driving device including a transmission mechanism, a lever handle, and a locking mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a mounting housing and a movable member. The mounting housing is formed with a sliding groove, and the stopper edges are respectively disposed on the tops of two sidewalls of the sliding groove. The movable member is configured to pass through the sliding groove. The bottom wall of the movable member is provided with a transmission rack. The lever handle includes a handle, a mount, a connection shaft, and a second fastener. An end of the handle is formed with a second mounting groove that is provided with an internal tooth portion. The mount is disposed in the second mounting groove and can be connected to a section bar member. The connection shaft is rotatably disposed in the mount and includes a first external tooth portion and a second external tooth portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Assignee: Shenzhen Hopo Window Control Technology Co., LtdInventors: Shupeng Li, Xiyong Pan, Shuangli Wang
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Patent number: 12435538Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of locks, and discloses an outer lock body for quick assembly of a handle, including a mounting seat and a handle, where the handle includes a rotating part and a hand-held part, the rotating part is inserted into and fitted with the mounting seat, a quick assembly mechanism is provided in the mounting seat, the quick assembly mechanism includes a limiting body, a limiting ring groove recessed on the rotating part, a holding part, and a push-in member, and with the push-in action of the push-in member, a holding part is pushed open and the limiting body is pushed to partially enter the limiting ring groove. According to the outer lock body, the handle can be quickly disassembled and the direction of the hand-held part can be changed.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: October 7, 2025Inventor: Mingjun Hu
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Patent number: 12421780Abstract: A casement operator crank includes a base member, a handle, a hinged detent, and a resilient biasing member. The handle has a main body portion connects to the base member for rotation about a handle axis between an open orientation and a closed orientation. The hinged detent pivotally engages with the base member for rotation about a detent axis between a first orientation relative to the main body portion and a second orientation relative to the main body portion. The resilient biasing member acts between the hinged detent and the handle. The biasing member and hinged detent operably: a) bias the main body portion toward the open orientation about the handle axis when the main body portion is in the open orientation; and b) the main body portion toward the closed orientation about the handle axis when the main body portion is in the closed orientation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: HOPPE Holding AGInventors: Helmut Alber, Rodney Robert Lake
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Patent number: 12410644Abstract: A door latch device includes: a rotating body; first and second levers; a lock mechanism on which an unlocking operation is performed and an open link is disposed in an unlocked position; and a latch mechanism. Further, the lock mechanism includes a lock lever which causes the open link to rotate when being operated by rotation of the rotating body, the rotating body is provided with two tilted walls so as to move the open link to the unlocked position when being rotated in one side from a reference position while the open link is disposed in a locked position, keep the open link in the unlocked position when being rotated in another side to the reference position while the open link is disposed in the unlocked position, and move the open link to the locked position when being further rotated in the another side.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATIONInventors: Shunsuke Tamura, Naoji Yamamoto
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Patent number: 12410643Abstract: A door lock assembly includes a door trim including a through hole, and a locking device that is disposed on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the door trim and locks and unlocks a vehicular door. The locking device includes a lock knob holder and a door lock knob. The lock knob holder has a tubular shape and two holes at two opposite ends and one of the two holes is adjacent to the through hole and another one is an insertion hole. The door lock knob has a bar shape and is disposed in the lock knob holder so as to be movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. The door lock assembly further includes an insertion guide portion disposed adjacent to the insertion hole and includes a guide surface having a width that increases as it extends away from the insertion hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshinori Iwatani
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Patent number: 12409890Abstract: A body structure including an A-pillar, a door assembly, an engine compartment assembly and an upper longitudinal beam of engine compartment, and also includes a reinforcement plate of upper longitudinal beam, a first anti-crash beam, and a second anti-crash beam. The front end of the reinforcement plate of upper longitudinal beam is connected to the middle portion of the upper longitudinal beam of engine compartment. The rear end of the reinforcement plate of upper longitudinal beam is connected to the engine compartment assembly. The upper longitudinal beam of engine compartment and the reinforcement plate of upper longitudinal beam form a first triangle area on the engine compartment assembly. The first anti-crash beam and the second anti-crash beam are installed on the door assembly along a direction from the front to the rear of the vehicle body. The first anti-crash beam is located above the second anti-crash beam.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 9, 2025Assignee: GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Jingmin Liu, Peifeng Luo, Yinchao Qian, Jianqiang Zhong, Ming Liu, Zehua Yi
