Patents Assigned to Federal-Mogul
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Patent number: 9469276Abstract: A windscreen wiper device for cleaning a windshield of a vehicle is provided. The windscreen wiper device includes a wiper strip of a flexible material for sealing against the windshield to drive rain, snow, ice and other elements away therefrom. The windscreen wiper device also includes at least one carrier element extending between opposite and, at a minimum, downwardly curved end portions and in engagement with the wiper strip to bias it into a predetermined configuration. A frame structure includes a plurality of claws in engagement with the carrier elements between the end portions. The frame structure also includes a pair of end caps that are pivotably coupled to at least an adjacent portion of the frame structure and engage the end portions of the carrier elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Michael Oslizlo, Dennis E. Cox
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Patent number: 9466953Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for controlling corona discharge and arc formations during a single corona event, i.e. intra-event control. A driver circuit provides energy to the corona igniter and detects any arc formation. In response to each arc formation, the energy provided to the corona igniter is shut off for short time. The driver circuit also obtains information about the arc formations, such as timing of the first arc formation and number of occurrences. A control unit then adjusts the energy provided to the corona igniter after the shut off time and during the same corona event based on the information about the arc formations. For example, the voltage level could be reduced or the shut-off time could be increased to limit arc formations and increase the size of the corona discharge during the same corona event.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Ignition CompanyInventors: John Antony Burrows, John E. Miller, Kristapher I. Mixell, James D. Lykowski
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Patent number: 9457739Abstract: A flexible, resilient, non-woven acoustic sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has an elongate nonwoven layer with opposite sides bonded to one along a lengthwise extending bonded seam, thereby forming a circumferentially enclosed inner cavity sized for receipt of an elongate member therethrough. The sleeve further includes a generally smooth inner scrim layer bonded to an inner surface of the nonwoven layer, wherein the smooth inner scrim layer forms a circumferentially continuous, smooth inner surface bounding the cavity, with the material of the inner scrim layer forming at least a portion of the bonded seam.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Yamaguchi, Maeda Takuto, Ritesh Mehbubani, Aleksandr Ilyin, John E. Burdy
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Patent number: 9458937Abstract: A shaft seal assembly including an elastomeric material molded to an annular metal shell is provided. The elastomeric material includes a lip extending from the annular shell to a lip distal end. The lip includes a first lip section projecting toward a center axis, and a second lip section projecting from the first lip section away from the center axis. A dust band is disposed between the first and second lip sections. The elastomeric material also includes flutes disposed on the second lip section and extending helically around the center axis and radially toward the center axis. The dust band can include vents, in which case one of the flutes extends from one side of each vent. The height of the flutes can increase from the dust band to the flute distal end, such that the flutes and the dust band have an equal interior diameter for engaging the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: David M. Toth, Brent Sedlar
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Patent number: 9458934Abstract: A compression piston ring for an internal combustion engine, comprising a sliding surface formed by two ridges, upper and lower flank surfaces, and an inner circumferential surface, wherein the lower ridge runs at least in some regions parallel to the counter sliding surface and the upper ridge is designed as a taper faced Napier element.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventor: Peter-Klaus Esser
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Patent number: 9452464Abstract: A method for roll-forming a tubular member is provided. The method includes providing a roll-forming machine having a pair of rollers and a forming roller adjacent the pair of rollers. Further, cutting a strip of sheet metal to form a segment having free leading and trailing ends extending between a predetermined length; feeding the segment between the pair rollers; calculating the thickness of the segment via feedback from the pair of rollers; automatically adjusting the position of the forming roller in response to the determined thickness of the segment; advancing the segment between the pair of rollers and against the forming roller to form an annulus; and forming a weld joint between the free ends.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Kyle T. Roberts, Preston M. Eason
