Patents by Inventor Richard A. Natoli

Richard A. Natoli 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: 4684765
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a bus assembly which comprises a bus insulation plate having a base which includes a plurality of terminal stations and a plurality of guide stations. The terminal stations and guide stations are separated from each other so as to provide a network of wire channels which communicate with wire passages which extend through the terminal and guide stations. The terminal stations also have terminal cavities which extends through the base to intersect the wire passages. The bus assembly further includes electrical busses comprising lengths of electrically conductive wire which pass through various terminal and guide stations via the network of wire channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1987
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence R. Beck, Andrew J. Kocjan, Richard A. Natoli, Louis J. Liguore
  • Patent number: 4222056
    Abstract: Apparatus for connecting the female connector end of a coaxial antenna lead to the members of a slot antenna includes a first connecting member having a flat base connected to one antenna member with a pair of arms at the base end farthest from the slot adapted to engage the female end of the coaxial lead and connect the outer conductor to the one antenna member. A forked extension projects from the base end nearest the slot, and the base flares outwardly in width from the arms to the forked extension to dissipate the radial electromagnetic field of the coaxial lead so it does not interfere with the slot. A second conducting member includes a conductor adapted at one end to engage the inner conductor at the female connector end of the coaxial lead and at the other end to engage the other antenna member. An insulator engages the forked extension to interlock the first and second connecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1980
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph H. Graeser, Jr., Richard A. Natoli, Robert J. Adkins
  • Patent number: 4029953
    Abstract: A lamp socket and panel assembly includes a socket panel opening having a plurality of equally spaced radially outwardly directed retention slots therein that receive a plurality of circumferentially spaced socket retention tabs on a lamp socket, each tab is an integrally formed circumferentially extending spring biased cantilevered beam with an end portion insertable through the retention slots and wherein the end portion includes a ramp surface thereon engageable with the socket panel to direct a resultant force onto the end of the spring biased cantilever beam to cause it to flex axially of the panel upon rotation of the socket into an interlocked position on the panel and wherein the flex produced by the cantilevered beams produces an audible indication of movement of the socket from an axially inserted position to a rotatably locked position on the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1977
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Richard A. Natoli