Patents by Inventor Alan G Storck

Alan G Storck has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6443608
    Abstract: An integrated lamp and fascia system for a vehicle comprises a lamp having a lamp housing. A vehicle fascia includes a fascia pocket defined by two side walls, a bottom wall, and a rear wall, in which the lamp housing is disposed. The rear wall has a fixed portion, a flanged portion, and a cross car hinge seam about which the flanged portion flexes. The lamp housing is mounted to the flanged portion. An adjustment means includes an adjustment clip mounted to the fixed portion of the rear wall to provide a vertical extension thereto, and an adjustment screw accessible from a forward surface of the lamp housing and extending through an upper region of the lamp housing and through the adjustment clip. Turning the screw either moves the upper region of the lamp housing closer to or further from the pocket rear wall by rotating the lamp housing about the hinge seam to adjust vertical aim of the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Alan G Storck, Drew D Mosser, Ross J Parpart
  • Publication number: 20020075696
    Abstract: An integrated lamp and fascia system for a vehicle comprises a lamp having a lamp housing. A vehicle fascia includes a fascia pocket defined by two side walls, a bottom wall, and a rear wall, in which the lamp housing is disposed. The rear wall has a fixed portion, a flanged portion, and a cross car hinge seam about which the flanged portion flexes. The lamp housing is mounted to the flanged portion. An adjustment means includes an adjustment clip mounted to the fixed portion of the rear wall to provide a vertical extension thereto, and an adjustment screw accessible from a forward surface of the lamp housing and extending through an upper region of the lamp housing and through the adjustment clip. Turning the screw either moves the upper region of the lamp housing closer to or further from the pocket rear wall by rotating the lamp housing about the hinge seam to adjust vertical aim of the lamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventors: Alan G. Storck, Drew D. Mosser, Ross J. Parpart
  • Patent number: 5181767
    Abstract: A retention arrangement for a vehicular wheel cover utilizes protruding ends of the vehicle's lug studs which are received in open-bottomed wells formed in a wheel cover. Retainer nuts engage the protruding lug studs in the wells to secure the wheel cover to the wheel. Each well includes a plurality of protrusions which cooperate with the retainer nut to capture the retainer nut in the well, even when the wheel cover is not secured to the vehicular wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Thompson International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Hudgins, Lawrence R. Sounart, Alan G. Storck