Patents by Inventor James L. Lopez, Jr.

James L. Lopez, Jr. 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: 5219000
    Abstract: An economical to manufacture and simple to install and remove gas charged fluid pressure accumulator including a cup-shaped accumulator body with an integral dome at one end and an integral in-turned annular lip at the other end, a piston slidably disposed in the accumulator body, and an external screw thread on the accumulator body. The accumulator body is screwed into a threaded counterbore until the annular lip bears against a bottom wall of the counterbore with a fluid port of the manifold inside of the projection of the lip on the bottom wall. A seal ring in a groove in the bottom wall of the counterbore bears against the annular lip to seal the chamber of the accumulator defined between the bottom wall and the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Rao M. Chalasani, Kim P. Lind, James L. Lopez, Jr., Shawn W. Ryan, Bernard Burns, Richard A. Gdowski, Ralph C. Pinson, Clyde A. Bowers
  • Patent number: 5207301
    Abstract: A piston and rod subassembly is reciprocally mounted in a piston tube subassembly. A transfer tube is concentrically mounted in the rod and is in fluid communication with a pressurized source of fluid. A solenoid valve subassembly provides real time damping of relatively high frequency inputs by opening and closing a bypass channel formed in the actuator. Relatively low frequency inputs are actively controlled as fluid passes to and from the pressurized source of fluid. An outer body tube includes a fluid trapping chamber to prevent leakage from the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Kruckemeyer, Michael L. Oliver, James L. Lopez, Jr.