Patents by Inventor Robert J. Lane

Robert J. Lane 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: 6547269
    Abstract: A steering assembly for a motorcycle is provided, comprising a front fork assembly, a handlebar assembly, and one or more riser assemblies connecting the handlebar assembly to the fork assembly. The front fork assembly comprises a pair of elongated fork legs. Each of the fork legs has an upper end and a lower end, and a cross-member extending between the fork legs adjacent the upper ends. Each of the riser assemblies comprises a riser extending between the handlebar assembly and the cross-member, an upper bushing, and a lower bushing. Each of the upper and lower bushings comprises an inner member comprising a tubular stem and a collar extending radially outwardly from an end of the stem, and an outer member comprising a tubular portion surrounding the stem and a lip extending radially outwardly from an end of the tubular portion adjacent the collar. The upper bushing extends from above the cross-member into a hole provided through the cross-member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Alloy Art, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Lane
  • Publication number: 20020074770
    Abstract: A steering assembly for a motorcycle is provided, comprising a front fork assembly, a handlebar assembly, and one or more riser assemblies connecting the handlebar assembly to the fork assembly. The front fork assembly comprises a pair of elongated fork legs. Each of the fork legs has an upper end and a lower end, and a cross-member extending between the fork legs adjacent the upper ends. Each of the riser assemblies comprises a riser extending between the handlebar assembly and the cross-member, an upper bushing, and a lower bushing. Each of the upper and lower bushings comprises an inner member comprising a tubular stem and a collar extending radially outwardly from an end of the stem, and an outer member comprising a tubular portion surrounding the stem and a lip extending radially outwardly from an end of the tubular portion adjacent the collar. The upper bushing extends from above the cross-member into a hole provided through the cross-member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: Robert J. Lane
  • Patent number: 4877269
    Abstract: A board book for preschool children comprising a plurality of generally quadrilateral panels in side-by-side, congruent, stacked, relation, to define the book top edging, outside edging, bottom edging, and inside edging, with the panels being bound together at their inside edges to form the book spine, and for connecting consecutive of the book panels to the book spine for, when the book lies flat, approximate 180 degree free swinging movement relation relative to the book spine from positioning at one side of the book spine to the other side of the book spine, in paging the consecutive panels through the book, with the book front and rear panels being similar in fabrication to the book intermediate panels, and with those of the book panels following the book front panel, at their respective outside edges, being consecutively progressively indented toward the book spine, through the book rear panel, for, when the book lies flat, as on its rear panel, permitting a preschooler to readily page through the book u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Jean Davis Callaghan
    Inventors: Jean D. Callaghan, Robert J. Lane
  • Patent number: 4488071
    Abstract: A windshield wiper mechanism includes a motor-driven reciprocating link oscillating on a rotary wiper-arm shaft via an arm secured to the shaft. A limit switch is slidably mounted on a fixed plate through rivets and an elongate slot and a friction material. An operating member of the limit switch is engaged by a member mounted on the arm. The limit switch is mounted so that the force required to move it relative to the plate is greater than that required to operate the operating member, but less than the maximum force which can be applied by the motor to the arm. The position of the limit switch can thus be initially set automatically. A plate on the body of the switch provides an abutment for the member on the arm so that the overwiping and unwanted locking of the mechanism is prevented by the abutment, which is automatically set in the required position initially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Lucas Industries Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Robert J. Lane