Patents by Inventor Robert Edward Dejack

Robert Edward Dejack 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).

  • Masking for engine blocks for thermally sprayed coatings and method of masking same
    Patent number: 6589605
    Abstract: A masking for an engine block to be thermally sprayed with a coating includes a head deck mask portion adapted to engage a head deck of an engine block to prevent over-spray of a thermally sprayed coating on the head deck. The masking also includes a crankcase mask portion adapted to be disposed in a crankcase chamber of the engine block and engage a lower end of a cylinder bore cavity of the engine block to prevent over-spay of the thermally sprayed coating into the crankcase chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Barry Edwin Shepley, Keith Raymond Bartle, Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Patrick John Hilton, Robert Edward Dejack
  • Masking for engine blocks for thermally sprayed coatings and method of masking same
    Publication number: 20020078887
    Abstract: A masking for an engine block to be thermally sprayed with a coating includes a head deck mask portion adapted to engage a head deck of an engine block to prevent over-spray of a thermally sprayed coating on the head deck. The masking also includes a crankcase mask portion adapted to be disposed in a crankcase chamber of the engine block and engage a lower end of a cylinder bore cavity of the engine block to prevent over-spay of the thermally sprayed coating into the crankcase chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Barry Edwin Shepley, Keith Raymond Bartle, Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Patrick John Hilton, Robert Edward DeJack
  • Masking for engine blocks for thermally sprayed coatings
    Patent number: 6395090
    Abstract: A masking for an engine block to be thermally sprayed with a coating includes a head deck mask portion adapted to engage a head deck of an engine block to prevent over-spray of a thermally sprayed coating on the head deck. The masking also includes a crankcase mask portion adapted to be disposed in a crankcase chamber of the engine block and engage a lower end of a cylinder bore cavity of the engine block to prevent over-spay of the thermally sprayed coating into the crankcase chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry Edwin Shepley, Keith Raymond Bartle, Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Patrick John Hilton, Robert Edward Dejack
  • Coating parent bore metal of engine blocks
    Patent number: 5820938
    Abstract: A method of fluxing a cast light-weight metal substrate for thermally adhering sprayed metallic coatings thereto, comprising: (a) preparing the substrate to be clean of grease and oil and to have a uniform and homogeneous surface energy; (b) electrostatically depositing a dry flux powder coating onto such prepared surface; and (c) thermally depositing melted metal onto and across the flux coated surface to further thermally activate the flux if not already activated, for stripping away any substrate oxides and to thermally metallurgically bond the deposited molten metal to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, INc.
    Inventors: Deborah Rose Pank, Matthew John Zaluzec, Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Robert Edward DeJack, James R. Baughman, David James Cook