Patents by Inventor Wayne L. Soucie
Wayne L. Soucie 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).
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Patent number: 6994779Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an energy enhanced process to deposit a silicate containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventors: Robert L Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie, Ravi Chandran
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Publication number: 20040222105Abstract: The disclosure relates to treating a silicate medium and using the treated medium for improving the surface of metallic or electrically conductive materials. The treated medium provides a silicate medium having a defined degree of polymerization and predetermined quantities of the desired silicate polymer. The treated silicate medium can be employed in an electroless or electrolytic process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Wayne L. Soucie, Jonathan L. Bass, Ravi Chandran, Nancy G. Heimann
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Publication number: 20040208986Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for ascertaining the corrosion resistant effectiveness of a silica containing film or layer upon a metal surface. The disclosed methods employ colormetric as well as chemical leaching processes. The effectiveness of the silica containing film or layer is dependent upon the uniformity, lack of porosity, micro-cracks, among other potential defects in the silica containing film or layer that affect the ability of the film or layer to protect an underlying metal surface from corrosive environments.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Bruce Wayne Flint, Robert L. Heimann, Nancy G. Heimann, Brian Patrick Skrabal, Wayne L. Soucie, Dennis Joseph Winn
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Patent number: 6705651Abstract: A latching mechanism that uses lubricant impregnated bearings to improve the operation, reduce the corrosion, ease the maintenance, and extend the life of the latching mechanism. The latching mechanism comprises a spindle rotatably disposed in a sleeve that is fixed to a frame (e.g., a door frame). Positioned in the annular space between the spindle and sleeve, the lubricant impregnated bearings separate dissimilar materials and provide a constant source of lubrication. To replenish the bearings, lubricant is introduced into the annular space through a channel in the spindle that communicates between an inlet opening in the end of the spindle and an outlet opening at the annular space. The lubricant impregnated bearings are grooved to enhance lubricant flow and distribution around the bearing surfaces. A shield is attached to the spindle and is disposed around the exterior of the sleeve to prevent debris from entering the annular space.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 6599643Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an energy enhanced process to deposit a silicate containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie, Ravi Chandran
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Patent number: 6592738Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a silicate containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie, Ravi Chandran
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Patent number: 6572756Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a mineral containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Elisha Holding LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie
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Publication number: 20020089189Abstract: A latching mechanism that uses lubricant impregnated bearings to improve the operation, reduce the corrosion, ease the maintenance, and extend the life of the latching mechanism. The latching mechanism comprises a spindle rotatably disposed in a sleeve that is fixed to a frame (e.g., a door frame). Positioned in the annular space between the spindle and sleeve, the lubricant impregnated bearings separate dissimilar materials and provide a constant source of lubrication. To replenish the bearings, lubricant is introduced into the annular space through a channel in the spindle that communicates between an inlet opening in the end of the spindle and an outlet opening at the annular space. The lubricant impregnated bearings are grooved to enhance lubricant flow and distribution around the bearing surfaces. A shield is attached to the spindle and is disposed around the exterior of the sleeve to prevent debris from entering the annular space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2002Publication date: July 11, 2002Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 6386601Abstract: A latching mechanism that uses lubricant impregnated bearings to improve the operation, reduce the corrosion, ease the maintenance, and extend the life of the latching mechanism. The latching mechanism comprises a spindle rotatably disposed in a sleeve that is fixed to a frame (e.g., a door frame). Positioned in the annular space between the spindle and sleeve, the lubricant impregnated bearings separate dissimilar materials and provide a constant source of lubrication. To replenish the bearings, lubricant is introduced into the annular space through a channel in the spindle that communicates between an inlet opening in the end of the spindle and an outlet opening at the annular space. The lubricant impregnated bearings are grooved to enhance lubricant flow and distribution around the bearing surfaces. A shield is attached to the spindle and is disposed around the exterior of the sleeve to prevent debris from entering the annular space.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1999Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, Wayne L. Soucie
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Publication number: 20020054998Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an energy enhanced process to deposit a silicate containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie, Ravi Chandran
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Publication number: 20020012804Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a silicate containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie, Ravi Chandran
