Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Odette

Thomas C. Odette 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: 5553912
    Abstract: There is disclosed herein a fluid containment device secured to, or integrated within a vehicle cowl or louvered panel serving to divert water or windshield washer fluid "run-up" away from the operator's line of vision. Such run-up of fluid tends to occur in the vicinity of the ends of a wiper blade at the end of its final or intermittent downward stroke. The fluid containment device is formed to include a ramped lead-in front surface and a vertically oriented trailing surface, creating a high pressure, low velocity space adjacent the rear surface thereof, causing a turbulent airflow to circle downwardly and spiral laterally. The result is to urge the fluid downward toward the base of the louvered panel, and laterally toward the outboard sides of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph E. Kubina, Mark E. Gleason, Jerry F. Loughlin, Jr., Todd H. Wludyka, Thomas C. Odette, Craig S. Montie, Richard F. Biermacher, Patrick M. Harney, Alfredo N. DiMichele
  • Patent number: D439204
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Odette, John D. Bucci, Ernest J. Barry, Robert N. Hubbach, K. Neil Walling
  • Patent number: D345324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Bucci, Thomas C. Odette, Robert N. Hubbach
  • Patent number: D367252
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas C. Odette
  • Patent number: D367635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas C. Odette
  • Patent number: D372210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Odette, Robert E. Boniface, John D. Bucci, David C. McKinnon, Donald A. Renkert
  • Patent number: D413083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Odette, John D. Bucci, Ernest J. Barry, Robert N. Hubbach, K. Neil Walling
  • Patent number: D415069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Odette, John D. Bucci, Ernest J. Barry, Robert N. Hubbach, K. Neil Walling