Patents by Inventor Chris A. Fuller

Chris A. Fuller 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).

  • Aluminum radiator tank with oil cooler clinch fitting
    Patent number: 7188664
    Abstract: The fabrication of a heat exchanger assembly by disposing a metal fitting of an oil cooler subassembly into an opening in a first tank and disposing a tubular connector into a bore in the fitting. These components are mechanically held together prior to brazing by disposing an outer clinch cylinder to extend from the fitting though the opening and by disposing an inner clinch cylinder to extend from the fitting to above an annular rib on the tubular connector and placing V-shaped first stakes in the inner clinch cylinder for mechanical engagement with the rib and placing V-shaped second stakes in the outer clinch cylinder for mechanical engagement with the first tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris A. Fuller, Karl P. Kroetsch, Joel T. Hambruch