Patents by Inventor Frederic T. Winters

Frederic T. Winters 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).

  • Publication number: 20160123371
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fastening means provided for engaging with factional or positively locking means in a friction or positively locking fashion comprising a protuberance realized as an extrusion, wherein the protuberance projects from a plate expanding along a main plane and having a prime surface facing away from the protuberance and comprises an inner side, wherein the inner side forms a circle having an inside diameter Di in a plane being parallel to the main plane, wherein a first plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with the first inside diameter Di? and a second plane being parallel to the main plane includes a circle with the second inside diameter Di?, and wherein the first plane is closer to the prime surface than the second plane, and wherein the first inside diameter Di? is greater than the second inside diameter Di?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Frederic T. Winters, Steve E. White, Dean E. Cigut, Andrew J. Erard, Kenneth R. Grubaugh
  • Patent number: 9279166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component {1, 2, 3, 4, 6) within the interior of a vehicle. Specifically, the present invention relates to a part of a seat-structure. The present invention further relates to a process to produce a component { 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) w{umlaut over (?)}thin the interior of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sakkinen, Ornela Zekavica, Ronald G. Bedro, Frederic T. Winters, Nicholas L. Petouhoff, Anthony Kestian
  • Publication number: 20120273089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component {1, 2, 3, 4, 6) within the interior of a vehicle. Specifically, the present invention relates to a part of a seat-structure. The present invention further relates to a process to produce a component { 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) Within the interior of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel J. Sakkinen, Ornela Zekavica, Ronald G. Bedro, Frederic T. Winters, Nicholas L. Petouhoff, Anthony Kestian
  • Patent number: 4302245
    Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for separating and recovering zinc and zinc alloy particles which are nickel plated from non-ferrous non-magnetic automotive scrap material. The scrap material is transported on a belt conveyor past a magnetic field where the path of the zinc particles with nickel are deflected into a path separated from the remaining scrap material. Subsequently the zinc and zinc alloy materials are recovered by a pyrometallurgical process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1981
    Assignee: American Can Company
    Inventor: Frederic T. Winters