Brian Lane Orr

US Patent:

6702707, Mar 9, 2004

Filed:

Jun 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/185856

Inventors:

Richard Michael Krzesicki - Ann Arbor MI
Gregory James Stout - Ann Arbor MI
Brian Christian Orr - Macomb MI

Assignee:

Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

F16H 4800

US Classification:

475230, 403338

Abstract:

A differential gear assembly including a differential housing and a ring gear mounted externally to the differential housing by a clamp. The differential housing and the ring gear each include an annular flange extending therefrom and the clamp includes a pocket which is adapted to receive the annular flanges therein. In another aspect, the flanges include opposing angled surfaces and the pocket includes opposing angled sides, whereby when the clamp is placed to the flanges, the angled surfaces of the flanges engage the angled sides of the clamp such that the clamp provides an axial clamping force to the flanges.

US Patent:

7785220, Aug 31, 2010

Filed:

Aug 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/217113

Inventors:

Michael A. Ciavaglia - Dearborn MI, US
Howard W. Kuhlman - Rochester Hills MI, US
Brian N. Orr - Chesterfield MI, US
Eric R. Hansen - Lake Orion MI, US
John R. Rice - Marshall IL, US
Joseph M. Johnson - Huntington Woods MI, US

Assignee:

Strattec Power Access LLC - Glendale WI

International Classification:

B60J 5/10
E05F 15/12

US Classification:

474112, 474101, 474116, 474135, 474199, 474206, 49340, 49341, 49349, 384255, 384447

Abstract:

An automotive vehicle has a power operated lift-gate that is opened and closed by two drive units. The typical drive unit has a guide channel, an attachment assembly that is disposed in the guide channel, a flexible drive member that is attached to the attachment assembly and formed in a loop for moving the attachment assembly in the guide channel. The flexible drive member is trained solely around two pulleys at the respective opposite ends of the guide channel to form the flexible drive member in a narrow loop. One of the pulleys is an idler pulley that is part of an adjustable pulley assembly and the other pulley is driven by a power unit that is attached to the guide channel. The adjustable pulley assembly adjusts the distance between the pulleys to take up slack in the flexible drive member.

US Patent:

20030084744, May 8, 2003

Filed:

Nov 5, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/015198

Inventors:

Chantal Parenteau - Troy MI, US
Brian Orr - Chesterfield MI, US

International Classification:

G05G001/14

US Classification:

074/512000

Abstract:

An adjustable toe pan assembly including an adjustable pedal assembly and a toe pan assembly. The adjustable pedal assembly includes a support structure that connects to a vehicle and a pedal assembly including a pedal disposed adjacent to the support structure and connected to the support structure. An actuator is connected with the pedal assembly to move the pedal to a desired position. The toe pan assembly is connected to an actuator which moves the toe pan assembly in relation to the pedal assembly such that a specified distance is maintained between the pedal and toe pan assembly.

US Patent:

20110245001, Oct 6, 2011

Filed:

Aug 31, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/872451

Inventors:

Michael A. Ciavaglia - Dearborn MI, US
John R. Rice - New Baltimore MI, US
Joseph M. Johnson - Norwood MA, US
Howard W. Kuhlman - Rochester Hills MI, US
Brian N. Orr - Chesterfield MI, US
Eric R. Hansen - Lake Orion MI, US

International Classification:

F16H 7/10

US Classification:

474113

Abstract:

A drive unit comprising a guide channel that has a first pulley at one end that rotates about a fixed pulley axis. The drive unit also includes a flexible drive member having a plurality of spaced windows, an attachment assembly moveably attached to the guide channel, and an adjustable pulley assembly coupled to the guide channel that has a second pulley that rotates around a moveable pulley axis that can be adjusted to change the distance between the fixed pulley axis and the moveable pulley axis to take up slack in the flexible drive member.