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Publication number: 20010050231Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a mineral containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Inventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 6322687Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a mineral containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2000Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 6153080Abstract: The disclosure relates to a process for forming a deposit on the surface of a metallic or conductive surface. The process employs an electrolytic process to deposit a mineral containing coating or film upon a metallic or conductive surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1999Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Elisha Technologies Co LLCInventors: Robert L. Heimann, William M. Dalton, John Hahn, David M. Price, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 5467666Abstract: An improved non-jamming self-adjust pawl and ratchet mechanism for use in an automotive parking brake system or the like, includes cam-out and cam-in devices that are spaced to define an overlap dwell distance to insure suitable engagement between the adjuster pawl and the adjuster ratchet as a foot or hand brake operating lever is pivoted from a brake disengaged position toward a brake fully-engaged position. In the case of the foot-operated lever, the spacing distance between the cam-out and cam-in devices is greater than the bounce-back travel distance of the lever upon the removal of cable tension load thereon.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Dura Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Wayne L. Soucie, Larry B. Champ, Jeffrey E. Tayon, Harold L. Carlson, Steven W. Marek, Peter C. Koenig
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Patent number: 5431460Abstract: A latching mechanism includes a latch member pivotally connected with a mounting bracket for movement between latched and released positions, together with a spring clutch device that normally permits pivotal movement of the latch member toward the latched position. The latch member includes a cam surface that is operable by a striker member to displace the latch member from the released position to the latched position as the striker member is displaced toward the mounting bracket (for example, during the closure movement of a hood component to which the striker member is attached). A release device serves to operate the spring clutch to a released condition, whereupon the latch member is spring-biased toward the released position, thereby to unlock the striker member from the mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 1995Assignee: Orscheln Co.Inventors: Tave Hass, Wayne L. Soucie, Robert L. Heimann
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Patent number: 5182963Abstract: A control mechanism of the soft release type includes a cylindrical drum about which is concentrically arranged a helical clutch spring the coil turns of which are normally contracted radially inwardly into frictional engagement with the outer periphery of the drum, characterized in that the drum is formed of powdered metal that is impregnated with damping oil. Owing to the direction of the coil turns, the drum may be rotated only in a first direction relative to the spring, and upon radial outward expansion of the spring, the viscous film of the damping oil between the outer periphery of the spring affords controlled soft-release of the drum for rotation in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1991Date of Patent: February 2, 1993Assignee: Orscheln Co.Inventors: Randal J. Perisho, Robert L. Heimann, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 5180038Abstract: An electronically controlled parking brake system for a vehicle including a housing connected with the vehicle chassis, a movable member adapted for connection with the parking brake cable of the vehicle, a main spring biasing the movable member toward a brake-applied position relative to the housing, an electric motor operable to displace the movable member toward a brake-released position relative to the housing, a retaining device normally retaining the movable member in the brake-released position, and a release device for releasing the retaining device, whereby the movable member is released for displacement by the main spring toward the brake-applied position. Preferably, the retaining device includes a helical clutch spring mounted concentrically on a rotatable drive screw that drives the movable member in the brake-released direction, and the release device includes a solenoid for releasing the clutch spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1992Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Assignee: Orscheln Co.Inventors: James H. Arnold, Randal J. Perisho, Michael D. DeWitt, Wayne L. Soucie
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Patent number: 4930605Abstract: A parking brake assembly of the blind-cable-connection type including a backing plate containing an opening, a helical guide spring arranged to guide a flexible resilient inner cable member toward a ramp surface on a parking brake lever for the blind connection to the inner cable member to the lever, characterized in that the angle of inclination of the ramp surface relative to the cable axis is contained in a plane that is both parallel with the longitudinal axis of the lever and that is inclined at an acute angle relative to the axis of the inner cable member. This construction permits the parking brake lever to be simply and economically formed from a blank of flat metal stock, the cable-retaining slot being defined by a slot contained between bifurcated portions of the ramp surface. The helical guide spring includes portions having tightly wound turns, thereby to assist in connecting the spring with the backing plate and/or with the parking brake lever.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Orscheln Co.Inventors: Billy G. Boyer, Lloyd M. Nelson, Wayne L. Soucie, William K. Hayes
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Patent number: 4872533Abstract: A parking brake assembly of the blind-cable-connection type including a backing plate containing an opening, a helical guide spring arranged to guide a flexible resilient inner cable member toward a ramp surface on a parking brake lever for the blind connection to the inner cable member to the lever, characterized in that the angle of inclination of the ramp surface relative to the cable axis is contained in a plane that is both parallel with the longitudinal axis of the lever and that is inclined at an acute angle relative to the axis of the inner cable member. This construction permits the parking brake lever to be simply and economically formed from a blank of flat metal stock, the cable-retaining slot being defined by a slot contained between bifurcated portions of the ramp surface. The helical guide spring includes portions having tightly wound turns, thereby to assist in connecting the spring with the backing plate and/or with the parking brake lever.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1988Date of Patent: October 10, 1989Assignee: Orscheln Co.Inventors: Billy G. Boyer, Lloyd M. Nelson, Wayne L. Soucie, William K. Hayes