Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
403375000 | Peripheral enlargement, depression, or slot on one member is joint component | 27 |
20100098485 | Chain hook - A chain hook having a landing area above a mouth of a slot for easy placement of a chain link in the slot so that a gate or door may be detachably held to a support. The chain hook also has a lock hole so that the chain may be padlocked to the chain hook. | 04-22-2010 |
20100111600 | Quick connect coupling assembly - A quick connect coupling assembly has a first and second component, and a locking assembly structured to retain the components in an attached orientation with one another. The locking assembly includes a plurality of locking elements each having a locking arm with a locking member mounted to a distal end, wherein the locking members are maintained in an outwardly extending orientation by a biasing mechanism. The biasing mechanism comprises a spring mounted between oppositely disposed locking elements, wherein the spring is structured to maintain the locking members in an outwardly extending orientation. The quick connect coupling assembly also includes a release mechanism to permit the locking members to be temporarily disposed into a retracted orientation, thereby permitting the first and second components to be detached from one another. | 05-06-2010 |
20100183368 | DIAL LOCKING SYSTEM USING SNAP FIT AND A METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a dial locking system. More particularly related to, the dial ( | 07-22-2010 |
20110262221 | Corner Piece For Mechanically Interlocking Frame Members - A corner piece is provided for interconnecting frame members. The corner piece includes a first plate member defining an inner face, an opposite outer face, a first side face, an opposite second side face, and an end face. The first plate member including a bolt-receiving bore therethrough. A second plate member defines an inner face contiguous with the inner face of the first plate member, an outer face, a first side face, an opposite second side face, and an end face. The second plate member includes a bolt-receiving bore extending between the inner face and the outer face thereof along a first axis generally parallel to the inner face of the first plate member. | 10-27-2011 |
20110262222 | Frame Member For Structure - A frame member is provided for a structure. The frame member includes a generally flat, elongated first surface having an elongated slot therein extending along an axis. The slot is defined by first and second converging sidewalls lying in corresponding planes which are at acute angles to the first surface. A first diverging outer abutment wall is generally perpendicular to the first converging sidewall and a second diverging outer abutment wall is generally perpendicular to the second converging sidewall. A first diverging inner abutment wall is generally perpendicular to the second converging sidewall and a second diverging inner abutment wall is generally perpendicular to the first converging sidewall. | 10-27-2011 |
20110280655 | COMPOSED ELEMENT, MULTI-LAYERED BOARD AND PANEL-SHAPED ELEMENT FOR FORMING THIS COMPOSED ELEMENT - Composed element, wherein this composed element comprises at least two panel-shaped elements, which substantially are formed from a board material; wherein said panel-shaped elements are interconnected at an angle by means of coupling devices including a tongue and a groove, which coupling devices substantially are made as profiled parts in the board material; and wherein said coupling devices also include locking elements, which, in coupled condition, prevent the moving apart of the tongue and groove. The panel-shaped elements are formed on the basis of board material in the form of particle board consisting of two or more layers, which in respect to the average fineness of the particles, show a different degree of fineness, namely a basic layer with coarser particles, more particularly chips, and at least one outer layer, or at least a more outward-situated layer, which is of a finer composition than the composition of the basic layer, in other words, with particles, chips, respectively, which on average are finer. | 11-17-2011 |
20110286792 | ARTICLE OF FURNITURE WITH LOCK MITER JOINTS - A cabinet, appearing from the outside to have a construction including fully mitered joints between its panels, internally includes hidden lock miter joints between its panels. The cabinet includes a plurality of panels and has a first panel including a joint edge having a length including a first portion adjacent a second portion. The first portion includes a mitered face disposed at an angle with respect to the first panel, and the second portion includes a lock receiving recess. The cabinet also has a second panel including a joint edge having a length including a first portion adjacent a second portion. The first portion of the second panel includes a mitered face disposed at an angle with respect to the second panel, and the second portion includes a lock protrusion. When the first and second panel attach to one another, the lock protrusion is received within the lock receiving recess and the mitered faces are in flush contact with one another. | 11-24-2011 |
20120057929 | FASTENING STRUCTURE OF POWER UNIT - A hybrid transaxle | 03-08-2012 |
20120076577 | ATTACHMENT/DETACHMENT MECHANISM AND OPERATION TOOL SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an attachment/detachment mechanism detachably fixes an insertion member and an outer sheath member. The mechanism includes a removal preventing member and a rotation preventing member. The removal preventing member is configured to restrict movement of the insertion member inserted in the outer sheath member relative thereto in a removing direction. The rotation preventing member is configured to restrict movement of the insertion member inserted in the outer sheath member relative thereto in a rotating direction. | 03-29-2012 |
