Patents by Inventor Donald J. Ford

Donald J. Ford 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: 6158789
    Abstract: An anti-theft protection device for a motor vehicle. In an exemplary application, the anti-theft protection device for a motor vehicle includes a passenger door watershield having a pass-through slit formed therein and an anti-theft sleeve located proximate thereto which encloses and protects the passenger door link rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignees: DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Cadillac Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Fett, Donald J. Ford, Donald R. Harding, Trevor R. Bender, Sharon Spangler
  • Patent number: 6029335
    Abstract: A tool for aligning a striker with a latch for a door on a motor vehicle includes a base member and a striker setter positioned perpendicular to an end of the base member. The tool also includes a suction cup for holding the tool onto the vehicle, and a latch setter extending outwardly from an end of the base member. The alignment tool further includes a striker lead-in at one end of the striker setter for positioning the striker relative to the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Anna Hui, Robert A. Navaroli, Jeffrey M. Niemi, Donald J. Ford
  • Patent number: 4133209
    Abstract: An instrument for providing an altitude representation in accordance with ambient atmospheric pressure has a mechanism that is manually-operable to effect adjustment to the setting of a datum against which the representation is provided. A mechanical feedback is applied to the mechanism in accordance with the datum setting such that the setting of the datum depends both upon the manual operation of the mechanism and the feedback applied to the mechanism as a result of that manual operation. The mechanism may include a worm gear that is rotatable in accordance with manual operation of the mechanism in which case the feedback is introduced into the mechanism by longitudinally displacing the worm gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Smiths Industries Limited
    Inventors: John R. Holtam, Donald J. Ford, Roger A. Freeman