| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6741899 |
System and method for designing a component |
May 25, 2004 |
| A system 10 for designing an automotive component such as an air induction tube 22. A CAD system 18 receives certain programmable parameters 14 and a user selected integer value 16 by way of a user interface 12, and generates a tube design 22 having a number of curved portions which is |
| 6740246 |
Circuit board and a method for making the same |
May 25, 2004 |
| A method for making multi-layer electronic circuit boards 64 having "blind" type apertures 28, 30 which may be selectively and electrically grounded and further having selectively formed air bridges and/or crossover circuits 45, 46. |
| 6739041 |
Circuit board and a method for making the same |
May 25, 2004 |
| A method 10, 90 for making a multi-layer electronic circuit board 82, 168 including the steps of forming at least one protuberance 15, 100 upon an electrically conductive member 12, 92 and adding additional electrically conductive layers of material 34, 56, 58, 104, 114, 138, 140 to the |
| 6717067 |
Circuit board and a method for making the same |
April 6, 2004 |
| A method 10, 110 for making multi-layer circuit boards having metallized apertures 38, 40, 130, 132 which may be selectively and electrically grounded and having at least one formed air-bridge 92, 178. |
| 6684482 |
Method for producing an alternator assembly housing member |
February 3, 2004 |
| An alternator assembly 10 having a pair of housing members 11, 12 which cooperatively contain a stator 24, rotor 18, and bearing 29. The housing member 12 includes an integrally formed bearing sleeve member 40 which receives the bearing 29 and allows the rotor 18 to rotate within the |
| 6613239 |
Method for making an electrical circuit board |
September 2, 2003 |
| A method 10 for making multi-layer electronic circuit boards having metallized apertures 34, 36 which may be selectively and electrically grounded or isolated from an electrical ground plane. |
| 6612025 |
Method for creating a connection within a multilayer circuit board assembly |
September 2, 2003 |
| A method for forming connections within a multi-layer electronic circuit board 10. The method includes forming an aperture within the circuit board and selectively coating the interior surface of the aperture with a polar solder mask material that is effective to bond with solder that is |
| 6585903 |
Electrical circuit board and a method for making the same |
July 1, 2003 |
| A multi-layer electronic circuit board design 10 having selectively formed apertures or cavities 26 which have improved solder-wetting characteristics by causing a first insulating layer to separate from a portion of a first conductive layer of the multi-layer electronic circuit boar |
| 6584682 |
Method for making circuit board |
July 1, 2003 |
| A method 10 for making multi-layer electronic circuit boards 148, 248 having aperture 146, 246 which may be selectively connected to an electrical ground potential. |
| 6553817 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring a catalytic converter |
April 29, 2003 |
| A monitor 10 is provided of the type which is deployed upon a vehicle 13 having an engine 17, an exhaust system 27 which includes a catalytic converter 12. Catalytic converter 12 is operatively and communicatively connected to inlet portion or pipe 14 and outlet portion or pipe 16. M |
| 6501031 |
Electrical circuit board and a method for making the same |
December 31, 2002 |
| A multi-layer electronic circuit board design 10 having a core member 12, a pair of dielectric layers 14, 16 disposed thereon, and a first circuit portion 20 which is coupled to the dielectric layer 14 and core member 12 using a layer of adhesive material 18. Circuit board design 10 furt |
| 6499214 |
Method of making a circuit board |
December 31, 2002 |
| A method 10, 110 for making multi-layer circuit boards having metallized apertures 38, 40, 130, 132 which may be selectively and electrically grounded and having at least one formed air-bridge 92, 178. |
| 6497505 |
Light manifold assembly |
December 24, 2002 |
| A light manifold assembly 10 having a relatively thin and low profile manifold 30 which is selectively placed within the frame 16 of a back window 14 and which receives light and/or laser energy 44 which is generated by a source 18 which is remotely located from the manifold 30. |
| 6495222 |
Moisture reduction assembly |
December 17, 2002 |
| A moisture reduction assembly 10 for use in a vehicle headlamp 12 which operatively reduces and/or substantially eliminates moisture 22 within the headlamp 12. The moisture reduction assembly 10 includes a selectively energizable bulb 18 and a bulb shield 16. The bulb shield 16, in one |
| 6495053 |
Electrical circuit board and a method for making the same |
December 17, 2002 |
| A multi-layer electronic circuit board design 10 having selectively formed apertures or cavities 26, and which includes grooves or troughs 20, 22 which are effective to selectively entrap liquefied adhesive material, thereby substantially preventing the adhesive material from entering th |
| 6490159 |
Electrical circuit board and method for making the same |
December 3, 2002 |
