Patents by Inventor Dexter Dean Snyder

Dexter Dean Snyder 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).

  • Field responsive fluids for lubrication and power transmission
    Patent number: 6729996
    Abstract: A transmission device that includes a driving member and a driven member in frictional engagement with the driving member. A traction fluid is included at a contact between the driving and driven members. The traction fluid is a field responsive fluid that is capable of changing its rheological properties in response to an external field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Green, Leonid Charles Lev, Dexter Dean Snyder
  • Field responsive fluids for lubrication and power transmission
    Publication number: 20030203788
    Abstract: A transmission device that includes a driving member and a driven member in frictional engagement with the driving member. A traction fluid is included at a contact between the driving and driven members. The traction fluid is a field responsive fluid that is capable of changing its rheological properties in response to an external field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Louis Green, Leonid Charles Lev, Dexter Dean Snyder
  • Electroplated Ag-Ni-C electrical contacts
    Patent number: 5967860
    Abstract: Nesting electrical connectors comprising a substrate and a silver-nickel-carbon electrodeposit atop the substrate. The electrodeposit is at least about 0.5 micrometers thick, and comprises about 10 to about 25 atomic percent nickel which is dispersed as a discontinuous phase throughout a continuous phase of the silver and has a Scherrer grain size less than about 5 nanometers. The carbon comprises about 5 to about 15 atomic percent of the deposit and has a non-crystalline graphite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Ricketts, Dexter Dean Snyder, Robert F. Paluch, Mordechay Schlesinger, Chi Hung Leung