Patents by Inventor Michael J Hampton

Michael J Hampton 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: 7051785
    Abstract: The subject invention provides a method of manufacturing an air conditioning compressor assembly for a vehicle having a front head member. A forming die having a cover half and an ejector half is shaped to define the features of the front head member. A conventional casting process is used to form the front head member. The front head member is cast to include a plurality of sealing surfaces, each concentric with a bore. A fastener passes through the bore to secure the front head member to the compressor housing such that a head portion of the fastener is in sealing engagement with the sealing surface as cast into the front head member to provide a pressure tight seal therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Joseph Dewispelaere, Philip LaRoach, Michael J Hampton, Andrew W Gifford
  • Patent number: 4488152
    Abstract: A visually and electronically readable motor driven register has a plurality of dependently rotatable, coaxial, incrementally positionable, number wheels which each carry a movable electrode fixed in a predetermined position relative to the numbers on each wheel. Adjacent each movable electrode is inserted a fixed plate which carries a plurality of stationary electrodes, each corresponding to a number on the wheel and disposed circumferentially around a stationary main electrode which is capacitively coupled to the movable electrode. When a number on a wheel is visually readable, the movable electrode will be positioned so as to be capacitively coupled only to the stationary electrode corresponding to the readable number. A microprocessor provides pulses sequentially to the stationary electrodes of each wheel, and checks for a coincident processed output from the main electrode of the first wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Schlumberger Canada Limited
    Inventors: John D. Arnason, Michael J. Hampton
  • Patent number: 4471450
    Abstract: A visually and electronically readable motor driven register has a plurality of dependently rotatable, coaxial, incrementally positionable, number wheels which each carry a movable electrode fixed in a predetermined position relative to the numbers on each wheel. Adjacent each movable electrode is inserted a fixed plate which carries a plurality of stationary electrodes, each corresponding to a number on the wheel and disposed circumferentially around a stationary main electrode which is capacitively coupled to the movable electrode. When a number on a wheel is visually readable, the movable electrode will be positioned so as to be capacitively coupled only to the stationary electrode corresponding to the readable number. A microprocessor provides pulses sequentially to the stationary electrodes of each wheel, and checks for a coincident processed output from the main electrode of the first wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Schlumberger Canada Limited
    Inventors: John D. Arnason, Michael J. Hampton, Carl M. Terrier