Patents by Inventor Rale Richard Wolf

Rale Richard Wolf 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).

  • Method and apparatus for vibration control
    Patent number: 6454303
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a damped steering assembly are provided. The damped steering assembly includes a steering wheel attached to a steering column. Disposed between the steering wheel and the steering column is an active vibration control mechanism. The active vibration control mechanism damps vibration transmitted from the steering column to the steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignees: Delphi Technologies, Inc., Active Control Experts, Inc.
    Inventors: Mansour Ashtiani, Kenneth Alan Gassman, Rale Richard Wolf, Robert N Jacques, Elizabeth M Marsh, Edward Crawley
  • Method and apparatus for vibration control
    Publication number: 20020008362
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a damped steering assembly as disclosed herein. The damped steering assembly includes a steering wheel attached to a steering column. Disposed between the steering wheel and the steering column is an active vibration control mechanism. The active vibration control mechanism damps vibration transmitted from the steering column to the steering wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Mansour Ashtiani, Kenneth Alan Gassman, Rale Richard Wolf, Robert N. Jacques, Elizabeth M. Marsh, Edward Crawley
  • Self-aligning energy absorbing plate for a steering wheel
    Patent number: 6149188
    Abstract: A steering wheel assembly has a mounting plate which secures a molded steering wheel to a steering shaft in a vehicle. The mounting plate has a pair of slots having respective longitudinal axes which intersect the plane of the steering wheel at a six o'clock position with an included angle of approximately ninety (90) degrees. The longitudinal axis of one of the slots intersects a transverse axis of the steering wheel at a forty-five (45) degree angle at a three o'clock position and the longitudinal axes of the other slot similarly intersects the transverse axis at the nine o'clock position. The slots are effective to control energy absorption and deflection of the steering wheel when it is impacted at a position other then the twelve o'clock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: James Jeffrey Simpson, Andrew James Barr, Duane David Williams, Rale Richard Wolf, Barry Christian Worrell