Patents by Inventor Joseph Matthew Senk
Joseph Matthew Senk 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: 8573994Abstract: A connector handle for an electric vehicle battery charger is provided. The connector handle includes a latch that is operable to a locked position and an unlocked position. The connector handle also includes an electric circuit configured to provide an enable indication and a disable indication. The connector handle also includes an actuator button moveable to a first position where the latch is in the locked position and the electric circuit provides the enable indication, a second position where the latch is in the locked position and the electric circuit provides the disable indication, and a third position where the latch is in the unlocked position and the electric circuit provides the disable indication.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Kiko, Joseph Matthew Senk, Brian D. Pasha, Steven William Marzo
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Publication number: 20130241484Abstract: A connector handle for an electric vehicle battery charger is provided. The connector handle includes a latch that is operable to a locked position and an unlocked position. The connector handle also includes an electric circuit configured to provide an enable indication and a disable indication. The connector handle also includes an actuator button moveable to a first position where the latch is in the locked position and the electric circuit provides the enable indication, a second position where the latch is in the locked position and the electric circuit provides the disable indication, and a third position where the latch is in the unlocked position and the electric circuit provides the disable indication.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: JEFFREY S. KIKO, JOSEPH MATTHEW SENK, BRIAN D. PASHA, STEVEN WILLIAM MARZO
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Publication number: 20120126747Abstract: The handle of a charge coupler includes a mechanical latch that securely mechanically locks the handle to the vehicle passively when the handle is manually attached to the vehicle by a human operator to create an electrical connection between the vehicle and the charger. The handle also has an actuator movable by the operator from a deactivated state to a first and a second position activated state. The mechanical latch operates independently of the state of the actuator when the handle is being manually attached but being mechanically released by the actuator when it is moved to its second activated state. A non-contact electrical switch means associated with the actuator breaks the electrical connection when the actuator is moved to the first position activated state before releasing the mechanical latch at said second activated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: JEFFREY S. KIKO, Joseph Matthew Senk, Brian D. Pasha, Steven William Marzo
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Publication number: 20120129378Abstract: An electric vehicle charge coupler for both mechanically and electrically coupling and decoupling a charger to a vehicle includes a handle. The handle includes a handle connector configured for manually coupling and decoupling the handle with an inlet connector disposed on the vehicle. The handle connector further defines an aperture. The handle also includes a light source configured for activation to emit light. When the light source is activated, light emits from the light source and passes through the aperture to illuminate an area directionally out from the aperture away from the handle connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: JEFFREY S. KIKO, JOSEPH MATTHEW SENK, STEVEN WILLIAM MARZO
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Patent number: 8047860Abstract: An electrical assembly comprises an upper electrical center assembly and a lower mounting bracket lift assembly that is adapted for being secured to a support panel such as a support panel in an automobile. After the lower mounting bracket lift assembly is secured to the support panel, the upper electrical center assembly is attached to the lower mounting bracket lift assembly. The lower mounting bracket lift assembly is then operated to plug wiring harness end connectors in the lower mounting bracket lift assembly into lower sockets of the upper electrical center assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Howard Gladd, Joseph Matthew Senk
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Patent number: 8027168Abstract: An electrical assembly comprises a mounting bracket lift assembly and an electrical center. The electrical center is attached to the mounting bracket lift assembly for plugging wiring harness end connectors into the electrical center. The electrical center comprises a lower housing, a circuit board sub-assembly, an upper housing, electrical components such as fuses and relays that plug into the upper housing and a cover. The circuit board sub-assembly includes a power bus bar that provides a power path for the various electrical circuits of the vehicle via the circuit components carried on the circuit board. Three power bus bars that are configured, oriented and located to reduce the foot print of the electrical center and/or to improve the dissipation of heat generated by the electrical center are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Matthew Senk, Joseph Howard Gladd, Gino M. Roncone, John B. Kirk