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Patent number: 12404699Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided herein for the handless operation of a door. Illustrative examples of a system disclosed herein include a user interaction assembly configured to be disposed at a bottom edge of the door, the user interaction assembly configured to generate a signal, a push-lock assembly configured to attach to a door handle external to a mounting rose of the door handle, and the push-lock assembly configured to receive the signal from the user interaction assembly and translate the signal into rotational movement configured to operate the door handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: AZTECH INDUSTRIAL DEVICES LLCInventors: Marcus A. Caines, Theodore Tillinghast, Clarke A. Caines
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Patent number: 12404703Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor, a forward detection device configured to identify an external object in front of the vehicle, a door handle driving device configured to control a position of a door handle relative to a door part of the vehicle, and a collision detection device configured to identify whether there is a collision of the vehicle. The processor is configured to identify whether a first signal is received from the forward detection device based on a speed of the vehicle and a distance between the vehicle and the external object, to transmit a second signal to the door handle driving device for moving the door handle to a first position outward relative to the door part, and to maintain a state where the door handle is at the first position based on receiving a third signal from the collision detection device.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Min Soo Kim, Soo Man Jung, Young Bum Cho, Chang Woo Sohn
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Patent number: 12385298Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle door handle assembly (1) comprising a handle (2) comprising a first extremity (22) and a second extremity (23) opposed to the first extremity (22), the first extremity (22) being connected to a first lever (3) connected to an opening lever, said first lever (3) rotating between a rest position where the first extremity (22) is in a rest position, a deployed position where the first extremity (22) is in a deployed position outside the bracket (10) and an opening position where the first lever (3) actuates the opening lever, the second extremity (23) being connected to a second lever (4) rotating between a rest position where the second extremity (23) is a rest position, an activation position where the second extremity (23) is pushed into the bracket (10), and a deployed position where the second extremity (23) is in a deployed position outside the bracket (10), the vehicle door handle assembly (1) also comprising a return lever (5) connected to the second lever (4),Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: U-shin Italia S.p.AInventors: Thomas Peynot, Simone Ilardo, Anthony Guerin, Frédéric Citron
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Patent number: 12385299Abstract: In one embodiment, a release mechanism for a latch is provided. The release mechanism having: a first release lever, the first release lever having a first lever and a second lever; a second release lever operatively coupled to the first release lever; and a spring operatively coupled to the first lever and the second lever such that a biasing force of the spring must be overcome in order to effectuate movement of the second release lever via the first release lever.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Eduardo Estrada, J. Eli Calamaco, Martin R. Villagrana Noris, Victor D. Varela Antillon
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Patent number: 12385295Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base fixed to a door of a vehicle, and an operation handle rotatably coupled to the handle base. The operation handle includes a coupling protruding portion that is provided at an end portion on a rotation center side of the operation handle. The handle base includes an elastically deformable elastic piece that is adjacent to the coupling protruding portion. Movement of the operation handle toward a rotation tip end is restricted by elastically engaging a stopper protruding portion formed on any one of the coupling protruding portion and the elastic piece with a stopper fitting portion formed on the other by using elastic deformation of the elastic piece. Movement of the elastic piece in a disengagement direction of the stopper protruding portion is restricted by a clip mounted on the handle base.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Saeko Tatemichi, Ryoichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 12370871Abstract: A door connecting device for a vehicle to which opposite swing doors including a rear door and a front door is applied, the opposite swing doors being configured to be opened or closed by a relative movement between the rear door and the front door, includes a lever rotatably mounted on one of the front door and the rear door and configured to be rotated by the relative movement between the rear door and the front door; a catcher disposed on one of the front door and the rear door and configured to rotate in conjunction with a rotation of the lever; and a cable connecting the lever and the catcher and configured to transmit a rotation force caused by the relative movement to the catcher when the lever rotates.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Hyungin Yun, Chungsik Yim
