Patents by Inventor Lowell W. Costar

Lowell W. Costar 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: 4685752
    Abstract: The electrical connector is physically attached to the external surface of a metallic structure (and which might contain flammable fluid) solely by virture of an annular layer of resinous adhesive. The annular adhesive layer is carried by the centrally-open lower-side of a frame member to provide vertically aligned central-openings for the adhesive and the frame member lower-side. At least one electrically conductive and upwardly deflectable contact member is located within the frame member and includes a contact member lower free-end protruding through the vertically aligned central-openings so that the free-end is initially disposed below the adhesive layer. However, once the electrical connector is physically adhesively attached to the metallic structure external surface, the contact member free-end is in electrically conductive abutment against the metallic structure external surface, and hence, is substantially co-elevational with the adhesive layer physical attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Inventor: Lowell W. Costar