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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6882124 | Sensor for adjustable vehicle systems The present invention provides a sensor for an adjustable system of a vehicle. The sensor is utilized to facilitate monitoring of adjustment positions with respect to a reference in the system. The sensor comprises a mechanical interface that allows for the input of... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6566831 | Sensor for adjustable vehicle systems The present invention provides a sensor for an adjustable system of a vehicle. The sensor is utilized to facilitate monitoring of adjustment positions with respect to a reference in the system. The sensor comprises a mechanical interface that allows for t... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6407526 | Safety switching systems for preventing serious misalignment of adjustable control pedals in automotive vehicles Some automobiles have mechanisms for adjusting the height of accelerator and brake pedals, and any clutch pedal, so that drivers large and small can adjust the pedals to the best height. All pedals are adjusted by a single reversible electric motor having... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6069553 | Blower speed control resistors for automotive or other service A layered electrical resistor having flat components stacked as follows: a first metal outer plate, a first thin outer electrical insulator, a first thin sheet metal resistor element, a first thin inner insulator, a metal midplate, a second thin inner ins... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6018288 | Flat resistors for automotive blower motor speed control or other service The flat resistor comprises a stack of flat components including a first metal plate having assembly tabs bent, a first outer electrical insulator having alignment slots for receiving the tabs, a first sheet metal resistance element having slots for recei... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5677520 | Rotary vacuum electric switch The switch comprises a casing with a shaft rotatable therein and an insulating carriage rotatable with the shaft. A contactor is mounted on and rotatable with the carriage to a central OFF position and a series of circuit closing positions spaced both clo... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5583327 | Electrical and vacuum switching control apparatus for automotive air control system The apparatus, which controls the operation and speed of an electrical blower motor and the operation of a vacuum operated recirculation control device, comprises a vacuum switch combined with an electrical switch having a rotary shaft and fixed and movab... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5495868 | Rotary vacuum-electric switch A shaft is rotatable in a housing to several detented positions, established by a detent wheel and spring pressed detent balls, and is provided with a pinion gear which drives a gear rack on a valve carriage guided for linear movement along a spacer. A ru... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5420387 | Push-push electrical and vacuum control switches for automotive service A switch is disclosed comprising a casing member within a carriage member movable therein between first and second positions, the carriage member having a pushable operating member extending outside the casing member. A spring is operative between the cas... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5396928 | Rotary vacuum electric switch The disclosed vacuum valve device comprises a housing having a wall with a flat valve surface, a plate-like valve carriage having a cavity therein facing the valve surface, the wall having vacuum distribution ports therein, and a soft resilient rubber-lik... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5290980 | Rotary vacuum-electric switch First and second self-supporting sheet metal contact plates are mounted in an insulating housing, in planes perpendicular to the axis of a driver which is rotatable to a series of detented positions. The driver carries first and second contactors having f... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5250770 | Rotary vacuum-electric switch A control shaft is rotatable in the axial opening in a cylindrical boss projecting forwardly from a front wall of a resinous plastic housing. The boss is received in a cylindrical opening in a panel formed with two slots for receiving mounting members pro... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5229741 | Automotive resistor unit having mounting clip The resistor unit comprises resistors connected to electrical terminals secured to an insulating plate to which first and second legs of a spring sheet metal mounting clip are secured for insertion through an opening in a supporting wall. The legs are ben... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5111011 | Mirror control slide switch for automotive vehicles The disclosed slide action selector switch, which is adapted to switch the connections of four push button switches between left and right mirror motors, comprises an insulating plate with an elongated guide flange projecting therefrom and having a T-shap... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5107085 | Clustered push button switches having sheet metal conductors formed with contact tabs Clustered push button switches are provided in a casing having an insulating mounting plate with openings therein for guiding push button shafts which carry U-shaped spring contactors having respective first and second contactor arms. Front and rear sheet... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5049705 | Push button vacuum-electric air control device for automotive vehicles The disclosed control device includes an electrical switch having a switch body in which an electrically insulating switch carriage is manually movable along a predetermined path. Fixed electrical contacts are mounted on the body along such path and are s... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5041703 | Mirror control switch for automotive vehicles The disclosed mirror control switch comprises a cluster of four push buttons for operating a cluster of four push button switches, each of which is a single pole double throw switch for energizing UP-DOWN and RIGHT-LEFT mirror adjusting motors in either o... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4996394 | Push button vacuum-electric air control device for automotive vehicles Seven or some other number of individually operable push buttons are provided to carry out control functions of an automotive heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. The push buttoms are movable between extended and depressed positions and are b... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4994635 | Push button automotive vacuum-electric air control devices having improved valving, switching and delatching Several individually operable push buttons are provided to initiate an OFF function, defrost, air conditioning and various air directions and other functions of an automotive heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. Each push button has a carriag... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4926014 | Push button vacuum-electric air control device for automotive vehicles Seven or some other number of individually operable push buttons are provided for selection of an OFF function and other control functions of an automotive heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. Each push button has a carriage member fitted on ... