Patents Assigned to Dean Sweeney, Jr.
  • Automotive overdrive with offset input and output shafts
    Patent number: 4325450
    Abstract: An overdrive mechanism having offset input and output shafts permits a motor vehicle to be operated in an overdrive gear in a two wheel drive mode. A lockout prevents concurrent operation of the vehicle in overdrive and four wheel drive. The overdrive is arranged to reduce the magnitude of cyclic loading in single cardan universal joints transmitting engine torque through an angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Dean Sweeney, Jr.
    Inventor: James E. Ward