Patents by Inventor Yves Thepault

Yves Thepault 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: 4417635
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a cooling system radiator in the engine compartment of an automobile vehicle, the radiator including a base portion and a top portion and the engine compartment including a beam structure having a horizontal bottom beam member for supporting and positioning the base portion of the radiator, a horizontal top beam member and a horizontal intermediate stiff beam member, the top and intermediate beam members being transversely offset on the same side with respect to the bottom beam member, the arrangement further including a one-piece spring wire unit having a first and second leg connected together at one end thereof so as to extend substantially perpendicular to one another when the spring wire unit is not strained, the spring wire unit being mounted under strain so that the first leg extends from a connection with a second leg from above the top beam member substantially horizontally over the radiator, a free end of the first leg being pressed downwardly on the top portion of the ra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: Regie Nationale des Usines Renault
    Inventor: Yves Thepault