Patents by Inventor Alan Joseph Radue

Alan Joseph Radue has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6641219
    Abstract: An improvement in an apparatus used to retain a plastic guide that guides the post of a vehicle head restraint during vertical adjustment. The improved head restraint support tube formed from a flat sheet having two interlocking sides. The sheet formed into a tubular body that retains a plastic guide. The plastic guide used to guide the head restraint post within the hollow tube. The tubular body further having a necked down region with a smaller inner diameter when compared to the remainder of the tube to improve its retaining capability. Additionally, the improved head restraint support tube has a series of lances located at one or both ends to further retain the plastic guide and reduce lateral movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: E.R. Wagner Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Paul E. Meshke, Steven R. Koch, Alan Joseph Radue
  • Publication number: 20030111889
    Abstract: An improvement in an apparatus used to retain a plastic guide that guides the post of a vehicle head restraint during vertical adjustment. The improved head restraint support tube formed from a flat sheet having two interlocking sides. The sheet formed into a tubular body that retains a plastic guide. The plastic guide used to guide the head restraint post within the hollow tube. The tubular body further having a necked down region with a smaller inner diameter when compared to the remainder of the tube to improve its retaining capability. Additionally, the improved head restraint support tube has a series of lances located at one or both ends to further retain the plastic guide and reduce lateral movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: E.R. Wagner Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Paul E. Meshke, Steven R. Koch, Alan Joseph Radue
  • Patent number: 5879043
    Abstract: An interior release for a split, rear folding seat back having a center mounted latch with a flexible cloth side pull tether that wraps around the side edge of the seat back, remote from the latch. A specially designed cable mounting box fixed to the rear of the seat back, near the side edge, translates the pull of the flexible tether ninety degrees around into a stiff cable wire routed along the seat back rear surface to release the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Joseph Radue, Susan Moran Campbell