Patents by Inventor Ian Alexander Gordon

Ian Alexander Gordon 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).

  • Safety belt buckle
    Patent number: 6088890
    Abstract: A buckle for a vehicle safety restraint for use with a pretensioner has an actuating button for operating a latch for the tongue of the safety restraint. The button is connected via pulleys to a counterbalancing mass. When the pretensioner is operated and the buckle is retracted, the inertia of the mass counteracts the inertia of the button. Thus the button is prevented from moving in relation to the buckle in a direction which would tend to unlatch the tongue of the safety restraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Breed Automotive Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Burke, Ian Alexander Gordon, Alan George Smithson
  • Guide loop height adjustment for vehicle passenger seat belts
    Patent number: 5862876
    Abstract: A guide loop height adjustment arrangement for a driver's seat belt has a drive that raises and lowers a guide loop in response to a sensed change in the position of the driver's mirror. The change in the mirror position is indicative of the presence of a seat occupant with a different shoulder height from the preceding seat occupant and therefore causes the guide loop height to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Ltd.
    Inventors: Ian Alexander Gordon, Howard James Foster