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Patent number: 12359465Abstract: A lock comprising a housing assembly, an actuatable lock assembly and a locking shell assembly. The housing assembly has a cavity and a bore. The actuatable lock assembly is rotatable between a closed orientation and an open orientation, and includes an outer body and an inner body. The inner body has a knob and an elongated shaft with an axial pin that interfaces with a slot in the outer body. The locking shell assembly has a shell housing bore extending therethrough. A rear portion of the shell housing has a slot with a longitudinal first portion and a transverse second portion. The axial pin is slidably movable along the longitudinal first portion and slidably movable along the transverse second portion upon rotation of the inner body relative to the shell housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TRITEQ LOCK AND SECURITY, LLCInventors: William D. Denison, Gabriel Ribu
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Patent number: 12352082Abstract: A door for a vehicle includes: an external panel forming an appearance surface of the door, an operation groove and a handle assembly; the handle assembly includes a handle installed on the external panel to close a first part of the operation groove, a cover rotatably installed on the external panel and configured to close a second part of the operation groove so as to fully close the operation groove, and a cover closing member to rotate the cover to close the second part of the operation groove. When the cover closes the second part of the operation groove, the cover is flush with the external panel and the handle without protruding beyond the external panel and the handle.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventor: Se-Hoon Jung
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Patent number: 12352073Abstract: The present invention relates to a door handle and, more specifically, to a door handle which may comprise: a housing which is fixed to a door and has an inner space; a drive part which supplies rotational power; a rotating guide which is connected to the drive part to receive rotational power therefrom and rotate within the housing; and a handle part which is disposed within the rotating guide, and protrudes out of the housing by forward rotation of the rotating guide and is retracted into the housing by reverse rotation of the rotating guide.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaeyong Park, Junghan Ryu, Kyu-Suh Park, Hwa Suk Shim, Hyun Chul Kim, Jung Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 12345690Abstract: A process and a system for monitoring at least one concentration of a gas in a monitored area includes generating data by a mobile gas measuring device (3a), whose position in the monitored area is determined or is known and transmitting the data directly or indirectly to a central data processing unit (1). The data are compared with at least one limit value, and an information signal is outputted by the at least one mobile gas measuring device and/or by the central data processing unit in case of an undershooting or overshooting of the limit value. The monitored area is divided into at least two zones (8) and zone-specific parameters are assigned to the zones. A functionality of the mobile gas measuring device is set and/or changed based on the current position of the gas measuring device and based on at least one of the zone-specific parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaAInventors: Malte Berndt, Christof Rodehorst, Raphael Maas
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Patent number: 12331572Abstract: A door handle on a vehicle door includes a first grip and a second grip configured to engage fingers of a user and a web extending between the first grip and the second grip. One grip is accessible from the interior of the vehicle and the second is accessible from the exterior of the vehicle. A structure on the door handle is coupled to a latch, such as by one or more links, for releasing the latch from a striker responsive to rotation of the door handle. The one or more links may include a link having one slot receiving the structure and another slot coupled to the latch. The door handle may be positioned between mounting flanges and secured by a pin passing through the patch and an opening defined by the door handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventor: Lucas Grant Purcell
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Patent number: 12331567Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a base portion configured to mount at a door of a vehicle, and a handle portion. The base portion has a longitudinal axis that extends along a length dimension of the base portion and a lateral axis that extends laterally across the vehicle. The handle portion is movable along the lateral axis relative to the base portion between a recessed position and a deployed position. An actuator, when operated, imparts translational movement of a sliding element along the longitudinal axis relative to the base portion. As the sliding element moves along the longitudinal axis relative to the base portion, the sliding element imparts movement of the handle portion along the lateral axis between the recessed position and the deployed position according to movement of the sliding element along the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventors: Justin E. Sobecki, Connor G. Cervone
