Patents by Inventor James E. Smolik

James E. Smolik 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).

  • Compression tool jawarm member
    Patent number: 7000448
    Abstract: A pivotal jawarm for a compression tool has opposite sides, a pivot pin opening therethrough, longitudinally opposite ends on longitudinally opposite sides of the opening, and inner and outer edges between the ends and on laterally opposite sides of the opening. A stress concentrator comprising aligned recesses in the opposite sides of the jawarm extends from the inner edge toward the pivot pin opening and provides a failure point at the inner edge for consistently initiating a fatigue crack at the failure point and fracture of the jawarm from the failure point to the pivot pin opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: James E. Hamm, James E. Smolik, Jason M. Smith
  • Compression tool jawarm member
    Publication number: 20040154371
    Abstract: A pivotal jawarm for a compression tool has opposite sides, a pivot pin opening therethrough, longitudinally opposite ends on longitudinally opposite sides of the opening, and inner and outer edges between the ends and on laterally opposite sides of the opening. A stress concentrator comprising aligned recesses in the opposite sides of the jawarm extends from the inner edge toward the pivot pin opening and provides a failure point at the inner edge for consistently initiating a fatigue crack at the failure point and fracture of the jawarm from the failure point to the pivot pin opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: Emerson Electric Co., a Missouri corporation
    Inventors: James E. Hamm, James E. Smolik, Jason M. Smith