公开(公告)号：US20240263502A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18683369

申请日：2021-12-20

申请人： MULTIMATIC INC.

发明人： Michael Gordon Lehti

IPC分类号： E05F1/14 ,  E05F1/12 ,  E05F5/02

CPC分类号： E05F1/14 ,  E05F1/1223 ,  E05F5/025 ,  E05Y2201/638 ,  E05Y2600/61 ,  E05Y2900/531

摘要： An automotive door hinge comprises first and second brackets mountable selectively to one of the door and the body. A cam element. non-rotationally mounted to the second bracket. comprises a cam surface adapted to engage with a cam follower non-rotationally housed within a first housing of the first bracket. An energy storage means respectively stores and releases energy when the cam follower longitudinally translates within the first housing in a first direction and then in a second direction opposite the first direction. Relative rotation of the first bracket in relation to the second bracket within a predetermined angular range causes longitudinal translation of the cam follower, wherein as the door is closed. the cam follower engages the cam surface and translates longitudinally in the second direction whereby the energy stored by the energy storage means is released to assist door closure.

公开(公告)号：US11679818B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17791683

申请日：2021-01-12

申请人： Multimatic Inc.

发明人： Michael Lehti

IPC分类号： B62D33/00 ,  B62D33/03

CPC分类号： B62D33/03

摘要： A vehicle tailgate assembly comprises a frame with a transverse base and support arms extending perpendicularly therefrom adjacent distal ends of the base, a central section also extending perpendicularly from the base but to a lesser extent than the support arms, a door rotationally mounted to the frame between the support arms, the door being profiled with a central opening matching the central section and aligned therewith in a co-planar manner when the door is in a fully closed position, a mating portion comprising an indentation in the door adapted to mate with the central section when the door is rotated 180 degrees from the fully closed position to a working position to expose the central opening with the door co-planar with the frame.

公开(公告)号：US20230183831A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US17801019

申请日：2021-02-24

申请人： Multimatic Inc.

发明人： Mark Sullivan

IPC分类号： C21D9/08 ,  B21K21/12 ,  B23K9/028 ,  B23K9/173 ,  B23K9/235 ,  B23K33/00 ,  C21D9/50 ,  C21D8/10 ,  C21D1/56 ,  C21D1/18

CPC分类号： C21D9/085 ,  B21K21/12 ,  B23K9/0282 ,  B23K9/173 ,  B23K9/235 ,  B23K33/008 ,  C21D9/505 ,  C21D8/105 ,  C21D1/56 ,  C21D1/18 ,  C21D2211/008

摘要： A process for preparing a multi-thickness welded steel vehicle rail, the process comprises the steps of: (a) forming a first tube having a first outer diameter, an inner diameter and a first wall thickness; (b) forming a second tube having the first outer diameter, a second inner diameter and a second wall thickness different than the first wall thickness; (c) swaging a first end of the first tube to a second outer diameter less than the second inner diameter of the second tube; (d) inserting the swaged first end of the first tube into an end of the second tube to form a joint; (e) welding the first tube and the second tube together to form a weld at the joint to form a tube blank with a heat affected zone of lower metal strength in the area of the weld; (f) preheating the tube blank to create a common crystalline microstructure along a length of the tube blank; (g) introducing the tube blank into a blow molding tool having inner molding walls; (h) molding the tube blank at an elevated temperature by expanding the tube blank against the inner molding walls of the molding tool by injecting a pressurized medium into an interior cavity of the tube blank; and (i) quenching the tube blank by replacing the pressurized medium with a cooling medium through the molding tool and the tube blank to achieve a rapid cooling effect on the tube blank and to create a completed vehicle rail with essentially uniform material strength across the weld. A completed vehicle rail has an overlapped welded structure and uniform microcrystalline structure along the length of the rail.

公开(公告)号：US11624224B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-11

申请号：US17623742

申请日：2021-06-17

申请人： Multimatic Inc.

