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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120104338 | VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM WITH WEIGHTING BODY The present invention relates to a vehicle restraint system (1) for delimiting roadways, including base bodies (3) that can be detachably coupled to each other, wherein the base bodies (3) can be placed on a road surface (4) and have at least... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120104337 | METHOD FOR ABSORBING A VEHICLE IMPACT USING KINETIC FRICTION FORCE AND ROLLING FORCE PRODUCED BY THE DRAGGING OF A SURFACE OF ROLLED TUBE, AND VEHICLE IMPACT ABSORBING APPARATUS USING SAME An object of the present invention is to continuously secure a displacement while dynamic kinetic energy of a vehicle is absorbed by a kinetic frictional force and rolling force produced by dragging a surface of a soft rolled tube, and to let an evaluation index of PHD ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120080654 | Visual highlight accessory for highway guardrails A visual highlight accessory for attachment to highway guardrails has a paint coating and a clear varnish overcoating with mica particles for making the visual highlight accessory and the guardrail on which the visual highlight accessory is mounted readily visible to pe... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120049142 | GUARDRAIL TRASH SCREEN ASSEMBLY A guardrail screen assembly connectable to a guardrail assembly is disclosed. The screen assembly includes at least one top rail member, guardrail attachment members for attaching opposing ends of the at least one top rail member to opposing guardrail posts, a bottom ra... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120043516 | CRASH CUSHION FOR ROADSIDE OBJECT A sacrificial crash cushion (10) for a roadside object (e.g. post, mast or pylon), comprising a body (12) defining a chamber (14) containing a sacrificial energy absorber (16), the chamber (14) having a central region (20) and a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120037865 | VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM A vehicle restraint system for delimiting roadways includes guide barriers (1) which are detachably placed next to each other. Each guide barrier (1) includes a housing-like base body (3) which can be set up on the ground (2) on pedestals ( 02/16/2012 | |
| 20120001138 | Posts For Road Safety Barrier A road safety barrier having a plurality of ropes supported by posts rigidly mounted on or in the ground is described. Each rope is held in tension against the posts and supported in a longitudinally oriented indentation in a side of the posts. The ropes are released fr... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110253961 | Combined Guardrail and Cable Safety Systems A combined guardrail and cable safety system is disclosed. In one aspect, a safety barrier incorporating the teachings of the present disclosure may include a plurality of cable posts spaced from each other and disposed adjacent to a roadway. At least two cables may be ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110233495 | SINGLE-WAVE BEAM GUARDRAIL PLATE AND SINGLE-WAVE BEAM STEEL GUARDRAIL A waveform beam guardrail plate and a waveform beam steel guardrail are provided. In which, the guardrail plate includes a main body (15) and two rings (16, 17) with a same structure installed axial symmetrically on an upper and a lower edges of the main b... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110186795 | Highway Guardrail Post A highway guardrail post comprises an elongated one-piece roll-formed metal body including a front wall defining an attachment face, a pair of opposing side walls orthogonal to the front wall, a first pair of inverted corners respectively connecting the pair of side wal... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110155981 | ROAD RAIL A road rail comprises tubular posts (1; 20) to be anchored in the ground and a rail profile (2; 21) to be attached to the posts. The rail profile has a substantially closed cross-section but is open downwards for lowering onto the posts. The rail profile i... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110127479 | IMPACT ABSORBING BARRIER ASSEMBLY Disclosed is an impact absorbing barrier assembly. The assembly includes a support having a pipe configuration and installed at the center line or the side of a road, an impact absorbing cylinder combined to the support and including a cylinder having a penetrating thro... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110127480 | ENERGY ABSORBING POST FOR ROADSIDE SAFETY DEVICES An energy-absorbing post for absorbing the impact energy of an errant vehicle wherein the impact energy is absorbed by out-of-place deformation in the material of the post. Out-of-plane deformation is provided by utilizing a through bolt extending through a splice conne... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110121248 | SECURITY BARRIER FOR ROAD SAFETY Road safety barrier belonging to the type of barriers that are mounted along road shoulders and outer edges to serve as protective elements and it is configured by a plurality of vertical poles to which the upper w-beam is affixed above and the corresponding lower suppo... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110114909 | GUARD RAIL INCLUDING NOISE-REDUCING MEASURES A guard rail is provided with noise-reducing measures and includes a plurality of substantially vertical posts supporting a longitudinal guard rail beam. Furthermore the guard rail is provided with plate-shaped noise-reducing modules attached to the supporting, substant... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110095253 | Energy Attenuating Safety System An energy absorbing system with one or more energy absorbing assemblies is provided to reduce or eliminate severity of a collision between a moving vehicle and a roadside hazard. The energy absorbing system may be installed adjacent various roadside hazards or may be in... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110095251 | Vehicle crash attenuator apparatus Crash attenuator guardrail apparatus includes an impact head and a backstop having a cable and guardrails supported by guardrail supports located between the impact head and the backstop. Frictional forces are applied to the cable to control and resist movement of the i... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110095252 | Vehicle crash attenuator apparatus Crash attenuator guardrail apparatus includes an impact head and a backstop having a cable and guardrails supported by guardrail supports located between the impact head and the backstop. Frictional forces are applied to the cable to control and resist movement of the i... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110095250 | Vehicle crash attenuator apparatus Crash attenuator guardrail apparatus includes an impact head and a backstop having a cable and guardrails supported by guardrail supports located between the impact head and the backstop. Frictional forces are applied to the cable to control and resist movement of the i... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110084246 | Metal Roadway Safety Barrier Metal roadway safety barrier formed by a series of horizontal rails, girders or fences (1) mounted on vertical posts (2) by means of a “breakable” joining mechanism (3) which provides said joint with the possibility of disengaging in a controlle... