Patents Assigned to Powers and Sons, LLC
  • Patent number: 10144259
    Abstract: A ball joint relocation kit including a ball stud having a ball end, a threaded end, and a shaft with a straight outer diameter, and a sleeve having a tapered outer diameter and a straight inner diameter, wherein the sleeve is adapted to be received in a tapered hole through a steering knuckle from a bottom side, and the ball stud is adapted to be received through the tapered hole and the sleeve from the top side. The ball joint relocation kit can be used to replace an OEM ball stud to relocate the ball joint from below the steering knuckle to above the steering knuckle in suspension lifted vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: POWERS AND SONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ron North, Sawyer Miller, Jesse Raver, Christopher Fink
  • Patent number: 8998228
    Abstract: A steering attenuator assembly including a first and second sleeves defining axial passages, the second sleeve engaged within the first sleeve and movable relative thereto in an axial direction, and first and second spring members fitted internal to the attenuator, the first spring member arranged to compress under compressive loading of the steering attenuator and the second spring member arranged to compress under tensile loading of the steering attenuator, wherein the attenuator is tunable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Powers and Sons, LLC
    Inventors: Gene J. Messenger, Charles E. Letts, III, Joseph M. Martin, Ronald D. North
  • Publication number: 20140291953
    Abstract: A steering attenuator assembly including a first and second sleeves defining axial passages, the second sleeve engaged within the first sleeve and movable relative thereto in an axial direction, and first and second spring members fitted internal to the attenuator, the first spring member arranged to compress under compressive loading of the steering attenuator and the second spring member arranged to compress under tensile loading of the steering attenuator, wherein the attenuator is tunable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Powers and Sons, LLC
    Inventors: Gene J. Messenger, Charles E. Letts, III, Joseph M. Martin, Ronald D. North
  • Patent number: D787937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Powers and Sons, LLC
    Inventors: Gene Messenger, Matthew Dudeck, William Heckman, Christopher Fink, Randy Priest, Douglas Link, Charles Letts, III