| A multi-layer circuit board with heat pipes and a method forming a multi-layer circuit board with heat pipes is disclosed. The circuit board includes a heat pump which communicates with the heat pipe to circulate an amount of cooling material within the heat pipe effective to efficiently |
| 6479810 |
Light sensor system and a method for detecting ambient light |
November 12, 2002 |
| A light sensor assembly 10 and a method for detecting ambient light 100 which logarithmically amplifies a first signal which is representative of the certain amount of sensed light and a second offset signal and which adds the logarithmically amplified signals to a voltage signal, thereb |
| 6476577 |
Motor control circuit |
November 5, 2002 |
| A motor control circuit 10 which controls the speed of a motor 12 by the use of pseudo-randomly generated signals 52. |
| 6473963 |
Method of making electrical circuit board |
November 5, 2002 |
| A multi-layer circuit board with heat pipes and a method for forming a multi-layer circuit board with heat pipes is disclosed. The method includes forming channels in a first and second pre-circuit assembly and attaching the first pre-circuit assembly to the second pre-circuit assemb |
| 6469632 |
Component selector assembly |
October 22, 2002 |
| A component selector assembly 10 which pseudo-randomly energizes components 40-54 use of received data 60. |
| 6467161 |
Method for making a circuit board |
October 22, 2002 |
| A method 10, 110 for making multi-layer electronic circuit boards 82, 148 having metallized apertures 18, 20, 118, 120 which may be selectively and electrically connected to a source of ground potential. |
| 6449839 |
Electrical circuit board and a method for making the same |
September 17, 2002 |
| A method for forming connections within a multi-layer electronic circuit board 10. In one non-limiting embodiment, the method includes selectively forming air bridges over portions of the circuit board 10 and selectively collapsing the air bridges with a metallurgical bonding tool, effec |
| 6423141 |
Method and apparatus for dispensing viscous material |
July 23, 2002 |
| A novel apparatus for compressing viscous material through openings in a stencil is disclosed. The novel apparatus has a compression head cap which provides a contained environment to direct and to aid the flow of pressurized viscous material through the openings in the stencil. The |
| 6416597 |
Solder composition and a method for making the same |
July 9, 2002 |
| A solder composition and a method 10 for producing such a solder composition is provide. The solder composition is substantially "lead-free", has a relatively long shelf life, and has a desirable melting temperature. Particularly, the solder composition contains tin and zinc with sub |
| 6412168 |
Method of making an electrical circuit board |
July 2, 2002 |
| A multi-layer electronic circuit board design 10 having selectively formed apertures or cavities 26. |
| 6405945 |
Nozzle for a fuel injector |
June 18, 2002 |
| A nozzle 10 for a fuel injector assembly 12. Nozzle 10 includes several integrally formed ports 36 and chambers 38. Chambers 38 receive fuel from ports 36 and are effective to cause the received fuel to swirl and/or spiral through discharge holes 44, thereby causing the fuel to be finely |
| 6398580 |
Electrical terminal member |
June 4, 2002 |
| A terminal member 10 having a body 12 and outwardly protruding blades 14. The body 12 and blades 14 include respective insulation displacement apertures 48, 20 which selectively allow high powered electrical signals to be received by the terminal member 10 and which further allow the |
| 6394369 |
Nozzle |
May 28, 2002 |
| A nozzle 10 having a material outlet aperture 24 which causes received material 28 to be emitted in the form of a streaming sheet 30. |
| 6392473 |
Voltage protection and biasing circuit |
May 21, 2002 |
| A biasing and transient protection circuit 10 which is used in combination with a field effect transistor 14 which selectively communicates a voltage signal which emanates from a battery 12 to a component or load 18. The circuit 10 selectively generates a substantially constant electrica |
| 6386054 |
Manikin assembly and method for the testing of seats which utilizes the assembly |
May 14, 2002 |
| A manikin that may be used for accelerated seat durability is disclosed. The manikin provides forces that simulate both the weight of a person against the butt portion of a seat and forces produced against the back portion of a seat by human movement. |
| 6380701 |
Vehicle charge assembly |
April 30, 2002 |
| An electrical charge assembly 10 for use within a vehicle 12 having a transmission 20, a starter assembly 16, and an engine 14. The assembly 10 includes a capacitor assembly 34 which selectively provides electrical charge to the starter assembly 16, effective to allow the engine 14 to be |
| 6370959 |
Fuel pressure sensor |
April 16, 2002 |
| A fuel pressure sensor 12 which receives air 62 from an intake manifold 58 and fuel 15 from a fuel rail 14 and which uses the received air 62 and fuel 15 to measure the fuel pressure within the fuel rail 14. The fuel pressure sensor 12 further including a semi-permeable membrane or membe |