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110062402 | Anti-Ram Vehicle Barrier A gate assembly according to one or more aspects of the present disclosure comprises a cable extending across a panel, the panel movable between a closed position blocking an entry port and an open position; a latch post secured in the ground on a first side of the entr... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110062403 | Anti-Ram Vehicle Barrier System An anti-ram vehicle barrier system adapted to arrest an impacting vehicle of substantial mass within a selected distance of the barrier. The distance is approximately 36 inches for a vehicle having a mass of at least about 15,000 pounds and traveling at least about 30 m... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057160 | Tension Guardrail Terminal A terminal portion of a guardrail safety system includes a terminal portion of a guardrail beam having a downstream end and upstream end. The terminal portion of the guardrail beam slopes from a height appropriate for redirecting an errant vehicle to a height proximate ... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110031456 | VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM The invention relates to a vehicle restraint system for demarcating roadways, including guard rails (1) that are detachably placed next to each other. Each guard rail (1) includes a housing-like base body (3) that can be arranged on the ground and a... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110024707 | Bumper Rail System Shock Absorber A bumper rail assembly is provided that uses bars of arch-shaped spring steel, mounted in a standing-arch configuration, as shock absorbers for the bumper rails. An end portion of the spring steel bar is shaped into a saddle so that the spring steel bar can be secured i... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100314595 | HIGH FLARE BREAKAWAY GUARDRAIL TERMINAL A guardrail system having a standard length-of-need section and a terminal end, the terminal end having a high effective flare rate of at least 5:1 is provided with two independent and cooperating cable anchor systems. One of the cable anchor systems is a side impact re... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100243978 | GUARDRAIL ASSEMBLY, BREAKAWAY SUPPORT POST FOR A GUARDRAIL AND METHODS FOR THE ASSEMBLY AND USE THEREOF A breakaway support post for a guardrail includes an upper post member and a lower post member. The upper and lower post members are overlapping and configured such that the upper and lower post members are non-rotatable relative to each other about an axis extending in... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100207087 | IMPACT ENERGY DISSIPATION SYSTEM A guardrail includes a cable routing device providing a tortuous path for at least one tensioned cable, the cable routing device includes a bar having a rotational axis and including a cable entry port having a circumference slightly larger than the cable which passes d... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100154344 | Steel rope safety system with compacted ropes A steel rope safety system includes at least one steel rope having at least one strand, and the at least one rope or at least one strand is compacted. Further, a method is provided for making a steel rope safety system comprising the step of providing at least two wires... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100140577 | Combined Guardrail and Cable Safety Systems A combined guardrail and cable safety system is disclosed. In one aspect, the present invention teaches a safety barrier including a plurality of cable posts spaced from each other and disposed adjacent to a roadway. At least two cables are releasably engaged with and s... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100118401 | GUARDRAIL BLOCK AND REFLECTOR SYSTEM A guardrail block includes an attachable support for signage, such as a reflector. The reflector may be mountable on the support, and the support may be integrated with a base or may be separate and attached to the base. For example, a support may be snap fit into the b... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100090185 | ROADWAY GUARDRAIL SYSTEM AND HANGER A roadway guardrail system is disclosed having a plurality of posts capable of supporting at least one rod transverse to the posts, and at least one rod comprising one or more axially extending steel rods supported transverse to the plurality of posts. Each rod may incl... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100084623 | PERIMETER SECURITY BARRIERS A perimeter security barrier (1) for restraining a vehicle impacting the barrier from a direction substantially perpendicular thereto is described. The barrier comprises a pair of spaced apart end posts (3, 5) rigidly fixed in the ground and intermediate p... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20090315007 | Impact load deflector sleeve and removable collar assembly for cable and post protection A guard system for protecting cables or posts from damage by falling rocks and other dynamic forces is provided. The guard assembly comprises a first sleeve rotatably positionable about one of the cables or the posts and a second sleeve rotatably positionable about the ... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090302288 | GUARDRAIL An impact slider assembly for a guardrail which includes: a slider mechanism attached to a first rail and second rail which substantially conforms with a rail profile; and an integral means for attachment to the first rail, wherein the slider mechanism gathers telescopi... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090278102 | PROTECTION BARRIER A protection barrier includes a base, the base having a great lower side and a small topside; the base expanding from the topside to the lower side gradually; each of two lateral sides of the base being installed with a first buffer for buffering and resisting impacts f... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090272956 | GUARDRAIL SAFETY SYSTEM FOR DISSIPATING ENERGY TO DECELERATE THE IMPACTING VEHICLE In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, an end treatment of a guardrail safety system includes a terminal portion of a guardrail beam that has a downstream end and an upstream end. The terminal portion of the guardrail beam slopes from a fir... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090272955 | TENSION GUARDRAIL TERMINAL In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a terminal portion of a guardrail safety system includes a terminal portion of a guardrail beam having a downstream end and upstream end. The terminal portion of the guardrail beam slopes from a height... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090250675 | Vehicle Barrier A vehicle barrier having an impact side, a reflection side opposite the impact side, and a plurality of interior walls extending between the impact side and the reflection side. The refection side, the impact side, and the plurality of interior walls are formed from ver... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090250674 | Vehicle barrier system A modular vehicle barrier system includes a reaction mass for installation in the earth; at least one post immovably anchored in the reaction mass and extending upwardly therefrom; the reaction mass having a forward member for confronting and compressing the surrounding... | 10/08/2009 |
