Patents by Inventor Richard Pelachyk

Richard Pelachyk 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
  • Patent number: 5101597
    Abstract: A handle bracket intended for attachment on a vehicle door panel is a sheet metal stamping having a pair of spaced apart legs which carry spaced apart feet extending longitudinally and adapted to overlie the planar surface of the door panel. Each of the feet has a toe portion and a heel. The panel has a pair of toe straps struck from the panel and defining receptacles for receiving the toe portions of the feet when the feet are abutted with the panel and then slid longitudinally along the surface into the receptacles. The panel also has a pair of openings therein which register with the heel portions of the feet. The heels have integral retaining flaps bent forwardly from the underside thereof and being admitted through the openings in the panel to become engaged with the panel when the feet are abutted with the panel and then slid longitudinally along the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Pelachyk, Timothy M. Farris, Dante C. Zuccaro
  • Patent number: 5102090
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for mounting a window regulator motor housing with three holes to a door panel having three holes aligned with the holes in the power regulator motor and three slots. The mounting bracket has three legs projecting radially outward from a central portion. Each leg has an arm that depends toward the door panel carrying a tab with a ramp surface for engaging the door panel for flexing the tab as tab is inserted in a normal direction to the panel through the slot of the door panel. Each tab has a shoulder for engaging the door panel upon the tab flexing back after insertion of the tab into the slot so that the bracket is secured to the door panel. The central portion engages the motor housing for sandwiching the motor housing between the mounting bracket and the door panel so that the motor housing is mounted to the door panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M. Farris, Richard Pelachyk, Dante C. Zuccaro
  • Patent number: 4841832
    Abstract: The present invention provides an axial flow boltrunner eliminating the side feeding previously required in prior boltrunners. An embodiment of the present invention also provides a boltrunner which can be quickly changed to torque a plurality bolts of different sized heads without extensive modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Gary L. Snavely, Richard Pelachyk