Gerald L Mcclure

US Patent:

40443221, Aug 23, 1977

Filed:

Jul 9, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/703888

Inventors:

Samuel J. Brown - South Lyon MI
Gideon A. DuRocher - Mount Clemens MI
Gerald L. McClure - Warren MI

Assignee:

Essex Group, Inc. - Fort Wayne IN

International Classification:

H01H 6702

US Classification:

335131

Abstract:

An electromagnetic solenoid relay assembly in which all the electrical connections are located on one end thereof. The solenoid relay assembly of the invention is attached to a printed circuit board by a spring clip member. The relay assembly of the invention includes a bobbin with an electromagnetic coil wound thereon, a stationary core located in the bore of the bobbin, and a movable core slidably located in the bore which is attracted to the stationary core when the electromagnetic coil is energized. An electrical contact is located on the opposing faces of the stationary and movable core members such that an electrical circuit through the two is completed when the coil is energized. A bias force on the movable core member is provided by a spring which urges the movable core away from the stationary core. A pressure plate member carrying a plurality of electrical contacts thereon makes electrical contact to the spring which, in turn, is electrically connected to the contact on the movable core member.

US Patent:

56014376, Feb 11, 1997

Filed:

Oct 17, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/324776

Inventors:

Jeffery A. Harvey - Warren MI
Gerald L. McClure - Hamilton IL

Assignee:

Methode Electronics, Inc. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

H01R 3900

US Classification:

439 15

Abstract:

A clockspring having a device for determining if the clockspring is centered. The clockspring has a housing defining a first central aperture and the housing also has a radial wall, a hub is carried in rotatable relation in the first central aperture, a coiled ribbon cable having a first end and a second end with the first end being connected to a first connector carried by the housing, and the second end of the coiled ribbon cable being connected to a second connector carried by the hub, the hub being rotatable only a maximum number of revolutions before said coiled conducting means becomes completely wrapped or unwrapped around the hub, a pawl mounted to the hub, a counter wheel rotatably attached to the housing and having a plurality of teeth which extend from the counter wheel for incremental engagement with the pawl, the plurality of teeth being equal in quantity to the maximum number of hub revolutions, each tooth being labeled to indicate the amount and the direction of hub rotation needed for centering the hub with respect to the housing, a wave washer frictionally mounted against the housing and the counter wheel, a counter cover is mounted over the counter wheel so that no more than two teeth from the counter wheel are exposed at any given time.

US Patent:

41550625, May 15, 1979

Filed:

Sep 22, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/835655

Inventors:

Gerald L. McClure - Warren MI
Dean C. Duhame - Roseville MI

Assignee:

Essex Group, Inc. - Fort Wayne IN

International Classification:

H01H 3736

US Classification:

337329

Abstract:

A thermally sensitive switch has a thermally conductive body within which is a chamber into which extends at least one electrically conductive terminal. Occupying the chamber is an elastomeric body which is expansible and contractile in response to increases and decreases, respectively, in its temperature. The elastomeric body may be normally conductive or normally nonconductive, but in either event is conductive when in its expanded condition. When in its expanded, conductive condition, the body engages the terminal and is operable to establish a current path through the body to the terminal. The body may function as an on-off switch or as a rheostat, depending upon the composition of the body.