Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Drobot

Thomas E. Drobot 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).

  • Publication number: 20190366887
    Abstract: A seat cover assembly, for a stowable vehicle seat having a seat structure extending from a seat bottom to at least a vehicle floor, includes a flexible cover assembly configured to couple to a lateral side of the vehicle seat and, in a concealing position, conceal at least a portion of the seat structure between the seat bottom and the vehicle floor when the seat is in a deployed position. The flexible cover assembly is configured to fold together as the vehicle seat is moved from the deployed position to a stowed position and unfold to the concealing position as the vehicle seat is moved from the stowed position to the deployed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Raghdan Azzou, Thomas E. Drobot, Michael J. Jarvis, Meagan D. Atkinson, Richard E. Power, Tim Brush, Whitney Jones
  • Publication number: 20170113579
    Abstract: A seat cover assembly, for a stowable vehicle seat having a seat structure extending from a seat bottom to at least a vehicle floor, includes a flexible cover assembly configured to couple to a lateral side of the vehicle seat and, in a concealing position, conceal at least a portion of the seat structure between the seat bottom and the vehicle floor when the seat is in a deployed position. The flexible cover assembly is configured to fold together as the vehicle seat is moved from the deployed position to a stowed position and unfold to the concealing position as the vehicle seat is moved from the stowed position to the deployed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Raghdan Azzou, Thomas E. Drobot, Michael J. Jarvis, Meagan D. Atkinson, Richard E. Power, Tim Brush, Whitney Jones
  • Patent number: 7644952
    Abstract: A seat belt is secured to an anchor at one side of a seated person and extends across the seated person's body to a second anchor at an opposite side of the seated person to which the belt is also secured. A belt retention device is operable, when actuated in response to a sudden, rapid deceleration of the vehicle, to grip the belt between the anchors at a point of engagement adjacent to the one side of the seated person to cooperate with the second anchor in taking up any slack in a section of the belt between the point of engagement and the second anchor and also maintaining such section of the belt tightly engaged across the person's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Chrysler Group. LLC
    Inventors: Kimberlee D. Holtz, Thomas E. Drobot
  • Publication number: 20080061545
    Abstract: A seat belt is secured to an anchor at one side of a seated person and extends across the seated person's body to a second anchor at an opposite side of the seated person to which the belt is also secured. A belt retention device is operable, when actuated in response to a sudden, rapid deceleration of the vehicle, to grip the belt between the anchors at a point of engagement adjacent to the one side of the seated person to cooperate with the second anchor in taking up any slack in a section of the belt between the point of engagement and the second anchor and also maintaining such section of the belt tightly engaged across the person's body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Inventors: Kimberlee D. Holtz, Thomas E. Drobot