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Patent number: 9446644Abstract: A replacement ball joint assembly (10) adapted to be pressed into a previously used and possibly distorted receiving hole (26) in a suspension component such as a control arm (28). A socket housing (12) of the assembly (10) includes a plurality of generally annular, concentric knurls (36) each having a respective crest portion (38) and separated one from another by intervening relief grooves (40). The crest portions (38) of the knurls (36) may be tapered so as to provide a lead-in feature to minimize misalignment during a press-in installation operation. The knurls (36) are preferably softer than the control arm material so that they yield during press-in rather than further disfiguring or enlarging the receiving hole (26). Displaced material from the crest portions (38) of the knurls (36) flows into the relief grooves (40).Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Michael Wilcutt, George Phillips, Anthony Dake, Rickie Williams, Chris Shores, Kennon Bret Swayer
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Patent number: 9447490Abstract: In order to avoid burn traces on piston rings, it is proposed to provide the piston ring with a wear-protection coating which consists of a material with a thermal conductivity of at least 180 W/(m·K). At least 5% vol. of the wear-protection coating consists of aluminum nitride.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventors: Steffen Hoppe, Manfred Fischer, Christiane Bauer, Ralf Lammers
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Publication number: 20160265610Abstract: In order for a carrier body, which has a friction pad carrier plate (10) and at least one first absorber mass (14) rigidly connected to the friction pad carrier plate, to be further improved in such a way that the rigid connection between friction pad carrier plate and the first absorber mass is made more robust, provision is made for a first pin-like projection (18) of the first absorber mass (14) to be inserted into the first hole of the friction pad carrier plate (10) such that the head (28) of the first pin-like projection (18) protrudes out of the first hole and bears partially against a first chamfer (26) in the region of a first edge (22) of the first hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Federal-Mogul Bremsbelag GmbHInventor: Ilhami KARATAS
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Patent number: 9441574Abstract: A sealing assembly for establishing a gas and fluid tight seal in an internal combustion engine is provided. The sealing assembly includes a plate of metal which has a plurality of openings and at least one generally flat surface. The plate also has at least one shelf which circumferentially surrounds one of the openings and which opens to the generally flat surface and the opening. The sealing assembly further includes at least one sealing bead of an elastically compressible material which is engaged with the shelf and extends outwardly therefrom past the generally flat surface for sealing the plate with another component in the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Thomas Olin Zurfluh, Daniel Joseph Orozco, Wilford Dean Virgin
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Patent number: 9442039Abstract: A device for measuring edge and rounding features on a piston ring includes a planar support element for the piston ring, a stop operatively connected thereto for bearing defined piston ring sections thereon, and a measuring unit, which is disposed at a predefinable angle with respect to the support element or the stop.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventors: Jens Picard, Frank Horn, Marc Stephan Klopp, Ulrich Lenhoff
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Patent number: 9444228Abstract: A spark plug having a front end of a spark plug body that projects over a front end of an insulator, a recess that is arranged at the front end of the insulator from which a center electrode projects and forms an air spark gap with a ground electrode, an annular intermediate space that is formed by the recess between the insulator and the center electrode, and a surface of the recess that runs in an at least partially curved manner between the center electrode and the end of the spark plug body so that the recess forms an insulating section that prevents a sliding spark between the center electrode and the spark plug body.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Ignition GmbHInventors: Werner Niessner, Alexander Schenk
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Patent number: 9441182Abstract: A piston coating is described that comprises a phenolic resin, at least one solid lubricant selected from among the group including graphite, MoS2, WS2, BN, and PTFE, as well as carbon fibers. Said coating has an advantageous wear resistance and an advantageous coefficient of friction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Nurnberg GmbHInventors: Christian Jung, Jurgen Reitenspies
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Patent number: 9423028Abstract: An improved piston ring for use as an intermediate piston ring in a piston assembly having three or more piston rings is provided. The piston ring includes a piston ring body which extends through an arcuate shape between opposite end faces. The piston ring body has at least one combustion gas guidance feature for allowing a greater flow of combustion gasses to pass the piston ring body when the piston is moving in one direction and for allowing a lesser flow of combustion gasses to pass the piston ring body when the piston is moving in an opposite direction. This allows for the ring gap at the outer diameter of the piston ring to be minimized without creating flutter in another piston ring above the intermediate piston ring during operation of an engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventor: Andrew John Miller
