Patents by Inventor David Alden Foster

David Alden Foster 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: 6498475
    Abstract: A sensor ring and method for forming same is provided in which the ring has a stamped configuration bent into a final configuration. The stamped configuration has a flat, annular sensor portion extending from a cylindrical hub portion and the sensor portion has a plurality of substantially identical, circumferentially spaced window openings therein. Each window opening has an inner edge adjacent to and spaced radially outward from the hub and an outer edge spaced radially inward from the outer peripheral end of the sensor portion and leading and trailing edges extending, respectively, from the ends of the inner and outer edges to form each window as a polygon, preferably a trapezoid. In the final configuration, the sensor portion has a bight segment extending radially outward from the hub and a sensor or finger segment extending from the bight segment in the direction fo the hub to form a U-shaped cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alden Foster, Larry R Kreh, Karl Edward Kalb
  • Publication number: 20020125882
    Abstract: A sensor ring and method for forming same is provided in which the ring has a stamped configuration bent into a final configuration. The stamped configuration has a flat, annular sensor portion extending from a cylindrical hub portion and the sensor portion has a plurality of substantially identical, circumferentially spaced window openings therein. Each window opening has an inner edge adjacent to and spaced radially outward from the hub and an outer edge spaced radially inward from the outer peripheral end of the sensor portion and leading and trailing edges extending, respectively, from the ends of the inner and outer edges to form each window as a polygon, preferably a trapezoid. In the final configuration, the sensor portion has a bight segment extending radially outward from the hub and a sensor or finger segment extending from the bight segment in the direction fo the hub to form a U-shaped cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: David Alden Foster, Larry R. Kreh, Karl Edward Kalb
  • Patent number: 5883511
    Abstract: A wire lead strain relief mechanism includes a housing having a first wall and a second wall located in substantially parallel and spaced apart positions. The first wall carries a pair of spaced apart terminals and the second wall includes a generally flat surface with a pair of posts including a first post and a fifth post that are spaced apart a distance further than the terminals are spaced apart. The generally flat surface also has a set of three posts including a second post, a third post, and a fourth post all three positioned substantially in line with the first and fifth posts and substantially centered between the first and fifth posts. A wound coil is carried in the housing between the first and second walls and has a pair of terminal ends each engaging one of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: David Alden Foster
  • Patent number: 5696442
    Abstract: A rotational velocity sensor ring comprising a circular cylindrical body with a radially interior cylindrical surface, a radially exterior cylindrical surface and first and second cylinder ends, a plurality of substantially equally spaced, substantially equal length fingers extending from the first cylinder end, and on each of the fingers, a substantially 180.degree. bend proximate to the first cylinder end, wherein each finger is radially exterior of the circular cylindrical body, wherein each finger has a finger end extending toward a second cylinder end opposite the first cylinder end, wherein each finger is proximate to the radially exterior cylindrical surface and parallel to a cylinder axis of the circular cylindrical body, wherein the fingers comprise a set of teeth of the rotational velocity sensor ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: David Alden Foster, Debbie Sue Wadsworth-Dubbert