Patents Represented by Attorney Christopher A. Taravella
  • Patent number: 5415457
    Abstract: An item supporting attachment, such as a plastic grocery bag retainer assembly, mounted on a vehicle seat back. The retainer assembly includes a back wall insert and an integrally mounted retainer sub-assembly. The sub-assembly includes a row of spaced-apart shopping bag mounting hooks formed on the outer side of the seat back, and suitable rows of mounting flanges extending through the seat back insert, with a retaining wire threaded through one of the rows of flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Harlan E. Kifer
  • Patent number: 5414229
    Abstract: For use in mounting a speaker on a wall member, such as a rear corner pillar, of a vehicle, such as a van, minivan, or station wagon, a molded speaker mounting bracket adapted to being speaker mounted on the pillar. The molded bracket includes speaker receiving segment and three legs extending from the receiving segment for being heat welded onto a surface of the corner pillar. The speaker receiving segment is contoured to include a first square portion, a second frustoconical portion, and a third internal flange portion, with an upwardly converging open front terminating in upper corners positioned a predetermined distance apart, adapted to having a speaker snapped past the upper corners by spreading same and thereafter being securely retained by the first, second and third contoured portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Paula M. Rocheleau, James M. Wojciechowski, Donald E. Miller, Eric S. Mozer, Lisa Alcini-Mazur
  • Patent number: 5408719
    Abstract: A single arm windshield wiper assembly including a reversible motor, a wiper pivot assembly, and a windshield wiper blade slidably connected to the wiper pivot assembly. A first actuator sub-assembly is operatively connected between the reversible motor and the wiper pivot assembly for reciprocally actuating the wiper blade. A second actuator sub-assembly is operatively connected between the reversible motor and the windshield wiper blade for telescopically moving the wiper blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Delbert D. DeRees, Rodolfo A. Antonelli, Robert G. Malcolm
  • Patent number: 5404618
    Abstract: A three piece lift-off door hinge assembly for a vehicle door comprising a door-half hinge plate and a body-half hinge sub-assembly incorporating an interlocking arrangement. The door-half hinge plate provides a notched-out connector while the body-half hinge plate of the sub-assembly has an upstanding latching pin. Upon the vehicle receiving an impact load of predetermined force a door-half hinge plate notched-out connector is adeapted for interlocking engagement with the pin thereby resisting door displacement by transmitting impact forces to the surrounding body frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Cornelius T. Heiler, Richard R. Loizzi
  • Patent number: 5100188
    Abstract: A vehicle grille mounting bracket is attached to a protrusion of the interior face of a vehicle grille, thereby positioning a mounting screw within the protrusion. A screwdriver engaging recess in the head of the mounting screw is of less width than the space between adjacent substantially vertical spaced apart grille bars. The grille is then positioned in close proximity with the front end of the vehicle. A screwdriver blade is applied to the head of the mounting screw, thereby driving the screw into a nut on a grille mounting structure on the front end of the vehicle, thereby securing the vehicle grille with positive fastening means to the front end of the vehicle. The vehicle grille mounting apparatus is partially hidden from a viewpoint directly in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Robert R. Stieg