Patents by Inventor Lowell W. Satterlee

Lowell W. Satterlee 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: 5183302
    Abstract: A handle housing intended for attachment on a vehicle door panel is of injection molded plastic construction and has a base adapted to engage against the surface of the door panel. The housing carries at least one anchor leg, and preferably several, which project from the base and extend through registering apertures provided in the panel. Each of these anchor legs has a foot at the end thereof which is adapted to engage and underlie the underside of the panel when the housing is slid longitudinally along the surface so that the foot will engage with the underside of the housing and thereby prevent the housing from being pulled away from the panel. The housing also has a plurality of locking legs projecting from the base and extending through registering openings in the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Pelachyk, Lowell W. Satterlee, Dante C. Zuccaro, Timothy M. Farris
  • Patent number: 5120151
    Abstract: The vehicle door has a mounting panel with a track formed therein by integral flanges struck from the panel. The window regulator arm has a roller carried thereon for engaging with the track to permit movement of the roller along the panel. The track has an open end permitting entry of the roller into the track when the roller has obtained both axial and cross-track alignment with the track. In order to facilitate installation of the roller into the track, the roller has an end face and the panel has an integral portion thereof underlying the open end of the track and being engaged by the end face of the roller to establish the roller in a position of axial alignment with the panel from which the roller may be easily entered into the open end of the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M. Farris, Lowell W. Satterlee, Dante C. Zuccaro, Richard Pelachyk