Patents by Inventor Fred F. Neumann

Fred F. Neumann 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: 4530540
    Abstract: An integral track vehicle seat structure has a pair of laterally spaced side rails providing seat cushion mounting means, including a seat spring and seat back adjustment mechanism mounted to the side rails, a plurality of floor anchors for securing the side rails to the vehicle frame and an integral track formed integrally of the side rails and floor anchors including relatively adjustable and position lockable upper and lower track members each having an opened box section like configuration which slidably fit in internested, telescoping relation to secure the vehicle seat at all times to the vehicle floor while providing for forward and backward seat adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: American Safety Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Hayden, Fred F. Neumann
  • Patent number: 4457251
    Abstract: Apparatus to indicate the load on a restraining device subject to tensile loading, especially for a safety belt, the restraining device having an opening for communication with a restraining element, such as a seat belt, and being formed of two parts having different tensile strengths. The parts are displaceable with respect to each other upon loading of the restraining device in tension above a predetermined amount and one of the parts is provided with an indicator sign which becomes visible upon such displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: N. V. Klippan S.A.
    Inventors: Per O. Weman, Fred F. Neumann
  • Patent number: 4394993
    Abstract: An emergency locking dual spool safety belt retractor having a frame, two belt storage spools rotatably mounted in said frame, a spool locking ratchet on each spool and an inertia sensor for sensing vehicle acceleration or deceleration above a predetermined value is provided with a split pawl locking means for locking the two belt storage spools in response to operation of the inertia sensor wherein resilient means are provided, including a pawl guide positioning the pawl members and cushioning them between the spool ratchets and resilient bushings surrounding ends of the pawl members and guide which penetrate the retractor frame side walls, whereby lockup of both spools by the two separate pawl members is assured even in a false latching condition and when one or the other pawl member engages a ratchet in a tooth to tooth condition, the resiliency of the resilient guide and bushings cooperating to maintain the pawl members in spool locking condition in response to operation of the inertia sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: American Safety Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Nazareth Stamboulian, Fred F. Neumann
  • Patent number: 4176809
    Abstract: An acceleration-sensitive device, particularly a seat belt retractor locking device responsive to vehicle acceleration, comprising a rollable, fully movable inertia member supported in a depression provided in a support member, and an actuator means disposed above the inertia member and engageable with a locking means provided in said device, the actuator means being provided with a depression facing the inertia member, the improvement comprising the depression on the support member and the depression on the actuator means being in the form of a ring facing towards the inertia member, the inertia member having an approximately spherical shape, and the support member extending laterally outside its ring in an upwards direction so as to at least partially surround the inertia member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Assignee: N.V. Klippan S.A.
    Inventors: Rudy Thomas, Fred F. Neumann