Patents by Inventor Del Wood

Del Wood 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).

  • Data card easily assembled housing
    Patent number: 6313400
    Abstract: A PC or CF (Compact Flash) card housing has housing halves (32, 34) that each includes a sheet metal shield (50, 70) with a main wall lying in a horizontal plane and with primarily vertical side walls (56, 58, 72, 74), with the side walls of the housing halves overlapping when the housing halves are assembled together. Each shield side wall includes dimples (90, 106) formed by deforming out areas of the sheet metal shield side wall. Each dimple has opposite faces respectively forming a recess and a projection. The recesses (108) of the top housing side walls receive projections (94) of the bottom housing side walls to lock the housing halves together when one is pushed vertically into the other. The dimples have opposite sides (140, 142) connected by bends to surrounding sheet metal, and have lower ends (130, 144) severed from surrounding sheet metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Rene Augusto Mosquera, Terry Lee Adams, Del Wood