Patents by Inventor Thomas F. Tyler, IV

Thomas F. Tyler, IV 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).

  • Threaded removable vehicle door hinge pin
    Patent number: 5682646
    Abstract: A vehicle door hinge assembly according to this invention has a hinge bracket for mounting on each of a door and a body pillar of a vehicle. Each hinge bracket has a pair of spaced-apart legs wherein the pair of legs of one hinge bracket is received within and adjacent the pair of spaced-apart legs of the other bracket when the hinge brackets are hingedly mated together. The hinge brackets have aligned holes formed through their respective pairs of legs through which a hinge pin is received to hingedly mate the two hinge brackets together. The improvement comprises the hinge pin having a threaded tip or end and one of the legs of the outer hinge bracket having a nut affixed thereto in coaxial relation to the hole formed therein, or a the hole therein being threaded, and the threaded end of the hinge pin screwed therein when the hinge pin is inserted in the holes in the respective pairs of legs of the hinge brackets to hingedly mate the hinge brackets together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas F. Tyler, IV, Joseph J. Savalle, Brett A. Johnson, Henry J. Ziaja, Terrence W. Gillay, Earl L. Watson