Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Carella

Thomas J. Carella 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: 5094590
    Abstract: A variable displacement compressor having a rotary drive shaft coupled to a gas pressure positioned wobble plate carried by a drive mechanism including a drive journal and journal sleeve on the rotary drive shaft and a drive lug connected to the drive shaft having a slot operatively connected by a coupling pin to the journal. Thrust bearings located in the cylinder head and front head of the compressor axially position the drive mechanism within a gas pressured crankcase. The rear thrust bearing includes a race engaged by a coil spring on the shaft to provide relative axial movement between the shaft and the rear thrust bearing to compensate for end play between the thrust shoulders and the thrust bearings following assembly of the cylinder head and front head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Carella, Bruce E. Hornung
  • Patent number: 4794765
    Abstract: An evaporator assembly includes a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A heat exchange core is in direct fluid communication with the fluid inlet for interchanging heat between refrigerant and air flow over the core. An accumulator chamber is contained within the housing and is in direct fluid communication between the heat exchange core and the fluid outlet for collecting and separating vaporized and unvaporized refrigerant directly from the heat exchange core and for providing an environment of vaporized refrigerant about said fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Inventors: Thomas J. Carella, John N. Bannan
  • Patent number: 4745778
    Abstract: An evaporator assembly includes a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A heat exchange core is in direct fluid communication with the fluid inlet for interchanging heat between refrigerant and air flow over the core. An accumulator chamber is contained within the housing and is in direct fluid communication between the heat exchange core and the fluid outlet for collecting and separating vaporized and unvaporized refrigerant directly from the heat exchange core and for providing an environment of vaporized refrigerant about said fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Carella, John N. Bannan