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Patent number: 9415750Abstract: A windscreen wiper device of the “flat blade type” comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material and a connecting device for a oscillating arm comprising two longitudinal arm sections connected to each other by means of a curved intermediate section and a resilient tongue engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in the oscillating arm, wherein the resilient tongue comprises at least two, spaced-apart, downwardly extending protrusions, wherein a first protrusion is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a first type, and wherein a second protrusion is adapted to engage in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in an oscillating arm of a second type, the oscillating arms of the first and the second types mutually differing in the distance between their respective longitudinal arm sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul S.A.Inventor: Sophie Genet
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Patent number: 9416469Abstract: A woven sleeve and method of construction are provided. The sleeve has a flexible, abrasion resistant, self-curling elongate wall constructed from woven monofilament and/or multifilament yarns. The wall has opposite edges extending generally parallel to a central axis of the sleeve, wherein the opposite edges overlap one another. The wall is woven with warp yarns that extend generally parallel to the central axis of the sleeve and fill yarns that extend circumferentially about the sleeve, generally transversely to the central axis. The warp yarns are bundled into individual, discrete groups, with each group including a plurality of yarns in side-by-side relation with one another, wherein each of the yarns within the same discrete group is interlaced over the same side of a common fill yarn.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc.Inventors: Alexa A. Woodruff, Cassie M. Malloy
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Patent number: 9413314Abstract: A power amplifier circuit that has an inductor and capacitor connected to one end of the output winding of an RF transformer. The other end of the output winding is connected to a current sensor that in turn is connected to ground. The transformer has two primary windings. Both primary windings have one end connected to a voltage supply. The other end of each primary winding is attached to a switch. All three windings are wound around a core. Current flowing from the DC voltage supply to the switches causes a magnetic flux in the core. A voltage is generated on the secondary winding current sensor by the current that flows through the igniter. This voltage is fed back to the switches, controlling on and off timing. Voltage is provided to the igniter or pulled from the igniter when the current traveling into or from the igniter is at zero.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Ignition CompanyInventors: Keith Hampton, Alfred Permuy, John Antony Burrows
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Piston ring with chromium solid particle wear-prevention layer and corrosion-resistant flank surface
Patent number: 9404578Abstract: A coated piston ring having a base body of chromium steel with more than 10 wt.-% chromium and having an inner circumferential surface, a first flank surface, a second flank surface and an outer circumferential surface. The first flank surface comprises a nitride diffusion layer with a layer thickness of from 5-300 ?m, a nitride connecting layer with a layer thickness of from 0.5-15 ?m on the nitride diffusion layer, and an oxide layer with a layer thickness of from 0.05-3 ?m on the nitride connecting layer. The second flank surface comprises the nitride diffusion layer, and the outer circumferential surface comprises the nitride diffusion layer and a chromium solid particle layer with 0.1-30 vol.-% solid particles, relative to the total volume of the chromium solid particle layer on the nitride diffusion layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventors: Christian Herbst-Dederichs, Waldemar Urbatzka, Stefan Duerdoth, Peter-Klaus Esser -
Patent number: 9404583Abstract: A slide ring seal, and in particular a running gear seal, including an angled slide and/or counter ring, the radial leg of which is provided with a sliding surface and the axial leg of which forms a seating for a trapezoidal sealing element, wherein the outer ends of the axial leg have recesses, into which engage projections on the sealing element to form anti-rotation locks, wherein the transition area from the axial leg to the radial leg of the slide and/or counter ring provided beyond the sliding surface has a profiling, into which a section of the sealing element having an approximately corresponding construction engages.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventor: Andreas Dengler
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Patent number: D768207Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventors: Jeff Riffe, Michael Weinenger
