Patents by Inventor Kevin M. May

Kevin M. May 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).

  • Publication number: 20080122239
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle overhead console assembly mountable in a vehicle. In at least one embodiment, the assembly comprises a console body having an exterior surface which would face an occupant compartment when mounted in a vehicle and a drop down mirror assembly supported by the console body. In at least this embodiment, the drop down mirror assembly comprises a support member having a generally horizontal door panel and a support panel extending generally transverse from the door panel having a support face having a mirror secured thereto, with the drop down assembly having a first position with the door panel being generally flush with the exterior surface of the console body the support panel being generally above the exterior surface of the console body and a second position with the mirror being generally below the exterior surface of the console body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin M. May, Mark A. Niedzwiecki, Jay A. Stone, Eric S. Mozer
  • Patent number: 5616975
    Abstract: A motor with a hollow housing with an open mouth defined by a side wall, and a cover for its mouth, an electrical motor circuit and power conductors electrically connected to the circuit at one end and adapted to be connected to a source of power at another end, has, when it is assembled, a current supply connecter receptacle. The housing has integral with it, a housing receptacle part with conductor-receiving seats in which the power conductors are seated. The cover has a cover receptacle part integral with the cover. The cover is latched into position, closing the housing mouth and completing the receptacle, by at least one deflectable finger, one end of which is integral with one of the cover and housing and a free end of which is provided with a latching lip, and a complementary ledge integral with the other of the housing and cover, the ledge being spaced and shaped to receive and be engaged by the lip. Provision is made for permitting the lip to be displaced from the ledge to free the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Kevin M. May, S. Duke Snider, Daniel R. Messner
  • Patent number: 5531267
    Abstract: In a refrigeration system in which coils are mounted in a coil passage, a fan system is provided by which air is caused to pass over the coils. The fan system includes a housing communicating with a coil passage. The housing has an intake and an outlet each with a mouth, the mouths of the intake and outlet being oriented substantially 180.degree. from on another. A centrifugal scroll caged blower is mounted in the housing and an electric motor is connected to rotate the blower. Baffles are provided within the housing for directing air in separate paths through the housing intake to an inlet of the blower and from the blower through the housing outlet, the flow of the air through the housing mouths lying in substantially parallel planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Sohail Ahmed, Kevin M. May
  • Patent number: 5484259
    Abstract: The present invention provides a centrifugal blower wherein the noise at the cutoff has been substantially reduced by providing a vortex in the air flow near the cutoff to redirect the air flow. A fin projects downwardly into the space created by the exhaust outlet to redirect the air flow away from the cutoff and create a vortex to quiet the air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Sohail Ahmed, John E. King, Kevin M. May
  • Patent number: 4670677
    Abstract: An electric motor has stator coils extending longitudinally past an end of its rotor so that the end turns and at least a portion of the inner side of the stator coils are exposed. A fan is disposed inside the motor shell between a first air passageway and the stator coils. The fan is secured to and driven by the rotor shaft to cause a flow of cooling air to pass over the stator coils when the motor is in operation. The fan has a number of vanes extending outwardly from a hub to a circumferential ring, which ring defines a central opening of the fan. The central opening extends past the vanes from the front to the rear of the fan so that the rear of the fan is relatively open. The inner surface of the ring is smoothly curved outwardly and rearwardly from the front of the central opening to direct air which enters the central opening toward the stator coils. The vanes are disposed adjacent the exposed portions of the stator coils to cause turbulent air flow along the exposed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1987
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: S. Duke Snider, Kevin M. May