Patents by Inventor Pete Bezjak

Pete Bezjak 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).

  • Dual area piston for transmission clutch and sequential control therefor
    Patent number: 7104380
    Abstract: A system for actuating a clutch that alternately driveably connects and disconnects components, includes a clutch having a piston that includes a first apply area and a second apply area, a fluid pressure source, a source of variable control pressure, and a control coupled with the fluid pressure source and operative in response to the control pressure to engage the clutch initially by increasing pressure steadily at the first apply area up to a first magnitude followed by a rapid increase in pressure at the first apply area and the second apply area above the first magnitude to a second magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Bishop, Pete Bezjak, Karl Jungbluth
  • Dual area piston for transmission clutch and sequential control therefor
    Publication number: 20060054444
    Abstract: A system for actuating a clutch that alternately driveably connects and disconnects components, includes a clutch having a piston that includes a first apply area and a second apply area, a fluid pressure source, a source of variable control pressure, and a control coupled with the fluid pressure source and operative in response to the control pressure to engage the clutch initially by increasing pressure steadily at the first apply area up to a first magnitude followed by a rapid increase in pressure at the first apply area and the second apply area above the first magnitude to a second magnitude.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Brian Bishop, Pete Bezjak, Karl Jungbluth