Patents by Inventor Eduard Torrents Gavalda

Eduard Torrents Gavalda 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: 6897391
    Abstract: An electric switch of mechanical structure and functioning, and with electric contacts by means of membranes, suitable for optionally arranging seven different control signals by means of other such contact positions selectively induced by a single button means, four of these positions are differentiated when a slight rolling movement is carried out on said button means in any of four opposite directions and 90° equidistant from each other, a fifth contact position in its clockwise axial rotation, the sixth position by means of its counter-clockwise rotation, and a last contact position by means of a linear pulsating movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventor: Eduard Torrents Gavalda
  • Publication number: 20040201276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication circuit which is used to connect, via a data bus, window-opening and -closing switches to the control circuits for the respective motors thereof and to the central vehicle controller. Said system can be used to control the sun roof and the passenger window from the driver's seat. The aforementioned switches can be: rotated, in order manually to adjust the degree that the window is opened; and moved, in order to activate the automatic and full opening or closing of the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eduard Torrents Gavalda, Emilio Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20040173448
    Abstract: An electric switch of mechanical structure and functioning, and with electric contacts by means of membranes, suitable for optionally arranging seven different control signals by means of other such contact positions selectively induced by a single button means, four of these positions are differentiated when a slight rolling movement is carried out on said button means in any of four opposite directions and 90° equidistant from each other, a fifth contact position in its clockwise axial rotation, the sixth position by means of its counter-clockwise rotation, and a last contact position by means of a linear pulsating movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Eduard Torrents Gavalda