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Publication number: 20100038133Abstract: An electrical assembly comprises a mounting bracket lift assembly and an electrical center. The electrical center is attached to the mounting bracket lift assembly for plugging wiring harness end connectors into the electrical center. The electrical center comprises a lower housing, a circuit board sub-assembly, an upper housing, electrical components such as fuses and relays that plug into the upper housing and a cover. The circuit board sub-assembly includes a power bus bar that provides a power path for the various electrical circuits of the vehicle via the circuit components carried on the circuit board. Three power bus bars that are configured, oriented and located to reduce the foot print of the electrical center and/or to improve the dissipation of heat generated by the electrical center are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Joseph Matthew Senk, Joseph Howard Gladd, Gino M. Roncone, John B. Kirk
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Publication number: 20100041510Abstract: An electrical assembly comprises an upper electrical center assembly and a lower mounting bracket lift assembly that is adapted for being secured to a support panel such as a support panel in an automobile. After the lower mounting bracket lift assembly is secured to the support panel, the upper electrical center assembly is attached to the lower mounting bracket lift assembly. The lower mounting bracket lift assembly is then operated to plug wiring harness end connectors in the lower mounting bracket lift assembly into lower sockets of the upper electrical center assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Joseph Howard Gladd, Joseph Matthew Senk
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Patent number: 6468091Abstract: An electrical distribution center has a circuit board interposed between an upper housing and a lower housing. The upper housing has a panel provided with a universal cavity design by a multiplicity of terminal-receiving slots. The slots are arranged in laterally spaced parallel rows with the slots in each row in equally spaced apart relation to one another. Raised rails on the top side of the panel are parallel to the rows of slots and respectively occupy the spaces between the rows of slots. The circuit board has terminals extending into selected slots through the bottom side of the panel. The slots are adapted to receive the terminals of relays and fuses inserted through the top side of the panel for contact with the terminals of the circuit board. When the terminals of a relay are inserted in any of the slots, the relay body will be supported on rails on opposite sides of those slots.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew G Roussel, Joseph Matthew Senk, Jeffrey A. Reeves, Randall S Cvelbar
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Publication number: 20020126462Abstract: An electrical distribution center has a circuit board interposed between an upper housing and a lower housing. The upper housing has a panel provided with a universal cavity design by a multiplicity of terminal-receiving slots. The slots are arranged in laterally spaced parallel rows with the slots in each row in equally spaced apart relation to one another. Raised rails on the top side of the panel are parallel to the rows of slots and respectively occupy the spaces between the rows of slots. The circuit board has terminals extending into selected slots through the bottom side of the panel. The slots are adapted to receive the terminals of relays and fuses inserted through the top side of the panel for contact with the terminals of the circuit board. When the terminals of a relay are inserted in any of the slots, the relay body will be supported on rails on opposite sides of those slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Matthew G. Roussel, Joseph Matthew Senk, Jeffrey A. Reeves, Randall S. Cvelbar
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Patent number: 6077102Abstract: An electrical distribution center assembly and a method of constructing the same which eliminates the need to flip an electrical distribution center over in order to couple a wire harness connector to the electrical distribution center. The electrical distribution center assembly includes an electrical distribution center, a wire harness connector, and a connector retainer carried by a vehicle for temporarily holding the wire harness connector in position while the wire harness connector is coupled to the electrical distribution center.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: James William Borzi, Joseph Matthew Senk, Kevin Paul Phillips, Randall Kent Smith, Frederick Edward Mlakar, Sharon Elizabeth Wingert Arkwright
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Patent number: 5788529Abstract: An electrical distribution center assembly and a method of constructing the same which eliminates the need to flip an electrical distribution center over in order to couple a wire harness connector to the electrical distribution center. The electrical distribution center assembly includes an electrical distribution center, a wire harness connector, and a connector retainer carried by a vehicle for temporarily holding the wire harness connector in position while the wire harness connector is coupled to the electrical distribution center.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1997Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: James William Borzi, Joseph Matthew Senk, Kevin Paul Phillips, Randall Kent Smith, Frederick Edward Mlakar, Sharon Elizabeth Wingert Arkwright
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Patent number: D669033Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Matthew Senk, Brian D. Pasha, Steven William Marzo, Ronald Henry Dybalski