Patents by Inventor Darrell L. Brandenburg

Darrell L. Brandenburg 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).

  • Retractable headlamp assembly
    Patent number: 4943895
    Abstract: A retractable lamp assembly that is combined with the front end of a vehicle and includes a pair of lamps which can be alternately located within a headlamp opening in the front end of the vehicle so as to selectively project a beam of high intensity light or a beam of low intensity light forwardly of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Darrell L. Brandenburg
  • Anti-glare rear view mirror
    Patent number: 4679906
    Abstract: An anti-glare rear view mirror which includes a plastic housing combined with a plastic pivot plate having laterally extending pivot shafts received in a snap action manner by a pair of bearing members integrally formed with the housing and wherein the pivot plate is combined with a plastic finger operated actuator and a metal spring in a manner so as to allow the housing together with a supported prismoidal mirror to be selectively moved between a "day" position and a "night" position upon 90 degrees rotation of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Darrell L. Brandenburg
  • Ball-joint assembly
    Patent number: 4360284
    Abstract: A ball-joint assembly having a two-part hinged plastic bearing member adapted to be positioned about the ball portion of a ball-stud member and be placed within an aperture formed in a link having a plurality of upstanding tabs which are adapted to be bent over for maintaining the ball-stud member and bearing member in the end of the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Darrell L. Brandenburg
  • Antiglare rear view mirror
    Patent number: 4319806
    Abstract: An antiglare rear view mirror having an actuator assembly formed with a bearing surface at one end and a rotatable positioning member at the other end that are mounted between a pair of projecting flange members formed on the housing which carries the mirror element and in which the flange members are drawn towards each other for placing the actuator assembly in compression to thereby ensure that the housing maintains its position when moved to the "day" position or the "night" position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Darrell L. Brandenburg