Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Bertucci
Joseph A. Bertucci 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: 9293745Abstract: A fused cover assembly for a battery system. The fused cover assembly includes an attachment means configured to attach the assembly to a battery formed of a plurality interconnected cells, and a plurality of fused connections configured to make electrical contact with the interconnected cells and thereby provide a sense connection to the cells of the battery that is fused. If the sense connection to the battery cells is short-circuited, a fuse device open-circuits to protect the cell from being damaged.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph A. Bertucci, John V. Caputo, Wesley W. Weber, Jr.
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Patent number: 9085096Abstract: An integrated structural system for a vehicle, the system having: a structural member; a means for securing a first beam component to the structural member, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material; and a means for securing a second beam component to the first beam component, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Edward J. Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph A. Bertucci, Gregory J. Kowalski
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Publication number: 20140141287Abstract: A battery pack containing a plurality of battery cells having a housing and defining an opening within the housing and a battery control module configured to be disposed within the opening of the battery pack. The battery control module may contain circuitry for controlling a connection between the battery pack and an electric load or electric source and for controlling the charging of the battery cells. The circuitry within the battery control module is connected by rigid conductors, such as conductive traces on a circuit board or bus bars rather than flexible wire cables. The battery control module may be configured to be removed for serving the battery pack without removing the battery pack housing. The battery pack may further include a battery voltage monitor configured to monitor a terminal voltage of each battery cell and send a digital signal representing the voltage to the battery control module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: JOSEPH A. BERTUCCI, DANIEL S. EICHORN, ROBERT C. BEER, JOHN V. CAPUTO
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Publication number: 20140050944Abstract: A fused cover assembly for a battery system. The fused cover assembly includes an attachment means configured to attach the assembly to a battery formed of a plurality interconnected cells, and a plurality of fused connections configured to make electrical contact with the interconnected cells and thereby provide a sense connection to the cells of the battery that is fused. If the sense connection to the battery cells is short-circuited, a fuse device open-circuits to protect the cell from being damaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Joseph A. Bertucci, John V. Caputo, Wesley W. Weber, JR.
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Publication number: 20130320695Abstract: An integrated structural system for a vehicle, the system having: a structural member; a means for securing a first beam component to the structural member, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material; and a means for securing a second beam component to the first beam component, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Edward J. Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph A. Bertucci, Gregory J. Kowalski
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Patent number: 8313134Abstract: An integrated structural system for a vehicle is provided, the integrated structural system having: a structural member; a first beam component secured to the structural member by a molding process, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material, wherein the configuration of the first beam component is defined by the molding process; and a second beam component secured directly and only to the first beam component by a vibration weld, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Inteva Products, LLCInventors: Edward J. Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph A. Bertucci, Gregory J. Kowalski
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Publication number: 20100244490Abstract: A method for forming an integrated structural system for a vehicle is provided. The method including the steps of: securing a first beam component to a structural member by a molding process, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material, the structural member being formed from a material different than the first amount of thermoplastic material; and securing a second beam component to the first beam component, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Edward J. Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph A. Bertucci, Gregory J. Kowalski
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Patent number: 7731261Abstract: A method for forming an integrated structural system for a vehicle is provided. The method including the steps of: securing a first beam component to a structural member by a molding process, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material, the structural member being formed from a material different than the first amount of thermoplastic material; and securing a second beam component to the first beam component, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Inteva Products LLCInventors: Edward J. Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph A. Bertucci, Gregory J. Kowalski
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Publication number: 20070210616Abstract: A method for forming an integrated structural system for a vehicle is provided. The method comprises: securing a first beam component to a structural member by a molding process, the first beam component being molded from a first amount of thermoplastic material, the structural member being formed from a material different than the first amount of thermoplastic material; and securing a second beam component to the first beam component, the second beam component being separately molded from a second amount of thermoplastic material, the second beam component having a configuration different from the first beam component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Edward Wenzel, Robert Van Jaarsveld, Ronald Widin, Joseph Bertucci, Gregory Kowalski
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Patent number: 6247973Abstract: A power distribution system for a motor vehicle having a left tail light assembly, a license plate light assembly and a right tail light assembly includes a power distribution block that has a plurality of bus strips embedded in the distribution block with each of the bus strips having at least one tab terminal that projects into an integral input connector socket and at least one tab terminal that projects into at least one of first, second and third output connector sockets. A spliceless chassis wiring harness is plugged into the input connector socket for energizing lights in the left tail light assembly, the license plate light assembly and the right tail light assembly via three spliceless output wiring harnesses operatively associated with the respective output connector sockets and the light assemblies. The power distribution system may also include optional right and left side marker light assemblies that are operatively associated with the second output connector socket.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charanjit S. Chawa, Joseph A. Bertucci
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Patent number: 5783376Abstract: A composition for bleaching or bleach-fixing a silver halide photographic material has a pH of from 2 to 9. The composition comprises a bleaching agent which is either a persulfate or polyvalent metal complex of an aminopolycarboxylic acid, and from 0.01 to 2M of a sulfo-substituted carboxylate represented by Formula I(MO.sub.3 S).sub.n --R--(COOM).sub.m (I)wherein R is a benzene ring or a straight, branched or cyclic saturated aliphatic group having 2 to 8 carbon atoms;M is hydrogen or an organic or inorganic cation; andn is 1 to 7;with the proviso that if R is an aliphatic group, m is 2 to 4 and m and n combined cannot equal more than the number of carbon atoms in R plus two, and if R is a benzene ring, m is 2 to 5 and m and n combined cannot equal more than six.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1997Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Stuart Terrance Gordon, John Michael Buchanan, Sidney Joseph Bertucci
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Patent number: 5641616Abstract: A non-rehalogenating bleaching composition for processing imagewise exposed and developed silver halide photographic elements comprising hydrogen peroxide, or a compound which releases hydrogen peroxide, and at least one compound of Formula I[MO.sub.2 C--(L.sup.1).sub.p ].sub.q --R--[(L.sup.2).sub.n --CO.sub.2 M].sub.m (I)wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group containing at least one oxygen, nitrogen or sulfur atom;L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted linking group wherein the linking group is attached to the carboxyl group by a carbon;n and p are independently 1 or 0;m and q are independently 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 and the sum of m+q is at least 1; andM is a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkalineearth metal or an ammonium ion.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Sidney Joseph Bertucci, Shirleyanne Elizabeth Haye, Eric Richard Schmittou
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Patent number: 5641615Abstract: Imagewise exposed and developed black and white or color silver halide photographic elements are effectively bleached using a non-rehalogenating peroxide bleaching composition. This bleaching composition comprises hydrogen peroxide, or a precursor that can release hydrogen peroxide, and has a pH from 2 to 6, and at least one compound of Formula I:R--(O).sub.n --SO.sub.3 M (I)wherein R is a group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; n is 0 or 1; and M is a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or an ammonium ion. Moreover, the bleaching composition is substantially free of rehalogenating agents, as well as complexes of a high valent metal ion and a polycarboxylic acid, an aminocarboxylic acid or a phosphonic acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Shirleyanne Elizabeth Haye, Sidney Joseph Bertucci, Eric Richard Schmittou