20120213580 | COMPONENT MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND PUSH NUT - Manufacturing costs are reduced. Connection strength and easiness for mounting are improved. A component mounting structure comprises a fastener includes a first fastener ( | 08-23-2012 |
20120224917 | HALVING JOINT STRUCTURE - A halving joint structure comprising: a first member ( | 09-06-2012 |
20120237291 | Joinery System and Method - An end-lock joinery system allows the formation of one or more elongated members configured to lock end portions with each other. An elongated member can have an end portion that includes, but is not limited to, a protrusion, a shoulder, and a recess, the protrusion and recess each having a width that smoothly tapers from a wider portion to a narrower portion. Various embodiments of the end-lock joinery system can provide different modular configurations to join elongated members and present curved surfaces. The end-lock joinery system can be formed via various methods, including, but not limited to, using a computer numerical control (CNC) machine. | 09-20-2012 |
20130129416 | INTERFACE AND SUPPORT MECHANISM - The invention relates to an interface for releasably coupling an extension and a support. The interface includes a plurality of tenons extending beyond respective mating edges of the support and the extension to form at least one slot between the tenons and a plurality of bearings to react loading of the extension. Each bearing has at least one degree of freedom. The one degree of freedom may be a rotational degree of freedom. | 05-23-2013 |
20130156499 | HOUSING PARTICULARLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE HVAC SYSTEM - A housing is provided for a motor vehicle HVAC system, which is formed from interconnectable housing parts and has a groove, delimited by a first and a second groove leg, on a first housing part and a tongue on a second housing part and in which to connect the housing parts the tongue is disposed in the groove. In this regard, the first and second groove legs are formed in such a way that in the inserted state of the tongue in the groove at least one groove leg at its free end is spaced apart from a corresponding tongue-side bearing shoulder of the second housing part. | 06-20-2013 |
20130251450 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE COMPONENT - The present invention provides: an upside and a downside rotary shafts | 09-26-2013 |
20140030017 | ASSEMBLED FURNITURE - An assembled furniture comprising a plurality of plates, wherein two adjacent plates are provided respectively with a through hole and a bump that are mutually matched, a second through hole is arranged on the bump, the bump is penetrated into the through hole, and a locking block is plugged in the second through hole of the bump. The bump of a plate is penetrated into the through hole of an adjacent plate, and then the locking block is plugged into the second through hole of the bump, to form various furniture. During disassembly, the locking block is pulled out from the second through hole of the bump first, and then the bump is pulled out from the through hole, to disassemble the furniture. The assembly and disassembly are convenient and quick. | 01-30-2014 |
20140086681 | For Downhole Reciprocating Pumps, a No Tap Tool with a Clutch - A tool which connects the last sucker rod of a sucker rod string to a downhole pump has a circularly cylindrical cylinder and piston so that the piston slides reciprocally and rotates freely within the cylinder. However, the closed upper end of the cylinder and the upper face of the piston have a cooperable tongue and groove which prevent relative rotational motion of the piston in the cylinder when the tongue is engaged in the groove so that the tool can be disconnected from the pump in response to rotation of the string at the uppermost stroke of the plunger to engage and turn the tongue and groove. | 03-27-2014 |
20140119824 | HVAC CASE HAVING EQUALIZED SEALING FORCE TONGUE AND GROOVE JOINT - A case includes a first case section and a second case section defining an interior. The first case section includes a groove extending along the first case section. The second case section includes a tongue extending along the second case section into the groove. The groove includes a groove inner wall proximal to the interior of the case and a groove outer wall distal from the interior of the case. The tongue extends from a tongue base end to a tongue free end and includes a tongue inner wall proximal to the interior of the case and a tongue outer wall distal from the interior of the case. The tongue free end is in contact with the groove inner wall and spaced apart from the groove outer wall and the tongue base end is in contact with the groove outer wall and spaced apart from the groove inner wall. | 05-01-2014 |
20140255092 | ASSEMBLY BETWEEN A SIDE MEMBER AND A REAR MEMBER OF A PIECE OF FURNITURE - An assembly ( | 09-11-2014 |
