Patents by Inventor Duane M. Grider

Duane M. Grider 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: 4952529
    Abstract: A thick film integrated circuit having a terminal with a plurality of parallel legs each having an angled foot portion for connection to the thick film circuit board. An elongated tie bar extends perpendicular to the legs and connects the legs to each other for stabilization. The tie bar has sufficient mass and is positioned sufficiently far from the foot so that heat can be applied to the foot to solder it to the thick film substrate. The legs are positioned in a guide bar with tapered sides to provide a self-centering feature when the terminal is coupled to a connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Duane M. Grider
  • Patent number: 4775333
    Abstract: A method of assembling an electrical pin connector utilizing a molded carrier element to support and hermetically seal a number of preoriented and spacially disposed electrical pin connectors prior to inserting the carrier into a correspondingly shaped aperture of a shell housing and bonding the carrier to the shell housing to provide a hermetic seal thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Duane M. Grider, Charles L. Henritzy, Jacque C. Warnars
  • Patent number: 4546741
    Abstract: An air atomizing throttle body is formed with a single point fuel injector located above the inlet to the throttle body induction passage, the throttle body having an inverted cup-shaped sleeve valve, the lower edges of which cooperate with a stationary conical valve seat projecting radially into the induction passage to define a variable area flow path, and including idle speed air vents to equalize pressures on opposite sides of the sleeve valve to minimize the force needed to move the valve by a pressure operated bellows incorporated into the valve, the valve members forming a labryinthian type air/fuel flow path for the shearing of the fuel globules to atomize the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Duane M. Grider, Theodore W. Daykin