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Patent number: 12326020Abstract: An inside handle device includes a handle case, and a handle lever rotatably supported by the handle case. The handle lever is inserted into the handle case along a rotation axis of the handle lever with respect to the handle case. The handle case includes a case main body into which the handle lever is inserted, and a coming-off prevention member configured to restrict a movement of the handle lever in a direction along the rotation axis and to prevent the handle lever from coming off the case main body. The coming-off prevention member is coupled to the case main body. The coming-off prevention member is configured to be displaceable between an assembling position at which the handle lever is prevented from coming off the case main body and an unfolded position at which the coming-off prevention member is unfolded from the assembling position.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Mitsuo Nishizuka
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Patent number: 12326018Abstract: A device for door unlocking for a vehicle, having an actuating element, including an actuating portion and a flexibly unwindable band portion, which is connected to a Bowden cable. The Bowden cable and the actuating element are arranged on a base plate and/or a door, and the actuating element is connected to a rotatably arranged loop lever in such a way that, when the loop lever is rotated by the actuating element, the Bowden cable connected to the loop lever is movable. The loop lever includes a (preferably) circular loop lever portion, against which the actuating element partially abuts.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerhard Reder, Stefan Schmitz
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Patent number: 12297664Abstract: An exemplary closure assembly includes a swinging barrier, a pushbar assembly mounted to a first side of the barrier, a remote trim assembly mounted to a second side of the barrier, and a transmission assembly that extends at least partially through the barrier and couples remote trim assembly and the pushbar assembly. The pushbar assembly includes a latchbolt and a pushbar operable to retract the latchbolt. The remote trim includes a handle that is operably coupled with the latchbolt via the transmission assembly such that the handle is operable to retract the latchbolt. The handle is positioned above the pushbar such that a vertical offset distance is defined therebetween. The offset distance is selected such that a user having a height within a selected range of heights is able to actuate the pushbar assembly, but cannot actuate the trim assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLCInventors: Jack R. Lehner, Jr., Michael D. Coleman, James W. Overbey, Phillip Palmer, Matthew Greathouse
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Patent number: 12297670Abstract: A detection device is configured to activate at least one function of an apparatus, for example activating an electric lock of a vehicle's door, upon the detection of a force applied to an activation part of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a fixed part. The activation part is fixedly attached to the fixed part. The detection device includes a blade and at least one sensor. The blade includes a first bearing part configured to bear against the activation part and a second bearing part configured to bear against the fixed part. The at least one sensor is arranged on the blade and is configured to measure a deformation of the blade when a force is applied on the activation part and collect a deformation signal to be transmitted to a controller. The at least one sensor includes a first sensor arranged between the first and second bearing parts.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: U-Shin Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Thomas Peynot, Anthony Guerin, Frédéric Citron, Dario Fimognari
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Patent number: 12291902Abstract: A door opening/closing device includes an operation handle, a detection unit provided in the operation handle and configured to detect a contact state of a user with the operation handle, a door driving unit configured to open or close a door, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine that a first operation involving a direction is a user operation in which a user comes into contact with the operation handle, when the detection unit detects the first operation and a second operation. The control unit is configured to control the door driving unit and open or close the door based on the user operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignees: ALPHA CORPORATION, NISSAN JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mitsuo Nishizuka, Takashi Ono, Takao Toyama
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Patent number: 12286821Abstract: In a vehicle door handle assembly, a first lever rotates between a rest position where a first extremity is in a rest position, a deployed position where the first extremity is outside a bracket, and an opening position where the first lever actuates an opening lever. A second lever rotates between a rest position where a second extremity is in a rest position, an activation position where the second extremity lowers the second lever into the bracket, and a deployed position where the second extremity is outside the bracket. A return lever includes an elastic device biasing it to a first position. Rotation of the second lever to an activation position actuates rotation of the return lever from its first to a second position. Rotation of the return lever from its second to its first position actuates rotation of the second lever from its deployed position to its rest position.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: U-Shin Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Thomas Peynot, Anthony Guerin, Frédéric Citron