20140270935 | Engine Thrust Reverser Lock - In some aspects, an aircraft engine thrust reverser lock system includes a pin-capturing member. The pin-capturing member includes a body that is rotatable about an axis defined by a pivot extending through the body. The body includes an interior surface that defines a slot. The slot has an opening that is sized to receive a pin into the slot. One side of the slot includes a protruded sidewall surface that protrudes into the slot toward an another sidewall surface of the slot. The protruded sidewall surface defines an apex between the open and closed ends of the slot. Between the apex and the closed end of the slot, the protruded sidewall surface faces the rotational axis. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286701 | ASSEMBLING OF DRAWER - A furniture assembly which comprises a first furniture element which defines a first surface and a first groove in the first surface. The first groove defines a first side surface and an opposite second side surface. The furniture assembly further comprises a second furniture element which comprises a first tongue for being received in the first groove. The first tongue defines a first tongue surface and an opposite second tongue surface. The second tongue surface is adapted for facial cooperation with the second side surface of the first groove. The first side surface and the first tongue surface defines a first elongated compartment in the facial cooperation between the second tongue surface and the second side surface. The furniture assembly further comprises a first elongated furniture locking element for insertion into the first elongated compartment for engaging the first side surface and the first tongue surface and for forcing the second tongue surface toward the second side surface. | 09-25-2014 |
20150078819 | ASSEMBLED PRODUCT AND A METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE PRODUCT - An assembled product, such as an assembled product, such as a furniture component or a furniture, such as a drawer, a cupboard, bookshelves, a wardrobe, a kitchen fixture, or a box for storing or transporting including at least three panels arranged in three different planes. Also, a set of panels for an assembled product and a method of assembling the product. | 03-19-2015 |
20150104250 | ELECTRIC TOOLS - An electric tool may include a battery mount portion having a guide groove structure that can be slidably fitted with a guide projection structure of a rechargeable battery. A reinforcing member may be attached to the guide groove structure of the battery mount portion and may include a connecting structure for detachably connecting the reinforcing member to the guide groove structure. | 04-16-2015 |
20150132053 | ENGAGING MECHANISM - An engaging mechanism includes an engaging member and an engaged member freely detachably engageable with the engaging member. The engaging member includes an engaging main part and an engaging claw part formed on the engaging main part, both resiliently deformable. The engaging claw part has an inwardly curved engaging surface defined by a first curvature continuous curve. The engaged member includes an engaged part engageable with the engaging claw part and having an outwardly curved engaged surface defined by a second curvature continuous curve. The engaging surface and the engaged surface contact each other at a linear contact area at a time from when the engaging claw part and the engaged part are in engagement with each other through to when the engaging claw part is disengaged from the engaged part. A curvature of the engaging surface at the linear contact area is smaller than a curvature of the engaged surface at the linear contact area. | 05-14-2015 |
20150139725 | APPARATUS OR A METHOD - An apparatus comprising: a support comprising a planar support surface; first protrusions protruding from the planar support surface and located on the planar support surface to position a first planar component within a first area; and second protrusions protruding from the planar support surface and located on the planar support surface to position a second planar component within a second area, which overlaps the first area, wherein at least some of the second protrusions are located within the first area and are configured to retract from a first protruding configuration for positioning a second planar component into a second retracted configuration for enabling the first protrusions to position a first planar component. | 05-21-2015 |
20160102690 | RIG AND SURFACE MAT LOCKING MECHANISM - A locking mechanism to secure together a pair of adjacent panels in a side by side, generally co-planar, relationship. The locking mechanism comprises a receiver securable to one of the panels and a rotor securable to the other of the panels. The rotor is rotatably engageable with the receiver to draw together and to lock the panels together so as to limit separation therebetween. The receiver permits vertical deflection of the rotor when the rotor is engaged with the receiver thereby permitting one of the panels to be inclined relative to the other without separation of the panels. | 04-14-2016 |
20160160894 | TWO MEMBER CONNECTING STRUCTURE, ELECTRIC MOTOR AND VEHICLE - A connecting structure has a first member and a second member. The first member has a first base portion, a protruding portion that protrudes from an end surface of the first base portion, and a protrusion that extends in a protruding direction of the protruding portion from an end surface of the protruding portion. The second member has a second base portion, and a groove portion formed in the second end surface of the second base portion. The protruding portion fits into the groove portion. The first member and the second member are connected together by a side surface of the protruding portion contacting a side surface of the groove portion. A length from the end surface of the first base portion to a tip end of the protrusion is longer than a length from the end surface of the second base portion to a bottom of the groove portion. | 06-09-2016 |