Patents by Inventor Thomas Tibbles

Thomas Tibbles 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).

  • Jet pump for boosting pressure at an inlet supplied from a sump and second fluid source
    Patent number: 7192257
    Abstract: The automatic transmission for motor vehicles includes a positive displacement pump, a sump hydraulically connected by a passage to the pump inlet, a line pressure control valve having a high pressure outlet, a passage carrying fluid from the control valve through a nozzle and an nozzle exit opening to the passage that connects the sump to the pump inlet. The high pressure passage has a cross section whose area decreases in the direction toward the pump inlet and terminates in a nozzle through which a high speed jet enters the low pressure passage through the nozzle exit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Becker, Timothy Droste, Vladimir Yasnogorodskiy, Thomas Tibbles
  • Jet pump for boosting pressure at an inlet supplied from a sump and second fluid source
    Publication number: 20050058550
    Abstract: The automatic transmission for motor vehicles includes a positive displacement pump, a sump hydraulically connected by a passage to the pump inlet, a line pressure control valve having a high pressure outlet, a passage carrying fluid from the control valve through a nozzle and an nozzle exit opening to the passage that connects the sump to the pump inlet. The high pressure passage has a cross section whose area decreases in the direction toward the pump inlet and terminates in a nozzle through which a high speed jet enters the low pressure passage through the nozzle exit opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Lee Becker, Timothy Droste, Vladimir Yasnogorodskiy, Thomas Tibbles