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Patent number: 12281501Abstract: A vehicle door maintains a pulling amount of a release cable without increasing the size of a cable pulling member, or degrading ease of operation of a door handle. The door includes a handle gripped by a user; a handle arm turned about a hinge pin with operation of the handle; a crank plate turned about a hinge pin with turning of the handle arm, thus pulling a release cable; and a latch device that releases a door lock when the release cable is pulled. The crank plate pulls the release cable by causing a contact surface, which comes into contact with the release cable, to move with turning of the crank plate. The contact surface is formed such that a distance from the hinge pin to the contact surface increases as the contact surface moves in a direction opposite to a turning direction when opening the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Moriyama, Eisuke Kuramoto
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Patent number: 12276142Abstract: The present application improves operability. In the door opening/closing detection apparatus, the handle is axially supported rotatably on the base with the axis direction in vertical direction. When the handle's gripping portion is rotated from the neutral position to the push operation position rotated toward the outside of the vehicle, the first switch is activated by the handle's switch operation portion. Meanwhile, when the handle's gripping portion is rotated from the neutral position to the pull operation position rotated toward the interior of the vehicle, the handle's cam surface activates the second switch. This allows detection of operations on the handle while keeping the direction of push and pull operations on the gripping portion of the handle in line with the opening/closing direction of the door D. This allows the passenger to intuitively recognize the operation to the handle when opening and closing the door D, leading to improved operability.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: U-Shin Ltd.Inventors: Soichi Miyata, Kazuhiro Fukui
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Patent number: 12241288Abstract: The invention relates to a module component (100) for a movable part (201) of a vehicle (200), comprising: a support housing (10) for fastening the module component (100) to the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), a key device (20) for actuating the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), wherein the key device (20) comprises a key cap (21) configured to receive an activation action, in particular a touch and/or force, of a user, wherein an activation element (24) is arranged on the key cap (21) to be able to detect a presence and/or an activation action of the user, and an electronic device (30) for providing lighting functions and/or sensor functions when the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200) is actuated, wherein the electronic device (30) is fastened to the support housing (10), wherein the electronic device (30) comprises a sensor device (31, 32) for a presence detection and/or an activation action detection at the activation element (24), and wherein the electronic device (30) comprises atType: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG, AUDI AGInventors: Ingo Bott, Andreas Beck, Florian Knubben, Andreas Hoffmann, Thomas Popp, Thomas Liepold
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Patent number: 12245393Abstract: A chassis device is provided and includes a case and an operating assembly. The case is for installing a detachable module and includes a first pivoting component pivotally connected to the detachable module, a second pivoting component pivotally connected to the first pivoting component, and a first engaging component movably disposed on the first pivoting component and for removably engaging with a second engaging component of the detachable module. The first pivoting component is restrained from pivoting when the first engaging component engages with the second engaging component of the detachable module, and when the second pivoting component pivots, the second pivoting component pushes the first engaging component, so that the first engaging component disengages from the second engaging component of the detachable module for allowing the first pivoting component to pivot. Furthermore, a related electronic apparatus and a related operating assembly are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Bi Ying Li, Jun Hao Wang, Hua-Jun Liang
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Patent number: 12209438Abstract: This device includes a base, a handle lever mounted so as to pivot on the base about an axis, a kinematic chain configured to transmit a movement of the handle lever to a lock of the opening control to unlock the door, an inertial safety member having a main body forming an inertial mass and a main locking element connected to the body and configured to pass, by inertia effect in the event of impact, from an inactive idle position to at least one active position of locking at least one movable element of the kinematic chain. The inertial member is movably mounted so as to pivot on the base about a second locking axis and is configured to operate in a reversible mode by adopting at least one reversible locking position and to operate in an irreversible mode by adopting at least one irreversible locking position.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: AKWEL VIGO SPAIN S.LInventors: Alberto Diez Estevez, Delmiro Javier Couto Maquieira, José Oscar Vazquez Carballo, Julio Garcia Rodriguez