| 6361606 |
Method and apparatus for dispensing viscous material |
March 26, 2002 |
| A novel apparatus for compressing viscous material through openings in a stencil is disclosed. The novel apparatus has a compression head cap which provides a contained environment to direct and to aid the flow of pressurized viscous material through the openings in the stencil. In a |
| 6357669 |
Nozzle |
March 19, 2002 |
| A nozzle 10 which receives first and second materials 24, 30 and which has an outlet aperture 18. The first material 24 is received within the outlet aperture 18 and is atomized by the second material 30 within the outlet aperture 18 before it is emitted from the nozzle 10 and applied to |
| 6338439 |
Nozzle assembly |
January 15, 2002 |
| A nozzle assembly 10 including a first inlet aperture 12 which receives material 14 which is to be selectively emitted from assembly 10. Assembly 10 includes an outlet aperture 16 having several apertures 18, 20, 22, 24, and 26 which are respectively separated by substantially identical |
| 6332273 |
Method for making a catalytic converter assembly |
December 25, 2001 |
| A method 30 for making a relatively low profile catalytic converter assembly 10 which is selectively deployed upon a vehicle 14. The catalytic converter assembly 10 is formed from a generally hollow tube or member 34 which is selectively expanded within a die 31. The expanded member 34 |
| 6324758 |
Method for making a catalytic converter canister |
December 4, 2001 |
| A method for making a relatively low profile catalytic converter canister 72, 80, 153 which is selectively and operatively deployed upon a vehicle 14 and which may be selectively used to form a catalytic converter assembly. |
| 6318642 |
Nozzle assembly |
November 20, 2001 |
| A nozzle assembly 12 having shroud members 26, 28 which selectively emit a material 21 along at least one edge of emitted material 25. The selectively emitted material 21 substantially prevents and/or eliminates the turbulent shear layer which is formed within the emitted material 25. |
| 6315221 |
Nozzle |
November 13, 2001 |
| A nozzle 10 having an outlet aperture 26, the outlet aperture 26 having at least one injector 40,42 which is disposed within the aperture 26 and which injects a material 17 within the aperture 26, effective to allow the material to be atomized and to be emitted from the aperture 26 at a |
| 6302306 |
Method and apparatus for dispensing viscous material |
October 16, 2001 |
| A novel apparatus for compressing viscous material through openings in a stencil is disclosed. The novel apparatus has a compression head cap which provides a contained environment to direct and to aid the flow of pressurized viscous material through the openings in the stencil. The |
| 6299545 |
Rotating shaft assembly |
October 9, 2001 |
| A shaft assembly and method of manufacture are provided. A molded member is attached to the shaft. An axially extending groove is provided in the shaft, the groove having a bottom and a pair of radially projecting sides. A member is molded onto the shaft. A portion of the member flows in |
| 6286422 |
Method and apparatus for dispensing viscous material |
September 11, 2001 |
| A novel apparatus for compressing viscous material through openings in a stencil is disclosed. The novel apparatus has a compression head cap which provides a contained environment to direct and to aid the flow of pressurized viscous material through the openings in the stencil. |
| 6283623 |
Method and apparatus for remote lighting |
September 4, 2001 |
| A remote lighting apparatus 10 having a light "collector" or reflector 12 which collects light rays or waves 14 that are generated by a light generating source 16. Apparatus 10 includes an optical conductor, conduit and/or guide 18 which operatively and selectively receives, communicates |
| 6279527 |
Apparatus for routing electrical signals in an engine |
August 28, 2001 |
| There is disclosed herein an apparatus for routing electrical signals in an engine having n cylinders and an intake manifold, one embodiment of which comprises: (1) a generally rigid housing generally conforming in shape with and being removably attachable to a top surface of the intake |
| 6279415 |
Method and apparatus for providing tension within a cable |
August 28, 2001 |
| An apparatus 10 for providing tension in a cable 12. Apparatus 10 includes a generally cylindrical housing 14, movable member 16 which is slidably disposed within housing 14 and a member 18 which is slidably disposed within member 16 and housing 14. Assembly 10 further includes a con |
| 6279221 |
Vehicle driveshaft |
August 28, 2001 |
| A vehicle driveshaft 10 having first and second splined members 12,16 which are manufactured of aluminum, which are anodized, and which respectively include relatively long and wide respective spline portions 14, 18, thereby cooperatively forming a relatively stiff driveshaft 10. |
| 6243937 |
Method of forming driveshaft slip yoke fluid sealing plug |
June 12, 2001 |
| A slip spline assembly is provided including a slip yoke with a splined bore and an open end. A plug is sealingly secured to the open end of the slip yoke. The plug has an aperture which is sealed after the yoke is plated. |