发明人： Christopher Robert Kovach

IPC分类号： E05D7/10 ,  E05D5/12 ,  E05D11/06 ,  E05D5/06 ,  E05D5/14 ,  E05D11/10

摘要： An automotive lift-off hinge joint to rotationally connect an automotive door and body comprises first and second door side hinge brackets and a body side hinge bracket. A detent shaft is provided with an interiorly threaded intermediate portion adapted to receive a removable threaded fastener and with a shaped detent shaft feature adapted to engage a similarly shaped pyramidal portion of a guide pin fastened to the body side hinge bracket. The detent shaft is rotationally mounted within a cylindrical check mechanism and secured in relation to the first and second door side hinge brackets. Bushings in door side hinge bracket apertures allow rotation of portions of the detent shaft extending through the apertures. The pyramidal shaped portions are preferably square.

公开(公告)号：US10807434B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US16066161

申请日：2017-01-06

申请人： Multimatic Inc.

发明人： Laurence J Holt ,  Damian O'Flynn

IPC分类号： B60G17/027 ,  B60G11/50 ,  B60G7/00

摘要： A selectively switchable dual rate vehicle suspension system comprising a pushrod actuated inboard spring configuration, conventionally oriented between the unsprung mass and the sprung mass of one corner of the vehicle, comprising a torsion bar spring of a first predetermined rate, K1, and a coil spring of a second predetermined rate, K2, arranged in series so as to provide a total combined spring rate KT. A lockout actuator is arranged in parallel with the coil spring and configured so that in a first mode it allows the coil spring to move freely and in a second mode prevents motion of the coil spring such that when the lockout actuator is in a first, unlocked, mode the overall vehicle suspension spring rate is defined by the series equation 1/KT=1/K1+1/K2, and when the lockout actuator is in a second, locked, mode the overall vehicle suspension spring rate is substantially higher as defined by KT=K1, thus selectively providing both a low rate, optimal ride comfort setting and a high rate, optimal handling setting.

公开(公告)号：US10226839B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-12

申请号：US14866810

申请日：2015-09-25

申请人： Rudolf Gruber

发明人： Rudolf Gruber

IPC分类号： B62D21/11 ,  B23K26/28 ,  B23K26/38 ,  B23K101/00 ,  B23K101/04

摘要： A method is provided which forms a closed section hollow structural element by performing the following steps which include press forming an upper sheet metal component configured with two primary parallel downstanding interface flanges; press forming a lower sheet metal component configured with two primary parallel upstanding interface flanges; complementarily trimming the downstanding interface flanges and the upstanding interface flanges using five-axis laser cutting; and butt welding the interface flanges of the upper and lower sheet metal components to one another to form a continuous hollow structural element of variable cross section.

公开(公告)号：US09623915B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-18

申请号：US14655780

申请日：2013-12-18

申请人： Multimatic Inc.

发明人： Scott David Worden ,  Muamer Hodza ,  Antonio Costa ,  Geoffrey Lee

IPC分类号： B60R3/02 ,  B62D33/027 ,  E05D3/02 ,  E05D11/10 ,  B60R3/00

CPC分类号： B62D33/0273 ,  B60R3/007 ,  B60R3/02 ,  E05D3/02 ,  E05D11/1014

摘要： A handle assembly is used with a pick-up truck tailgate. The handle assembly comprises a guide tube with an open end, a handle that is housed within the guide tube and a pivot assembly. The pivot assembly comprises a pivot pin connected to one end of the handle and a locking pin. The handle is moveable within the guide tube between a retracted position and an extended position. While in the extended position the handle passes through the open end and the handle may pivot about the pivot pin to move to a support position. When the handle is in the support position, the locking pin can engage the handle and releasably lock the handle in the support position. The guide tube is configured to be secured within a tailgate of a pick-up truck.

公开(公告)号：US09121204B2

公开(公告)日：2015-09-01

申请号：US13371111

申请日：2012-02-10

申请人： Rudolf Gruber ,  Dennis Tak-Man Loui

发明人： Rudolf Gruber ,  Dennis Tak-Man Loui

IPC分类号： E05C3/06 ,  E05B77/38 ,  E05B79/20 ,  E05B81/06 ,  E05B83/18

CPC分类号： F16F1/445 ,  E05B77/38 ,  E05B79/20 ,  E05B81/06 ,  E05B83/18 ,  F16F2236/04 ,  Y10T292/1077 ,  Y10T292/1078

摘要： A bumper for a closure, such as a tailgate, acts between the tailgate and a frame to bias a striker in to engagement with a latch. The bumper is moved to a retracted position during closing to reduce the force needed to close the tailgate. After latching, the bumper is conditioned to an extended position to assert the bias between the tailgate and frame.