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Patent number: 12196006Abstract: A push pad exit device comprising a horizontal push bar actuator mechanically linked to a vertical door handle assembly, for use on the interior side of entrance doors where a means of emergency egress is desired, is presented. The operating mechanisms of the push bar actuator and vertical door handle assembly are concealed presenting a smooth uncluttered appearance. In one mode of operation, the push pad actuator may be moved inwards towards the door face causing the door to unlatch. The push pad exit device may also be equipped with a “dogging feature” which locks the push bar actuator in the unlatched position. In this mode of operation the door is unlatched and the push pad actuator may be used as a fixed door handle. The push pad exit device may also be equipped with a keyed lock on an external face of the door.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: C.R. LAURENCE CO., INC.Inventor: Gary Sprague
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Patent number: 12185835Abstract: A drawer assembly includes a member having a first locking element. A drawer includes a frame and a handle having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is coupled to the frame. The second portion is coupled to the first portion. A drawer release includes a first end and a second end and is rotatably coupled to the drawer. The first end includes a second locking element. The second portion is rotatable relative to the first portion to move the drawer release between a first orientation in which the second locking element directly engages the first locking element to prevent the drawer from translating relative to the member and a second orientation in which the second locking element is spaced apart from the first locking element to allow the drawer to translate relative to the member.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment Co., Inc.Inventor: Charles L Hanley
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Patent number: 12173532Abstract: A lock and a method and a system for controlling the lock are provided. The lock includes an operation part, an action part, and a bolt. The action part is configured to drive the bolt to move. The operation part and the action part are connected to each other via a transmission connection. The transmission connection is blockable.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: YUNDING NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Zou, Mugen Zhou, Shuwen Zhou, Qi Yi, Guoming Chen, Lixue Ren
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Patent number: 12158023Abstract: An electronic lock with a latch assembly, an interior assembly, and an exterior assembly. The latch assembly includes a bolt movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The assembly includes an internal spring actuating mechanism. The assembly also includes a touch keypad subassembly configured to detect touches to at least a portion of its surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc.Inventors: Alan Uyeda, James Lin
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Patent number: 12146348Abstract: A vehicle latch, including: a claw rotatably mounted to a pin; a pawl rotatably mounted to pin; a single motor for electrically releasing the claw of the latch and for electrically moving the latch into an emergency mode wherein the latch can be mechanically opened via a handle operably coupled to the latch.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: INTEVA FRANCE SAS, INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Pascal Philippe, Yoshihiko Tametani, Jean-Marc Belmond
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Patent number: 12139939Abstract: A hasp bracket may include a shield wall and a mounting plate orthogonal to the shield wall. The mounting plate may include a bolt aperture member extending from an inward edge of the mounting plate. The mounting plate may include one or more apertures in a surface of the mounting plate. The one or more apertures may be located in an area bounded by the shield wall and the inward edge of the mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: John-Dominic Guillem Lasquete
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Patent number: 12129691Abstract: Emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, having: a deployment arm that rotates between a first, retracted angular position and a second, deployed angular position; a graspable pull rod that is connected to a lock actuator and that has an end protruding from the deployment arm, the graspable pull rod being movable between a position attached to the deployment arm and a position detached from the deployment arm; a retention needle; an electric ejector; a mechanical ejector designed to release the deployment arm from its retracted position, the mechanical ejector having a trigger designed to move the retention needle from its blocking position to its releasing position.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Xavier Bajul, Aurélien Leboeuf, Nicolas Lefrancq
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Patent number: 12123226Abstract: A door latch device includes: an open link including a lever main body, an inertia lever part, and a release energizing member configured to energize the inertia lever part to be maintained at an operating position with respect to the lever main body, an operation force of the door handle being not transmitted to the ratchet lever even in a state in which the lever main body is disposed at an unlocked position, in a case where the inertia lever part is disposed at a non-operating position against energizing force of the release energizing member; a ratchet lever; and a restriction mechanism disposed between the lever main body and the inertia lever part, the restriction mechanism being configured to restrict returning movement to the operating position in a case where the inertia lever part moves to the non-operating position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: MITSUI KINZOKU ACT CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Shinohara