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4816629 | Snap-action electrical switch for automotive air control units The disclosed pushbutton operated automotive air control unit incorporates a unique snap-action electrical switch in which the movable contactor has a combination of sliding and rocking movement. The contactor is rockably supported on a fulcrum member whi... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4801769 | Pushbutton cartridge switch for automotive air control units The disclosed pushbutton operated automotive air control unit incorporates a non-latching pushbutton switch for causing momentary switching of a control circuit, such switch being pre-assembled as a cartridge for easy insertion into the housing of the con... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4766278 | Sealed toggle action electrical switches The sealed toggle action switch comprises an operating lever having a front operating arm projecting out of the front component of the casing. The lever has a rear arm, projecting into the casing and carrying a contactor plate for relative sliding and swi... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4758702 | Switching mechanism for automotive heating and air conditioning systems The mechanism comprises a blower speed control lever for operating at least one electrical switch, supported by a mounting bracket which has a place for a second switch. The speed control lever has rearwardly facing rocker shaft elements which are pressed... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4730090 | Electrical switch having oppositely facing contactor The switch includes a rotatable electrically insulating carriage having first and second contactors mounted thereon and facing in opposite directions from the path of the carriage, for a sliding engagement with first and second sets of fixed contacts. The... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4727766 | Heat regulating mechanism for automotive heating and air conditioning systems The mechanism comprises a heat control knob, pivotally mounted on the front end of an operating lever which is pivotally and slidably supported by second pivot means, having its pivot axis parallel with but spaced from the axis of the first pivot means. T... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4720612 | Pushbutton vacuum-electric air control unit for automotive vehicles A series of manually depressible pushbuttons establish all of the operating functions for an automotive air control system. Latching and block-out mechanisms are provided to latch only one pushbutton at a time in the depressed position. The pushbuttons op... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4710601 | Sealed toggle action electrical switches The sealed toggle action switch comprises an operating lever having a front operating arm projecting out of the front component of the casing. The lever has a rear arm, projecting into the casing and carrying a contactor plate for relative sliding and swi... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4691086 | Pushbutton electrical switch having a flairing contactor loosely rotatable on a spring-biased eyelet The switch comprises a hollow, generally rectangular casing, a generally rectangular pushbutton slidable rearwardly in such casing, and a terminal supporting block closing the rear end of such casing. All of such components are made of moldable resinous p... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4679588 | Combination rotary electrical switch and vacuum selector valve A single rotary shaft connected to a single rotary carriage operates a vacuum selector valve and two rotary electrical switches, in a casing having rear and front components. The valve comprises a valve carriage, slidable along a linear channel in the rea... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4678249 | Electrical switch having flexible printed circuit connector cable Compressible metal spring washers are mounted around the shank portions of terminal rivets and are clamped against thin conductor laminae of a flexible printed circuit having a resilient resinous plastic base lamina, clamped by the rivets against a relati... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4667068 | Control mechanisms for automotive heating and air conditioning systems A function selector knob is pivotally mounted on a function control lever which is pivotally and slidably supported by first pivot means. A pin and slot connection is provided between the lever and a vacuum electric selector switch. A convertible detent m... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4563551 | Electrical switch having assured low-resistance electrical contact between terminal rivets and contact plates The switch has at least one contact plate, mounted on the inner side of an insulating wall forming one side of a casing. The contact plate has a contact rail or some other contact element which is engageable by a contactor on a movable carriage within the... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4556764 | Slide action electrical switches An electrical switch is disclosed, including contact plates having fixed contact portions which are slidably engageable by at least one movable contactor. At least one plate has a submarining crossover portion bent into a U-shape and extending across an o... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4543454 | Slide action electrical switches In each of the two disclosed switches, an electrically conductive contactor plate is mounted on an insulating carriage, slidable in a casing along a path which is parallel with first and second parallel contact bars, mounted on an insulating wall of the c... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4539446 | Slide action switch A slide action electrical switch, comprising a casing, a carriage mounted in the casing for sliding movement along a predetermined path, an electrically conductive contactor mounted on the carriage, electrical contact means on the casing and selectively e... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4517422 | Electrical switch having interlocked blower and air conditioner switch components for vehicles A combination blower and air conditioner switch is disclosed, comprising a blower switch and an air conditioner switch having respective first and second casings secured together, a blower control member movable along a path between an OFF position remote... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4448390 | Vacuum control valve for automotive heating and airconditioning systems A vacuum control valve comprising a body having a valve surface with a plurality of valve ports extending through the body from such surface, a soft resilient valve member having a control surface slidable along the valve surface and formed with passage m... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4447688 | Push button switches having improved carriage, contactor and contact constructions A push button switch comprising a noncircular push button, a casing having a noncircular guide opening for the push button, a push button return spring, a carriage member projecting in one lateral direction from the push button and carrying a contactor fa... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4412109 | Push button switches having contact structures to avoid detent action and to enhance break-before-make action A switch is disclosed having improved contact structure to avoid any detent action between the movable and fixed contact elements, and to afford an enhanced break-before-make action. The switch includes a contactor having a cylindrically curved rider whic... | 10/25/1983 |
