Patents by Inventor Nathan A. Everett

Nathan A. Everett 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).

  • Multi-functional tailgate for truck-like vehicles
    Patent number: 6364391
    Abstract: A horizontal hinged tailgate assembly 7 is provided for a vehicle 10. The tailgate assembly 7 includes a frame 20. A seating platform 60 is provided which is connected to frame 20 and has a seating surface 62. A seat back 64 is included with a first position with a lower end 68 connected to frame 20 adjacent seating platform 60 and an upper end 88 oriented generally vertically upwards. The seat back 64 also has a second table position with the lower end 68 being connected to frame 20 and with seat back 64 extending rearwardly from frame 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan A. Everett
  • Elastically latched and staked assembly in a kinematic arrangement of an automatic transmission
    Patent number: 5715918
    Abstract: An assembly of components that includes a sun gear having several radial shoulders as a reference for the location of other components, an overrunning coupling having a surface contacting one of the shoulders, a spline engaging a spline formed on the sun gear, and a clutch hub having tabs that are elastically deformed from an inclined position to a substantially radial position in order to seat within a groove and to contact the second and third shoulders of the sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan A. Everett, Timothy Raphael Allen