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Patent number: 12116810Abstract: An attachment system for a locking device mounted to a closure comprises a baseplate fastenable to a mounting surface of the closure, a housing and an insert. The baseplate includes at least one circumferential track having an engagement feature, and a plurality of circumferential cutouts terminating with a catch portion. The housing includes a plurality of extrusions insertable into the at least one circumferential track and engageable with the engagement feature to prevent the housing from being withdrawn from the baseplate in a direction normal to the mounting surface. The housing further includes a slot. The insert is securely insertable into the slot. The insert includes a frame having a plurality of protrusions insertable into the circumferential cutouts in the baseplate. The protrusions are slideably lockable in the catch portions of the circumferential cutouts to prevent relative rotation between the baseplate and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: dormakaba USA Inc.Inventors: James David Bacon-Brown, Adam Dunnigan
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Patent number: 12084888Abstract: A door lock system includes a toolless handing assembly that selectively sets a handle in a left or right home position. The handing assembly may cooperate with a disc and a spring that biases the disc to a default position. The disc may be rotated in a first direction to set the disc in a first home position. A catch may engage the disc to retain the disc in the first home position. The catch may be released to return the disc to the default position and the disc may be rotated in a second direction to set the disc in a second home position, opposite the first home position.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Clark, Rick Leites, Scott Morstatt, Eric Palmieri, Sharath Ramachandran
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Patent number: 12077985Abstract: A door lock system may include an outer spindle operatively connected to a disc with a larger diameter than a diameter of the outer spindle. The disc may include an opening that slidingly receives a lock spindle along a lock axis configured to engage a lock body. The lock spindle and the spindle opening may have complementary shapes and sizes such that the lock spindle is rotationally coupled to the disc about the center axis. Torque may be transmitted from a handle to the disc and from the disc to the lock spindle via the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Clark, Rick Leites, Scott Morstatt, Eric Palmieri, Sharath Ramachandran
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Patent number: 12044046Abstract: A door handle apparatus for a vehicle is assembled to a door panel of the vehicle. The door handle apparatus includes a base, a grip, and a switch device. The grip is supported by the base, rotates from a state in which an outer surface of the grip is located in a same plane as an outer surface of the door panel, and is transitionable to a state of protruding from the outer surface of the door panel. The switch device includes a switch body and a switch cover. The switch cover is supported by the base, rotates around the second shaft, enters an inner surface of the door panel, and engages with the switch body to switch ON and OFF states of a switch element.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventor: Mizuya Sakamoto
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Patent number: 12006742Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base, a first link and a second link and an operation handle connected to the first link and the second link and to be driven from an initial position to a use position. The operation handle is manually operable to a latch operation position beyond the use position. The second link includes an end holding spring to apply an urging force to hold a rotation center of the second link and the operation handle at an initial end position. The handle base includes a latch release lever to be driven by the second link with a movement of the operation handle from the use position to the latch operation position and to transmit a latch release operation force to a door latch device fixed to the door.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao Toyama
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Patent number: 12004313Abstract: A connecting module that includes a body to engage with a computing resource, a first lever having a first end pivotally coupled to a first side of the body, and a second lever having a first end pivotally coupled to a second side of the body, second ends of both levers being latched with a front side of the body. The connecting module includes an actuator disposed on the front side of the body to allow disengagement of the module from the computing resource upon actuation, and to unlatch the second ends of each of the first lever and the second lever from the front side of the body. The first lever and the second lever are manually deflected with respect to first ends to allow travel of the module in a direction inward and outward with respect to the computing resource.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: BULL SASInventors: Jithendra Bangera, Sanjayakumar Halli
