Patents by Inventor Lee Hayden Dutton

Lee Hayden Dutton 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).

  • Load compensating spring isolator
    Patent number: 10495170
    Abstract: A spring isolator that may include a reinforcing insert, at least one flow hole, a ramp, a wall, a track/groove, an inner wall, an outer wall, and/or a locator pin. The spring isolator may be molded over the reinforcing insert and/or may be secured to the reinforcing insert via at least one flow hole. The spring isolator may include a ramp, a wall, track/groove, an inner wall, and/or an outer wall that may engage and/or retain a coil spring. One or more locator pins and/or a cavity and raised portion may secure the spring isolator to a spring seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: VIBRACOUSTIC NORTH AMERICA L.P.
    Inventors: Mickey L. Love, Neil Stewart Cummings, Lee Hayden Dutton
  • Jounce bumper
    Patent number: 10195917
    Abstract: A jounce bumper for mounting in a vehicle suspension system having a bore extending therethrough, the bore configured to receive the piston rod, a nose having a predetermined inner diameter and a predetermined outer diameter, the nose being generally spherical or elliptical shaped and an undercut within the jounce bumper in the bore of the jounce bumper, the undercut creating an ununiformed thickness between the predetermined inner diameter and the predetermined outer diameter so as to provide improved handling characteristics of the jounce bumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Vibracoustic North America, L.P.
    Inventors: Lee Hayden Dutton, Mickey L. Love
  • LOAD COMPENSATING SPRING ISOLATOR
    Publication number: 20180100556
    Abstract: A spring isolator that may include a reinforcing insert, at least one flow hole, a ramp, a wall, a track/groove, an inner wall, an outer wall, and/or a locator pin. The spring isolator may be molded over the reinforcing insert and/or may be secured to the reinforcing insert via at least one flow hole. The spring isolator may include a ramp, a wall, track/groove, an inner wall, and/or an outer wall that may engage and/or retain a coil spring. One or more locator pins and/or a cavity and raised portion may secure the spring isolator to a spring seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Mickey L. Love, Neil Stewart Cummings, Lee Hayden Dutton
  • JOUNCE BUMPER
    Publication number: 20160243914
    Abstract: A jounce bumper for mounting in a vehicle suspension system having a bore extending therethrough, the bore configured to receive the piston rod, a nose having a predetermined inner diameter and a predetermined outer diameter, the nose being generally spherical or elliptical shaped and an undercut within the jounce bumper in the bore of the jounce bumper, the undercut creating an ununiformed thickness between the predetermined inner diameter and the predetermined outer diameter so as to provide improved handling characteristics of the jounce bumper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Lee Hayden Dutton, Mickey L. Love