Patents by Inventor Timothy Alan Wirsing

Timothy Alan Wirsing 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: 6092436
    Abstract: A motion-transmitting assembly has a cable movable within a tubular sheath anchored on a panel. The panel has a keyhole-shaped aperture therein including a relatively large access opening portion which communicates with a relatively narrower slot portion. An anchor mounted on the sheath has a base wall adapted to engage against the face of the panel and a foot suspended from the base wall by a shank. The foot is smaller than the access opening portion of the aperture to permit insertion of the foot through the access opening portion. The shank is smaller than the slot portion to permit sliding movement of the anchor along the keyhole-shaped aperture so that the foot becomes engaged with the underface of the panel. The anchor also has an integral spring finger projecting from the base wall in a direction parallel with the direction of the sliding movement of the anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Alan Wirsing, Mark A. Steffe
  • Patent number: 5953963
    Abstract: A motion-transmitting assembly has a cable movable within a tubular sheath anchored on a panel. A movable member, such as a lever, is movably mounted on the support and has an aperture which receives a retainer clip. The retainer clip has a cylindrical body installed into the aperture of the member and having a bore extending through the cylindrical body with yieldable fingers projecting into the bore. A cable fitting has a barrel with a bore slidably receiving the cable. A stud projects laterally from the barrel and has a circumferential groove so that upon insertion of the stud into the bore of the retainer clip, the yieldable fingers of the retainer clip engage with the circumferential groove of the cable fitting to thereby connect the cable fitting with the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Alan Wirsing, Derrick V. Grahn
  • Patent number: 5647171
    Abstract: A window regulator system is provided for translating a window. The regulator includes at least one channel extending vertically in the door cavity for guiding the window; a blade connected to the channel and extending parallel to the major axis of the door cavity; a guide block fixed to the window and having a transverse alignment bearing with two generally noncompliant bearing lobes juxtaposed by the blade for aligning the window in a direction transverse to the major axis of the door cavity; and a spring button connected to the guide block and being of a generally hard polymeric material having a generally conical shape with an apex contacting the blade and a base compressed against the guide block for removing transverse compliance of the window within the alignment bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Alan Wirsing, Alex Newton Draper