Patents by Inventor James Kent Conlee
James Kent Conlee 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).
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Patent number: 6758493Abstract: An automotive glove box assembly. The glove box assembly includes a storage bin and a door disposed in hinging relation to the storage bin. The door includes an expansible body having a face portion facing towards a vehicle occupant and a back portion in opposing relation to the face portion. The expansible body is operatively connected to at least one gas emitting unit such that upon discharge of gas from the gas emitting unit, the expansible body is pressurized and the face portion is projected outwardly to an extended position so as to intercept lower extremities of the occupant.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James Kent Conlee, Bassam Georges Khoudari, Carl Dennis Williams, Steven Aurel Damian
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Patent number: 6619689Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted in opposing relation to the knees of a vehicle occupant. The bolster is an expansible chamber of multipiece construction having a face portion and a separate three dimensional expansible body portion. The face portion and body portion are joined about their peripheries to define and substantially enclose the chamber. The expansible body portion is formed from injection molded polymeric material and has one or more integrally molded at least partially collapsible pleated profile elements disposed along the sides and across the top of the body portion in raised and lowered profile with respect to the face portion. Deformable mounting brackets extend outwardly from the body portion for attachment to the vehicle. The materials forming the face and body portions are of either similar or dissimilar chemical and physical character.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, John Charles Weber, James Lloyd Webber
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Publication number: 20030006598Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted in opposing relation to the knees of a vehicle occupant. The bolster is an expansible chamber of multipiece construction having a face portion and a separate three dimensional expansible body portion. The face portion and body portion are joined about their peripheries to define and substantially enclose the chamber. The expansible body portion is formed from injection molded polymeric material and has one or more integrally molded at least partially collapsible pleated profile elements disposed along the sides and across the top of the body portion in raised and lowered profile with respect to the face portion. Deformable mounting brackets extend outwardly from the body portion for attachment to the vehicle. The materials forming the face and body portions are of either similar or dissimilar chemical and physical character.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2002Publication date: January 9, 2003Inventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, John Charles Weber, James Lloyd Webber
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Publication number: 20020125691Abstract: An automotive glove box assembly. The glove box assembly includes a storage bin and a door disposed in hinging relation to the storage bin. The door includes an expansible body having a face portion facing towards a vehicle occupant and a back portion in opposing relation to the face portion. The expansible body is operatively connected to at least one gas emitting unit such that upon discharge of gas from the gas emitting unit, the expansible body is pressurized and the face portion is projected outwardly to an extended position so as to intercept lower extremities of the occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: James Kent Conlee, Bassam Georges Khoudari, Carl Dennis Williams, Steven Aurel Damian
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Patent number: 6361067Abstract: An airbag which is provided with an airbag mouth (16) for connection to a gas generator has in the interior of the airbag a deflection device (18) in the region of the airbag mouth (16) which at least partly laterally deflects a gas flow which emerges from the airbag mouth (16).Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Johannes-Alexander Varcus, Hans Gert Nilson, Bernd Uwe Zimmerbeutel, James Kent Conlee
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Publication number: 20010054811Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted in opposing relation to the knees of a vehicle occupant. The bolster is an expansible chamber of multipiece construction having a face portion and a separate three dimensional expansible body portion. The face portion and body portion are joined about their peripheries to define and substantially enclose the chamber. The expansible body portion is formed from injection molded polymeric material and has one or more integrally molded at least partially collapsible pleated profile elements disposed along the sides and across the top of the body portion in raised and lowered profile with respect to the face portion. Deformable mounting brackets extend outwardly from the body portion for attachment to the vehicle. The materials forming the face and body portions are of either similar or dissimilar chemical and physical character.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2001Publication date: December 27, 2001Applicant: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, Nicole M. Mahmood, George E. Marshall, Samin A. Wahabi, Martin B. Fisher
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Patent number: 6213497Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted in opposing relation to the knees of a vehicle occupant. The bolster is an expansible chamber of multipiece construction having a face portion and a separate three dimensional expansible body portion. The face portion and body portion are joined about their peripheries to define and substantially enclose the chamber. The expansible body portion is formed from injection molded polymeric material and has one or more integrally molded at least partially collapsible pleated profile elements disposed along the sides and across the top of the body portion in raised and lowered profile with respect to the face portion. Deformable mounting brackets extend outwardly from the body portion for attachment to the vehicle. The materials forming the face and body portions are of either similar or dissimilar chemical and physical character.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, John Charles Weber, James Lloyd Webber
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Patent number: 6203057Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted to the bottom of the vehicle's instrument panel, having an outer wall that is projected outwardly from a stored position to an extended position adjacent the occupant's knees by inflation of an expansible chamber by an inflator, characterized by. The bolster is an expansible chamber comprising a unitary hollow blow molded polypropylene body that has an outer wall and an inner wall which are interconnected at their bottoms by a bottom wall and at their tops and sides by U-shaped normally folded accordion pleats. These pleats extend from the bottom side corners of the body up the sides and across the top of the body. A pair of spaced attachment tabs extend from the bottom wall for attachment to vehicle structure, and a pair of spaced frangible tabs extending from the top of the outer wall for attachment to vehicle structure to maintain the outer wall in stored position.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2000Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignees: General Motors Corporation, ABC Group Interior SystemsInventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, Nicole M. Mahmood, George E. Marshall, Samin A. Wahabi, Martin B. Fisher
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Patent number: 6032978Abstract: An inflatable knee bolster for a vehicle occupant is mounted to the bottom of the vehicle's instrument panel. Having an outer wall that is projected outwardly from a stored position to an extended position adjacent the occupant's knees by inflation of an expansible chamber by an inflator, characterized by. The bolster is an expansible chamber comprising a unitary hollow blow molded polypropylene body that has an outer wall and an inner wall which are interconnected at their bottoms by a bottom wall and at their tops and sides by U-shaped normally folded accordion pleats. These pleats extend from the bottom side corners of the body up the sides and across the top of the body. A pair of spaced attachment tabs extend from the bottom wall for attachment to vehicle structure, and a pair of spaced frangible tabs extending from the top of the outer wall for attachment to vehicle structure to maintain the outer wall in stored position.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignees: ABC Group Interior Systems, General Motors Corp.Inventors: Graham Thornton Spencer, James Kent Conlee, Nicole M. Mahmood, George E. Marshall, Samin A. Wahabi, Martin B. Fisher
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Patent number: 5924199Abstract: A method of making a one-piece steering wheel insert includes the steps of extruding material into an elongated continuous extrusion having a shape including an outer rim portion, a central hub portion and at least one spoke portion extending between the hub portion and the rim portion, cutting the extrusion into a plurality of blanks, and forming each of the blanks into a final shape of the steering wheel insert.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1996Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: James Kent Conlee, Brian Thomas Finnigan
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Patent number: 5896661Abstract: A method of making a steering hand wheel for a motor vehicle having a metal spider, a molded plastic rim, and a plurality of molded plastic spokes integral with the rim and mechanically interlocked with the spider. The method according to this invention includes the steps of extruding a billet having a cross sectional shape matching the profile of the spider, forming the spider by cutting off a flat section of the extruded billet from an end thereof, and insert molding a plastic rim and a plurality of integral plastic spokes around the spider. Each of the plastic spokes has an inboard end molded around a corresponding one of a plurality of spoke bases on the spider with a plurality of integral plastic pins captured in respective ones of a plurality of perforations in the spoke bases to mechanically interlock the spider and the molded plastic spokes.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 1998Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Barry Christian Worrell, James Kent Conlee, Brian Thomas Finnigan