Patents by Inventor Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr.

Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr. 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).

  • Friction material tooling
    Patent number: 8974725
    Abstract: A method for producing a brake assembly (22) including friction material (24) molded to a backplate (26) using an improved receptacle plate (20) is provided. The backplate (26) includes openings (30) each having an opening diameter (Do). The receptacle plate (20) includes pins (28) extending transversely from a receiving surface (34). The method includes aligning the openings (30) of the backplate (26) with the pins (28) of the receptacle plate (20). Each pin (28) has a pin diameter (Dp) less than the opening diameter (Do) of the aligned opening (30). The friction material (24) is molded to the backplate (26) by heating the friction material (24) and the receptacle plate (20), and forcing the friction material (24) through the openings (30) of the backplate (26). The pins (28) extend into a center portion (32) of the friction material (24) and improve the degree of curing of the friction material (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr., Carl Richard Buxton
  • High friction brake shoe assembly
    Patent number: 6860368
    Abstract: A vehicle brake shoe assembly having a brake shoe platform incorporating a plurality of extensions which project through the brake friction material matrix to the outer friction surface of the brake shoe assembly. Each extension is configured to cooperate with the brake friction material matrix to engage a surface of an opposing friction element, increasing the static and dynamic friction performance of the assembly beyond that achieved from the engagement of the brake friction material matrix and the surface of the opposing friction element alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul World Wide, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr., Craig Robert Cook, David Douglas Muffley
  • Reinforced friction material
    Patent number: 6013146
    Abstract: An improved reinforced friction material is comprised of a cured friction material mixture of friction particles, filler particles, and binder particles, and has a embedded honeycomb core reinforcement whose individual cells are filled with and bonded at the cell walls to the cured friction material mixture by a novel manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Moog Automotive Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongbin Yuan, Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr., Timothy Franklin Merkel
  • Reinforced friction material
    Patent number: 5861203
    Abstract: An improved reinforced friction material is comprised of a cured friction material mixture of friction particles, filler particles, and binder particles, and has a embedded honeycomb core reinforcement whose individual cells are filled with and bonded at the cell walls to the cured friction material mixture by a novel manufacturing method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Wagner Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yongbin Yuan, Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr., Timothy Franklin Merkel