Patents Examined by Steven A Blovat
  • Patent number: 6052886
    Abstract: A method of operatively installing between two movable members a Bowden wire assembly which includes an outer flexible tube slidably containing a cable with opposite end portions thereof extending outwardly of opposite ends of the flexible tube, said method comprisingconnecting opposite ends of said flexible tube to spaced anchoring points one of which is provided by a yieldingly deformable anchoring member disposed in an initial position with respect to an associated one of said movable members,connecting the ends of said cable to said movable members and positioning the same so that the associated one of said movable members is disposed at an intermediate position between maximum and minimum cable extent limiting positions thereof and the other of said movable members is disposed at a minimum cable extent position with respect to maximum and minimum cable extent limiting positions, andthereafter moving the other of said movable members from said minimum cable extent position into the maximum cable extent po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Atoma International, Inc.
    Inventor: Omar D. Tame