Patents by Inventor Robert Frank Tolley
Robert Frank Tolley 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).
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Patent number: 10280661Abstract: A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Nigel V. Spurr, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Chris Rhodes, Robert Frank Tolley, David Peatey, Robert James Clawley, Paul Moore, Jean-Vincent Olivier, Sylvain Remi Chonavel, Denis Cavallucci
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Publication number: 20190106915Abstract: A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Nigel V. Spurr, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Chris Rhodes, Robert Frank Tolley, David Peatey, Robert James Clawley, Paul Moore, Jean-Vincent Olivier, Sylvain Remi Chonavel, Denis Cavallucci
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Publication number: 20150211266Abstract: A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Nigel V. Spurr, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Chris Rhodes, Robert Frank Tolley, David Peatey, Robert James Clawley, Paul Moore, Jean-Vincent Olivier, Sylvain Remi Chonavel, Denis Cavallucci
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Patent number: 8876176Abstract: A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Inteva Products, LLCInventors: Nigel V. Spurr, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Chris Rhodes, Robert Frank Tolley, David Peatey, Robert James Clawley, Paul Moore, Jean-Vincent Olivier, Sylvain Remi Chonavel, Denis Cavallucci
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Publication number: 20090199605Abstract: A latch assembly includes a chassis, a latch bolt moveably mounted on the chassis and having a closed position for retaining a striker and an open position for releasing the striker, a pawl having an engaged position at which the pawl is engaged with the latch bolt to hold the latch bolt in the closed position and a disengaged position at which the pawl is disengaged from the latch bolt, thereby allowing the latch bolt to move to the open position, an eccentric arrangement defining an eccentric axis and a pawl axis remote from the eccentric axis. The eccentric arrangement is rotatable about the eccentric axis, and the pawl is rotatable about the pawl axis. When the pawl moves from the engaged position to the disengaged position, the eccentric arrangement rotates in one of a clockwise and a counter-clockwise direction about the eccentric axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Nigel V. Spurr, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Chris Rhodes, Robert Frank Tolley, David Peatey, Robert James Clawley, Paul Moore, Jean-Vincent Olivier, Sylvain Chonavel, Denis Cavallucci
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Patent number: 7070214Abstract: A lock mechanism has a manually actuable element, a lock lever and an actuator, with the manually actuable element connected to the lock lever via a transmission path. The transmission path includes a rigid link with an end defining an abutment for selectively driving the lock lever. A drive feature couples the abutment to the lock lever when the lock lever is rotated between locked and unlocked positions by operation of the manually actuable element. The drive feature decouples the abutment from the lock lever when the manually actuable element is actuated in an attempt to move the lock lever from a superlocked position, allowing the abutment to move relative to the lock lever.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: ArvinMeritor Light Vehicle Systems (UK) Ltd.Inventors: Sidney Edward Fisher, Gurbinder Singh Kalsi, Stephen Drysdale, Robert Frank Tolley
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Patent number: 5762415Abstract: A lamp assembly comprises a reflector body having a rear opening for receiving a replaceable light bulb. The reflector body is adjustably mounted on a support by an adjustment mechanism comprising a plurality of ball-and-socket joints. The socket of each joint is defined by a pair of arms having mutually co-operating socket parts. The arms of said pair are pivotally secured together for relative movement between a closed position in which the respective ball is held in the socket defined by the socket parts of the pair of arms, and an open position in which the respective ball of the joint can be engaged with/disengaged from the respective socket. A latch mechanism is provided for releasably retaining the pair of arms in said relatively closed position.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Lucas Industries, plcInventor: Robert Frank Tolley
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Patent number: 5702178Abstract: A motor vehicle headlamp has a dished housing (10) in which a light source is located and which is closed at its front by a light transmitting cover. A ventilation passage (16, 26, 30) provides communication between the interior and exterior of the housing. The ventilation passage is defined by a tubular portion (12) extending from the housing (10) and by a cap (20) mounted on the tubular portion (12) so that an end wall (28) of the cap (20) is spaced outwardly from a housing-remote end of the tubular portion (12). The tubular portion (12) has a continuous side wall. The end wall (28) is joined to mutually spaced lateral walls (24) of the cap (20) whereby there is defined a downwardly opening slot (26) forming part of the ventilation passage (16, 26, 30). The end wall (28) of the cap (20) projects downwardly beyond lower edges of the lateral walls (24) of the cap (20).Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: Magneti Marelli UK LimitedInventors: Alan Keith Smith, John Frederick Monk, Robert Frank Tolley