Patents by Inventor William E. Girard

William E. Girard 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).

  • Knitted cover
    Patent number: 5802882
    Abstract: Where a knitted cover is intended to be subjected to a heat treatment to stabilize or otherwise process the fabric, it is useful to form a knitted-in portion (in an unobtrusive portion of the cover) using a suitably heat-sensitive yarn so that such heat treatment indicator portion undergoes a visual and tactile change to reveal that the cover has been so treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Girard, Daniel J. Forest, Malcolm Frederick Proctor, Gerald Francis Day
  • Knitted cover
    Patent number: 5682771
    Abstract: A knitted fabric cover, especially for a vehicle seat having a vehicle air bag housed therein, in which the cover is adapted to provide minimal hindrance to inflation of the air bag by having at least one line of weakness knitted into the cover, in particular in a coursewise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Forest, Gerald Francis Day, Giles Timothy Gregory, Malcolm Frederick Proctor, William E. Girard