摘要翻译： 用于闭合件的保险杠（例如后挡板）作用在后挡板和框架之间，以将撞针偏置成与闩锁接合。 保险杠在关闭期间移动到缩回位置，以减少关闭后挡板所需的力。 在锁定之后，保险杠被调节到延伸位置以断定后挡板和框架之间的偏压。

公开(公告)号：US08353535B2

公开(公告)日：2013-01-15

申请号：US12523424

申请日：2008-01-18

申请人： John Jasper Salmon ,  Richard Charles Hampton

发明人： John Jasper Salmon ,  Richard Charles Hampton

IPC分类号： A63C1/00

CPC分类号： A63C1/32 ,  A63C1/28 ,  A63C1/303

摘要： A replaceable blade ice skate (9) comprising a holder (2), a blade system having at least one blade engagement portion (11) and a blade (4, 52), at least one attachment device (5) mounted to the holder for movement between a blade securing position and a blade releasing position. The attachment device having an attachment engagement portion (6), wherein the blade system is retained in the holder via the blade engagement portion detachably mating with the attachment engagement portion when the attachment device is in the blade securing position. The blade system further comprising a downward facing rocker (3) and a flexible replaceable blade (4) which conforms to the first defined curvature of the rocker when mounted thereon.

摘要翻译： 一种包括保持器（2），具有至少一个刀片接合部分（11）和刀片（4,52）的刀片系统的可更换刀片式溜冰鞋（9），至少一个安装到所述保持器上的附接装置（5） 刀片固定位置和刀片释放位置之间的运动。 所述附接装置具有附接接合部分（6），其中当所述附接装置处于所述刀片固定位置时，所述刀片系统经由所述刀片接合部分与所述附接接合部分可拆卸地配合地保持在所述保持器中。 刀片系统还包括向下的摇杆（3）和柔性可更换刀片（4），其在安装在其上时与摇杆的第一限定曲率一致。

公开(公告)号：US08025301B2

公开(公告)日：2011-09-27

申请号：US12740811

申请日：2008-11-24

申请人： Michael Guttilla ,  Chris Broughton ,  Thomas Alexander Sparrow

发明人： Michael Guttilla ,  Chris Broughton ,  Thomas Alexander Sparrow

IPC分类号： B60G3/04

CPC分类号： B60G7/001 ,  B23P15/00 ,  B23P2700/14 ,  B60G3/20 ,  B60G2200/144 ,  B60G2200/154 ,  B60G2204/416 ,  B60G2206/014 ,  B60G2206/017 ,  B60G2206/122 ,  B60G2206/124 ,  B60G2206/14 ,  B60G2206/16 ,  B60G2206/722 ,  B60G2206/81022 ,  B60G2206/8103 ,  B60G2206/8201

摘要： A structural element comprising a vehicle suspension control arm is constructed from a complex, single piece, sheet metal stamped component formed from a material of uniform thickness. The stamping is configured with the correct plan view shape and formed into an I-beam cross-section comprising a central web portion and two flange portions. The central web portion is configured as a single material thickness and the flange portions comprise upstanding and downstanding closed sections with a continuous double returned segment. The open ends of the sheet metal terminate at or near the central web portion and are welded to the web portion, and in an alternative embodiment also to the continuous double returned segment, to create a favorable structural I-beam section with flange portions twice the thickness of the web portion.

摘要翻译： 包括车辆悬架控制臂的结构元件由由均匀厚度的材料形成的复合的单件，金属板冲压部件构成。 冲压构造成具有正确的平面视图形状并且形成为包括中心腹板部分和两个凸缘部分的工字钢横截面。 中心腹板部分被构造为单一材料厚度，并且凸缘部分包括具有连续双重返回部分的直立和下降闭合部分。 金属板的开口端部终止于中央腹板部分处或附近，并且被焊接到腹板部分，并且在替代实施例中也连接到双重返回部分，以产生良好的结构工字梁部分，凸缘部分为两倍 腹板部分的厚度。