Patents Represented by Attorney Rideout & Maybee LLP
  • Patent number: 7318451
    Abstract: A flapper valve assembly has a valve plate for attachment to a fluid device, such as a heat exchanger. The valve plate has a fluid port for permitting intermittent flow to or from a flow chamber in the fluid device. A resilient flapper covers the fluid port and has at least one transverse tab with resilient, laterally disposed tangs, so that the tabs snap into slots in the valve plate to prevent rotation of the flapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Peric, Brian Ernest Duke
  • Patent number: 7249788
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a male member, a female member and a retainer for releasably securing the male member and the female member. The retainer has inner retainer arms for simultaneously engaging the male member and an interior portion of the female member, and an outer retainer flange for engaging an outer portion of the female member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Anis Muhammad, Jeff Sheppard