Patents by Inventor Michael Carr Duncan

Michael Carr Duncan 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).

  • Restraint web pre-tensioning and suspension seat pull-down device
    Patent number: 9896006
    Abstract: A device is disclosed for pre-tensioning an occupant restraint harness coupled to a seat portion of a motor vehicle seat and/or for pulling down the seat portion of the vehicle seat toward a seat base in embodiments in which the seat portion is suspended above the seat base. An elongated housing is secured to the seat portion, a web is coupled between the restraint harness or seat portion and the seat base or a support structure to which the seat base is mounted, and a piston carried by the housing defines a web guide in contact with the web between its two ends. As the piston moves along and relative to the housing in response to actuation thereof, the web guide displaces the web within the housing to pre-tension the occupant restraint harness and/or to pull the seat portion toward the seat base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Indiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Carr Duncan, Douglas W. Bittner, Guy R. Dingman, Marius Magdun
  • RESTRAINT WEB PRE-TENSIONING AND SUSPENSION SEAT PULL-DOWN DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180022244
    Abstract: A device is disclosed for pre-tensioning an occupant restraint harness coupled to a seat portion of a motor vehicle seat and/or for pulling down the seat portion of the vehicle seat toward a seat base in embodiments in which the seat portion is suspended above the seat base. An elongated housing is secured to the seat portion, a web is coupled between the restraint harness or seat portion and the seat base or a support structure to which the seat base is mounted, and a piston carried by the housing defines a web guide in contact with the web between its two ends. As the piston moves along and relative to the housing in response to actuation thereof, the web guide displaces the web within the housing to pre-tension the occupant restraint harness and/or to pull the seat portion toward the seat base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Carr Duncan, Douglas W. Bittner, Guy R. Dingman, Marius Magdun