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Patent number: 11988025Abstract: The invention relates to a concealed door handle and a vehicle. The concealed door handle comprises: a handle body; a handle base fixed in a body of a vehicle, the handle body being concealed in the handle base, and the handle body being rotatably connected to the handle base; and a deployment microswitch arranged on the handle base and configured to detect a deployed position of the handle body and to maintain communication with a vehicle control module, wherein when the deployment microswitch jumps from a triggered state into an untriggered state, the deployment microswitch sends an input signal for unlocking an electronic lock to the vehicle control module. The concealed door handle of the invention has a simple structure and low costs, and a signal source can be arranged in a limited structural space.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) CO., LTDInventors: Yanzhou Yang, Ke Shen, Ping Ai
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Patent number: 11989040Abstract: An apparatus for controlling vehicle movement comprises processing means configured to receive first signals from a receiving means arranged to receive transmitted signals from a remote control device indicating a requested motion of the vehicle. From the first signals or an additional signal received from a sensing means, one or more distance values indicative of a distance from a point on the vehicle to an object is determined, and a maximum speed value for the vehicle is determine in dependence on the one or more distance values. The processing means provides an output signal for controlling speed of the vehicle based on the requested motion. The output signal is arranged to control the speed of the vehicle to be less than or equal to the maximum speed value.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Mark Cund, Martyn Lathbury, Allan Howling, Paul Widdowson, Colin Teed, Parvinder Devgun, Tony Davis
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Patent number: 11959311Abstract: A vehicular exterior door handle assembly includes a bracket, a handle, and a clip. The handle, with the bracket mounted at an exterior door handle region of a vehicular door, is movable relative to the bracket by a user to actuate a latch mechanism for opening the door. The clip is attached at the bracket and engages a pivot end of the handle when the pivot end is inserted into the bracket, and retains the pivot end of the handle at the bracket when the pivot end of the handle is engaged with a pivot element of the bracket. The clip (i) limits movement of the handle relative to the bracket in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the bracket or handle, (ii) allows pivotal movement of the handle about the pivot element of the bracket, and (iii) allows for removal of the handle from the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Inventors: James A. Ruse, Brett A. Gorby
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Patent number: 11952809Abstract: An actuating device (1) for a lock of a vehicle, which is arranged, or can be arranged, on a vehicle, wherein the actuating device (1) has an actuating component (10), which is to be grasped manually and which can be brought from a stowed position into a standby position, wherein the stowed position is a position in which the actuating component (10) to be grasped is stowed and wherein the standby position is a position in which the actuating component can be grasped by a user, wherein the actuating component (10) is operatively connected, or can be operatively connected, to at least the lock of the vehicle in such a way that the lock can be opened by actuating the actuating component. A vehicle door having such an actuating device and a vehicle having such a vehicle door are also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Roland Och, Joachim Oberst
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Patent number: 11933080Abstract: A closing system for a door or hatch of a motor vehicle includes: a bearing piece and a cylinder lock situated on the bearing piece, the cylinder lock having a cylinder bushing and a cylinder core; and a locking clamp which is held on the bearing piece, engages the cylinder bushing from behind and has a holding lug which is oriented parallel to the cylinder bushing, a fastening screw passing through the holding lug, and the tip of the screw lying in a receiving depression in the cylinder bushing in order to preload the locking clamp against the cylinder bushing. A protective element rests on an outer side of the bearing piece and has at least one retaining lug which is oriented parallel to the cylinder bushing, and the fastening screw also passes through the retaining lug.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengsellschaftInventors: Larissa Ludmann, Arne Behrens, Joerg Lederer, Swantje Schick, Oliver Mix
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Patent number: 11933069Abstract: The invention relates to a locking arrangement for a switch cabinet, having a switch cabinet door which has on its inside a push-rod lock which projects through the switch cabinet door to the front side of the switch cabinet door via a coupling piece, wherein an actuating member is fixed to the front side via a handle adapter and is coupled to the coupling piece, for which purpose the switch cabinet door has at least one adapter plate, onto which the handle adapter is placed in a form-fitting manner via at least one aperture, the adapter plate having, on its side facing the actuating member, a fastening element, by means of which the actuating member is fixed to the adapter plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jacob Herr, Carsten Bäumer